Snow Leopard on Unsupported PowerPC Macs

[Larsvonhier]

Ok, here are the first A96 ingredients. Framework will follow later in a couple of hours.
Hopefully we do not run into the "change any framework -> no boot" problem with A190. (Kexts are no problem, though).

 

[Hughmac]

Try in Terminal

networksetup -setairportpower en1 on

or whatever en number your Airport is.

Cheers

Hugh

EDIT:- no that doesn't work

 

[armdn]

Try in Terminal

networksetup -setairportpower en1 on

or whatever en number your Airport is.

Cheers

Hugh

EDIT:- no that doesn't work

Of course it WILL NOT work, because it is EMPTY (sic!)! ))

Something inside me, tells, that we HAVE TO replace this 0B binaries with not empty from 10A96/10A222...
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Larsvonhier can you upload 10A96 and 10A222 elsewhere? Or i missed link?

P.S: Another observation. The graphical interface in 10A190 on the NVIDIA graphics card is extremely unstable ... Once again I got a flickering white screen for no reason.

 

[NikolaPPC]

‘10.5.9’ updater with anything that proves backward compatible with Leopard

What could we gain more with this update? Will Leopard be more optimized & faster than with 10.5.8?


Cheers, Nikola!

 

[ChrisCharman]

What could we gain more with this update? Will Leopard be more optimized & faster than with 10.5.8?


Cheers, Nikola!

Remains to be investigated. Most likely we won’t see any speed improvements as in SL, but there’s certainly the possibility of upgrading some of the apps and maybe some frameworks to more recent versions. If you investigate one of the 10A partitions via 10.5 you’ll find that most of the apps are 10.6 specific and won’t run but some aren’t and will open on 10.5 with higher version numbers (although not completely functional without the appropriate dependencies). I’d be interested to see if the security frameworks and system webkit can be upgraded, although this will probably need to be compiled rather than copied across directly. Just food for thought at this point.

 

[ChrisCharman]

Just watched this on YouTube and noticed that the finder seems to be displaying correctly - mine still does not. Have i missed the fix for this?

 

[vddrnnr]

Hi @ChrisCharman,

What problem do you have with the Finder?

Best regards,
voidRunner

 

[ChrisCharman]

Hi @ChrisCharman,

What problem do you have with the Finder?

Best regards,
voidRunner

Labels don’t appear in icon view - fine when using list view or coverflow for some reason

 

[vddrnnr]

Hi Chris,

I remember now I had that problem in the begining but I also
felt the Finder in 096 had less functionality than Leopard's so I've
been using the 10.5.8 since.

Best regards,
voidRunner

 

[ChrisCharman]

Hi Chris,

I remember now I had that problem in the begining but I also
felt the Finder in 096 had less functionality than Leopard's so I've
been using the 10.5.8 since.

Best regards,
voidRunner

@vddrnnr Did you copy the whole app over or just move the 10.5.8 executable into the SL app?

I’m wondering if the inability to display in icon view correctly is linked to drawing shadows, as the text is visible when highlighted. It’s interesting that it appears to function correctly on the cube in the video though - maybe it’s using a fallback as the desktop in the video doesn’t have the translucent global menu bar.

 

[vddrnnr]

Hi Chris,

I copied the whole app.
Right now I only have one problem which I've just noticed today.
It's a problem with the quicklook framework that
when trying to generate the video files thumbnails crashes the quicklookd process.
Other than that it works perfectly.

Best regards,
voidRunner

 

[jimjamyaha]

Hello!

I've done some more digging and have found the following, which I'd forgotten all about:

1) I have A10354 burned to a dual layer DVD sometime in 2009. I've updated the wiki page and will find somewhere to upload it, as I guess it still might have some PPC stuff on it which could be useful.

2) Have found the following musings from 2009 on post-it with the DVD;

"Compile open-source kexts back to PPC" (NB - Great to see that the kernel could be done for this. Might be worth looking at the OpenSource kexts still available if any are missing/not supported in later versions, but the source is.)

"Use kexts from 10.5.x"

"Check kexts from earlier builds of SL".

Looks like the intention was there back there then to poke about with PPC stuff even further with Snow Leopard - but alas this build I'd picked/had access to was way past the PPC being stripped out of it, so probably stopped progress there. I remember spending a while on Vuze/Torrents trying to get this to download back then.

I've also updated the wiki with the details of the Digital Audio boot I got working - as this also had an ADC card in from a PMG5, modded to work in the G4 AGP/ADC setup (pin 21 mods).

Again, so glad this thread exists and that progress has been made, and get to contribute to it all these years later!

It's interesting watching/contributing developments to this thread and then seeing mentions on various FaceBook groups and YouTube!

James.

 

[B S Magnet]

Hello!

I've done some more digging and have found the following:

1) I have A10354 burned to a dual layer DVD sometime in 2009. I've updated the wiki page and will find somewhere to upload it, as I guess it still might have some PPC stuff on it which could be useful.

