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Member #10,078 · 2009-08-20 → 2009-11-10
#259 by Dispatches #3,231 by Author Reads #74 by Thread Reach Member #10,078 DSDT NVIDIA GeForce ALC889a / Audio

@ariadri

InfiniteMac community contributor with 28 recorded dispatches, 1 lead technical dossiers (2,648 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 2,380,768 historical readers.

Dispatches 28 Ranked #259 of 6,691
Author Reads 2,648 Ranked #3,231 · 1 dossiers
Thread Reach 2,380,768 Ranked #74 in reach
Lead Dossiers 1 2,648 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #10,078 Joined 2009-08-20
Active Window 2009 2009-08-20 → 2009-11-10
Archive Standing
#259 of 6,691 by Dispatches (28 notes) · #3,231 of 3,454 by Author Readership (2,648 reads across 1 dossiers) · #74 by Thread Reach (2,380,768 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #10,078 · Joined 2009-08-20
Hardware & Kernel Topics
DSDT (8) · NVIDIA GeForce (4) · ALC889a / Audio (3) · Retail DVD / USB (1) · USB / EHCI (1)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 4 technical boards

Leopard 10.5
9 (32%)
10.X Core
5 (18%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @ariadri (1)

2,648 cumulative reads on threads started by @ariadri

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
Garageband and usb distortion
this is my weird situation. I have a sonica theatre usb sound card that works out of the of the box in snow leopard. I also have three usb ports( in wich my motherboard which is a p5ld2 by the way). I installed garageband with all updates…
Software & Kexts2,648 reads
2009-09-15 · 1 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (27)

