Comments on: First impressions: 10.6 10A380 Mac OS X Snow Leopard Developer Preview

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The Snow Leopard Compatibility Thread - MacTalk Forums — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:02:36 +0000

[...] SIMBL on Snow Leopard | hackd smcFanControl – yes Mozy – yes from 1.4 Perian – workaround see First impressions: 10.6 10A380 Mac OS X Snow Leopard Developer Preview – ProjectDaenney.org Visor – yes – BUT Terminal must run in 32bit mode (for SIMBL to work) – and visor set to Fullscreen [...]

By: MacOSXupdate

MacOSXupdate — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:21:25 +0000

The million dollar question . . . does the $29 10.6 version being offered on Amazon.com REQUIRE previous version 10.5 Leopard to be installed? I am coming from 10.2.8…

By: Daenney

Daenney — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:59:36 +0000

arch gives me i386 too, I had noticed the kernel_task in 32bit indeed but haven’t looked into it any further. I’m guessing there’s a good reason why it’s not enabled by default right now.

Now that exams are finished though and I can finally rest and enjoy my holidays I might just take a closer look at the whole thing.

By: Daenney

Daenney — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:57:14 +0000

SIMBL no… I personally don’t use SIMBL or plugins based on it, they break far to often and to easily. Seeing as InputManager seem to have been further restricted in Snow Leopard I’m not even sure if SIMBL will work in its current state to begin with, that might require some rewrite or a total revisit of the code.

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:07:59 +0000

I concur the acrobat issue. Tried to reinstall and install again, it won’t help.
However, I am quite surprised this happened after I used it for several weeks. I am just wondering if this is caused by any updates from Adobe.

Debating if I should just go back to Leopard…hmmm…

By: Jean-Michel

Jean-Michel — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:41:23 +0000

Thanks a lot Daenney for sharing your solution to Perian.

I applied the same principle for other QuickTime components, like Flip4Mac. For some reason I had assumed that QuickTime wouldn’t load any current non-64 bit third-party plugins, so I hadn’t bothered to install them separately and discard the PrefPanes. Now I can play anything, including mkv. I had tried to build Perian from their xcode source, but to no avail.

Tell me, do you start in 64 bit mode on your machine? If I look in Activitiy Monitor, I can see that kernel_task (and usbmuxd) is 32 bit, this is confirmed in System Profiler which shows that 64 bit kernel and extensions are not loaded. The command ‘arch’ in Terminal also gives 32 bit. The trick to press keys 6 and 4 at boot does not work for me on my MacMini.

By: as

as — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:31:30 +0000

> That’s not really surprising to me, Perian has never been capable of handling .mkv’s in my experience. Grab MPlayer OSX Extended, it works on 10.6 and handles .mkv just fine.

There is something wrong with your experience, I’m afraid. And try logging out and back in.

Also, never run an architecture-removal program; this will break code signing and some programs will stop working. (for instance, anything that uses QuickTime)

By: Damen

Damen — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:53:55 +0000

Anyone use MacFusion/macfuse? I can’t seem to make it work in this new build…

By: joewmpls

joewmpls — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:39:25 +0000

I made the stupid itchy leap to go 64 bit with my new 17″ MBP. It is certainly much snappier in many areas. I run lots of apps and windows, including the CS4 suite. I am getting repeat crashes with Acrobat, but CS4 is solid. My biggest problem is that my new wifi Canon all-in-one MX860 doesn’t work over wifi. I tried to re-install the drivers etc and “no dice”. I think I may have to go back to 10.5 if I can’t figure out this issue. This printer/fax/scanner DOES work over USB perfectly. When I try to print to the wifi version of the printer it reports that “a software component may be missing” in the print queue. I cannot run the Canon MP Navigator EX, which is required to scan over wifi from the scanner to the computer. This must also have something to do with printing via wifi as well. Any hackers out there have a clue what might help me get this working?

By: Daenney

Daenney — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:46:40 +0000

Oh well duh… I see were I went wrong. I stripped most of the 32bit code from OS X with XSlimmer, assuming System Preferences would’ve been excluded automatically but it has not.
So in my situation, System Preferences can’t fall back to 32bit even when I tick the ‘Open in 32bit mode’ because that part of the code has been stripped out of the binary.

Thanks for the heads-up, I’ll restore that one from my backups, that’ll make it so much more pleasant to work with.