The first time I tried installing 10.5.8, my keyboard and trackpad didn’t work. I reinstalled OS X, and tried again. My keyboard and trackpad worked fine after the update. When Thomas updated, he kept getting kernel panics until he booted into safe-mode (-x) and installed the audio drivers. Just goes to show that this can be a strange business of trial and error. Now let’s get started.
1. Thomas say “Back-up your computer“. Listen to the man, and do it.
2. Download the 10.5.8 Drivers Pack. You won’t have WiFi or sound after the update.
3. Go over here and download the Combo Update. You can use Software Update, but the Combo Update is safer.
4. When the .dmg is finished downloading (it’ll take a while, it’s nearly 800 MB) the installer will automatically start (if you’re using Safari that is; if not, just double-click the .dmg and then run the .pkg). All you have to do it click Continue a couple times. Installation will take awhile. I almost force-quit the installer because it appeared to be stalling, but it wasn’t. Be patient. Go get some coffee and ruminate on whether Starbucks customers are addicts or assholes.
5. When the installer is done, you’ll be prompted to reboot. You’re first reboot will most likely fail. This is normal. It’ll probably reboot on its own, but if it doesn’t, just hold down the power button. Boot with the -v (verbose) flag next time to see if there are any errors. If you still can’t boot without getting a Kernel Panic, boot with -x and that will get you in.
6. If all goes well, you’ll be back at your desktop. Not much is broken; only WiFi and Sound. Unzip the driver pack you downloaded earlier and install the kexts. Be sure to repair disk permissions when you’re done.
Note: If the included audio driver doesn’t work for you try following Richard’s instructions.
7. Reboot and then download the Sleep Fix provided by Sami (Thanks Sami!)
8. Navigate to /System/Library/Extensions/ and delete IntelCPUPowerManagement.kext
9. Install the included Kext, Repair Permissions in Disk Utility, and then reboot with the -f flag
10. Thank Sami for this find!
The list of changes in 10.5.8, from Apple itself, include:
- Upgrades Safari to version 4.0.2
- Improves the accuracy of full history search in Safari 4.
- Improves overall Bluetooth reliability with external devices, USB webcams and printers.
- Addresses an issue that could cause extended startup times.
- Improves compatibility with some external USB hard drives.
- Includes latest security fixes.
Full release notes are here and details on security fixes are here. Happy upgrading!
Note: If there’s anything else that isn’t working take a look at the drivers guide.
Update 1: It looks like sleep is broken but we’re currently working on a fix.
Update 2: If you had the trackpad preference-pane installed, it’ll be gone. You can find it in the drivers guide mentioned earlier along with instruction on how to fix it.
May 11th, 2010 at 1:11 AM
“After installing any Airport updates through Software Update or any other source, you will have to re-run the Broadcom script. Anyway, test out the script with the AppleHDA patcher and report back.”
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That’s what I did… I updated AirPort and then, I’ve run the script several times and eventually, repaired permissions as always – no success in it… Actually, things got worst when I updated ’cause after it, the card was no longer recognized, then I restored the AirPort files.
Now it’s working as before, only when I boot the notebook with the card turned on.
I tried running the Broadcom script with the AppleHDA patcher: FAIL. It says there’s no codec found or so. After that, I tried to run the script a dozen times, but everything stays the same.
May 12th, 2010 at 7:36 PM
Try booting with the -f flag.
May 9th, 2010 at 1:26 PM
“Which wireless card do you have? If you have the Dell 1395 card, just continue to run the script until you get it. Some users have reported success by running the script in the AppleHDA patcher, but I have yet to confirm this.”
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Hey Thomas,
I got this one you said, Dell 1395… I’ll try using the AppleHDA patcher and let’s see what happens hehe…
Whether I succeed or not, I’ll post here.
I’d like to point that if I reboot with the WiFi card turned on (you know, that on/off button…) it works, but it crashes if I turn it off and on again, so I have to reboot the notebook to get it working again… The card is actually recognized by the OS, but it doesn’t work properly. At first, I thought it was because those AirPort stuffs weren’t updated, then I’ve updated them using Software Update and after that, the WiFi card wasn’t being recognized anymore until I restored my HD from my backup. Now I’m stuck with that problem…
Thanks for the help!
