Today Apple released Mac OS X 10.6.4, the 4th major update to Mac OS X Snow Leopard. To update, simply run Software Update or download the 10.6.4 Combo Update from Apple.
If you're going to test it out, backup any data, and if possible clone your hard drive before testing this update. Post your results in the forum!
What we know about 10.6.4 so far...
- BREAKING: NVIDIA releases replacement drivers for Mac OS X 10.6.4 - 2010-06-18
- Release 19.5.8f03 - Improved OpenGL performance for Geforce GTX 285 under certain conditions
- GeForce Mac OS X Driver Release 19.5.8 (2010-06-18)
http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce-macosx-19.5.8f03-driver.html - CUDA 3,0
http://www.nvidia.com/object/MacOSX-CUDA-3.0.html
- New 10.4.0 Darwin kernel - all Core i3/i5/i7 now supported- including Core i7 980x!
- USB wake from sleep issues solved.
- No Integrated Intel GMA HD without NVIDIA 320M.
- No ATI 5xxx support yet.
- No NVIDIA 4xx 'Fermi' support out of the box.
- UPDATE: New NVIDIA drivers for 4xx are out, and confirmed working, but no OpenCL yet. Check out this thread for details. Thanks
- For audio issues with LegacyHDA + DSDT, install 10.6.2 AppleHDA Rollback from MultiBeast.
- For USB issues without a DSDT, we've put together USBFamilyMOD 9.9.9 installed in /Extra/Extensions. It's in the latest MultiBeast. Alternately, you can roll back IOUSBFamily.kext in System/Library/Extensions to 10.6.2 or lower.
- Patched 10.4.0 kernel for unsupported CPUs available here. Will be in a future MultiBeast rev.
- Older solutions for 10.6.3+ at the Mac OS X 10.6.3 Update post.
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79 comments:
good for me
Just updated this afternoon and all went smooth. Just a few things I noticed; IOUSBFamily and AppleAHCIPort kexts are not updated, so if you are using an earlier or mod'd version of either of these you don't need to revert. And yes, AppleHDA.kext has once again changed; I will be posting my results and new mod'd AppleHDA for ALC888 in the forum.
Voy a intentarlo aver que pasa, si vuelvo a escribir un mensaje es por que no tuve problemas
Dell Studio 14z Dual Boot.... I just updated and everything is a go! The only thing I had a problem with is with the Wireless Driver. After updating, it did not work. After reinstalling the wireless driver a few times and reinstalling the IIO80211Family a few times, it's now up and running....
Sleep Enabler caused kernel panic on Dell XPS410. Booted from Mac OS installer USB stick and deleted SleepEnabler.kext. Boots fine now.
Just updated, I'm using the netbook-installer on dell mini 10v, everything works except it is no longer capable of calculating remaining battery. Pretty annoying issue but I would expect it will be fixed soon
Everything looks good, but the AUDIO is not working now. Any suggestions?
Radeon 5000 series support yet?
updated my HP Mini and when the unit rebooted a Dell laptop was in place of the Apple logo during loading and it just seems to hang with the circling progress icon at the bottom of the screen. I am going to give it 30 minutes before I manually reboot it to see what happens.
UPDATE: I had to manually reboot the machine, at which point I received the kernel mismatch error. TO fix this, I loaded the OS from an external hard drive that I had installed a functioning copy of OSX 10.6.3 onto, once I was logged in, I mounted the internal HD and replaced the mach_kernel with the older version. things look good now.
I had a kernal panic on boot up when going from 10.6.3 to this. I had used iboot+multibeast to get to where i was. Wiped my drive clean and did a clean install of the OS. About to try doing the multibeast method with the combo updater as if it were 10.6.3 like in your guide. If all goes well I will post results. If not will post anyway with my failure :D
Ok so here is what I did after kernal panic. Clean install of OS using iboot+multibeast method. When you get to the part with multi beast and the combo updater, use the 10.6.4 instead of the 10.6.3 and then finish like the guide says to do. Worked like a charm :D!
Updated from 10.6.3, kernel panic "version mis-match between kernel and CPU"
I'm doing a clean install iboot+multibeast using combo update like D A in the previous post, hope it works. .