Direct links into threads where @ariadri contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“netkas stated that rc1 is more compatible to older motherboards, so chances are you're safer with rc1”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-22
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“hi, i have Leopard10.5.7 (iatkos) installed in one partition of one drive (i have 3 sata hdd) and i want to upgrade to Snow Leopard and install on other hdd...i´ve been trying this for almost 4 days with no success. Basically i followed the…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-21
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“Can anyone help me? I have this little issue. On the boot.plist file on my USB I have the -x32 flag set and when I boot into OS X via the USB it works fine. But with the charmeleon installed on my HDD it always boots into the 64 bit kernal.…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-21
1,741,402 dossier reads
Snow Leopard CMOS reset fix
“pardon my ignorance but what are you guys using to view and edit your DSDTs…?appl elife.ru/poleznye_keksty_utility_i_solyusheny_dlya_osx86/9675/860.html#entry93244 after you drag your dsdt.aml you will get a dsdt.dsl which you can edit. onc…”
10.X Core2009-08-20
332,582 dossier reads
Shutdown/Restart Hang
“When I shutdown/restart, it just hangs there for a minute and then boots. I think this is related to a USBEHCI problem. I remember seeing once (don't remember where I saw it though) that it said that reboot was waiting on something USB rela…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-24
48,640 dossier reads
Snow Leopard PC+ Netflix = DRM Error
“I did the same with efistudio but didnt find it to work. I'll give it another shot just so I understand the steps correctly I should: run efistudio add device graphics (for me 9800 GTX+) then add ethernet take the combined hex code and add …”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-06
42,101 dossier reads
Snow Leopard PC+ Netflix = DRM Error
“sure - try this - http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t114349.html thanks for the link as by following pcwiz's instruction I was caught up with some errors (don't know maybe my typing who knows) anyway I decided to use th…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-06
42,101 dossier reads
SL Installed and Booted, but Some Kexts Won't Load
“you must boot in 32bit mode -x32 or arch=i386 the reason 3100 kexts don't work in 64 bit kernel”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-10
39,048 dossier reads
10.6.2 Released
“tried efi? that was my original setup nvinject stops the kp but the you get a performance hit sluggish, stuttering and no vlc or dvd video”
10.X Core2009-11-10
36,667 dossier reads
10.6.2 Released
“Update went very painfull here… I am no longer able to boot into 64-Bit Kernel with having my EFI String applied - otherwise every little action will drive me into a Kernel Panic, caused by com.apple.Geforce - 32-Bit Kernel & Extensions sti…”
10.X Core2009-11-10
36,667 dossier reads
Impossible boot snow leopard
“did you repair permissions and set ownership to your extensions?”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-13
33,561 dossier reads
DSDT Compiling...
“I'm having a bit of a problem.. Compiling DSL files just gives me a Bus error using Terminal, since every DSDT app is mainly based on iasl, I'm pretty much stuffed. Has anyone been able to compile DSDTs properly after upgrading to 10.5.8? D…”
10.X Core2009-08-23
25,284 dossier reads
DSDT Compiling...
“I'm having a bit of a problem.. Compiling DSL files just gives me a Bus error using Terminal, since every DSDT app is mainly based on iasl, I'm pretty much stuffed. Has anyone been able to compile DSDTs properly after upgrading to 10.5.8? D…”
10.X Core2009-08-23
25,284 dossier reads
TImeMachine not working 10.5.7
“***UPDATE*** Okay I ran EFIstudio and picked my on-board nic and it created an EFI string. Now this is the part that is confusing to me. Am I supposed to save the Hex code created in EFI and manually install it into my boot.plist file or ca…”
Leopard 10.52009-09-10
25,002 dossier reads
TImeMachine not working 10.5.7
“suggestion use efistudio, select your network and make sure you write this on your boot.plist other option google netkas ionetworkingfamily fix for ionetworkingfamily.kext hopefully that should solve it good luck again thanks netkas”
Leopard 10.52009-09-07
25,002 dossier reads
Snow Leopard + Chameleon + PCEFI v10
“some people gets kp on r640 some don't i have figured out that some kexts on the extra folder gave me kp such as ataportinjector, other than that it works just fine with dsdt on extra folder”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-20
20,477 dossier reads
SL KP every time i try to use a new Kext
“I don't know how you installed your kexts but I've noticed the majority of people get kp after installing kexts is because 1. not compatible 2. used wrong terminal commands 3. did not repair permissions using disk utilty try this use kexthe…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-27
7,182 dossier reads
SL KP every time i try to use a new Kext
“do you get this right after you add the kext? or when you try to repair permission?”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-27
7,182 dossier reads
Internet - Mac OS X Leopard
“try this its for your ethernet good luck rea ltek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=14&PFid=7&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false#7”
Leopard 10.52009-09-19
7,141 dossier reads
Internet - Mac OS X Leopard
“If you connect through your ethernet then it seems your ethernet is not configured correctly. do you know by anychance your ethernet card/chip?”
Leopard 10.52009-09-19
7,141 dossier reads
Comp Acting up
“wow sorry to hear that can you post a pic of your boot up in -v”
Leopard 10.52009-09-28
5,457 dossier reads
Comp Acting up
“well nothing.. Mail is still Read Only and Safari wont let me download anything.. one more thing make sure you have permissions to read & write right click on your drive snow leopard is located and select Get info theres a tab that says sha…”
Leopard 10.52009-09-27
5,457 dossier reads
Comp Acting up
“if you used mail app you should have a mail folder in /User/YOURNAME/Library/ try this reboot in -s mode then let finish then reboot”
Leopard 10.52009-09-25
5,457 dossier reads
Comp Acting up
“I opend mail with a message that said the permissions on (such and such) are incorrect please change to Read and Write. So i did, tryed it once more i got the same error but on a different folder... So i go through the whole mail folder cha…”
Leopard 10.52009-09-25
5,457 dossier reads
Kernel panic
“I don't want to start any rumors but I read the author of this dvd pulled the torrent because it was causing too many problems. I myself downloaded and found myself with plenty of kp's with no success. maybe I'll research later and get the …”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-13
4,840 dossier reads
please
“goto irc and ask for help it might be a little quicker”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-08
4,549 dossier reads
KP kernel_task
“alright, it was VoodooHDA... as soon as I remove it, BAM im back in, infact im typing on it right now , but the only problem is VoodooHDA is the only way i get sound.. I tryed reinstalling it and I was right back to where i started... so wh…”
Leopard 10.52009-09-21
4,187 dossier reads