May 9th, 2010 at 1:33 PM
After installing any Airport updates through Software Update or any other source, you will have to re-run the Broadcom script. Anyway, test out the script with the AppleHDA patcher and report back.
May 8th, 2010 at 5:49 PM
Hey guys! Thanks for the tutorial!
Everything is running perfectly ‘cept for the WiFi after updating to this version… I’ve updated those AirPort stuffs with Software Update and everything, but it won’t work… I’ve used the bcm43xx_enalber script for like a zillion times, but I can’t seem to get it working.
Any help will be appreciated and thanks in advance!
May 9th, 2010 at 12:02 PM
Which wireless card do you have? If you have the Dell 1395 card, just continue to run the script until you get it. Some users have reported success by running the script in the AppleHDA patcher, but I have yet to confirm this.
April 26th, 2010 at 3:23 PM
After updating to 10.5.8, I can’t lock the screen anymore (the same happened when I was running the 10.5.3)… Does anybody know how to fix it? I’ve searched it on tons of pages on Google, but I won’t find it..
April 27th, 2010 at 9:19 PM
Sorry guys, I’ve been super busy lately. To anyone who still needs assistance: please repost your question (a simply copy and paste will suffice) and I will answer.
April 12th, 2010 at 5:30 AM
Hey Thomas,
Seem like I become a fan of your blog haha (a fan in Germany isn’t that awesome??)
Well but fun beside…I have a working 10.5.8 ISO on my pc.
I was allready able to install it on a VM (worked…but slowly).
So of course I tried installing it on another pc to make it work a litle faster.
My question now is, if and how I need to install all the drivers (as my drive is blank when I want to install it)
thx
Okami
April 12th, 2010 at 1:58 PM
If I understand your question correctly, you can get all your drivers here.
February 5th, 2010 at 9:49 AM
stuck at post installation . its says waiting for other mac to restart
February 5th, 2010 at 3:54 PM
Can you please provide some more information so that I can help you diagnose the problem? Also, can you provide a screenshot/picture of the error?
December 18th, 2009 at 11:09 PM
Well I used rc1 and it worked fine. I’ll probably just wait for an official release.
December 17th, 2009 at 12:58 AM
correction – i forgot to untar the file. duh. now i get this:
fdisk: could not open MBR file boot0: No such file or directory
December 18th, 2009 at 8:25 AM
Verify that you cd’ed into the i386 folder inside of the Chameleon-2.0-RC4-r684-bin folder. Also, be sure to include an r in front of any disk identifiers (rdisk0 in step 1 and rdisk0s1 in step 2.
December 17th, 2009 at 12:41 AM
so i didn’t realize i had to have chameleon. but when i follow the instructions for rc4, i get no such file or directory on step 4.
December 13th, 2009 at 8:14 PM
sure do.
December 15th, 2009 at 8:47 PM
Maybe I can jump in to help? Try this dsdt.aml and place it in the root of your OS X Partition. Then reboot and see if it helps. Also, which bootloader are you using? If you’re not using Chameleon then the dsdt.aml won’t be loaded. You can get the newest chameleon here and it should fix your problem.
December 13th, 2009 at 5:57 PM
hey guys. it’s been a while, but i built a desktop and can now dedicate my 1525 to osx86. so i installed xxx 1.5.6, then upgraded to 10.5.7 and used the migration assistant on my old time machine backup. so far so good. so i’m trying to go to 10.5.8 (still downloading snow leopard) and i alsways run into the same issue: after it’s installed and i reboot, i get the white apple loading screen, then the plain blue screen for about a second, then instead of popping up with thelogin screen i’m used to, the display goes black. it’s not sleeping, i dunno what’s going on. the expose corner trick doesn’t do anything. i can get it to boot perfectly with the boot-123 disk without any -v, -x or whatever, but it won’t do it by itself. any ideas?
December 13th, 2009 at 6:26 PM
Do you have a DSDT.aml file in your root folder?
October 20th, 2009 at 10:25 PM
Can i update from kalyway 10.5.2 to 10.5.8 ?
Thanks.
October 21st, 2009 at 2:29 PM
You probably won’t be able to do a straight upgrade although if you just isntalled then give it a shot and see if it works for you!