GA-P55M-UD4 Core i7 860 8GB
Nvidia GT 120, Kingston SSD 128GB
i had to remove "SleepEnabler" to get ride of my kernel panic. Once that was done audio, video and network were all working fine.
Everything OK! No problems with any software or hardware!
My Configuration:
MB: Intel DP55WG
CPU: Intel Core i5
GPU: Zotac GeForce 250 GTS
Update went ok on my ASUS P5B, one minor issue : I had to move my ethernet cable from EN0 to EN1 to get the network back.
Ok, I've updated a second ago. Everything works (well... I had to put back my copy of stuff from System/Library/Extensions and use Kext Utility to get sound working), no problems with webcam (video is still upside-down like before but... I can survive with iGlass :P), the only issue I found is battery. Status is totally messed up. If I unplug the charger it says e.g. 1h 50 min but after a sec - 2h 10 min, then... 1h 30 min >.<" Anyone willing to make a new version of AppleACPIBatteryManager which seems to be the problem? ;-)
All is good after update, BUT! Menu bar is absent :( Where it is????
Well one thing is not right as i980x is supported vanilla
@Kaadian - did you have any problems getting system to wake up after you removed sleepenabler.kext?
post update: first kernel panic, then reboot.
Finished booting just fine, but somehow the desktop never showed up.
Access through ssh is possible.
Anyone familiar with this situation ?
Had to remove "SleepEnabler" to get rid of KP.
Two Finger Scroll doesn't work that well. It's a little off. Maybe after a little playing around it might work better...
WORKING GREAT installed using snow osx v3.6 disk snow leopard 10.6.2 updated to 10.6.3 then 10.6.4 with no problems .....im not using a sleeepenabler at all!! or dsmos, applehpet, applintelcpumanagement.easy install everything working sound and grapchics needed kext internet oub..my machine hp pavillion elite m9300t-intel core 2 quad 6600-nvidia geforce 8800 gt 512 alpha dog-320 gb hdd-1tb caviar black hdd-3 gb ram
Works for me. USB, Network, Bluetooth, everything!
GA-P55-UD3R
Core i5 8GB
MSI Radeon 4870 (Dual Monitor Setup)
2TB Harddrive Seagate
Alesis iO2 USB sound interface.
Installed without a single glitch on my Dell Vostro 220. Updated from 10.6.3
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66
4GB RAM
GeForce GT220
250GB Samsung HD251HJ
Everything working perfectly.
Update worked perfectly for me!! Updated from 10.6.2
Intel Core 2 Duo 3.1GHz
2GB RAM
GeForce 8800 GT
1.5TB + 2x 320GB Seagate Barracuda
All sound, etc worked perfectly, straight away.
Just Updated on Gigabyte P55A-UD4P. No sound now.
Everything was working before. Anyone can help? Tried Multibeast 2.0. Didn't help.
Sudhish.
tony, unless your doing something Different then I am, I can't get my board to work with the F10 Bois and the 10.6.2 Audio kext (from multibeast) with your Legacy888bHDA.kext. all else functions same or better then it did before the patch. just no sound.
Specs are as Follows Per my About Page:
GA P55M-UD2
Core i5
4 gb Ram
1 tb sata Wd Black
1 sata sony dvd burner
Resolved Audio Issues after reloading /Extra folder and doing disk check.
System is Stable and Solid.
hbp
OK so installed my hackintosh and then ran the update but the update stopped halfway through so I restarted my computer. Then it got stuck on the load screen with the dial constantly turning and it never got past that. I'm currently reinstalling snow leopard. What are my solutions?
Not working for me.
Got KP even before full boot up.
Back to SuperDuper! 10.6.3 clone.
Will wait for a few more days for more feedback to try out again..
GA-P55A-UD3 i7 860
8GB RAM
GeForce GT240 1GB
10.6.3 MultiBeast 2.0
do you know if it works with an AMD Processor?
thx
Works. but I removed my SleepEnabler.kext
-EHCI ko
-My USB stick still not recognized when plugin. Only recognized when I boot the machine up. Same behavior on real MacPro and MacBook Pro
- GeForce 8400 GS Ok
- FireWire (TI) Ok
- Sound. Ok
- Net Ok
Asus P5L-VM 1394
E6400
Do you remove SleepEnabler.kext before of after the update?
