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Member #6,672 · 2009-05-13 → 2010-03-13
#202 by Dispatches #44 by Author Reads #355 by Thread Reach Member #6,672 📍 schiedam DSDT AMD OSx86 ALC889a / Audio

@candykane

InfiniteMac community contributor with 36 recorded dispatches, 4 lead technical dossiers (352,020 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 1,300,763 historical readers.

Dispatches 36 Ranked #202 of 6,691
Author Reads 352,020 Ranked #44 · 4 dossiers
Thread Reach 1,300,763 Ranked #355 in reach
Lead Dossiers 4 88,005 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #6,672 Joined 2009-05-13
Active Window 2009–2010 2009-05-13 → 2010-03-13
Preserved Forum Signature & OSx86 Rig
Asus P5W DH Deluxe (p5w-dh-deluxe-osx86.wik idot.com/) runnig osx for 3 years now (10.5.4 ideneb)
Asus P5N 7a VM ↗ 10.5.7 custom installation
dell 6400 10.5.1 intel video
Iportable OSX86 universal = Live leopard for intel and AMD's on a USB stick!
Archive Standing
#202 of 6,691 by Dispatches (36 notes) · #44 of 3,454 by Author Readership (352,020 reads across 4 dossiers) · #355 by Thread Reach (1,300,763 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #6,672 · Joined 2009-05-13
Location
schiedam
Interests
OSX86, photo's gaming scuba diving car's ect ect ect
Hardware & Kernel Topics
DSDT (10) · AMD OSx86 (4) · ALC889a / Audio (3) · Voodoo / XNU Kernel (2) · AHCI / SATA (2) · USB / EHCI (1)
Frequent Thread Collaborators
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 5 technical boards

Lead Dossiers Authored by @candykane (4)

352,020 cumulative reads on threads started by @candykane

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
Snow Leopard CMOS reset fix
Snow leopard beta's have the nasty property that when you reboot it resets your cmos. You can fix this by editing your dsdt file. Length should be changed to 0x02, its normally 0x04.
10.X Core332,582 reads
2009-07-13 · 32 notes
Iportable usb AMD edition nead help with sb600/700
I'm currently rebuilding the Iportable 10.5.4 to work on amd machine's for you that don't know what iportable is. Iportable is working leopard image (10.5.4) that fits on on a 8 GB usb stick. there is no installation you just put the…
10.X Core6,731 reads
2009-08-01 · 2 notes
SMC emularot comes to the hack (no more dsmos.kext)
Whats are differences between a mac and a PC? well there are 2 things 1 mac's have efi and no bios we fixt that with DSDT and whats the second? … 2 all macs have a smc chip a small security device made bye apple. what does it do? it…
10.X Core6,387 reads
2009-08-24 · 2 notes
IPortable universal OSX86 edition Beta2
IPortable universal OSX86 edition Beta2 Iportable is a verry smal image of a compleet installation its so smal it fits on a 8 GB USB drive. And yes you can boot it from USB. Its taken a wile but i managed to redo Iportable to have AMD…
10.X Core6,320 reads
2009-08-03 · 1 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (32)

