Hacked OSx86 Updated to 10.4.3

[poursoul]

Everyone, if you have installed this patch please post your results with XBench from before and after the patch, then also post you system specs if they are not in your signature. I am very interested to see if these "improvements" are only valuable to SSE3 procs or not.

[blkblt]

The test site I've been using for Flash testing, is, appropriately enough, www.macromedia.com

 

/blkblt

[tdoug87]

Install went smoothly, and Flash appears to be working with Flashplayer 8, but "About This Mac" still says 10.4.1, is that normal?

[klaupacius]

Good work guys. Will post before & after xbench scores. DL below 5kb/s and have UL set to max 75kb/s friendly reminder it's all funner if we all play nice and share the new toys.

[nickcirc]

Most Interesting

[39thRonin]

Got, installed it, rebooted. I do get a ~30% higher XBench score. For some reason in Safari, Macromedia Flash doesn't quite work. If I right click I see the Flash menu, but it never draws anything (like the portion of the web page is garbage "left over".

 

I used to have QuickTime set to handle SWF media, b/c someone that was a way of getting some flash files to work. I undid this, though, and Macromedia is definitely running, just not all that happy.

 

/blkblt

 

blkbit;

 

I'm seeing the same stuff here - about a 30% higher Xbench and firefox blowing chunks on anything Flash. The install was on in no time, with no major issues. Good work!

[bofors]

I know for a fact that it's 100% real, I supplied the pieces for it so you can have no doubt about its authenticity.

 

Thanks DeathChill.

 

I would like to encourage everyone who values this contribution to take time to thank the people who made it happen.

[39thRonin]

Here are my before and after xbench scores.

 

Hardware Overview:

 

Machine Name: Apple Development Platform

Machine Model: ADP2,1

CPU Type: Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU

Number Of CPUs: 1

CPU Speed: 2.99 GHz

L2 Cache (per CPU): 1 MB

Hyper-Threading Technology: Enabled

CPU Features: FPU VME DE PSE TSC MSR PAE MCE CX8 APIC SEP MTRR PGE MCA CMOV PAT PSE36

CLFSH DS ACPI MMX FXSR SSE SSE2 SS HTT TM SSE3 MON DSCPL TPR

Memory: 1 GB

Bus Speed: 3.2 GHz

Boot ROM Version: A07 (Dell Inc.)

 

Pre Patch XBench:

 

Results 22.22

System Info

Xbench Version 1.2

System Version 10.4.1 (8B1025)

Physical RAM 1024 MB

Model ADP2,1

Drive Type ST3160023AS

CPU Test 13.34

GCD Loop 78.61 4.14 Mops/sec

Floating Point Basic 32.92 782.29 Mflop/sec

vecLib FFT 4.20 138.62 Mflop/sec

Floating Point Library 53.22 9.27 Mops/sec

Thread Test 82.14

Computation 68.79 1.39 Mops/sec, 4 threads

Lock Contention 101.92 4.38 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads

Memory Test 70.31

System 50.85

Allocate 64.90 238.35 Kalloc/sec

Fill 39.33 1912.37 MB/sec

Copy 55.06 1137.24 MB/sec

Stream 113.86

Copy 109.68 2265.35 MB/sec

Scale 108.26 2236.66 MB/sec

Add 119.89 2553.87 MB/sec

Triad 118.56 2536.30 MB/sec

Quartz Graphics Test 23.68

Line 29.58 1.97 Klines/sec [50% alpha]

Rectangle 14.14 4.22 Krects/sec [50% alpha]

Circle 18.04 1.47 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]

Bezier 50.31 1.27 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]

Text 31.91 2.00 Kchars/sec

OpenGL Graphics Test 18.30

Spinning Squares 18.30 23.21 frames/sec

User Interface Test 10.47

Elements 10.47 48.03 refresh/sec

Disk Test 47.16

Sequential 67.23

Uncached Write 83.60 51.33 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 73.08 41.35 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 46.47 13.60 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 81.13 40.77 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Random 36.32