September 29th, 2009 at 11:12 AM
Has anyone noticed some of their keys stop working? My backspace and space bar keys sometimes stop working. If I log out and back in then all works fine. It’s only some of the keys…
September 19th, 2009 at 10:19 PM
I had a very strange instalation, because after installing the sleep fix I had a kernel panic, and what I did is take the iPC install dvd and uncheck everything except ACPI and IOPCFamily.kext fixes, and it just worked. Now i’m without troubles using 10.5.8, and it worths the install.
thanks for the guide, though :)
September 13th, 2009 at 8:13 PM
You can use OSx86 Tools to edit it.
September 13th, 2009 at 5:20 PM
I know it’s minor but can anyone tell me how to change “unknown” to Intel core 2 duo under the about this mac screen?
September 12th, 2009 at 8:24 PM
HI
Can anyone help me please. I used the software updater to install 10.5.8 combo on Macbook Pro. It restarts the computer and then gets stuck saying installing 1 item. I left if for over an hour the first time before I re-booted. I’ve since tried to or 3 times and it still gets stuck at that part of the install??
I currently have 10.5.5 is that the problem??
Sorry I am a total nitwit when it comes to computers….
September 12th, 2009 at 9:16 PM
The issue could be caused by your being on 10.5.5 although since your using Software Update, it shouldn’t be having any problems. Try installing the Delta Updates from Apple.com for 10.5.6, 10.5.7, and then eventually 10.5.8 and see how it goes.
September 11th, 2009 at 11:31 AM
The light used to work when I was at 10.5.5 using Kalyway, so I thought I would ask. All other lights work except wifi.
Thanks for the quick response!!!
September 10th, 2009 at 10:32 PM
Everything works thanks to this great guide!!! Only minor problem is my blue Wifi light won’t turn on even though my wireless is working perfect.
Any thoughts???
btw: I was at 10.5.4 via Kalyway and starting over via iPC 10.5.6 was so simple. All you newbies to 1525 OS X have no idea how much easier it is now.
September 11th, 2009 at 6:11 AM
The WiFi light doesn’t turn on or work with our drivers for OS X. Personally, I find this a non-issue as those lights are extremely annoying and are too bright.
September 9th, 2009 at 3:33 AM
I think I have found why we don’t have power adapter and battery settings in Preferences. Yesterday I installed retail Leo (thanks to Thomas) and when I was on 10.5 I got the options, but then when I updated to 10.5.8 I lost them. And the reason for that is the model identifier in system profiler. On 10.5 my PC was identified as somemodel and now on 10.5.8 is identified as MacPro. And this is the reason because in MacPro doesn’t have settings for battery only for AC power. So I was wondering if anyone knows how to change the model to macbook so I can try to get the settings back again?
September 9th, 2009 at 6:25 AM
Nice catch in System Profiler! The system name has to do with AppleSMBIOS so you can probably get a kext/tool to change the system model for you over at insanelymac.com
September 2nd, 2009 at 6:43 PM
Hi.
Can I upgrade from version 10.5.4 to 10.5.8? And what are the consequences by doing that?
September 2nd, 2009 at 7:13 PM
Dragan- I believe that you can upgrade from 10.5.4. The consequences will just be that many things will be broken although you can fix them using this guide. You will also need a dsdt.aml is you don’t already have one.
September 2nd, 2009 at 4:58 PM
Well… I can say without doubt that 10.5.8 is a worthless update! I know that (most) you others have to have experienced the same ‘Energy Saver’ issues I was encountering (in that the laptop thinks it is on the ‘Power Adapter’ at all times). Also, sleep is not perfect even using SleepEnabler.kext. I just hope that not too much of this update is going to be indicative of what we find in Snow Leopard.
I guess 10.5.8 is perfect for you if you’re looking to loose functionality; that is about all this OS update was worth.
So, it’s back to 10.5.7 for me across the 1525 and Mini 9. SN 10.6 will be the next thing that is actually worthy of experimentation.
I look forward to seeing your guide and how close it comes to the ideas I have regarding how to best install it on the 1525. Glad to see that most everything is working.