2) Have found the following musings from 2009 on post-it with the DVD;

"Compile open-source kexts back to PPC" (NB - Great to see that the kernel could be done for this. Might be worth looking at the OpenSource kexts still available if any are missing/not supported in later versions, but the source is.)

"Use kexts from 10.5.x"

"Check kexts from earlier builds of SL".

Looks like the intention was there back then to poke about with PPC stuff - but alas this build I'd picked/had access to was way past the PPC being stripped out of it, so probably stopped progress there. I remember spending a while on Vuze/Torrents trying to get this to download back then.

I've also updated the wiki with the details of the Digital Audio boot I got working - as this also had an ADC card in from a PMG5, modded to work in the G4 AGP/ADC setup (pin 21 mods).

Again, so glad this thread exists and that progress has been made, and get to contribute to it all these years later!

James.

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Nice! Even if, as-is, this doesn’t run on PPC architecture, it’s still worth adding to the Macintosh Garden.

Do you plan to try implementing your own 2009 notes to try to get 10A354 to run on a PPC box?

 

[G4fanboy]

I have been a Snow Leopard hackintosh Intel user for more than 8 years. Protools 9/10 and Logic 9 were my killer app for the Core2Quad hackintosh. For me SL is the best OS ever. I love Mac OS9, Panther, Tiger and Leo on my PPC machines. For me Core Image is not esencial. In fact I only have Geforce 4MX graphics cards and it is only needed to have Quartz running to have a good UI experience.


I have reread this post and I see various and different goals:

1 Make a better Leopard with kext/frameworks from any SL versions, also called 10.5.9 (2020-2021)

2 Make a decent-mostly working SL PPC developer preview taking things from 10.5.8 (Now)

3 Make the last SL developer preview working via compiling Intel Stuff from Apple Open Source (2020-2021)

4 Make Golden Master work via adding Leopard and Apple Open Source

For me any of these are interesting, but not totally usefull if we have to make new apps for it to shine.

Also I am not sure if the golden master is better than vanilla 10.5.8. The good stuff for SL demands 10.6.3 and up, and most of this stuff isnt universal.

The most important developer for PPC in the last 5 years was Cameron with TFF and he is more interested in keep a browser in Tiger. Fortunately for us, wicknik, alex-free and other users had developed more browsers/way to use youtube.

Unless browsers benchmark higher on SL-PPC than on vanilla 10.5.8 I only see a benefit in the use of a higher Xcode.

If we ask developers to ADD SL-PPC also as a target some of them could quit developing. Hard enough to keep Tiger+Leo (and Panther) to add a 3rd (4th) platform with even less users than PPC Linux. Maybe if you all and some developers add effort we could get the last drop of juice for our PPC machines, but only with minor improvements I guess.

Dont get my words wrong. It is awesome what you have achieved. It is a dream to have another platform for PPC. But to give SL-PPC the stability of 10.5.8 will take months-years of hard work and that will only render on an almost empty platform.

Grand Central Dispatch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Central_Dispatch is a factor that can potentially increase performance on Duals and Quads(G4 or G5), but we need a libdispatch PPC and that could take months/years.

New compiles of apps ditching G3 and using GCP can render better apps, but I dont see myself as a SL-PPC user till this summer if thing mature soon.

Thanks to all and keep making the impossible achivable

 

[Molon Labe]

Evening.
Oldskool PPC/MIPS/Alpha/Sparc enthusiast here.
Been following this for some days now. I have a G4 Mac Mini for testing at hand (the other possible beneficiaries of this 10.6 on PPC are a Dual G4 500 Cube and a Gigabit Ethernet tower. But it will be a while until I can use those again).
I remember compiling OSX mach kernel back in the Tiger days for a specific purpose. Let's get this cat on the PPCs roaring!

I have a candidate for the name: ZNO LEPPARD PPC

 

[NathanJHill]

Digging the energy.

I do think there is a lot of trial and error ahead.

I would figure we just coordinate into two routes:

Leopard+ = Starting with 10.5.8 and finding out newer pieces of compiled or compilable software to tweak and improve Leopard. This could include components from Snow Leopard development release or later builds as well as open source packages. A simple one would be updating the included apache web server, which is pretty straightforward.

Maybe this would be a new thread?

Snow Leopard = Trying to hack together the most workable Snow Leopard build using various available sources and some compiling options. The big challenge with Snow Leopard beyond the development builds is that extensions are pure x86. It's quite a powerful anti-hacking tool right there to discourage PPC users from trying to make Snow Leopard work, but I also know copying over the kernel and frameworks doesn't lead to a boot yet either. Lots of trial and error ahead.

I'm intrigued by the first option, but I'm going to continue to try to get some sort of hybrid bootable OS using the SL_PPC image and my release of Snow Leopard DVD (since it's handy).

 

[armdn]

Well i have a some news about Wi-Fi in SL. It is start to work. Partly. As i don't have a 10A96, i placed Apple80211.framework from Leopard, and AirPort Extreme now powered On, and detect some Wi-Fi networks, but can't connect to them, as i understand, some tools to make that connection is not present, but it is a progress, private framework not caused Kernel Panic!

