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Snow Leopard on Unsupported PowerPC Macs

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Hi @B S Magnet,

I've just redone the Xcode install on my G5 and
it installed fine.
I'm using the one from OSX Snow Leopard Server,
don't know if it makes any difference.

Best regards,
voidRunner
 
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Hughmac said:
Also, do you have working Airport as it appears from your photo?
Have I missed something? ;)
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AirPort worked immediately on my PBG4 A1013 with 10A96. Bluetooth didn't: It spammed the log reporter and the blued service pegged the CPU. Swapping that with Leopard's fixed Bluetooth. AirPort still isn't working on my late 2005 PMG5 with 10A190. Looks like every model will have its own issues.
 
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weckart said:
AirPort worked immediately on my PBG4 A1013 with 10A96. Bluetooth didn't: It spammed the log reporter and the blued service pegged the CPU. Swapping that with Leopard's fixed Bluetooth. AirPort still isn't working on my late 2005 PMG5 with 10A190. Looks like every model will have its own issues.
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Anything I can do to get airport on my PowerBook with an AirPort Extreme card?
 
weckart said:
AirPort worked immediately on my PBG4 A1013 with 10A96. Bluetooth didn't: It spammed the log reporter and the blued service pegged the CPU. Swapping that with Leopard's fixed Bluetooth. AirPort still isn't working on my late 2005 PMG5 with 10A190. Looks like every model will have its own issues.
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A very old Pluscom WU-TR2571W (Ralink chip) with Tiger drivers finally did the trick in my iMac G5 :)

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Cheers :)

Hugh
 
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vddrnnr said:
Hi @B S Magnet,

I've just redone the Xcode install on my G5 and
it installed fine.
I'm using the one from OSX Snow Leopard Server,
don't know if it makes any difference.

Best regards,
voidRunner
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OK, an update for you:

yes, that was the culprit, but I ultimately used “make” on the command line rather than dealing with the Xcode GUI workspace.

Not sure if anyone else has posted it, but here’s G4fancontrol for anyone who might need it for the Snow Leopard environment (esp for folks with PowerBook G4s and iBook G4s).


Unrelated:

On that “Shadowless Windows with a black border”, did you turn to Unsanity haxies for tweakiing the border? I have shadows disabled on my setup, but I don’t know of a way to activate borders. This is something which would be really nice to use across my different PPC setups. Thanks.
 

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ScreenSavers said:
Anything I can do to get airport on my PowerBook with an AirPort Extreme card?
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It's trial and error at the moment. I threw the Leopard kexts into my 10A190 installation and they loaded but still no dice. I would try the kexts from the 10A96 Server installation if you are running 10A190. Check that your actual card (should be Broadcom) is supported by the BCM43xx plugin and edit the Info.plist if it isn't. Still no guarantee that that will work.
 
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Hi @B S Magnet,

No I'm using a SIMBL plugin to draw a "frame" on top
of the window.
Right now it's working pretty well and combined with Nocturne's
"Hide desktop" option graqphical performance for expose and
spaces is "decent" to good.
Until now only Xcode and Finder are failing to activate.

Best regards,
voidRunner
 
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Is it possible to restore the DMG from post #200 onto a usb and then boot from the usb temporarily (and slowly)? I don't have any helper macs to format a disk for use on one of my eMacs.
 
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realbook said:
Is it possible to restore the DMG from post #200 onto a usb and then boot from the usb temporarily (and slowly)? I don't have any helper macs to format a disk for use on one of my eMacs.
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I tried to make a USB stick from the image and boot off of it, but the problem was that I couldn't find it when I booted it when I started up the eMac holding option, and I don't know any commands to boot from open firmware. Any suggestions?
 
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From what kind of drive did you boot when you got kernel panics? USB also?

What works: Select boot drive from running Tiger or Leopard -> system settings.
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Attatched is a picture of what the contents of my restored usb drive look like and what the system preferences pane looks like (no option to boot from usb).
 

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Larsvonhier said:
From what kind of drive did you boot when you got kernel panics? USB also?
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realbook said:
Attatched is a picture of what the contents of my restored usb drive look like and what the system preferences pane looks like (no option to boot from usb).
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Is the volume you restored to APM (apple partition map) formatted/partitioned? Otherwise eMac might not boot from it.
 
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Is the volume you restored to APM (apple partition map) formatted/partitioned? Otherwise eMac might not boot from it.
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Yes it is, I actually also tried GUID once just in case, wouldn't show up either. I'm currently trying to use CCC to restore the disk rather than disk utility.

edit: CCC didn't work.
 
