This kernel is amazing! With all previous kernels my ALC268 has been giving me choppy and distorted sound. Now it works perfect!:-d


But there seems to be some mouse-issues when right-clicking after coming back from sleep....:-/ But I can live with that for now...when I have sound :P

Release Candidate
 

from 0615 (GMT) on 27NOV08

EDIT: still waiting for the RC to be available to download but it should be available soon.

yay! when this comes out, im making a new system and fully updating it to 10.5.5 with Software Update. hope it works (yn) Thanks for all the updates nfoav8or and for the great work done by XNU Labs

Remember that updating to 10.5.5 from software update will also install a vanilla kernel overwriting any XNU kernel that you have installed, so be very careful and take steps to ensure that you can reinstall the XNU kernel after updating. This is why Zeph's ASU omits the mach_kernel when performing system updates in order to stop systems breaking on reboot.

The RC is out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://code.google.com/p/xnu-dev/

I think a good solution to this might be to copy the mach_kernel.voodoo over to the root directory twice (once as mach_kernel.voodoo and again as mach_kernel)... or we could just edit the com.apple.Boot.plist... but doesn't Apple also update this file? I didn't think they did because on my Macbook I still have the original date of when I installed Leopard to it for the date on that file.

But again, just to point out to the VMWare users, rename to mach_kernel to not get faults and freezes.

I also think that continuing to use Zephyroth's ASU will prove to help distribute the breakdown of the patching so we don't have to solely rely on the kernel... but the option is always there for an "Intel Installation" :-)

So, I'll installed the kernel on my test system and it seems to work fine with 10.5.3. But I can't tell too much, I didn't had dual-core problems or something else, but my main system crashes without reason (with Kernel 9.3.0), don't know why.

In 'About this Mac' it shows '2.9 GHz Intel Core Duo'. In System Profiler is shown correctly 'Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 185'. Is this a problem of the kernel or of the System.kext R0GUE posted some pages ago? The 'AboutThisMac'-Fix from the Leo4All DVD doesn't work.

It is possible to activate hardware virtualization for AMD CPUs with this kernal? If the K8/K9 Athlon/Opteron-Series (Socket 939) support this at all. This would be neccessary for Parallels 4.

BTW: What about the file mach_kernel.ctfsys (about 10.2 MB) which exists with the kernels 9.2.0 and 9.3.0 ? Isn't it neccessary anymore? I deleted it before installing the new kernel.

I *believe* it's only needed for debug purposes.

Your latest version of the 9.5 kernel is working like a dream on my machine. It feels like a real mac now, I´m using 10.5.5 including all the latest updates.

Have you guys gotten your hands on the kernel from 10.5.6 yet?

- Ztardust -

Voodoo 5.9 kernel panic
 

After installing the new voodoo 9.5 kernel I am unable to boot due to a kernel panic on my AMD
here are my specs:

Processor Name: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+
Processor Speed: 2.86 GHz
Total Number Of Cores: 2
Memory: 3 GB
Bus Speed: 220 MHz
Chipset Model: Graphics by NVIDIA

Any ideas?

Thanks,