Quartz Extreme and Core Image lost after 10.4.8 install

[LaminarFlow]

I installed 10.4.8 from the new DVD and lost my CI and QE. I tried using Pacifist to install the GMA900 and GMA950 packages, but still nothing. Any ideas?

[LaminarFlow]

Any ideas?

I read the note about the GMA900 kexts, can anyone explain more in depth?

If you have an Intel GMA 900, select the GMA package while installing. However, this package has it's permissions set incorrectly and the GMA 950 kexts need to be deleted so that the GMA 900 kexts load. This needs to be fixed post install.

The GMA 950 is working properly.

 

When I'm installing, do I check the GMA900, 950, or both? When I first reboot into the newly reinstalled OS, exactly which kexts do I delete?

[Rammjet]

If you have GMA 900, only select that. If GMA 950, select that.

 

Go to folder /System/Library/Extensions.

 

If GMA 900, delete AppleIntelGMA950* kexts/plugins/bundles

If GMA 915, delete AppleIntel915* kexts/plugins/bundles

 

To repair permissions, go to Terminal and type:

cd /System/Library
sudo rm -rf Extensions.mkext Extension.kextcache
cd Extensions
sudo chown -R root:wheel AppleIntel9* AppleIntelGMA9*
sudo chmod -R 755 AppleIntel9* AppleIntelGMA9*

Then reboot.

 

 

Edit: fixed errors

[LaminarFlow]

If you have GMA 900, only select that. If GMA 950, select that.

 

Go to folder /System/Library/Extensions.

 

If GMA 900, delete AppleIntelGMA950* kexts/plugins/bundles

If GMA 915, delete AppleIntelGMA915* kexts/plugins/bundles

 

To repair permissions, go to Terminal and type:

cd /System/Library
sudo rm -rf Extensions.mkext Extension.kextcache
cd Extensions
sudo chown -R root:wheel AppleIntelGMA9*
sudo chmod -R 755 AppleIntelGMA9*

Then reboot.

 

I did a clean install of 10.4.6 (everything worked perfectly) and then installed 10.4.8 from the DVD over it with neither 900 or 950 package checked (only way I could get ethernet to work). It booted and only allowed one resolution, 1024x768. So I opened pacifist and installed the GMA900 package, repaired permissions, rebooted.

Then I had all possible resolutions, but no CI or QE still. So I opened up the Extensions folder to find the GMA950 kexts to delete, but there were no GMA915 kexts, just AppleIntel915... I kept those and ran the terminal commands. A reboot left me with the blue box {censored}.

 

I can get in over ssh and normal file sharing still so what the heck can I do?

[Rammjet]

OK, I had GMA on the brain. I fixed the previous post.

 

Now to fix current problem. Try booting in single user mode (-s after F8) and type:

mount -uw /
cd /System/Library
rm -rf Extensions.mkext Extensions.kextcache
cd Extensions
chown -R root:wheel AppleIntel915*
chmod -R 755 AppleIntel915*
rm -rf AppleIntelGMA950*		 <-- just for good measure
reboot

If that fails, then remove the the AppleIntel915 files. Go to single user mode (-s) and type

mount -uw /
cd /System/Library
rm -rf Extensions.mkext Extensions.kextcache
cd Extensions
rm -rf AppleIntel915*
reboot

[LaminarFlow]

Alright, I did all of that through ssh, rebooted, and voila, a working screen. Except it gave me an error saying one of the 915 kexts wasn't installed correctly and couldn't be used. Okay, repair permissions and reboot.

Now when I try and view the desktop through Apple's Remote Desktop, it loses connection, meaning probably blue squares. I can still ssh in and everything looks okay. Am I stuck using 10.4.6 if I want CI and QE??

[123steamn]

Alright, I did all of that through ssh, rebooted, and voila, a working screen. Except it gave me an error saying one of the 915 kexts wasn't installed correctly and couldn't be used. Okay, repair permissions and reboot.

Now when I try and view the desktop through Apple's Remote Desktop, it loses connection, meaning probably blue squares. I can still ssh in and everything looks okay. Am I stuck using 10.4.6 if I want CI and QE??

 

 

I've had the kext error message before.

 

A few things you can try that have been successful for me.

 

1. Copy the offending kext to desktop, then delete it from Extensions folder, then copy it back from the desktop, repair permissions and reboot.

 

2.Install it using Pacifist.

[LaminarFlow]

It's working!

Since my last post, I used Remote Desktop to install the GMA900 package from the iso, ran the two terminal permissions commands and deleted the two extensions.whatever files over ssh.

I rebooted and it looks like CI and QE are both working now! I'm excited to get home to a functional computer again. Hopefully 10.4.8 was worth it. Thanks for the help Rammjet, this isn't the first time you've gotten me out of a bind.

(BTW, About This Mac claims I have a 4GHz P4 instead of the 2.66 that previous versions always reported correctly, but I don't care)

[Rammjet]

In Terminal:

 

sysctl hw.cpufrequency

[LaminarFlow]

Sweet. Now quicktime playback is laggy and jerky (playing AVI files with Perian and NicePlayer). Quicktime Player would crash right after I opened it but I ran the 7.1.3 update and that no longer happens though. I thought I saw a thread about quicktime problems but I can't find it now. Any ideas?

[ufulu]

I have a similar problem!

 

1. First install on a clean HD with the patched JaS 10.4.8 with the INTel GMA900 checked gave me a blue messed up screen with no icons what so ever.

 

2. First installed JaS 10.4.7 with the IntelGMA900 then installed the 10.4.8 onto it without checking the GMA900 checkbox.

 

Now OS X runs flawlessly but QE & CI is disabled...

 

 

I did a search for "appleintel" but nothing is found on my system?!

 

I backedup my Extensions folder from the 10.4.7 Install and there are 3 files: AppleIntel915.kext, Appleintel915.plugin & Appleintel915GLDriver.bundle

 

should I copy these to the /system/library/extensions/ Folder?

 

And if yes how do I fix those permissions?

 

Thnaks for your help!