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@blackknight
InfiniteMac community contributor with 62 recorded dispatches, 2 lead technical dossiers (97,792 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 1,659,017 historical readers.
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Joined 2009-08-20
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2009-08-20 → 2011-09-30
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Hackintosh 1: OS X 10.6.8 / Antec P180B / Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-DS5 / Phenom II x2 550 @ 3.4 GHz / 2x1GB Corsair Dominator DDR2 1066 MHz / Gigabyte Radeon 4550 512MB / ASUS EAH4870X2 2GB@ 800/950 / 2x150GB Velociraptors RAID 0
Hackintosh 2: OS X 10.6.8 / Full-ATX Mac Pro case / Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-UD5P / Phenom x4 9950 @3.2GHz / 4x2GB Corsair Dominator DDR2 1066 MHz / HIS Radeon HD 6950 u/l to 6970 / 2x300GB Velociraptors RAID 0 / 4x2TB WD20EARS Pictures (aquamac.prob oards.com/index.cgi?board=hack1&action=display&thread=707&page=1#4706)
Hackintosh 2: OS X 10.6.8 / Full-ATX Mac Pro case / Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-UD5P / Phenom x4 9950 @3.2GHz / 4x2GB Corsair Dominator DDR2 1066 MHz / HIS Radeon HD 6950 u/l to 6970 / 2x300GB Velociraptors RAID 0 / 4x2TB WD20EARS Pictures (aquamac.prob oards.com/index.cgi?board=hack1&action=display&thread=707&page=1#4706)
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- #118 of 6,691 by Dispatches (62 notes) · #108 of 3,454 by Author Readership (97,792 reads across 2 dossiers) · #310 by Thread Reach (1,659,017 cumulative reads)
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- Member #10,148 · Joined 2009-08-20
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Lead Dossiers Authored by @blackknight (2)
97,792 cumulative reads on threads started by @blackknight
| Dossier Title & Summary | Collection | Readership |
|---|---|---|
| Blackknight (AnV/Qoopz-based) kernel w/corrected Phenom FSB detection I am making available a kernel that I modified from the 10.2.0 AnV/Qoopz diff file that includes a corrected FSB detection specifically for Phenoms. I did not alter the diff in any other way, so they deserve most of the credit for this… | 10.X Core | 90,162 reads 2010-01-03 · 67 notes |
| BlackKnight Phenom FSB detection 9.8.0 kernel I know this has taken forever, but for those of you out there that still use Leopard 10.5.8 and Phenoms, here is a kernel based on Voodoo's 9.8.0 with my corrected Phenom FSB detection (no more fsb=200000000 or Busratio=xx). Sorry it took… | 10.X Core | 7,630 reads 2010-06-19 · 6 notes |
Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (40)
Direct links into threads where @blackknight contributed solutions & commentary
| Thread & Dispatch Excerpt | Collection | Date & Reach |
|---|---|---|
| Snow Leopard 10A432 Install “Good to hear how far you've gotten. You say that resolution works, but does that mean that you can change it in display preferences, or do you have to manually enter it in Boot.plist? Also, since nobody has any hd 2000/3000 cards working wi…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-12-05 694,068 dossier reads |
| Snow Leopard 10A432 Install “Successfull boot to SL Used maxmem=4096 -v -x32 flags No QE,CI, no sound for now. Oddly, my keyboard is working now after i installed some ps2 kexts, but my ps2 mouse is not working now, so i put other usb mouse. I already added this lines …” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-12-04 694,068 dossier reads |
| Snow Leopard 10A432 Install “I seem to be making serious progress I did a clean install with some new kext combination and qoopz kernel, and I was able to boot all the way to - black screen. I used maxmem=4096 flag. I also got cmos reset with every restart. I fixed CMO…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-12-04 694,068 dossier reads |
