guilliamo Posted October 31, 2005 Share Posted October 31, 2005 Have installed the update on two similar systems, both with Intel D915GAG boards & onboard DMA900 video. One has a P4 3.0GHz, and one has a 2.66GHz Celeron D. XBench uptick very nice, especially in vecLib FFT. Posting a couple of questions here since the original thread is getting so long that any questions are getting buried. 1) On both systems I get a visible file after the update named "mach_kernel", 7,806,984 bytes, dated October 28, 2005 in the root directory of my boot disk. Is this a file that went awry in the installer ?? 2) Apple DVD player seems to work ok on the Celeron system, but opens and seems to run without displaying sound or video on the P4 system. Will try to do a comparison of the support files to see if there may be an obvious explanation for this. Anyone else seeing similar behavior ? Happy Halloween & Thanks, especially to those who contributed to this great upgrade! G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intradink Posted October 31, 2005 Share Posted October 31, 2005 1) On both systems I get a visible file after the update named "mach_kernel", 7,806,984 bytes, dated October 28, 2005 in the root directory of my boot disk. Is this a file that went awry in the installer ?? no this file is required, and from my non-technical position, it's the file that makes osx run on your notebook... do not delete it. Most patches that come out (maxxuss etc) are updates to this file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnniecarcinogen Posted October 31, 2005 Share Posted October 31, 2005 the pentium 4 is probably a Northridge which doesnt have sse3. check the MD5 to be sure it downloaded as it was meant to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donniedarko Posted October 31, 2005 Share Posted October 31, 2005 the big prob is that flash doesn't work for everybody apple dvd player plays some dvd and other it just display a black screen without sound Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www0123 Posted November 9, 2005 Share Posted November 9, 2005 Machine Name: Apple Development Platform Machine Model: ADP2,1 CPU Type: Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU Number Of CPUs: 1 CPU Speed: 3 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: 800 MHz Boot ROM Version: EV91510A.86A.0308.2004.1018.1127 (Intel Corp.) Chipset Model: GMA 900 Type: VGA-Compatible Controller Bus: Built-In Vendor: Intel (0x8086) Device ID: 0x2582 Revision ID: 0x0004 Displays: Display: Status: No display connected Display: Resolution: 1024 x 768 @ 60 Hz Depth: 32-bit Color Core Image: Supported Main Display: Yes Mirror: Off Online: Yes Quartz Extreme: Supported Despite good starts of loading and off-loading apps. I still have a problem with DVD's playing. The original install and the "10.4.1 Update" just make it better for speed and stability. Sound works, iApps work, even MSOffice works well. Browsing and FTP are wonderful. ITunes shares my library of songs. I've even got FrontRow and PhotoBooth working with my setup. But, no matter what I do I can't get a DVD to play for anything. I guess I shouldn't complain given so much is working, but it bugs me still. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gizmo Posted November 22, 2005 Share Posted November 22, 2005 how can I check what kernel is used now that I updated 10.4.1 to 10.4.3 with the maxxus-patched DVD on a native CeleronD (SSE3)/i915-gma900? Is it the original kernel (SSE, nx) or the SSE2-Kernel ??? BTW the update was very slow and had some strange graphics phenomens but 1 boot later everything was fine and amazingly fast! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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