That said, are there power management issues (other than sleep) in the prefPane, specifically battery based controls? In other words, does the OS actually allow a battery profile and reflect that when the AC Adapter is pulled that the machine has gone to battery?
– Wolfer
September 2nd, 2009 at 4:11 PM
Snow Leopard on Dell Inspiron 1525. Progress on my end is 97% complete. The only remaining issue I have is sleep which still plagues me. I will be mostly working on that today. Also Thomas, I am updating a kext package for you and hopefully we can get you up and running and figure out the problem your having. I think it might be related to running on a mbr drive instead of guid but no way to confirm that until i reinstall on my extra hdd today. I will do my best to help so the only thing I can think of is trying the mbr hdd install and see if I get the same issue. Hopefully hopefully over the next couple of days we will have systems go. :-)
September 1st, 2009 at 4:33 PM
Ummm… Okay, upgraded to 10.5.8, decided to go the way of the masses and took the kernel back to 9.80 (after going back to 9.7 for perfect sleep again), used SleepEnabler.kext, and ensured my IOUSBFamily.kext and VoodooUSBEHCI.kext were up-to-date and sleep is working as it should.
But, come today, I looked into my Energy Saver prefPane and realized that I no longer have any battery options present anymore?! What the?!? I’m posting this prior to looking into the issue myself just in case someone else has seen it and can post a quick fix/suggestion for me, but I’m assuming I’m going to have to drop back to the 10.5.7 prefPane and PowerManagement.bundle, and possibly more kexts, to get my battery profile back again. Problem is, when sleeping on battery, I’m back to where if the lid opens a little in my pack, the thing wakes up and starts cooking itself. I have no battery profile to even modify anymore (to tell clamshell to not wake on battery)!
And I thought I was done with what I thought was a fairly painless 10.5.8 upgrade. I’ll look into it when I get time, but time is something I don’t have a lot of right now.
Thanks for any hints/downloads, etc.
– Wolfer
August 31st, 2009 at 5:36 PM
Updated to Snow Leopard via retail install. Everything is working except for sleep and my keyboard being 102 again…
August 31st, 2009 at 7:33 PM
Do you use AIM or some sort of IM client so that I can chat with you about your success? My screenname on AIM is tompic823 if you’re on and wouldn’t mind telling me what you did to make it work.
August 30th, 2009 at 1:27 PM
@Wolfer
sleep with the world famous sleep fix works perfectly on both AC or battery :)
(FuSi Amilo Li2727, iPC)
August 29th, 2009 at 7:15 PM
@jani, “the world famous sleep fix…” Does the fix allow for sleep when on both AC or Battery? I didn’t do much experimenting before going with the work-around I choose, but seemed many could sleep on battery, but were unable when plugged into AC. Also, seemed like there were a lot of “wake” issues. Also, I wasn’t too excited about having to leave AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext as it does keep the CPU heat up and the fans blazing.
Guess I might not have found that “magic” combination of settings/kexts yet. For now though, the older kernel does me just fine.
– Wolfer
August 29th, 2009 at 11:36 PM
Hey Wolfer! Haven’t seen you around here in ages. What have you been up to? In case you’re not aware of the recent changes, check this out.
August 29th, 2009 at 3:40 PM
Thanks for the 10.5.8 sleep fix! I use it on my FuSi Amilo Li2727 ( with iPC 10.5.6, yesterday updated to 10.5.8 ). After 10.5.8 update I had to reinstall fixed x3100 driver, audio, and this world famous sleep fix. Thanks again! If anyone is interested in installing OSX on Amilo Li2727, I wrote a tutorial on my blog. Thanks for the sleep fix again! It saved my life :)
August 29th, 2009 at 3:42 PM
Glad we could help!
August 29th, 2009 at 1:02 PM
All,
If you want sleep to work as it did on 10.5.7, then just use OSX86Tools to restore the 10.5.7 kernel (/mach_kernel) and System.kext from 10.5.7 (You know, from that backup you made in Step #1) once you have 10.5.8 installed. Make sure to restore both files or you’ll run into a lot of strange issues.
Long and short of it, doing so will allow you to delete AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext (lowers temps, keeps fans from running all the time), which SleepEnabler.kext requires be present, and get your sleep working whether plugged in or running on battery. (Yes, this does infer that you also delete SleepEnabler.kext.)