| Snow Leopard 10A432 Install “One thing is that I've never been able to get modbin's to work. I got that same KP that you just posted with. I was able to get the test7 kernel and both Qoopz to work. I have one more question: do you have ACC enabled in the bios? If not I…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-12-04 694,068 dossier reads |
| Snow Leopard 10A432 Install “That's actually the one I was thinking of. I haven't tried it myself, but I use the previous version and it works great, so the new one should especially since it's optimized for SL. Are you still getting a KP? If so, is there a kext associ…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-12-04 694,068 dossier reads |
| Snow Leopard 10A432 Install “I know, I ment SB750 SATA/ATA kext. I have that kext for 10.5 but it didnt work well, so I use Leopard without that kext. You need to use the AppleATIATA.kext for SL. I can't remember where I saw it, but I think it was on insanelymac.com fo…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-12-04 694,068 dossier reads |
| Snow Leopard 10A432 Install “There is no such thing as a kext for a chipset. There are kexts for the ethernet, sound, ATA/SATA and such that are part of a chipset, but nothing for the chipset itself.” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-12-03 694,068 dossier reads |
| Snow Leopard 10A432 Install “I didnt try -force64 so far, I thought that 64 bit doesnt work for AMD? anyway, I tried now with maxmem=4096, it didnt help. I used the latest chameleon version. I tried with bunch of kext in Extra/Extensions folder: AHCIPortinjector, Apple…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-12-03 694,068 dossier reads |
| Snow Leopard 10A432 Install “Actually I have multi at 15, my Phenom works at 3.0 Ghz all the time, all drives are set to AHCI, and I tried booting with maxmem=2048 on Chameleon but it didnt help I envy you, you have a working SL What guide did you follow? Actually, I u…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-12-02 694,068 dossier reads |
| Snow Leopard 10A432 Install “I officially give up for now I tried installing SL using all the AMD methods available on the net, following the exact details, but I always end up with KP, both with modbin and qoopz kernel. Vanilla kernel gives me only reboots. I guess I'…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-12-02 694,068 dossier reads |
| Snow Leopard 10A432 Install “You should be able to, but you will need a standalone graphics card for 3d acceleration as the onboard won't work.” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-10-11 694,068 dossier reads |
| Kernel Panic - 10A432 - AMD “Would love to get that test7 kernel. Could you please provide a link or info how to get it?” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-08-21 166,396 dossier reads |
| Kernel Panic - 10A432 - AMD “I'm having the same problem, but I had it with PC_EFI 10.2, Chameleon RC1 and RC2. Has anyone had any luck with using a previous hacked kernel?” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-08-20 166,396 dossier reads |
| Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support “Well, the new processors support all the intel instructions, whereas the old ones need emulators. Emulators that need to be written. I'm hoping that these new processors won't require much work.” | 10.X Core | 2011-09-30 165,733 dossier reads |
| Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support “I'm curious if with the new AMD fusion processors supporting SSSE3 instructions if they will support full 64-bit mode on Lion and SL. I'm looking to get one of the new AMD FX processors when they release and they effectively support all of …” | 10.X Core | 2011-09-26 165,733 dossier reads |
| Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support “That was just what I needed. It works great and now that I can use AnV's kernel without hardcoding the FSB, sound doesn't skip anymore. Yeah, I did see that netkas got 6970 working. I have a 6950 unlocked to 6970 that I'd love to get workin…” | 10.X Core | 2011-09-04 165,733 dossier reads |
| Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support “blackknight with anvs kernel u used the bootflag std_dyld=yes ? wich disables the integrated dyld and uses the standard one (i guess patching the bins doesnt help when they dont get detected cause they switched off also with anvs kernel u c…” | 10.X Core | 2011-09-04 165,733 dossier reads |
| Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support “Problem with dyld patcher where Outlook 2011 and Quicken Essentials both will not open. I tried to manually patch both with the amd instruction patch tool, but no luck. Then I tried going back to the 10.6.8 legacy kernel from nawcom, which …” | 10.X Core | 2011-09-04 165,733 dossier reads |
| 10.6.6 legacy kernel for INTEL/AMD 32+64bit ready to download “Have you looked a few posts down at Andy's 10.6.8 kernel? It has SSE3 emulation in it.” | 10.X Core | 2011-09-02 109,368 dossier reads |
| AnV XNU 9.8.0 V1.6 “Any luck in getting a fix for more than 4 gigs of RAM and AMD? I really hate having to use maxmem=4096 when I have 8 gigs at my disposal. Thanks.” | 10.X Core | 2009-09-10 95,354 dossier reads |
| Blackknight (AnV/Qoopz-based) kernel w/corrected Phenom FSB detection “The diff file is only for developers that want to patch mach_kernel for themselves. All you need is the mach_kernel and you need to replace it in your ISO. You'll need to mount it readwrite so that you can write the new file to it. This is …” | 10.X Core | 2011-07-24 90,162 dossier reads |
| Blackknight (AnV/Qoopz-based) kernel w/corrected Phenom FSB detection “I will very happy to see an 10.6.7 Kernel for My phenom9650 with correct detection. Is there a light way for an newbie to patch kernel self. What is the best Bootloader for Amd system? All of the new kernels based on nawcom, AnV, etc. shoul…” | 10.X Core | 2011-05-30 90,162 dossier reads |
| Blackknight (AnV/Qoopz-based) kernel w/corrected Phenom FSB detection “I am working on full 32 + 64 bit amd xnu @blackknight: can you post a diff (your patch only, diff between my patch and yours) At the moment, the graphics card on my system has died, so all I can do is paste the part of the full diff I poste…” | 10.X Core | 2010-06-04 90,162 dossier reads |
| Blackknight (AnV/Qoopz-based) kernel w/corrected Phenom FSB detection “I'm wondering if my AMD CPU FSB detection is now implemented as standard in your code. Also, is there any work by anyone on getting full 64-bit mode working on AMD?” | 10.X Core | 2010-06-04 90,162 dossier reads |
| Blackknight (AnV/Qoopz-based) kernel w/corrected Phenom FSB detection “Awesome Andy! I am so happy that someone even attempted to get this working and I pretty much knew it had to be you. Also, thanks for the updates. I can't stand it when someone promises to do something that everybody has been waiting for an…” | 10.X Core | 2010-05-29 90,162 dossier reads |
| Blackknight (AnV/Qoopz-based) kernel w/corrected Phenom FSB detection “I am sure both Andy and I are glad to help. Andy definitely knows more about the kernel than I do. As far as the on-the-fly CPUID patcher, is anyone working on this? Did the Voodoo team die or something? This is one thing that makes AMD ins…” | 10.X Core | 2010-05-03 90,162 dossier reads |
| Blackknight (AnV/Qoopz-based) kernel w/corrected Phenom FSB detection “I've built the a new kernel based on 10.3.0 and added the link and diff to the first post. So far it's working for my Phenom 9950, though -force64 still doesn't work and I now think it might have to do with one of Andy's mods. When I made m…” | 10.X Core | 2010-04-18 90,162 dossier reads |
| Blackknight (AnV/Qoopz-based) kernel w/corrected Phenom FSB detection “Hey, this didn't work for me after upgrading to 10.6.3 and replacing the mach_kernel with this one i get the following kernel panic: Using a Phenom II X4 945 Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD3P Did you notice that the kernel is for 10.6.2 and not 10.6.…” | 10.X Core | 2010-04-02 90,162 dossier reads |