Perfect I'm realy happy with the upgrade, all run ok, audio, network, firewire, etc. Only run 10.6.4 combo upgrade, and them run Easy beast of Multibeast, repair permissions and Rebuild caches.
Core i7 860
Motherboard Intel DP55WB
NVIDIA GEOFORCE 9400 1GB
SEAGATE 1.5 Barracuda
hi tony! I am anengsto.
I updated my snow leopard installation and got no audio. I have a realtek alc1200 high def sound card on an asus p5qc motherboard. I am currently using an old kext for 10.6.3 and though it works, the system profiler does not match the correct information.
Any solution for me?!
Thank you in advance!
Everything works great, all I had to do was to do the Audio roll back in multibeast.
Core i5 750 - Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD3 - nVidia 9800 GT 1GB - Corsair XMS3 4GB DDR3
Cheers
Peder
After the 10.6.4 upgrade my Dell 1390 wireless card stopped working. I resolved the issue installing the IO80211Family.kext from a 10.6.0 install.
Just del sleep.enabler and everything became pretty ok
including envy24h driver & usb bluetooth dongle
No problems, I was amazed. Everything works...Thanks Tony for your hard work! All I did was the upgrade, didn't have to roll back any drivers-yet. Listening to Cold Play as I type this...Hard booted 3 times so far with no issues. Tony is there a solution to get my HDMI working with this graphics board (XFX GTS 250) ?
Ga-P55a-UD3
i7-860
8 meg RAM
GTS 250
Upgraded my Asus P5N7A-VM to 10.6.4. Had to remove the AppleHDA.kext to get sound working, but otherwise, no issues. No DSDT.AML. Only using in my /Extra folder:
AppleHDA.kext
EvOreboot.kext
Fakesmc.kext
IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector.kext
JMicronATA.kext
All ok in my hackintosh
Mobo: Gigabyte P55A-UD4P
CPU: Intel I Core 3 2.96Ghz
RAM: 4GB DDR3 Kingstom
VIDEO CARD: Nvidia GTS 250 1GB
Thanks Tony!!!
Worked but hdd and fps lagged quite a bit compared to 10.6.3.
Reverting back to 10.6.3 until these 2 issues are resolved.
GA-P55A-UD3 F8 i7 860
8GB DDR3
EVGA GT 240 1GB
Updated from 10.6.3 to 10.6.4, rebooted into Kernel Panic. CPU mismatch error. Fortunately had a SuperDuper backup on a separate drive, booted to that and copied mach_kernel to the updated drive and all boots fine with the update showing as properly installed.
Don't update without a bootable cloned backup first!
exactly the same situation as doug, same fix. UD4 mobo, i7.
Upgraded from a 100% working 10.6.3 and everything went great except for the sound.
Setup:
x58a-ud3r (REV:1)
i7-930
I haved tried all the tricks listed for 10.6.3 and none have worked. Replaced AppleHDA with old version was no good. Installed the 889 kexts that were also no goo. Tried to use the Voodoo kexts and that caused a Kernal Panic. Plus my audio in the system profiler looks very different:
Intel High Definition Audio:
Audio ID: 12
S/PDIF Optical Digital Audio Output:
Connection: Internal
Line Output:
Connection: 1/8-Inch Jack
External Microphone / iPhone Headset:
Connection: 1/8-Inch Jack
External Microphone / iPhone Headset:
Connection: 1/8-Inch Jack
Headphone:
Connection: 1/8-Inch Jack
S/PDIF Optical Digital Audio Output:
Connection: Combination Output
S/PDIF Optical Digital Audio Input:
Connection: Combination Input
Any thoughts most welcome!
I have a UD2 board and a PNY 9800gtx+. I cant get sound to work and I get very slow opengl speeds. Can anyone help me out? thanks
I used iBoot + Multibeast Guide to directly update my HP dv5845tx to 10.6.4. The integrated HP Webcam is not detected, however I had noticed, just after the install (ie at 10.6.0) the HP webcam was working fine.
is there a fix available? or has 10.6.4 broken the third party webcams?
If you get KP, remove sleepenabler, update, and then try the new sleepenabler for 10.6.4 from kexts.com
I can't believe it. Still no Ati Radeon HD 5xxx Series support. How long until 10.6.5 comes out?
For those who said audio is working, is 5.1 channel working? I mean when you play AC3 movie, do you get audio from all 4 line outputs(Front out, Center/Woofer, Back spk out and Side spk out)?