But, system profile can't get actual information about AirPort card. I suppose some tools still missing (AirPort.framework in /System/Library/Frameworks ????)

Also i see, that 10A190 present an empty AppleAirPort.framework. So i bet, that in 10A96 AppleAirport.framework, and Apple80211.framework will make AirPort Cards fully functional as expected!
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And something about PCI. In my PowerBook G4 not the only one GeForce FX 5200 Go not working, also Ethernet NIC is too. What the connection between them? Is same PCI logic. Graphics card is AGP, Ethernet is on PCI. AppleMacRiscPCI.kext is present in system, and it is not empty, so i bet, something with PCIFamily.kext.

P.S: Funny thing. My Mac Pro with bootable NVMe SSD in target disk mode on FireWire mapped that drive for PowerBook G4! )))))

 

[armdn]

Oh my! I already found where is 10A96 placed! 🤦‍♂️

 

[armdn]

Another news. Ethernet start working, but i've done nothing for that... 😅

Right after that, ntpd daemon goes into crush loop...

About AirPort. I at last downloaded 10A96, and replaced AirPort.framework and Apple80211.framework, as well as networksetup cli util from 10A96 to 10A190. But it still can't connect to Wi-Fi networks. airportd failed to list network interfaces...

here is a full boot log:

Spoiler: system.log

May 25 10:20:40 localhost bootlog[42]: BOOT_TIME: 1590391231 0
May 25 10:20:32 localhost com.apple.launchd[1]: Bug: launchd.c:277 (23712):19: mount("fdesc", "/dev", MNT_UNION, NULL) != -1
May 25 10:20:34 localhost com.apple.launchctl.System[2]: launchctl: Please convert the following to launchd: /etc/mach_init.d/dashboardadvisoryd.plist
May 25 10:20:34 localhost com.apple.launchd[1] (org.cups.cupsd): Unknown key: SHAuthorizationRight
May 25 10:20:34 localhost com.apple.launchd[1] (org.ntp.ntpd): Unknown key: SHAuthorizationRight
May 25 10:20:40 localhost kernel[0]: Darwin Kernel Version 10.0.0d2: Fri Oct 10 19:37:52 PDT 2008; root:xnu-1346.7~1/RELEASE_PPC
May 25 10:20:40 localhost fseventsd[33]: bumping event counter to: 0xffba010731c48f23 (current 0x0) from log file 'ffba010731c48f12'
May 25 10:20:40 localhost kernel[0]: standard timeslicing quantum is 10000 us
May 25 10:20:40 localhost kernel[0]: vm_page_bootstrap: 312526 free pages and 15154 wired pages
May 25 10:20:40 localhost kernel[0]: mig_table_max_displ = 72
May 25 10:20:40 localhost kernel[0]: Warning: com.apple.driver.AppleMacRISC2PE has immediate dependencies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpi components; use only one style.
May 25 10:20:40 localhost kernel[0]: OSKext::loadExecutable[com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement] - link failed (error code 16)
May 25 10:20:40 localhost kernel[0]: Loading security extension com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall
May 25 10:20:40 localhost kernel[0]: Loading security extension com.apple.security.sandbox
May 25 10:20:40 localhost kernel[0]: calling mpo_policy_init for Sandbox
May 25 10:20:40 localhost kernel[0]: Security policy loaded: Seatbelt sandbox policy (Sandbox)
May 25 10:20:40 localhost kernel[0]: Loading security extension com.apple.security.seatbelt
May 25 10:20:40 localhost kernel[0]: calling mpo_policy_init for mb
May 25 10:20:40 localhost kernel[0]: Seatbelt MACF policy initialized
May 25 10:20:40 localhost kernel[0]: Security policy loaded: Seatbelt Policy (mb)
May 25 10:20:40 localhost kernel[0]: Loading security extension com.apple.security.TMSafetyNet
May 25 10:20:40 localhost kernel[0]: calling mpo_policy_init for TMSafetyNet
May 25 10:20:40 localhost kernel[0]: Security policy loaded: Safety net for Time Machine (TMSafetyNet)
May 25 10:20:40 localhost kernel[0]: Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
May 25 10:20:40 localhost kernel[0]: The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
May 25 10:20:40 localhost kernel[0]: MAC Framework successfully initialized
May 25 10:20:40 localhost kernel[0]: using 6553 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers
May 25 10:20:40 localhost kernel[0]: Warning: com.apple.driver.ApplePMU has immediate dependencies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpi components; use only one style.
May 25 10:20:40 localhost kernel[0]: USBF:    28.360    AppleUSBHub[0x3551e00]::start -  USB Generic Hub @ 1 (0x5b000000)
May 25 10:20:40 localhost kernel[0]: FireWire (OHCI) Apple ID 31 built-in now active, GUID 001124fffee44174; max speed s400.
May 25 10:20:40 localhost kernel[0]: ATA Disk: Checksum Cookie not valid
May 25 10:20:40 localhost kernel[0]: USBF:    28.477    AppleUSBHub[0x3551000]::start -  USB Generic Hub @ 1 (0x3b000000)
May 25 10:20:41 localhost kernel[0]: USBF:    28.498    AppleUSBHub[0x3595c00]::start -  USB Generic Hub @ 1 (0x1b000000)
May 25 10:20:41 localhost kernel[0]: ADB present:84
May 25 10:20:41 localhost kernel[0]: mbinit: done (64 MB memory set for mbuf pool)
May 25 10:20:41 localhost kernel[0]: rooting via boot-uuid from /chosen: 1E73F5B7-3FA7-310E-A2D5-D4C0B778708D
May 25 10:20:41 localhost kernel[0]: Waiting on <dict ID="0"><key>IOProviderClass</key><string ID="1">IOResources</string><key>IOResourceMatch</key><string ID="2">boot-uuid-media</string></dict>
May 25 10:20:41 localhost kernel[0]: compressor_load Type3 succeeded
May 25 10:20:41 localhost kernel[0]: compressor_load Type4 succeeded
May 25 10:20:41 localhost kernel[0]: BTCoexistence feature not supported!
May 25 10:20:41 localhost kernel[0]: wl0: Broadcom BCM4320 802.11 Wireless Controller
May 25 10:20:41 localhost kernel[0]: 4.170.76.1Got boot device = IOService:/MacRISC2PE/pci@f4000000/AppleMacRiscPCI/firewire@E/AppleFWOHCI/IOFireWireController/IOFireWireDevice@21e9fffebf974a/IOFireWireUnit/IOFireWireSBP2Target/IOFireWireSBP2LUN/IOFireWireSerialBusProtocolTransport/IOSCSIPeripheralDeviceNub/IOSCSIPeripheralDeviceType0E/IOReducedBlockServices/IOBlockStorageDriver/AAPL FireWire Target Media/IOApplePartitionScheme/Untitled 3@3