As Superhai has also stated, there is hardly any difference between the 10.5.7 and 10.5.8 kernels; mostly there was only power management feature changes/additions. Unfortunately, these features don’t work as well with the Hacks as they do with real Macs, so a good solution is just regressing back to the older kernel. It’ll give you just the sleep functionality you want AND always had working in the prior OS X revisions. From my testing and the testing of others, there’s nothing to loose and everything to gain.
Someday there might be a better solution, but for now, this is the easiest and most graceful correction to the sleep anomalies. So, if you feel so inclined, I thought I’d let you all know about the fix, or in better terms, work-around.
– Wolfer
August 28th, 2009 at 9:12 AM
Hey guys, thanks for the awesome tutorial.
By the way, if you are having problems with the computer not sleeping while plugged in, you should reinstall the IOUSBFamily.kext from the 10.5.7 upgrade and the VoodooUSBEHCI.kext from the driverpack found in macyourpc.com. Worked like a charm for me, hopefully it works for everyone else as well
August 27th, 2009 at 5:40 PM
Actually when I change the trackpad preference I get only the side scrolling, and I can’t change the VoodooPS2 prefpane and I don’t like the side scrolling. Anyway I’ll stick with old PS2 because with voodoo my mouse goes wild even on lowest speed I just can’t move it when I do it goes back. I’ll wait for better release but good about this release is that the media buttons work without Butler. Thank you again
August 27th, 2009 at 4:41 PM
Thank you for the kext pack Tom, and btw I notice you put VoodooPS2 Controller I have question about it. I have ALPS touchpad and when I install it like everyone I can’t change settings and I can’t use 2finger scroll. Do you know how to enable it because I got used to it and if doesn’t work I’d rather to stay with old PS2 controller.
August 27th, 2009 at 5:30 PM
It sounds like you need the Trackpad PreferencePane. You can download it here. Just follow the included instructions and then you should be able to find the “Trackpad” PrefPane in System Preferences.
August 27th, 2009 at 2:45 AM
Ok, Tom thank you again I try the install next week Because this I’m busy to study and I’ll let you know how the install went, but I’ll reformat it anyway I don’t have the time to to make modified OSIntall file and don’t have any DL DVDs to use again (and don’t want to make it single layer). And btw do you know which drivers are included the Boot123 CD. On the DVD load I use verbose mode and I saw that Voodoo Power, Wi-Fi and Ethernet are loading. What should be the ones which I have to install and which are included in?
August 27th, 2009 at 3:51 PM
The Boot-132 CD has Battery Meter and WiFi drivers. It may have a few more but I’m not too sure. As for post installation though, download the drivers and place the appropriate ones in your /Extra/ folder (Appears after you install Chameleon) and kext helper the rest. Then Repair Permission in Disk Utility, reboot, and boot with -f. Most everything should now be working after following these steps.
August 26th, 2009 at 8:07 PM
Thanks, Tom it worked. I got to the install screen but I could try to install it because I have MBR partition but I’ll try it next week after my exam. But I have a few questions about the installation. I notice that on the install screen I have the wi-fi and the battery meter also. Does this mean that when I install it and put the Extension.mkext in the extra folder I’ll have everything up and running like battery meter wi-fi audio trackpad and all the other stuff that worked on the other distos? And when I update to should I use iDeneb Combo updates or from Apple? And the last is about the display after install. Doest go black again or it workes like with the DSST.aml and should I use it later? Thanks again I was hoping I can get retail since the first time I installed Leopard on my Dell. I’m also looking forward to see if we can get retail SL on our Dells with your guide. Thanks again!!
August 26th, 2009 at 9:30 PM
For installing Retail OS X on an MBR Partitioned drive, follow this guide (I used it so that I wouldn’t have to reformat my entire drive to GPT). As for the Boot-132 Disc, it includes the drivers for several pieces of hardware such as WiFi and Battery Meter, although not all hardware. The whole point of Retail Installs though is that you can use the updates directly from Apple/Software Update. If you are willing to install the iDeneb Combo Updates then I don’t think you should go through the trouble of a Retail Install as, no offense, but you wouldn’t reap the benefits. If you still want to go through with the install, the display should be fine on your first boot as the Boot-132 disc has the proper files you need to wake the screen. After that though, you need to install Chameleon so that you can continue to boot to your OS X partition. Once you install Chameleon, you need to copy the dsdt.aml from your old OS X partition to the root of your new one.