Uncached Write 13.26 1.40 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 65.69 21.03 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 91.36 0.65 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 117.14 21.74 MB/sec [256K blocks]

 

Post Patch XBench:

 

Results 32.28

System Info

Xbench Version 1.2

System Version 10.4.1 (8B1025)

Physical RAM 1024 MB

Model ADP2,1

Drive Type ST3160023AS

CPU Test 55.11

GCD Loop 88.73 4.68 Mops/sec

Floating Point Basic 48.84 1.16 Gflop/sec

vecLib FFT 38.07 1.26 Gflop/sec

Floating Point Library 68.62 11.95 Mops/sec

Thread Test 88.08

Computation 81.26 1.65 Mops/sec, 4 threads

Lock Contention 96.16 4.14 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads

Memory Test 90.58

System 69.56

Allocate 99.23 364.41 Kalloc/sec

Fill 68.73 3341.84 MB/sec

Copy 54.05 1116.46 MB/sec

Stream 129.80

Copy 125.25 2586.93 MB/sec

Scale 124.12 2564.29 MB/sec

Add 136.03 2897.66 MB/sec

Triad 134.71 2881.69 MB/sec

Quartz Graphics Test 33.97

Line 39.54 2.63 Klines/sec [50% alpha]

Rectangle 21.38 6.38 Krects/sec [50% alpha]

Circle 24.11 1.97 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]

Bezier 71.66 1.81 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]

Text 50.85 3.18 Kchars/sec

OpenGL Graphics Test 17.34

Spinning Squares 17.34 21.99 frames/sec

User Interface Test 21.30

Elements 21.30 97.78 refresh/sec

Disk Test 23.65

Sequential 62.50

Uncached Write 68.26 41.91 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 61.96 35.05 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 53.07 15.53 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 69.60 34.98 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Random 14.58

Uncached Write 4.35 0.46 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 41.93 13.42 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 90.97 0.64 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 106.21 19.71 MB/sec [256K blocks]

[poursoul]

MANY MANY THANKS to the people who have brought this out. You will be in my thoughts and thanks for many months to come. Thank you so much. EVERYONE here will appreciate this, you guys are the best!

 

*who else wants head*

 

HAHA! anyway

 

Yes people, your sys will still say 10.4.1, because this is just a patch made by a group, has nothing to do with anithing that would effect that even though it is the same updates. As stated elswhere in this forum it is simple enough to change what it says there, maybe someone could include an update that would change it for us. Not really important.

[xtraa]

Seconded.

 

you guys rock

[tetubleu]

Is the Apple DVD player working ? Is firewire working with iMovie ?

[matix]

Excellent. downloading it now.

 

many thanks to all and let the project go on!!!

[jasch]

After the update (on a 100% compliant, 915 system with SSE3), system still shows OS as 10.4.1, also Safari crashes a lot. Running native, flash movies are not displayed at all (yet I can hear them). Running using Rosetta, it either crashes, or displays hangs the machine (with the blank windows telling you to reset or power down the machine). I didn't notice any of the fixes on Safari that were introduced with 10.4.2 for PPC.

 

On the other hand, Quicktime shows as 7.04. Apple DVD player (4.6.2) loads, but could not get it to play anything... It either said "Supported Disc not Available" or just froze.

[felixding]

actually i'm looking for x86 non-english input methods, right now i'm using ppc input methods which make Finder or Word crashes a lot.

[tetubleu]

After the update (on a 100% compliant, 915 system with SSE3), system still shows OS as 10.4.1, also Safari crashes a lot. Running native, flash movies are not displayed at all (yet I can hear them). Running using Rosetta, it either crashes, or displays hangs the machine (with the blank windows telling you to reset or power down the machine). I didn't notice any of the fixes on Safari that were introduced with 10.4.2 for PPC.

 

On the other hand, Quicktime shows as 7.04. Apple DVD player (4.6.2) loads, but could not get it to play anything... It either said "Supported Disc not Available" or just froze.

 

 

Not so good...