May 25 10:20:41 localhost kernel[0]: BSD root: disk1s3, major 14, minor 12
May 25 10:20:41 localhost kernel[0]: Jettisoning kext bootstrap segment.
May 25 10:20:41 localhost kernel[0]: USBF:    33.468    AppleUSBHub[0x3926e00]::start -  USB Generic Hub @ 1 (0x1a000000)
May 25 10:20:41 localhost kernel[0]: [Bluetooth::CSRHIDTransition] switchToHCIMode (legacy)
May 25 10:20:41 localhost kernel[0]: [Bluetooth::CSRHIDTransition] transition complete.
May 25 10:20:41 localhost com.apple.IFCStart[31]: Building international file caches...
May 25 10:20:42 localhost configd[40]: Error loading /System/Library/SystemConfiguration/wwanConfig.bundle/Contents/MacOS/wwanConfig:  dlopen(/System/Library/SystemConfiguration/wwanConfig.bundle/Contents/MacOS/wwanConfig, 262): no suitable image found.  Did find:\n    /System/Library/SystemConfiguration/wwanConfig.bundle/Contents/MacOS/wwanConfig: no matching architecture in universal wrapper
May 25 10:20:42 localhost com.apple.configd[40]: 2020-05-25 10:20:41.592 configd[40:1b03] Error loading /System/Library/SystemConfiguration/wwanConfig.bundle/Contents/MacOS/wwanConfig:  dlopen(/System/Library/SystemConfiguration/wwanConfig.bundle/Contents/MacOS/wwanConfig, 262): no suitable image found.  Did find:
May 25 10:20:42 localhost com.apple.configd[40]:     /System/Library/SystemConfiguration/wwanConfig.bundle/Contents/MacOS/wwanConfig: no matching architecture in universal wrapper
May 25 10:20:42 localhost /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow[29]: Login Window Application Started
May 25 10:20:44 localhost kernel[0]: NVDANV30HAL loaded and registered.
May 25 10:20:44 localhost kextd[17]: arch ppc not found in /System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext
May 25 10:20:44 localhost kextd[17]: cannot load /System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext; validation problems
May 25 10:20:44 localhost kextd[17]: load com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement failed; removing personalities
May 25 10:20:47 localhost kextd[17]: cannot load /System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext; validation problems
May 25 10:20:47 localhost kextd[17]: load com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement failed; removing personalities
May 25 10:20:49 localhost kernel[0]: Warning: com.apple.GeForce has immediate dependencies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpi components; use only one style.
May 25 10:20:51 localhost configd[40]: com.apple.SystemConfiguration.wwanConfig load failed
May 25 10:20:51 localhost configd[40]:   The bundle “WWAN configd plugin” could not be loaded because it does not contain a version for the current architecture.
May 25 10:20:51 localhost mDNSResponder mDNSResponder-182 (Sep 29 2008 02:57:30)[28]: starting
May 25 10:20:52 localhost [64]:
May 25 10:20:52 localhost /System/Library/CoreServices/coreservicesd[49]: SFLSharePointsEntry::CreateDSRecord: dsCreateRecordAndOpen(armdn's Public Folder) returned -14135
May 25 10:20:52 localhost com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.configd[40]): Please add the following service to the configuration file for this job: com.apple.PowerManagement.control
May 25 10:20:52 localhost com.apple.launchd[1] (0x10ee80.sandbox-compiler[71]): Working around rdar://problem/5982485 and allowing job to set policy for PID 28. We should discuss having com.apple.mDNSResponder run under a per-user launchd.
May 25 10:20:52: --- last message repeated 8 times ---
May 25 10:20:52 localhost com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.configd[40]): Please add the following service to the configuration file for this job: com.apple.SystemConfiguration.PPPController
May 25 10:20:53 localhost kernel[0]: systemShutdown false
May 25 10:20:53 localhost kernel[0]: UniNEnet: Ethernet address 00:11:24:e4:41:74
May 25 10:20:53 localhost kernel[0]: AirPort_Brcm43xx: Ethernet address 00:0d:93:83:13:4c
May 25 10:20:53 localhost com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.alf[44]): Please add the following service to the configuration file for this job: com.apple.alf
May 25 10:20:55 localhost kextd[17]: arch ppc not found in /System/Library/Extensions/Dont Steal Mac OS X.kext
May 25 10:20:55 localhost kextd[17]: cannot load /System/Library/Extensions/Dont Steal Mac OS X.kext; validation problems
May 25 10:20:55 localhost kextd[17]: load com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X failed; removing personalities
May 25 10:20:55 localhost kextd[17]: cannot load /System/Library/Extensions/Dont Steal Mac OS X.kext; validation problems
May 25 10:20:55 localhost kextd[17]: load com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X failed; removing personalities
May 25 10:20:56 localhost kernel[0]: AirPort: Link Down on en2
May 25 10:20:56 localhost /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/ATS.framework/Support/ATSServer[76]: unable to start font registry server
May 25 10:20:57 localhost blued[78]: Apple Bluetooth daemon started.
May 25 10:20:57 localhost com.apple.blued[78]: 2020-05-25 10:20:57.625 blued[78:20b] Apple Bluetooth daemon started.
May 25 10:20:57 localhost com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.blued[78]): Please add the following service to the configuration file for this job: com.apple.BluetoothDOServer
May 25 10:20:57 localhost configd[40]: network configuration changed.
May 25 10:20:57 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 configd[40]: setting hostname to "armdns-powerbook-g4-12.local"
May 25 10:20:59 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 kextd[17]: rescanning Extensions folder
May 25 10:20:59 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 kextd[17]: arch ppc not found in /System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext
May 25 10:20:59 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 kextd[17]: cannot load /System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext; validation problems