My system is:
GA-P55A-UD3, GT9800, 4G Ram.
The audio is working after Rollback, but the System Pref shows only 2 line outs and one digital out. When I select the first line out, the audio came out from side spk, when I select the second line out, the audio came out from center/woofer out. In Mac, digital out is the only way to get 5.1 channel audio.
Thanks
I have a problem with the machine going to sleep on it's own. I can manually make it sleep and it works fine. When the allowed time passes for the energy saver, only the monitor sleeps. I've tried the new sleep enabler and got panics. Any ideas?
Upgraded to MacOS 10.6.4 on my Macbook Pro with NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M graphics and now have an error that the version of my GPU driver (19.5.8f01) requires an updated CUDA driver (currently 3.0.14) or some of my CUDA enabled applications will run slowly or stop functioning.
I tried downloading the 19.5.8f03 GPU driver, but it does not yet include support for the 330M on the Macbook Pro and I do not see any other updates available at this time.
19.5.8f03 can be installed on any system if you edit setup checking algorithm. Simply locate "distribution.dist" inside driver package, then delete part of program with "unsupported_title" and "unsupported_message" strings, save and install.
Upgraded to MacOS 10.6.4 and now have an error that the version of my GPU driver (19.5.8f03) requires an updated CUDA driver (currently 3.0.14)
The window says on one place "software up to date" and also in the same window "Update required"...
????
Hi tony, I have a GT 320M. You said: "without GT 320M", so if i install 10.6.4 my card wont work? If it's so, what kexts I have to backup from 10.6.2 (which I actually have)?
Hey Tony:
Great work fine10.6.3 to 10.6.4.
P55A-UD6 i7 860 12gb Ram nvidia gt9500 1gb
but i take fro 10.6.2 iousbfamily.kets and my graphic card shapire 4850HD 1 gb not work
somebady help me please???
thanks.
my firewire audio interface doesn't work anymore :(
I removed the kext AppleHPET and it did not help.
any idea?
hbp112358 or anyone, how do you reload extra folder and do disk check. I have exactly same issue with sound. Nothing, after roolback or whatever kext i load through multibeast. I even followed the video. Have same board F10bios.
thanks,
Hey so I have the Gigabyte motherboard with an i5 and I just updated to 10.4 and I keep getting kernel panics saying its the sleepenabler. How do I get my computer to turn on so I can update to the new kext? Thanks guys.
try -x or boot in windows and use macdrive to delete sleepenabler.kext.
Hey guys, so my USB doesnt work but I see there is a new kext in Multibeast. Is there any way I can download (or have it emailed to me :) )just the new USB kext and install it via Windows 7 using macdrive? Thanks everyone.
Hi Tony,
I'm able to use the smbios.plist for Mac Pro 4.1. My GTX 295 Single Edition is working extremely well. Sleep is working as well. My system idles at 109 watts with this graphics card. Even after sleep/wake up. I had to insert into /System/Library/Extensions/AppleGraphics/PowerManagement.kext/Contents/Info.plist under MacPro4,1 and copied/pasted segment Vendor10deDevice05e2 to Vendor10deDevice05eb.
That was it.
-mr
Hi all,
Update from 10.6.2 to 10.6.4 with little issues.
Gigabyte P55M-UD2
Intel i7-860
Steps:
* Used 10.6.4 Combo update file
* Reboot
* Manually removed JMicron36xeSATA
* Used MultiBeast to install
> JMicron36xSATA
> 10.6.2 AppleHDA Rollback
> Both System Utils selected
*Reboot
The steps above was necessary to get sound working and get rid of the orange disc icons on SATA disks.
Jan,
Are you at BIOS V10, and does sleep work properly (system sleeps, then you hit a key on the keyboard and it wakes up, not reboots)
Thanks!
Scott,
No I am at BIOS F8.
And no sleep does not work - forget to mention this (sleep never worked and not too bothered about it).
I have a UD2 with i7, 4GB DDR3 1600 Ripjaws, GTX260, 1TB HD, LG Burner.
1. Installed clean with iBoot nVidia.
2. Did Combo 10.6.4 Update, selected the DSDT and other items shown in MultiBeast for UD2.
3. Rebooted now no Audio.
4. My 2nd output of video card goes on and off with snow in between sometimes.
I did what I saw here but yet have those 2 issues so I have to assume there are plenty others there with the same issue and anyone solve these?