[antrunix]

It's fast now ! But can we still use previous unibin after update? Or intel ports that work with 10.4.1 ?

[poursoul]

Here's the results, as far as XBench:

 

Before:

 

Results 44.19

System Info

Xbench Version 1.2

System Version 10.4.1 (8B1025)

Physical RAM 1024 MB

Model ACPI

Drive Type ST340014A

CPU Test 18.89

GCD Loop 85.78 4.52 Mops/sec

Floating Point Basic 63.04 1.50 Gflop/sec

vecLib FFT 5.86 193.26 Mflop/sec

Floating Point Library 73.96 12.88 Mops/sec

Thread Test 87.04

Computation 80.19 1.62 Mops/sec, 4 threads

Lock Contention 95.18 4.09 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads

Memory Test 85.54

System 67.40

Allocate 106.70 391.83 Kalloc/sec

Fill 65.92 3204.97 MB/sec

Copy 50.08 1034.31 MB/sec

Stream 117.05

Copy 115.09 2377.22 MB/sec

Scale 116.28 2402.41 MB/sec

Add 119.18 2538.73 MB/sec

Triad 117.73 2518.63 MB/sec

Quartz Graphics Test 58.50

Line 52.15 3.47 Klines/sec [50% alpha]

Rectangle 54.90 16.39 Krects/sec [50% alpha]

Circle 55.00 4.48 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]

Bezier 89.18 2.25 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]

Text 53.50 3.35 Kchars/sec

OpenGL Graphics Test 44.65

Spinning Squares 44.65 56.64 frames/sec

User Interface Test 64.67

Elements 64.67 296.82 refresh/sec

Disk Test 36.58

Sequential 90.14

Uncached Write 94.61 58.09 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 84.22 47.65 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 86.45 25.30 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 96.49 48.50 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Random 22.94

Uncached Write 7.37 0.78 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 63.43 20.30 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 73.00 0.52 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 109.40 20.30 MB/sec [256K blocks]

 

After Update:

 

Results 41.59

System Info

Xbench Version 1.2

System Version 10.4.1 (8B1025)

Physical RAM 1024 MB

Model ACPI

Drive Type ST340014A

CPU Test 19.85

GCD Loop 86.65 4.57 Mops/sec

Floating Point Basic 65.13 1.55 Gflop/sec

vecLib FFT 6.21 204.87 Mflop/sec

Floating Point Library 73.76 12.84 Mops/sec

Thread Test 87.99

Computation 80.28 1.63 Mops/sec, 4 threads

Lock Contention 97.34 4.19 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads

Memory Test 90.12

System 70.92

Allocate 113.13 415.45 Kalloc/sec

Fill 68.72 3341.22 MB/sec

Copy 52.88 1092.31 MB/sec

Stream 123.56

Copy 121.16 2502.57 MB/sec

Scale 121.59 2511.98 MB/sec

Add 125.99 2683.82 MB/sec

Triad 125.67 2688.33 MB/sec

Quartz Graphics Test 57.90

Line 53.60 3.57 Klines/sec [50% alpha]

Rectangle 55.00 16.42 Krects/sec [50% alpha]

Circle 55.13 4.49 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]

Bezier 89.77 2.26 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]

Text 49.41 3.09 Kchars/sec

OpenGL Graphics Test 44.70

Spinning Squares 44.70 56.71 frames/sec

User Interface Test 53.41

Elements 53.41 245.10 refresh/sec

Disk Test 26.93

Sequential 33.40

Uncached Write 13.68 8.40 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 48.71 27.56 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 78.25 22.90 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 75.06 37.72 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Random 22.56

Uncached Write 7.46 0.79 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 47.14 15.09 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 80.87 0.57 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 103.50 19.21 MB/sec [256K blocks]

 

Results:

 

I really can't think of any reason some systems are faster while some remain the same. My XBench actually went to .5 points higher than my original, but only on the second run. My processor can do SSE3 by the way.

 

The only thing that was odd about my setup was that I had to install my update on a seconday partition as I ran out of space on my primary partition... maybe that's the problem.