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realbook said:
Yes it is, I actually also tried GUID once just in case, wouldn't show up either. I'm currently trying to use CCC to restore the disk rather than disk utility.

edit: CCC didn't work.
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I think you know that:
GUID for EFI-sh intel Mac only
APM for OpenFirmware

@Larsvonhier
- Do you know how to fix reboot hang ?
- Do you know on which files depend on QuartzExtreme ?
- What is dock panel on your screenshot ?)
 
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iQQator said:
I think you know that:
GUID for EFI-sh intel Mac only
APM for OpenFirmware

@Larsvonhier
- Do you know how to fix reboot hang ?
- Do you know on which files depend on QuartzExtreme ?
- What is dock panel on your screenshot ?)
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I've tried both schemes. Either way, I'm giving up with trying to use my restored USB as a boot drive.
 
realbook said:
I've tried both schemes. Either way, I'm giving up with trying to use my restored USB as a boot drive.
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As initially pointed out, use Firewire drive instead. Worked on my eMac without problems. Only effect you might encounter is that the drive might not show up on boot selector, but you will be able to set it with system preferences -> boot volume, then reboot from it.
Another possibility is to go into "target mode" by pressing key "t" while powering up the eMac. You´ll have access to the internal drive via Firewire then, so you could connect/clone to it from another Mac with Firewire.
(Of course, if you want to keep the previous i.e. Leopard installation, you´d have to swap P-ATA drive in the eMac before doing so).
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iQQator said:
I think you know that:
GUID for EFI-sh intel Mac only
APM for OpenFirmware

@Larsvonhier
- Do you know how to fix reboot hang ?
- Do you know on which files depend on QuartzExtreme ?
- What is dock panel on your screenshot ?)
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The reboot-hang seems very dependant on the actual machine and build combination: On PowerBooks you´ll most likely see it (10A190) or not (10A96 srv), on my Quad G5 everthing is fine (10A190).

QE / QI is still to be found out what we have to change to get it using various GPUs. I noticed that even Leopard 10.5.8 does not use it on ATI9600/9700 GPUs in the PB 1GHz machine. So not really a new effect with 10.6. now. Perhaps it has been solved for those machines for Leo and we could learn from that.

I used the theming tool "Mountain Leopard", and while it does screw up your 10.6 if you apply window themeing, you can apply dock and app icons with it.
 
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I made some progress today after reinstalling tiger and creating a second partition for SL. After restoring my second partition to the dmg provided in post #200, I was able to select the drive in my system preferences and actually boot from it. However, after several attempts at restarting I was unable to get into the OS. What kexts should I be removing/changing to make the image function on my 1.25ghz eMac? Included is what screen pops up when I try and boot. Note the lack of text encompassing the error message.

edit: was able to boot into snow leopard after a second try. Airport isn't working.
 
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realbook said:
I made some progress today after reinstalling tiger and creating a second partition for SL. After restoring my second partition to the dmg provided in post #200, I was able to select the drive in my system preferences and actually boot from it. However, after several attempts at restarting I was unable to get into the OS. What kexts should I be removing/changing to make the image function on my 1.25ghz eMac? Included is what screen pops up when I try and boot. Note the lack of text encompassing the error message.

edit: was able to boot into snow leopard after a second try. Airport isn't working.
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Good! I was about to ask for verbose boot screenshot which in such cases is essential if we want to help! ;)
 
Larsvonhier said:
Good! I was about to ask for verbose boot screenshot which in such cases is essential if we want to help! ;)
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The problem was just the disk restoration process in leopard being a bit finicky. Using post #268 instructions (however not checking the "erase partition" box) made the restoration work. I'm going to try and install 10A96 now. If anyone has a ready-to-go dmg for that build, I would appreciate it for testing purposes.
 
Changed TextEdit for Leopard's as it wouldn't open .rtf files ;)

Has anyone looked at Secrets Prefpane to see if there's anything useful?
I've tried to enable Quartz 2D Extreme but I don't think it worked :(

Cheers :)

Hugh
 

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Hughmac said:
Changed TextEdit for Leopard's as it wouldn't open .rtf files ;)

Has anyone looked at Secrets Prefpane to see if there's anything useful?
I've tried to enable Quartz 2D Extreme but I don't think it worked :(

Cheers :)

Hugh
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I tried that with Secrets.prefPane, but there was no change, which brings the likely hang-up to a problem with kexts and frameworks and other libraries not recognizing them — at least insofar as the Radeon 9700 is concerned.
 
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NikolaPPC said:
Greetings!

I was curious about something. Are there maybe some more updated PPC compatible kexts on OS X Lion?
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Probably not. Lion was a re-write from the ground up in a lot of ways as the first build to be completely devoid of prior Universal binary trimmings (i.e., Rosetta, holdover kexts/frameworks, etc.).
 
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