Direct links into threads where @candykane contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Various DSDT mods.
“Here's the basic code, I provide two example sections of code, one for the BadAxe1 and the second for the BadAxe2, don't use both sections. AUDIO IN DSDT: CODE ______________________________________________________________ // this goes near…”
10.X Core2009-05-13
625,378 dossier reads
Various DSDT mods.
“A guide on how to fix audio via dsdt Audio should not be so complicated, having to use another extension to load information into the system makes no sense when most of you are already using a device-property string for graphics or using a …”
10.X Core2009-05-13
625,378 dossier reads
Various DSDT mods.
“I just got my power button to show logout box when pressed: CODE Device (PWRB) { Name (_HID, EisaId ("PNP0C0C")) } I just changed _HID to _CID.”
10.X Core2009-05-13
625,378 dossier reads
Various DSDT mods.
“Fixing sleep and usb after wake up I finally fixed sleep on my lappie! The problem was on USB… The fix is simple, same as for WAK method: If u look on DSDT under all USB entry u will see: QUOTE Method (_PRW, 0, NotSerialized) { Return (GPRW…”
10.X Core2009-05-13
625,378 dossier reads
Various DSDT mods.
“Backlight control Another nice thing to add in your laptop DSDT: (Under _SB) CODE Device (PNLF) { Name (_HID, EisaId ("APP0002")) Name (_CID, "backlight") Name (_UID, 0x0A) Name (_STA, 0x0B) } Might help you in loading the backlight control”
10.X Core2009-05-13
625,378 dossier reads
Various DSDT mods.
“got some stuff from insanely , but i think it would look nice in this collection fixing sleep mode with the _WAK method information about the _WAK method. Arguments: 0 The value of the sleeping state (1 for S1, 2 for S2, and so on). Result …”
10.X Core2009-05-13
625,378 dossier reads
Mac OS X 10.5.7 Released
“update whent great but there were a few things not working dmg files would not mount , fixed that with the seatbelt fix. but still have not found a solution for my iphone it just will not mount it even wont charge, i can see that its pluged…”
Releases & News2009-06-02
99,651 dossier reads
What mouse are you using with your (Hack)Mac
“Microsoft wireless optical mouse 2.0 One thing i can say about Microsoft there hardware is GREAT! its bin working for 5 years now. cordless logitech = $hit you have to replace the battery ever week because the hardware sucks in sleep mode t…”
Hardware & Dev2009-08-05
47,452 dossier reads
ATI 2600 xt pcie & Snow Leopard Troubles
“pc efi from netkas has 2600 and 3870 support now. on netkas.org there is a install guide”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-12-16
29,014 dossier reads
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570
“ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 oeps sorry your right to mutch beer last night sorry about that wel you dont have a driver installed i take it. you could use the universal installer bye pcwiz to force a differend screen resolution download and …”
10.X Core2009-08-04
22,721 dossier reads
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570
“yes its not a easy installation but there are good guides in my HCL list you will find a link click here”
10.X Core2009-08-03
22,721 dossier reads
iATKOS boot problem
“Possible solutions for "Still waiting for root device"”
Leopard 10.52009-07-28
13,538 dossier reads
Patching Apps to work in Hazard Snow Leopard
“some programs have a cpu check before installing for these programs there is a simple work around like silverlight plugin from microsoft. 1- Download silverlight 2.0 DMG 2- mount the .dmg file 3- copy Silverlight2.0.pkg to the desktop 4- ri…”
10.X Core2010-03-13
12,976 dossier reads
Dell Inspiron 1545 Audio
“from http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=134430 KEXTs KEXTs for 10.5.5 : KEXTs_10-5-5_v01.zip download them use the appleHDA.kext and the HDAenabler.kext with a program called kexthelper V7 sound sould work after that”
10.X Core2009-08-05
12,492 dossier reads
Dell Inspiron 1545 Audio
“Its a stac92xx think its the SigmaTel STAC9200 High Definition Audio Controlle what they have bin using for some time now”
10.X Core2009-08-04
12,492 dossier reads
Dell Inspiron 1545 Audio
“hd audio is not a chipset you could try voodoo sound drivers doubt they will work http://code.google.com/p/voodoohda/ or you could try google and find out your audio chipset”
10.X Core2009-08-04
12,492 dossier reads
Boot Problem after Upgrading to 10.5.8 iPC
“RULE NUMBER 1 : never update your hackintosh 2. if you have to update back everything up 3 use the amd update util by Zef Why? because updates brake hack installations by replacing kext files kernels and somtimes new incompatible software. …”
10.X Core2009-08-07
10,540 dossier reads
Startup Apple with startup audio but no video
“Can you tell more about the videocard? like is it a Gforce 4? agp or pci-e? or are you using a quadra fx 4400? did you select andy video drivers for the system?”
Leopard 10.52009-08-04
9,128 dossier reads
Startup Apple with startup audio but no video
“you nead to bye pas acount creation look here Install works, setup, not so much...”
Leopard 10.52009-08-04
9,128 dossier reads
Desperately need an ATI Driver
“wel in netkas his ATI_init.kext there is no mention of it so i think your out of luck you could try dsdt patching http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=142434t”
10.X Core2009-08-05
7,123 dossier reads
Got warning while compilling DSDT
“Adding The below code will kill one of your warnings but for the rest just let it go a warning is usaly not that important an error is!”
10.X Core2010-01-29
6,827 dossier reads
Iportable usb AMD edition nead help with sb600/700
“well this is done native sb600 and manual installation of the sb700”
10.X Core2009-08-03
6,731 dossier reads
Boot problem using ASROCK P45r2000-wifi and Intel Q9550
“wel nead more info 1 what versions did you try? 2 what did mark when you where installing 3 usually ASrock bords are $HiT and nead bios edit to get i working i would reconmend dsdt patching + chamelion 4 try booting with the -v that will te…”
Leopard 10.52009-07-28
6,200 dossier reads
iAtkos 10.5.7:still waiting... can't find my hdd, rd-diskXsY doesn't work
“Well what options did you use when you installed it? are you using USB sata pata drives? if internal did you set your devices to ahci mode in the bios how mutch ram are you using i could go on and on first info then you can get help how do …”
Leopard 10.52009-08-10
6,111 dossier reads
dwl-g520 installation
“lists.fre ebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2006-January/007685.htmlfirst use google to find out the chipset took like 1 minute Atheros 5213 5212 chipset next used google again and found a ansor in 30 secs verry hard you could have done tha…”
10.X Core2009-08-04
6,030 dossier reads
Pavillion A6230n
“you sould try LawlessPPC its the best distro i know for amd pc's”
10.X Core2009-08-05
5,791 dossier reads
Do I need Efi to run 10.5.6 or higher
“If it ain't broke why fix it? Why would you want to up date everything works now. higer versions will give more trouble and you can fake it. simply by text edit in you software version. this will allow you to install software that needs a h…”
Leopard 10.52009-07-28
5,048 dossier reads
No bootable device...
“1. the ichx 9/10 sata drivers? you have a ich7r chipset but that is not your problem or else you would get still waiting for root device 2. you could try download and install Gparted its a good boot manager maybe it will help with your prob…”
10.X Core2009-08-03
4,701 dossier reads
Mac mini logic board
“I always got my boards from ebay. but with just a board to build a custom machine is not easy”
10.X Core2009-08-03
4,511 dossier reads
9600 Kernel Panic on Monitor on/off/resume from standby
“wel what system you have and what kernel are you using?”
10.X Core2009-08-03
4,322 dossier reads
Sleeping problem GA-G31M-S2L
“I know what settings i have to use for my intel board maby it could help You 2 p5w-dh-deluxe-osx86.wik idot.com/bios-settings second there is somthing called the sleep trick for the 3100 have you tryed that?”
10.X Core2009-08-03
3,939 dossier reads
USB port problem
“what kernel are you using?”
10.X Core2009-07-18
5,250 dossier reads