Thanks
@Wacky
in Multibeast use the 10.6.2 rollback option for sound. Sound will be fine then.
ATi 5xxx series support: http://netkas.org/?p=465
upgraded to 10.6.4 on macbook and added Aperture. now I get the rainbow pinwheel for ever everytime I click on anything, macbook totally unusable, what do I do?
@Anonymous (@wacky) THANKS!
rollback option worked for sound.
FYI: for those using a similar setup that are thinking of updating bios and updating 10.6.4 here is the process:
1. download new multibeast v3 and unzip.
2. download 10.6.4 combo update
2b. download DSDT file from tonymac db; rename "DSDT.aml" and leave on desktop
3. boot into windows (for me xpp)
4. go to gigabyte and download new firmware for motherboard (for me f11 for rev.1)
5. download @bios utility and extract exe to desktop
6. install @bios utility
7. run at bios and choose update bios (from file on disk) and navigate to file on desktop
8. after successful : reboot into bios
9. reset optimized defaults; AHCI; 64 bit; boot order; no splash screen : save and exit
10. boot into os x
11. run 10.6.4 combo update pkg : DO NOT RESTART
12. verify your DSDT.aml file exists on the desktop
13. run multibeast v3 choosing: userDSDT; under audio (grayed out btw) 10.6.2 audio rollback (subdir was not grayed out); and utilities
14. after completion shutdown and boot up to os x
15. still not sure if necessary, but I deleted "NullCPUPower...kext" and "IOAHCIBlock...kext" from extras/Extensions and then dragged extensions folder onto Kext Utility.app
G to G
here is my setup: i5-750/ga-p55a-ud4p-ver.1-f11/gv-n250-1gi/corsair-xms3-ddr3-4gb/cm-hyper212plus/optiarc/3xWDsatas/antec-tp650/cm650IIadv/osx.6.4/win7p64/xpp-x86/DellUltrasharp/applekey-a1243
as usual.. Thanks tony and macman!
Haya... new to the mac game and i was wondering... i have an issue after installing 10.6.3 and then updating to 10.6.4 ive been getting a restarting issue. it loads the booter and then flashes the gray apple loading screen then restarts.. any ideas??
i7
Asus p7p55d-e
4g ram
Asus "dark Knight" (nvidia GTS250)
Hello all! I am VERY excited about this setup! It is by FAR the easiest I have come across online!
I do have one problem - after updating to 10.6.4 and running the Easy Beast setup my audio is nonexistent. I have connected headphones and speakers to both the front and back ports on my rig, to no avail. It's as if the computer does not recognize that there's anything there. Even the volume control in the menu bar is grayed out.
The odd thing is that before I restarted(once MultiBeast was finished) the audio was just fine.
My build consists of:
- Asus P5k-E motherboard
- 500 gig Seagate hard drive
- 2 gigs of DDR2-800 RAM
- Snow Leopard(only OS on the build)
Any help would be much appreciated!!
Hi Guys
Running a 100% working Hack on SL 10.6. Should I upgrade it to 10.6.4? Will it pose major issues?
Thanks
AK
hey i updated to 10.6.4 and now i cant boot into mac
TH55b HD motherboard
2gb ddr3 ram
i3 530
thank you
Works perfectly for me!
I originally had a problem about 2 weeks ago with my wireless card. I tried everything; new kexts, different slot, etc. turns out the card was rated never to work on OSX.
My wireless USB adapter arrived in the mail today, so I reinstalled Snow Leopard using iBoot Supported and Multibeast 2.2
Everything works perfectly. Sound would only come through the HDMI connection to the speakers on my screen, but once i installed ProTools, sound ran through my usb mBox2.
Sound - check
HDMI 1080p - check
Wireless - check
Very simple, very straightforward. Tony knows his stuff, people!
-MJH
I've tried this twice now- I run the combo updater and it doesn't appear to finish. The screen is grayed out and I'm forced to reboot and then I'm unable to get into OS X with my iBoot disk using with and without -x -v -f flags.
Any ideas? Thanks!
does the leopard 10.6 works on a hp pavilion dv6 2130eg laptop?
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