Mac OS X 10.6.2 Kills Atom Support

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Mac-OS-X ... 5801.shtml

:shock: :shock: :shock: :cry:

 

Custom kernel.
Or just use the 10.0/10.1 kernel and seatbelt.kext

 

Apparently a fabrication.

http://stellarola.tumblr.com/post/22523 ... ws-updated

 

Hmm. Well, damn.

I literally just kicked off a time machine backup of my SL install with the intent of storing it away and rolling back to Leopard. I may still do that, but now I have something more to think about

 

Apparently it is not a hoax / lie.

http://www.macrumors.com/2009/11/09/int ... 6-2-seeds/

 

Or it is. Or isn't. Or maybe they accidentally the whole thing.

 

Anybody willing to try? 10.6.2 is out now.

 

not me!

 

No atom support, http://netkas.org/?p=315

 

Screwed me, but was looking for an excuse to go 7 RTM antway

 

Yeah, looks like others are reporting the same thing. Don't update to 10.6.2 if you want your Mac OS to work.

Rory: Your want to give up OS X for Windows!?

 

Well supposedly you can use the 10.0.0 kernel just fine, just rename it prior to install 10.6.2 and follow the instructions on netkas about the new .kext's then when you reboot just enter the kernel name on the boot prompt that you rename ie. atom_kernel.....from what I've read.

 

Yeah, sleep is a bit of a thing I want, and barely use aao at all now, dont even bring it to lectures anymore. But 7 is installed, and I kinda miss os x now!

 

Sleep is nice and easy but I would not trade sleep mode for viruses, malware, spyware, worms, crashes, and the list goes on. Windows 7 is a nice looking OS but then again it is Microsoft...

 

Never had a virus on any computer I have had. Crashes; KP's. The rest, get Avira free haha.
SL is better imo, but I do kinda want the ease of sleep, rather than over 2 minute boot up times (due to stupid zif hdd )

 

Acer Aspire AOA150 ZG5 with 10.6.2 running...

Downloaded/Installed patched 10.6.2 kernel http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index. ... pic=197020
Downloaded/Installed new SleepEnabler http://netkas.org/?p=315
Updated Extensions.mkext in /Extra.
Updated via SoftwareUpdate.
rebooted with mach_kernel_p arch=i386 -v

 

you used sleepenabler? So does sleep now work?

 

I just used the new sleepenabler due to it being patched for 10.6.2. I actually haven't tried sleep yet cause honestly I never use it so never really cared. I'll mess with it later and see if it does or not.

 

This is really great news. pkmvancouver, if you don't mind, can you describe exactly how, or shall I say the technique you used to upgrade to 10.6.2 I did look at the links you posed and downloaded the kernel and I am manually downloading the update but did you patch the kernel before the installing the update and how did you patch it? Please share.

DW

 

The kernel link is already patched from the link. I renamed it from mach_kernel to mach_kernel_p.
Moved the old Sleepenabler from /Extra and downloaded and put the patched SleepEnabler for 10.6.2 in /Extra.
my original 10.6 install was with netbookinstaller so there is a update.app thing in the /Extra directory.
I ran that update.app to update the Extensions.mkext

Never touched the /S/L/E directory, installed 10.6.2 update via software update. Let it install and reboot
Upon reboot at the chameleon prompt I booted with mach_kernel_p arch=i386 -v

upon reboot I removed the AppleHDA and the AppleIntelCPU management .kexts. Never touch the IntelGMA drivers cause I have them in the Extra directory. Then rebooted and everything works.

/Extra
drwxrwxr-t 37 root wheel 1326 11 Nov 09:23 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 17072293 11 Nov 09:34 Extensions.mkext
drwxr-xr-x@ 18 root wheel 612 11 Nov 09:06 GeneralExtensions
-rw-r--r--@ 1 root admin 1558 25 Oct 10:04 SMBios.plist
drwxr-xr-x 4 root admin 136 28 Oct 17:26 Themes
drwxr-xr-x 3 root admin 102 24 Oct 14:52 UpdateExtra.app -used to update Extensions.mkext
drwxr-xr-x 3 root admin 102 24 Oct 14:52 bin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 881 11 Nov 09:10 com.apple.Boot.plist
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 24029 26 Oct 15:19 dsdt.aml

/Extra/GeneralExtensions
drwxr-xr-x@ 3 root wheel 102 24 Oct 14:53 AppleACPIBatteryManager.kext
drwxr-xr-x@ 3 root wheel 102 24 Oct 14:53 AppleACPIPS2Nub.kext
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 24 Oct 14:53 AppleIntelGMA950.kext
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 170 24 Oct 14:53 AppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer.kext
drwxr-xr-x@ 3 root wheel 102 11 Aug 02:32 AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext
drwxr-xr-x@ 3 root wheel 102 24 Oct 14:53 ApplePS2Controller.kext
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 24 Oct 14:53 IO80211Family.kext
drwxr-xr-x@ 3 root wheel 102 31 Oct 12:54 IOATAFamily.kext
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 24 Oct 14:53 IOUSBFamily.kext
drwxr-xr-x@ 3 root wheel 102 24 Oct 14:53 NullCPUPowerManagement.kext
drwxr-xr-x@ 3 root wheel 102 24 Oct 14:53 OpenHaltRestart.kext
drwxr-xr-x@ 3 root wheel 102 24 Oct 14:53 SMBIOSResolver.kext
drwxr-xr-x@ 3 root wheel 102 16 Aug 11:22 SleepEnabler.kext -the patched one for 10.6.2
drwxr-xr-x@ 3 root wheel 102 28 Oct 13:30 VoodooPowerMini.kext
drwxr-xr-x@ 3 root wheel 102 24 Oct 14:53 fakesmc.kext -version 2.0 for snowleopard

all other .kext's are from the netbook installer installed.