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Member #9,065 · 2009-07-30 → 2010-08-24
#621 by Dispatches #305 by Author Reads #800 by Thread Reach Member #9,065 DSDT ALC889a / Audio Chameleon / Boot-132

@blkhockeypro19

InfiniteMac community contributor with 12 recorded dispatches, 1 lead technical dossiers (34,645 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 761,808 historical readers.

Dispatches 12 Ranked #621 of 6,691
Author Reads 34,645 Ranked #305 · 1 dossiers
Thread Reach 761,808 Ranked #800 in reach
Lead Dossiers 1 34,645 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #9,065 Joined 2009-07-29
Active Window 2009–2010 2009-07-30 → 2010-08-24
Archive Standing
#621 of 6,691 by Dispatches (12 notes) · #305 of 3,454 by Author Readership (34,645 reads across 1 dossiers) · #800 by Thread Reach (761,808 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #9,065 · Joined 2009-07-29
Hardware & Kernel Topics
DSDT (3) · ALC889a / Audio (2) · Chameleon / Boot-132 (2) · Retail DVD / USB (2) · AHCI / SATA (1) · Gigabyte G31M / P35 (1)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 4 technical boards

Lead Dossiers Authored by @blkhockeypro19 (1)

34,645 cumulative reads on threads started by @blkhockeypro19

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
Dell e520 RETAIL GUIDE
I decided to make tutorial for all those e520 users out there. "vmarsh" has a guide out there on inanelymac.com too which takes advantage of the Raid On setting in the BIOS. Mine will be using ATA as it seems to be the only way to get it…
10.X Core34,645 reads
2009-07-30 · 2 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (11)

Direct links into threads where @blkhockeypro19 contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
How to port AppleHDA to SL
“Have you personally tried that kext in Leopard and confirmed that it's really working for YOU? I've been using the same kext in leopard for about a year now. It works, trust me =P And I'm using PC-EFIv10.3, is that ok?”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-26
478,935 dossier reads
How to port AppleHDA to SL
“I patched my DSDT properly and followed the guide with no trouble. On reboot, I get these errors: 9/21/09 6:46:35 PM kernel NVDANV50HAL loaded and registered. 9/21/09 6:46:36 PM kernel Sound assertion "0 != result" failed in "/SourceCache/A…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-22
478,935 dossier reads
New DUET based EFI Bootloader
“I´ve just tried the last version (via irc) and -> where is the smbios patch ? -> a bug with > 4gb ram, SL just report 3,2 the same problem if i boot in linux with this booter -> the kexts in extra_kext just load in 32 bit mode my specs: X58…”
10.X Core2010-08-24
140,344 dossier reads
New DUET based EFI Bootloader
“There is a slight delay booting Snow Leopard right now. The efi partition table is hidden in SL and there are some 64bit functions in boot.efi that it scans over before loading the file. I am in the middle of fixing it. Leopard loads extrem…”
10.X Core2010-08-02
140,344 dossier reads
New DUET based EFI Bootloader
“Well I can state that this does not work for me. Something is off, and it is not only with the DUET bootloader, but also XPC. I select the disk I want to boot from, then it just goes to a grey screen. The hard drive light is inactive. It wo…”
10.X Core2010-08-01
140,344 dossier reads
New DUET based EFI Bootloader
“Will try that.The readme DOESN'T say to put the efi folder onto USB, Where did you get Efivar.bin from ? It automatically makes the file when you use it.”
10.X Core2010-07-31
140,344 dossier reads
New DUET based EFI Bootloader
“i just got iboot installed to an SD card. Boots up wonderfully, i wish it saved my resolution settings, but thats ok. I was able to successfully boot rEFIt from Macintosh HD, but I cannot boot any OS. Selecting Macintosh HD to boot from yie…”
10.X Core2010-07-31
140,344 dossier reads
How to install 10.5.6 on dell e520
“Hey I appreciate the guide! If anyone here would like retail check out Dell e520 RETAIL GUIDE Also, everything seems good in the guide except I personally don't need seatbelt.kext. DMG mounting works fine, and it sounds like I have the same…”
10.X Core2009-08-05
67,634 dossier reads
EFI-X Mac Booter, A Scam
“with all the news in the past few months...THIS is what you choose as front page news?”
Releases & News2009-09-10
35,291 dossier reads
Strangeness with boot-132... can't boot retail disc
“you need to boot in verbose mode to see why it hangs. at the darwin boot prompt, type -v”
Leopard 10.52009-08-21
4,959 dossier reads
How to port AppleHDA to SL
“Well, do you have sound? I do not have sound =\”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-23
478,935 dossier reads