[YOLY]

well i don't know why it didn't work for me, the installation ran well, but when i reboot it back, it looks like nothing got updated except the lost of space. Do I need to get into root or something?

[urig-herb]

@poursoul:

 

You most likely haven't installed it at all. Because the new files don't get loaded.

 

I try to make a complete backup before installing, because OS X became sort of my "production system" (yes, it works that good).

[DrJägermeister]

We've received reports that the rather creative OSx86 hacking community has created another release, this time to update existing 10.4.1 installations to many of the new features introduced in 10.4.3. Sources indicate that the new security features implemented in 10.4.3 have prevented a full release and that this update is in lieu of that release.

 

Check out the front page for the full story.

Good news.

Is there a way to deinstall it if it's not stable?

[jrrjrr]

I first tried installing this to a second OSX partition, because I didn't have the 1.8 GB available on the boot partition, but that did nothing. It set up parallel System, Library, etc folders and files between the two partitions and the boot volume was left with all un-updated pieces.

 

Then I tried the copy from second partition to the boot partition thing, and found out you can't do that while your Mac is running because some of the files are in use and locked. So I ended up doing it in Windows, using MacDrive. The Mac system actually booted afterwards, and it was using the files I copied over, but it was big-time unstable, so I gave up on that idea.

 

The 1.8 GB of space that the upgrade wants is actually more than it needs. That is the raw space required not taking into account that some of the new files will REPLACE existing files. The installer doesn't do any sort of calculation to try to arrive at a net added space requirement. The 1.8 GB amount is listed as a string in a few of the text files in the update package. I wacked the "1" off of the beginning each time I found it and saved the files back into the package, and that made the installer think it wanted 800 MB now instead. In reality, the upgrade on my machine was a net add of about 900 MB. This is an install originally off the deadmoo image. Installs originally off the DVD are probably different -- maybe a smaller net add with this upgrade.

 

Anyway, lying about the space requirement got it installed on the boot partition and it all went fine. Everything seems to work that worked before - touchpad, sound, external USB and Firewire drives, Broadcom wireless card, etc. Safari (native, not under Rosetta) has both Flash and Java applets working. I have not tried to watch a DVD yet. It was working before with VLC.

 

My machine is a Dell 5150 laptop with at 3GHZ P4 (SSE2), 1.2 GB of PC2700 RAM, nVidia FX5200 video at 1280x1024. I installed from the deadmoo image the week it was available and have been runing it since, using Acronis TrueImage in Windows to save images of the OSX partitions so I can restore them afer I make a mess of things from time to time.

 

Xbench was around 34 prior to this upgrade, and is coming in at around 42 now. So that is about a 25% increase. Here are the full results:

 

Before

Results 34.53

System Info

Xbench Version 1.2

System Version 10.4.1 (8B1025)

Physical RAM 1280 MB

Model ACPI

Drive Type HTS726060M9AT00

CPU Test 20.09

GCD Loop 98.20 5.18 Mops/sec

Floating Point Basic 57.62 1.37 Gflop/sec

vecLib FFT 6.33 208.72 Mflop/sec

Floating Point Library 74.03 12.89 Mops/sec

Thread Test 73.62

Computation 55.45 1.12 Mops/sec, 4 threads

Lock Contention 109.52 4.71 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads

Memory Test 50.93

System 40.50

Allocate 103.34 379.49 Kalloc/sec

Fill 34.31 1668.11 MB/sec

Copy 28.36 585.82 MB/sec

Stream 68.61

Copy 65.23 1347.38 MB/sec

Scale 65.28 1348.73 MB/sec

Add 72.53 1545.04 MB/sec

Triad 72.10 1542.41 MB/sec

Quartz Graphics Test 38.23

Line 36.90 2.46 Klines/sec [50% alpha]

Rectangle 30.52 9.11 Krects/sec [50% alpha]

Circle 31.23 2.55 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]

Bezier 71.49 1.80 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]

