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Old 01-02-2009, 11:32 PM
Ianxxx Ianxxx is offline
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My thoughts about 10.5.6

For anyone who hasn't updated to this yet, quite frankly I wouldn't bother, I upgraded 2 systems from 10.5.5 to 10.5.6 on my own (ga-p35-ds3l) I had to go back to kexts from 10.5.5 for bluetooth and usb, bluetooth just didn't work and usb was a little glitchy at times, on the other system (foxconn intel 945 chipset) I had to replace kexts for bluetooth and nvidia kexts for 7300le card as new kexts broke sleep.

For both systems I can honestly say the advantages of upgrading were zero, personally if I had known would have waited for the next update to fix this update which has been pretty shoddy compared to previous updates. Just my opinion, what's yours?
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Old 01-03-2009, 01:38 AM
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Thanx for making this post.... I have the same board ep35-ds3l
i had a feeling it wasn't worth it... and have read about all the problems people R having
But i haven't heard of any advantages to 10.5.6
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Old 01-03-2009, 01:56 AM
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For me, it doesn't matter.

USB isn't working on 10.5.4 aswell as 10.5.6.
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Old 01-04-2009, 04:48 PM
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I was not impressed after reading about what the 5.6 update had to offer.

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Old 01-06-2009, 10:51 PM
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I got to 10.5.6 and had major USB issues. Backtracked to 10.5.5
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Old 01-07-2009, 01:15 AM
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can i just reiterate something most usb issues are down to having a system kext that doesnt match the kernel eg kernel 9.5 = system kext 9.5 thats how it has to be and sorry if im telling everyone something they already know

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Old 01-07-2009, 02:20 AM
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Yup I second that.

Type the following in Terminal to get your kernel version:
Code:
uname -a
Right click and select get info on system.kext in System/Library/Extensions/ to get its version.

If they don't match... make them match.

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Old 01-07-2009, 08:52 AM
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im still on 10.5.2 because i seriously dont understand the point of going up to 10.5.6 i mean what are the benefits, ive been looking at logs and a majoirty just look like little security updates...

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Old 01-07-2009, 01:27 PM
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Just to add on both systems I mentioned earlier, I'm using vanilla 9.6 kernel and system.kext
I still find them glitchy but I have a feeling that the glitchiness is some kind of bug caused by the new nvidia drivers, seems you can use old drivers and new usb kexts or old usb kexts and new drivers, but I could be wrong
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Old 01-10-2009, 10:23 PM
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Well I don't see difference between 10.5.5 and .6 but mostly it is security updates so..

10.5.6 caused me no trouble on retail with voodoo



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