May 25 10:20:59 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 kextd[17]: load com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement failed; removing personalities
May 25 10:20:59 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 kextd[17]: arch ppc not found in /System/Library/Extensions/Dont Steal Mac OS X.kext
May 25 10:20:59 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 kextd[17]: cannot load /System/Library/Extensions/Dont Steal Mac OS X.kext; validation problems
May 25 10:20:59 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 kextd[17]: load com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X failed; removing personalities
May 25 10:21:08 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 DMProxy[81]: kCGErrorFailure : CGSColorProfileCreateWithColorSpace: Cannot create color code fragment
May 25 10:21:08 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 DMProxy[81]: kCGErrorFailure : Set a breakpoint at CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are returned
May 25 10:21:08 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 DMProxy[81]: kCGErrorCannotComplete : updateDisplayColorSpace: Cannot create color profile
May 25 10:21:08 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 loginwindow[29]: Login Window Started Security Agent
May 25 10:21:10 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 loginwindow[29]: Login Window - Returned from Security Agent
May 25 10:21:10 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 loginwindow[29]: USER_PROCESS: 29 console
May 25 10:21:10 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 [92]:
May 25 10:21:10 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.UserEventAgent-LoginWindow[85]): Exited: Terminated
May 25 10:21:10 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 com.apple.launchd[1] (0x111030.ManagedClient): Bug: launchd_core_logic.c:5161 (23712):0
May 25 10:21:10 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 com.apple.launchd[1] (0x10f490.loginwindow): Bug: launchd_core_logic.c:5161 (23712):0
May 25 10:21:11 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 [97]:
May 25 10:21:11: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
May 25 10:21:11 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 [92] ([97]):
May 25 10:21:12 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/ATS.framework/Support/ATSServer[105]: unable to start font registry server
May 25 10:21:12 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 kextd[17]: /Volumes/NVMe: unrecognized bootcaches.plist data; skipping
May 25 10:21:13 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 /System/Library/CoreServices/coreservicesd[49]: SFLSharePointsEntry::CreateDSRecord: dsCreateRecordAndOpen(armdn's Public Folder) returned -14135
May 25 10:21:15 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 DMProxy[113]: kCGErrorFailure : CGSColorProfileCreateWithColorSpace: Cannot create color code fragment
May 25 10:21:15 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 DMProxy[113]: kCGErrorFailure : Set a breakpoint at CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are returned
May 25 10:21:15 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 DMProxy[113]: kCGErrorCannotComplete : updateDisplayColorSpace: Cannot create color profile
May 25 10:21:15 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 com.apple.launchd[1]: System: Bug: launchd_core_logic.c:5270 (23712):0
May 25 10:21:15 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 com.apple.launchd[1]: Bug: launchd_runtime.c:913 (23712):0: job_ack_port_destruction(rights)
May 25 10:21:16 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder[104]: GetDYLDEntryPointWithImage(/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CarbonCore.framework/Versions/A/CarbonCore,IntlGetIsInitIntlValueDone) failed.
May 25 10:21:17 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 SystemUIServer[103]: failed to load Menu Extra: NSBundle </System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Bluetooth.menu> (loaded) exception: *** -[NSCFArray insertObject:atIndex:]: attempt to insert nil
May 25 10:21:17 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 [103]:
May 25 10:21:17 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 SystemUIServer[103]: ...TIM created a local port: <CFMessagePort 0x4c4b960 [0xa02f31b8]>{locked = No, valid = Yes, remote = No, name = com.apple.tsm.uiserver} named: com.apple.tsm.uiserver OK....
May 25 10:21:17 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 [103]:
May 25 10:21:19 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 SystemUIServer[103]: *** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x125b50 of class NSCFArray autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
May 25 10:21:19 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 [103]:
May 25 10:21:19 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 SystemUIServer[103]: *** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x15f1e0 of class NSCFString autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
May 25 10:21:19 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 [103]:
May 25 10:21:19 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 SystemUIServer[103]: *** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x4c57a60 of class NSPathStore2 autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
May 25 10:21:19 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 [103]:
May 25 10:21:19 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 SystemUIServer[103]: *** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x4c1f2a0 of class NSPathStore2 autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
May 25 10:21:19 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 [103]:
May 25 10:21:19 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 SystemUIServer[103]: *** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x4c1e5b0 of class NSPathStore2 autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
May 25 10:21:19 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 [103]:
May 25 10:21:19 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 SystemUIServer[103]: *** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x4c52c90 of class NSPathStore2 autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
May 25 10:21:19 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 [103]:
May 25 10:21:19 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 SystemUIServer[103]: *** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x163be0 of class NSPathStore2 autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
May 25 10:21:19 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 [103]:
May 25 10:21:19 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 SystemUIServer[103]: *** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x4c49e50 of class NSPathStore2 autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
May 25 10:21:19 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 [103]:
May 25 10:21:19 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 SystemUIServer[103]: *** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x152280 of class NSPathStore2 autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
May 25 10:21:19 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 [103]:
May 25 10:21:19 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 SystemUIServer[103]: *** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x165be0 of class NSPathStore2 autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
May 25 10:21:19 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 [103]:
May 25 10:21:19 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 SystemUIServer[103]: *** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x4c4b710 of class NSPathStore2 autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
May 25 10:21:19 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 [103]:
May 25 10:21:19 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 SystemUIServer[103]: *** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x4c4a070 of class NSCFArray autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
May 25 10:21:19 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 [103]:
May 25 10:21:19 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 SystemUIServer[103]: *** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x10bd80 of class NSCFNumber autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
May 25 10:21:19 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 [103]:
May 25 10:21:19 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 SystemUIServer[103]: *** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x4c2fc90 of class NSCFDictionary autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
May 25 10:21:19 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 [103]:
May 25 10:21:19 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 SystemUIServer[103]: *** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x4c5a2e0 of class NSCFString autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
May 25 10:21:19 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 [103]:
May 25 10:21:19 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 SystemUIServer[103]: *** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x4c59760 of class NSThread autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
May 25 10:21:19 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 [103]:
May 25 10:21:19 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 SystemUIServer[103]: *** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x11f020 of class NSConcreteData autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
May 25 10:21:19 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 [103]:
May 25 10:21:19 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 mds[27]: (Warning) Server: No stores registered for metascope "kMDQueryScopeComputerIndexed"
May 25 10:21:19 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 SystemUIServer[103]: *** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x4c3ab40 of class _MDQueryAdaptor autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
May 25 10:21:19 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 [103]:
May 25 10:21:20 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 /Applications/Utilities/Console.app/Contents/MacOS/Console[122]: GetDYLDEntryPointWithImage(/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CarbonCore.framework/Versions/A/CarbonCore,IntlGetIsInitIntlValueDone) failed.
May 25 10:21:31 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 root[125]: /usr/libexec/ntpd-wrapper: scutil key State:/Network/Global/DNS not present after 30 seconds
May 25 10:21:32 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 root[128]: sntp options: a=2 v=1 e=0.100 E=5.000 P=2147483647.000
May 25 10:21:32 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 root[128]:     d=15 c=5 x=0 op=1 l=/var/run/sntp.pid f= time.euro.apple.com
May 25 10:21:32 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 root[128]: sntp: getaddrinfo(hostname, ntp)  failed with nodename nor servname provided, or not known
May 25 10:22:23 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 [64]:
May 25 10:22:29 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 kernel[0]: unloading kext com.apple.driver.InternalModemSupport
May 25 10:22:29 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 kernel[0]: unloading kext com.apple.driver.AppleTexasAudio
May 25 10:22:29 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 kernel[0]: unloading kext com.apple.driver.AppleTexas2Audio
May 25 10:22:29 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 kernel[0]: unloading kext com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriver
