Just a Quick question?

[Steveuk]

Can i update From JaS.10.4.8 to 10.4.9 if i use the JaS.10.4.9.Combo??

 

Will it work on sse2?

 

 

THxs

[Lactobacillus P]

Can i update From JaS.10.4.8 to 10.4.9 if i use the JaS.10.4.9.Combo??Will it work on sse2?THxs

 

No it will not work, it is sse3 only. You need to use a SSE2 compatible kernel on sse2 systems.I have tried to update 10.4.8 on my SSE2 laptop to 10.4.9 by using the official Apple delta update whilst later (without rebooting) manually inserting a SSE2 10.4.9 kernel and restoring quite a number of 10.4.8 kextsIn root mode backup up the 10.4.8 necessities in the root of the drive:

 

cp /mach_kernel /old
cp -R /system/library/coreservices/loginwindow.app /
cp -R /system/library/extensions/AppleSMBIOS.kext /
cp -R /system/library/extensions/AppleACPIplatform.kext /
cp -R /system/library/extensions/AppleAPIC.kext /
cp -R /system/library/extensions/IOATAFamily.kext /
cp -R /system/library/extensions/system.kext /

After running the delta updater, restoring the 10.4.8 necessities from the root of the drive to the appropriate spots.

 

cp /old /mach_kernel
cp -R /loginwindow.app /system/library/coreservices/
cp -R /AppleSMBIOS.kext /system/library/extensions/
cp -R /AppleACPIplatform.kext /system/library/extensions/
cp -R /AppleAPIC.kext /system/library/extensions/
cp -R /IOATAFamily.kext /system/library/extensions/
cp -R /system.kext /system/library/extensions/
rm -rf /system/library/extensions.*

This produces a working system, with the 10.4.8 kernel. But as the kernel and the system.kext are not the same this will produce problems with automounting .dmg files and my 9700 Mobility refuses to work with QE and CI. I did introduce a newer sse2 10.4.9 compatible kernel but this still didn't help.Restoring the Ati 9700 kexts (which I need for my system) from 10.4.8 didn't help either. Nor the total 9700 solution that is found elsewhere on these forums, this seems to restore QE and CI with resolution switching and everything with help of callisto, but on my sse2 system OpenGL extensions.app shows that this is not all working. Games and emulators do not work despite the system profiler showing that QE and CI is supported.

 

So I am back to 10.4.8 which is pretty much perfect on my system. 9700 Mobility recognized as PCI, no resolution switch but QE and CI properly supported with games and emulators. The only reason to upgrade to 10.4.9 is software requirements for newer software. But now pretty much everything runs on my system. I personally am looking for a Jas 10.4.8 -> 10.4.9 solution that is as compatible with my hardware as 10.4.8 Jas currently is. Perhaps running the Jas 10.4.9 update for SSE3 and then using a SSE2 10.4.9 kernel with it might produce a stable and as compatible system on my laptop.

[Steveuk]

Thxs 4 reply but do u think that if i used the JaS.10.4.9.Combo.Update.Intel.SSE3.zip then did this with the jas file instead of the koolkal’s reloaded combo update

 

UPDATE TO 10.4.9: INTEL SSE2 (only use this if your processor doesn’t support SSE3)

 

http://coolblog.profit42.com/2007/04/14/os...r-no-dual-boot/

 

Does it work?

 

Just that jas 10.4.8 is well sorted on my system

 

Thxs

[Steveuk]

Ok got it sorted thxs

[Lactobacillus P]

Ok got it sorted thxs

 

On my sse2 Acer notebook running JaS 10.4.8 I sucessfully updated to 10.4.9 retaining the same level of compatibility as with the JaS 10.4.8 system.

 

This is what I did:

I installed the JaS.10.4.9.Combo.Update.Intel.SSE3 but I did not restart

I installed the LoginWindow.app from 10.4.4 that came from the JaS 10.4.8 DVD

I installed the 10.4.9_SSE2_ToH-xnu-792.18.15-SSE2-1 kernel by unpacking the zip file

moving the mach_kernel file into the /users folder and then entering the following in the terminal

sudo -s
cp -R /users/mach_kernel /

This will allow you to replace the 10.4.9 sse3 kernel that came with the JaS 10.4.9 update with a sse2 compatible one. And I did a diskutility repair and only then rebooted to be greeted with the most stable version of OSX 10.4.9 running on a SSE2 system ever.

DMG images open without a problem as the system.kext and the kernel are of the same type now. Other guides out there will give you a 10.4.9 system with an 10.4.8 sse2 kernel - this will cause ill side effects easily noted by dmg files not being mounted anymore etc.

 

It seems that the Jas 10.4.8 Ati OpenGLFramework is patched for sse2 compatibility and CI and QE is supported on my Radeon 9700 Mobility albeit without resolution change and the card is recognized as PCI instead of AGP. But accellerated 2d and 3d graphics are cool, regardless of the card being recognized as PCI.

When I tried to do the ' clean ' Apple 10.4.9 delta update method as derived from the Wiki the Ati Radeon 9700 files were overwritten by non-patched ones and my system lost QE and CI capability.

 

With the JaS 10.4.9 SSE3 update with an SSE2 kernel replacing the SSE3 one I ended up with a very solid system. Great and in my eyes still superior to all other installments/distro's on intel.