August 26th, 2009 at 3:56 PM
Tom it doesn’t boot even in slower speed used another app for burning same and I also noticed that when I tried to copy the files from the image it gives me some read error with the mboot.c32 file. Could that be some problem for not booting it? Because it stuck after the first line that says isolinux some numbers and copyright peter someone.
August 26th, 2009 at 3:35 PM
For those still not having any luck with their keyboard and mouse, i got mine to work again by going to my back ups and installing my old ApplePS2Controller.kext and AppleACPIPlatform.kext from my 10.5.7 install. They work fine now, not exactly sure why yet, but hope it helps.
August 26th, 2009 at 6:59 PM
hax101- Thanks for the tip and also for the donation. It’s greatly appreciated!
Sami- I made a new iso of the Boot-132 CD and you can download it here. Burn it with Disk Utility using the lowest speed and it should work for you. Let me know how it goes.
August 26th, 2009 at 5:27 AM
Ok I burned it with DiskUtility but on boot it gives me the first line Isolinux ….. and stays there no further boot or something
August 26th, 2009 at 4:36 AM
Thanks Tom, I’ll try it later today, but one thing I’m wondering about is about kext I’m suppose to use because I’m thinking to try new bootloader called BootThink. You put them in Extra folder in chameleon right and use again dtsl patch? Can you link your kext that you use or the kext in the boot-123 CD are better to use?
August 26th, 2009 at 7:28 AM
The kexts included on the Boot 132 CD should work fine. And if you don’t mind trying one more CD, could you burn the .cdr again at a slower speed?
August 25th, 2009 at 1:33 PM
Yeah personally I really want to use retail on my Dell I’ll spend money on getting retail if we can install it on our PC. I just wanted to try it because it was based on GM and wanted to see what SL is looking like, but I gave it up for now. Now I’m trying to put retail Leopard on my Dell but I can’t boot it with the Boot-132 CD, it stuck on loading we need modified CD for our Dell but I haven’t chance to find any.
August 25th, 2009 at 4:49 PM
Try burning a .cdr of the Boot 132 I use. It can be downloaded here. Just burn it to a disc using Disk Utility and then try it out. By the way, when booting from the CD, the hexadecimals are as follows:
First HDD- 80
Second HDD- 81
DVD Drive- 82
August 24th, 2009 at 10:19 PM
Thomas – I’m glad to hear that you will be doing a retail install. I can wait a couple of weeks until the guide comes out. I just hope that there won’t be problems with this new release. Maybe there will be better compatibility ;) ?
August 24th, 2009 at 10:40 PM
The only things that are currently incompatible are S-Video, the Modem, HDMI, and VGA Mirrored Display. They will most likely never get fixed and Snow Leopard wouldn’t add any more support for our third party hardware.
August 24th, 2009 at 4:30 PM
OK I was eager to try this distro tonight so I did an installation earlier and that’s the result for now. I had to use external monitor because at the installation screen display went black. then after successful install on first boot it gave me kernel panic. I didn’t bother to try another try cuz i’m tired. Maybe I’ll try tomorrow again but to be honest this maybe won’t work for now. I’ll bet there will be some distro of SL few days after release so better wait it.
August 24th, 2009 at 10:51 AM
I’m just downloading some russian universal dvd for snow leopard which I’m going to try this days if it works I’ll let you know
August 24th, 2009 at 9:38 AM
Now that the snow leopard release date is official august 28th can we start getting excited about an installation guide ;)
August 24th, 2009 at 9:12 PM
dieselboy- I should have a Retail 10.6 disc in my hands within the next 1-2 weeks and I will start testing installation immediately. I have football right now and school starts soon though so don’t be surprised if the release of the guide is a little delayed.
Sami- With the release of Snow Leopard, we will not be focusing on Distros but rather a retail Install. Retail installs are much more stable and that way, you can actually purchase and use a Snow Leopard disc for $29.
