Fixing the issues with Snow Leopard isn't going so well. I'm not sure what the root cause of these issues are, but it's almost like mathematical operations are not working correctly:
- The time is blank. As in, there is no time. When trying to set the date and time, it goes negative (??!!)
- When fixing the audio driver to recognize the Apple TV ALC885 audio, there's a kernel panic whenever audio is played.
- Graphical issues galore! A lot of interface elements are calculating sizing and positioning ever so slightly off, which adds up to most things not looking right, and some things being unusable. For example, Setup Assistant on 10.6.8 never fades in, so the setup process must be completed on a Mac.
- Finder and Quick Look eat all of the CPU. I wouldn't be surprised if it was related to the above issues.
All of this adds up to a more-or-less unusable experience. I've tried multiple different versions of 10.6, different kernels, various graphics and audio injectors, setting time from Terminal, disabling Quick Look, etc, but all of the issues remain. For the sake of science, I will upload a pre-installed, fully-updated image that anyone is welcome to try out and help solve these problems--if we can get this to work correctly, it will be great, as it runs
much smoother compared to Leopard.