Text 40.14 2.51 Kchars/sec

OpenGL Graphics Test 39.18

Spinning Squares 39.18 49.70 frames/sec

User Interface Test 29.31

Elements 29.31 134.51 refresh/sec

Disk Test 29.47

Sequential 44.68

Uncached Write 43.06 26.44 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 39.25 22.21 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 69.75 20.41 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 37.75 18.97 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Random 21.98

Uncached Write 7.49 0.79 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 48.97 15.68 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 68.42 0.48 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 74.97 13.91 MB/sec [256K blocks]

 

 

After

Results 42.34

System Info

Xbench Version 1.2

System Version 10.4.1 (8B1025)

Physical RAM 1280 MB

Model ACPI

Drive Type HTS726060M9AT00

CPU Test 69.97

GCD Loop 98.62 5.20 Mops/sec

Floating Point Basic 91.19 2.17 Gflop/sec

vecLib FFT 43.49 1.43 Gflop/sec

Floating Point Library 76.52 13.33 Mops/sec

Thread Test 74.01

Computation 55.16 1.12 Mops/sec, 4 threads

Lock Contention 112.44 4.84 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads

Memory Test 51.11

System 40.46

Allocate 108.54 398.59 Kalloc/sec

Fill 32.97 1602.99 MB/sec

Copy 28.89 596.76 MB/sec

Stream 69.39

Copy 64.92 1340.93 MB/sec

Scale 65.24 1347.81 MB/sec

Add 74.53 1587.56 MB/sec

Triad 74.11 1585.41 MB/sec

Quartz Graphics Test 38.32

Line 37.27 2.48 Klines/sec [50% alpha]

Rectangle 31.12 9.29 Krects/sec [50% alpha]

Circle 31.85 2.60 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]

Bezier 77.52 1.96 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]

Text 36.73 2.30 Kchars/sec

OpenGL Graphics Test 39.97

Spinning Squares 39.97 50.71 frames/sec

User Interface Test 30.60

Elements 30.60 140.43 refresh/sec

Disk Test 29.26

Sequential 44.75

Uncached Write 41.23 25.31 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 39.12 22.13 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 70.54 20.64 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 39.37 19.79 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Random 21.74

Uncached Write 7.40 0.78 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 48.65 15.57 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 67.74 0.48 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 74.17 13.76 MB/sec [256K blocks]

 

Thanks again to all the hackers who are making this possible for the rest of us!!!

[pion]

Thanks deathchill for this update.

i need to get better harddrive as this is maxtor 5400rpm pata drive .

 

previous score:

 

 

10.4.3 score

 

 

My Spec:

 

[domino]

[rant mode on] You know, I'm really tired of wasting my time checking this thread for any good news, then turning out seeing a bunch of people post useless benchmarks which are irrelevant to the operating system's operations. In other words (for you kids out there), your bench don't mean tihs whether you gain 1000pnt or none. You still can't get the apps working better than 10.4.1. Why don't you people post something worth reading and quit posting post full of tihs. [rant mode off]

[Pe3ucTop]

Question - Is in update NEW drivers for video, net, sound??

 

I think many people is interested not in perfomance, but in

hardvare compability, especialy video.

[dragorta]

It' s amazing,

This is my first post here and I wish to congratulate who do this update

Safari with flash player (not run well for all site)

My system is full in french now (cause I' m french )

Quicktime run very fast and the HD trailers in 720 is now really smooth

etc etc ....

 

CPU bench :

 

CPU Test 18.79

GCD Loop 97.45 5.14 Mops/sec

Floating Point Basic 77.17 1.83 Gflop/sec

vecLib FFT 5.67 186.95 Mflop/sec

Floating Point Library 75.77 13.19 Mops/sec

 

to

 

CPU Test 63.88

GCD Loop 96.83 5.10 Mops/sec

Floating Point Basic 71.49 1.70 Gflop/sec

vecLib FFT 40.59 1.34 Gflop/sec

Floating Point Library 73.21 12.75 Mops/sec

 

With my P4 640

Intel 915GEVL

 

Thanks a lot