August 22nd, 2009 at 3:43 PM
I’m anxiously awaiting the snow leopard 10.6 10A432 installation guide. I really don’t care about this 10.5.8 update. Why would you want to bother when the new O/S is going to be officially avaialble soon, and the GM is already out. I was hoping to see the 10.6 guide up by now, but I guess I’m jumping the gun. Till then, don’t get caught ;)
August 22nd, 2009 at 6:17 PM
A guide won’t be up until the CONFIRMED official release is out as opposed to current speculation of which release will be the final one. I will be purchasing the Retail 10.6 disc when it is released so a guide should be up shortly after it starts to ship.
August 21st, 2009 at 5:03 PM
Updated my PowerBook G4 (PPC) from 10.3.9 to 10.5.6 then updated to 10.5.8 (0.8 GB download!!!!)
Mail would not show mailbox contents > so I moved them all over manually.
Internal microphone would not work. Apple store rebooted with Tiger and microphone worked. Solution proposed was to backup all data; lose all installed apps and install Tiger
Better solution is to calibrate the microphone under speech in prefs;
August 20th, 2009 at 10:51 AM
Thomas – it like I posted above:
Aug 18 22:36:50 localhost kernel[0]: can’t determine immediate dependencies for extension sk.triaxis.kext.SleepEnabler
SleepEnabler.kext is loogin for a dependency, which I don’t have and is not included in the SleepEnabler archive.
August 20th, 2009 at 7:27 PM
Ok, now I want you to actually answer my question. As I said earlier, is sleep not working? Also, what happens when you try to put your Laptop to sleep.
August 20th, 2009 at 9:30 AM
Hi! Richard,
I am unable to upgrade my dell inspiron 1525 from 10.5.7 to 10.5.8. I have tried three routes:
Software Update – Kernel panic
10.5.8 incremental update – Kernel Panic
10.5.8 combo update – done from 10.5.7 – Kernel Panic
10.5.8 combo update – done from 10.5.2 – Kernel Panic
I now completely foxed, am at loss as to what to do next. I have tried the reboot with all combinations of -x, -v, -f but to no avail. When I do update -v.
The installer quits saying that the source file is damaged, and I should contact manufacturer for another copy. I have been downloading from the MAC official support site.
Please guide me. I have triple boot – Mandriva – OS X – Vista, but like to do most of my work on the OS X part. Help!!
August 20th, 2009 at 3:10 AM
i know this isn’t exactly topic related, but i’m having what seems to be some hardware issues, my media buttons are playing up, the volume either being stuck up or down, when logged in and various other buttons when i am at the chameleon boot screen, this assumably has nothing to do with the update which has been working great for a few days now? any ideas – or any way to disable the whole media key set up?
August 20th, 2009 at 6:45 AM
If you want to disable the media keys (Play/Pause, Rewind, Stop, and Fast Forward), uninstall Butler or unload the configuration from it. You cannot disable the volume keys though without completely disabling Audio on your laptop.
Edit: You can completely disable all the media keys (Play/Pause, Volume, etc.) directly through the hardware by unplugging the ribbon cable connecting it to the motherboard. It wouldn’t be hard to do and a guide can be found here although be sure to only follow the first 4 steps.
August 19th, 2009 at 11:05 PM
Hi Richard, thanks for the post.
Alas, it does not give me any more info than I already had/knew.
I think I will reinstall on another computer and tar off the Extension directory for 10.5.6 and 10.5.7 then try it on my daily Hacintosh.
Will update if anything comes to pass.
August 19th, 2009 at 11:45 PM
Neflem- What exactly is the issue you’re facing? If sleep isn’t working then you can use the fix that is included in the guide.
August 19th, 2009 at 8:54 PM
MacBook-Pro:Extensions root# grep -ri triaxis *
SleepEnabler.kext/Contents/Info.plist: sk.triaxis.kext.SleepEnabler
SleepEnabler.kext/Contents/Info.plist: sk.triaxis.kext.SleepEnabler
Binary file SleepEnabler.kext/Contents/MacOS/SleepEnabler matches
MacBook-Pro:Extensions root# uname -a
Darwin MacBook-Pro.local 9.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.8.0: Wed Jul 15 16:55:01 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1228.15.4~1/RELEASE_I386 i386