| Blackknight (AnV/Qoopz-based) kernel w/corrected Phenom FSB detection “@ blackknight : could you build a new patched mach_kernel 10.3.0 for the AMD system ? fyi, now I'm running the Snow Leo Server 10.6.3 with your latest patched kernel (the blackknight's darwin 10.2.0) thanks for your great efforts Could you …” | 10.X Core | 2010-03-31 90,162 dossier reads |
| Blackknight (AnV/Qoopz-based) kernel w/corrected Phenom FSB detection “thank you, works great, jus wondering, its suppose to work faster, than previous version? what is the main differences between this and older? The only thing my mod does is correctly detect the FSB speed for AMD Phenoms and Shanghai process…” | 10.X Core | 2010-03-30 90,162 dossier reads |
| Blackknight (AnV/Qoopz-based) kernel w/corrected Phenom FSB detection “Thanks Black Knight for the fixes to Shanghai/Phenom. Feel free to redistribute the patches etc... Anybody may use my code as they see fit Keep up the great work. Glad I could help. I hope that this feature is added to future kernels too so…” | 10.X Core | 2010-01-23 90,162 dossier reads |
| Blackknight (AnV/Qoopz-based) kernel w/corrected Phenom FSB detection “I just use the vanilla System.kext. I actually don't have any modified Apple kexts in my system. Try that and see if it works. Also, make sure you're using PC_EFIv10.5 as it seems to work the best.” | 10.X Core | 2010-01-05 90,162 dossier reads |
| Blackknight (AnV/Qoopz-based) kernel w/corrected Phenom FSB detection “No, all it does is correctly identify the FSB in addition to all of the other AnV features. You can read about AnV's kernel in his thread.” | 10.X Core | 2010-01-04 90,162 dossier reads |
| AnV XNU 9.8.0 V1.7 “Does this version do anything for people with more than 4 gigs of ram and AMD? I still have to use maxmem=4096 with 1.6.” | 10.X Core | 2009-10-04 79,843 dossier reads |
| AnV Qoopz based Darwin 10.2.0 kernel 32/64-bit “Ok, so I fixed this myself. I can only vouch for phenoms so far as I don't have any Intel machines to test on, but by multiplying the EFI detected FSB Frequency by 2, the kernel correctly identifies the FSB speed as 200MHz and even successf…” | 10.X Core | 2010-01-03 73,341 dossier reads |
| AnV Qoopz based Darwin 10.2.0 kernel 32/64-bit “You know how we had to downclock our processors to 3.0GHz to get them to work? Well, I have a kernel you can use with 10.6.2 if you want which will allow you to theoretically overclock to 6GHz with OSX still booting (Assuming your computer …” | 10.X Core | 2010-01-02 73,341 dossier reads |
| AnV Qoopz based Darwin 10.2.0 kernel 32/64-bit “Hey Andy. Thanks for the new kernel. I just have a question though. I have an AMD Phenom and the kernel detects the busratio as double the actual busratio, resulting in a ratio cap of 30. This seems to be related to the fact that the FSB is…” | 10.X Core | 2010-01-02 73,341 dossier reads |
| AnV Qoopz based Darwin 10.2.0 kernel 32/64-bit “No full on-the-fly cpuid patcher yet and not all of my patches have been implemented yet but I fixed it for generic 32/64-bit support... More to come... Really big thanks go to Qoopz and he might want the code mods. Note: 64-bit mods are ex…” | 10.X Core | 2010-01-01 73,341 dossier reads |
| 10.4.0 XNU Kernel for INTEL/AMD by qoopz/nawcom/AnV/BlackKnight/mucha “Thanks for all your hard work, but this kernel this still has Tsc skrew on my AMD X2 5600+ and the only way to get rid of it is to boot with cpus=1 and that slows down my computer alot. Another problem it doesn't detect my cpu speed in Mhz,…” | 10.X Core | 2010-07-04 38,991 dossier reads |
| 10.2.0 Kernel for AMD/P4 “I have a question for the coder of this kernel: I have a phenom that has a clock speed of 3.1GHz by default and can easily be overclocked beyond that. The problem is that there is a set cutoff for the value of busratio of 30. If I overclock…” | 10.X Core | 2009-12-27 36,569 dossier reads |