May 25 10:22:29 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 kernel[0]: unloading kext com.apple.driver.AppleSCCSerial
May 25 10:22:29 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 kernel[0]: unloading kext com.apple.driver.AppleDACAAudio
May 25 10:22:29 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 kernel[0]: unloading kext com.apple.driver.Apple02Audio
May 25 10:22:29 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 kernel[0]: unloading kext com.apple.driver.Apple02DBDMAAudio
May 25 10:22:29 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 kernel[0]: unloading kext com.apple.GeForce
May 25 10:22:29 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 kernel[0]: unloading kext com.apple.driver.AppleThermal
May 25 10:22:29 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 kernel[0]: unloading kext com.apple.driver.CSRHIDTransitionDriver
May 25 10:22:29 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 kernel[0]: unloading kext com.apple.driver.AppleFileSystemDriver
May 25 10:22:29 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 kernel[0]: unloading kext com.apple.driver.iPodDriver
May 25 10:22:29 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 kernel[0]: unloading kext com.apple.driver.StorageLynx
May 25 10:22:29 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 kernel[0]: unloading kext com.apple.driver.Oxford_Semi
May 25 10:22:29 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 kernel[0]: unloading kext com.apple.driver.LSI_FW_500
May 25 10:22:29 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 kernel[0]: unloading kext com.apple.driver.IOFireWireSerialBusProtocolSansPhysicalUnit
May 25 10:22:29 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 kernel[0]: unloading kext com.apple.driver.initioFWBridge
May 25 10:22:29 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 kernel[0]: unloading kext com.apple.iokit.AppleMediaBay
May 25 10:22:29 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 kernel[0]: unloading kext com.apple.driver.AppleCore99NVRAM
May 25 10:22:29 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 kernel[0]: Requesting build of prelinked kernel
May 25 10:25:39 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 login[135]: USER_PROCESS: 135 ttys000
May 25 10:25:40 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app/Contents/MacOS/Terminal[134]: GetDYLDEntryPointWithImage(/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CarbonCore.framework/Versions/A/CarbonCore,IntlGetIsInitIntlValueDone) failed.
May 25 10:26:30 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 SystemUIServer[103]: Error: airportd MIG failed = -3903 ((null))  (port = 58879)
May 25 10:26:30 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/MacOS/SystemUIServer[103]: GetDYLDEntryPointWithImage(/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CarbonCore.framework/Versions/A/CarbonCore,IntlGetIsInitIntlValueDone) failed.
May 25 10:27:03 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 SystemUIServer[103]: Error: airportd MIG failed = -3903 ((null))  (port = 58879)
May 25 10:27:03 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 SystemUIServer[103]: Error joining AP+Home: Connection failed (-3903 result unavailable)
May 25 10:27:03 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 [103]:
May 25 10:28:13 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 /Applications/System Preferences.app/Contents/MacOS/System Preferences[143]: GetDYLDEntryPointWithImage(/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CarbonCore.framework/Versions/A/CarbonCore,IntlGetIsInitIntlValueDone) failed.
May 25 10:28:32 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 writeconfig[146]: *** -[NSMachPort handlePortMessage:]: dropping incoming DO message because the connection or ports are invalid
May 25 10:28:32 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 [0]:
May 25 10:30:13 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 /Applications/System Preferences.app/Contents/MacOS/System Preferences[160]: GetDYLDEntryPointWithImage(/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CarbonCore.framework/Versions/A/CarbonCore,IntlGetIsInitIntlValueDone) failed.
May 25 10:30:56 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 configd[40]: network configuration changed.
May 25 10:31:48 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 kernel[0]: UniNEnet::monitorLinkStatus - Link is up at 100 Mbps - Full Duplex (PHY regs 5,6:0xd1e1,0x000f)
May 25 10:31:49 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 ntpd[20]: bind() fd 26, family 30, port 123, scope 4, addr fe80::211:24ff:fee4:4174, in6_is_addr_multicast=0 flags=0x11 fails: Can't assign requested address
May 25 10:31:49 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 ntpd[20]: unable to create socket on en0 (5) for fe80::211:24ff:fee4:4174#123
May 25 10:31:49 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 kernel[0]: UniNEnet::monitorLinkStatus - Link is down.
May 25 10:31:51 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 kernel[0]: UniNEnet::monitorLinkStatus - Link is up at 100 Mbps - Full Duplex (PHY regs 5,6:0xd1e1,0x000f)
May 25 10:31:53 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 configd[40]: network configuration changed.
May 25 10:32:19 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 mDNSResponder[28]: ERROR: getOptRdata - unknown opt 4
May 25 10:32:30: --- last message repeated 13 times ---
May 25 10:32:30 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 kernel[0]: UniNEnet::monitorLinkStatus - Link is down.
May 25 10:32:32 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 kernel[0]: UniNEnet::monitorLinkStatus - Link is up at 100 Mbps - Full Duplex (PHY regs 5,6:0xd1e1,0x000f)
May 25 10:33:08 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 kernel[0]: {       41   810400} UniNEnet::restartReceiver

