On Jun 15, 2010, at 12:15 PM, Ashley Aitken wrote: > > Thanks Dan. > > On 15/06/2010, at 10:34 AM, Dan Shoop wrote: > >>>> Note, as I said, this is not purely a driver issue (not that we have real >>>> drivers in OS X anyway) and 10.6.4 may not resolve this, you may need to >>>> wait for the next bootable release, not just an update. >>> >>> Could you elaborate on this please? >> >> We don't have drivers like they do on Windows or Linux, b/c of the way IOKit >> operates. You don't need I/O drivers to support a device. > > I understand that (or at least I believe I do). > >> As I said you may need a more recent kernel build, machine profiles, kexts, >> ... It's not going to be solely an issue of "drivers". >> >>> Why it is so? >> >> Um... Because. > > But I don't see how 10.6.4 may NO resolve the problem - I'm pretty sure it > would be a more recent kernel build, machine profiles, kexts - as you alluded > to.
It would be a more recent kernel build. It likely won't include machine profiles as those come along with bootable releases, not OS updates. > How could 10.6.4 NOT resolve this? Because 10.6.4 is a new kernel build. It's neither a release nor may it have machine profiles necessary for your machine nor may it include kexts for hardware since they may not have needed updating from what your existing MBPi7 was already supposed to have on it. That is updates are just that, updates to things that changed. Likely the kext to support your new fancy graphics card doesn't need updating (it was just releases) so it's not updated so it's not on an update. But you're wasting everyone's breath and time now. We've explained this, just get over it. > What do you mean by a "bootable release"? Surely 10.6.4 will be bootable on > all released Macs? Doesn't boot a single blessed thing, it's not a release. Damn, and I'm still wasting breath... -d ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dan Shoop Computer Scientist [email protected] GoogleVoice: 1-646-402-5293 aim: iWiring twitter: @colonelmode _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