As we can see, airportd is failed to connect. I suppose there is something else, another component, which is helps to airportd to connect to selected wireless network, but i didn't understand yet which is...

May 25 10:27:03 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 SystemUIServer[103]: Error: airportd MIG failed = -3903 ((null)) (port = 58879)
May 25 10:27:03 armdns-powerbook-g4-12 SystemUIServer[103]: Error joining AP+Home: Connection failed (-3903 result unavailable)

Also, i replaced whole group of cups* binaries from 10.5.8 to 10A190 and solved the problem with cups daemon.

 

[Larsvonhier]

Of course it WILL NOT work, because it is EMPTY (sic!)! ))

View attachment 918267

Something inside me, tells, that we HAVE TO replace this 0B binaries with not empty from 10A96/10A222...
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Larsvonhier can you upload 10A96 and 10A222 elsewhere? Or i missed link?

P.S: Another observation. The graphical interface in 10A190 on the NVIDIA graphics card is extremely unstable ... Once again I got a flickering white screen for no reason.

I´ll try to prepare a 10A96 non-server version like the A190 that sets in at the registration screen after install.
Might be a couple of days until then, though.

As for the NVIDIA: I do not have any instabilities with my armada of Nvidia PPC Macs. Perhaps it´s your ageing HW or RAM? Is the machine long time stable with 10.5.8 or 10.4.11?

All three installer-links are on page #1, see table 2. edit: You found them! ;-)
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Interesting side note: Some of my PBs (i.e. 500MHz Titanium) cannot connect to my Airport Extreme running 10.5.8 (!) since I updated the firmware there (or changed settings I do not know). Might be related to airport cards that can only encrypt with WEP instead of WPA/WPA2? Just mentioning this so you might not waste time hunting ghosts when Airport shows up, shows networks but cannot connect?!

 

[armdn]

I´ll try to prepare a 10A96 non-server version like the A190 that sets in at the registration screen after install.
Might be a couple of days until then, though.

As for the NVIDIA: I do not have any instabilities with my armada of Nvidia PPC Macs. Perhaps it´s your ageing HW or RAM? Is the machine long time stable with 10.5.8 or 10.4.11?

All three installer-links are on page #1, see table 2. edit: You found them! ;-)
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Interesting side note: Some of my PBs (i.e. 500MHz Titanium) cannot connect to my Airport Extreme running 10.5.8 (!) since I updated the firmware there (or changed settings I do not know). Might be related to airport cards that can only encrypt with WEP instead of WPA/WPA2? Just mentioning this so you might not waste time hunting ghosts when Airport shows up, shows networks but cannot connect?!

Nope, main OS on PB G4 is 10.4.11 (Universal Binary Server), and it is rock solid stable...

Also, i see, that DirectoryService eating CPU, often. What cause that, don’t know.
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My PB G4 running 10.4.11 Server connects to WPA2-Enterprise wi-fi network, so...

 

[Macbookprodude]

Another machine added: Pismo!
(But only after upgrading from G3 to G4).

I bet on the Pismo its dog slow..

 

[vddrnnr]

Hi all,

Following my previous post on how to get "smoother" graphics on Radeons without QE/CI
I changed some of the other frameworks inside the ApplicationServices framework, namely
CoreText, ATS and QD Things seem a bit "smoother" especially regarding "Text" related elements.

I'm also posting my last version of "Nocturne" app I posted earlier for @Larsvonhier to test I think it helps
when enabling the "Hide Desktop". I'll try and add at least "Drive Icons" later so it will be a more complete
"Desktop Replacement" instead of just hiding the desktop with your current background.
Don't disable shadows thats the purpose of what's below.

I'm also posting my SIMBL app iwith my SmallDropShadows plugin ( well no shadows in fact ) like I also
posted earlier ( I'm doing a complete rewrite of the original code ).
For SIMBL to work you need to:

1. Copy the OSAX bundle into /Library/ScriptingAdditions
2. Copy the SmallDropShadowsSIML.bundle into /Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins ( this folder
does not exists create it )
3. Copy net.culater.SIMBL.Agent.plist to /Library/LaunchAgents
4. reboot

Please try it out. It's not perfect so "be gentle" ;-)

PS. not all apps are configured in the plugin so many apps will continue
to have shadows. I'll keep posting updates to the plugin when I add more stuff/apps

Best regards,
voidRunner

 

[Macbookprodude]

Is it currently ok to try this on a PB G4 1.67 A1139 with Radeon 9800 128MB ?

 

[Macbookprodude]

Has anyone revised the beta so that it will support QE/CI and airport on a PowerBook G4 DLSD 1.67 17 inch ? I was told that this works fully with the Quad G5.