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@crawle
InfiniteMac community contributor with 246 recorded dispatches, 12 lead technical dossiers (87,346 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 850,051 historical readers.
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#60
Joined 2008-01-09
Active Window
2008
2008-01-09 → 2008-10-05
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
I just selected the newer ToH-Kernel, MBR-EFI bootloader, NVidia drivers and AC97-Audio. Install went fast (about 20min) and my specs are:
I got it work with a lot of flags and choose my Tiger partition to load. So it worked for me. · Now my "kext"-question: Does anyone know, how to get Dual Monitor work on my GeForce 6600 GT ? · Actually I can only use my VGA-Screen. DVI doesn't work.
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- #31 of 6,691 by Dispatches (236 notes) · #118 of 3,454 by Author Readership (87,346 reads across 12 dossiers) · #718 by Thread Reach (850,051 cumulative reads)
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- Member #60 · Joined 2008-01-09
- Hardware & Kernel Topics
- NVIDIA GeForce (21) · AMD OSx86 (15) · AHCI / SATA (1) · Voodoo / XNU Kernel (1) · Retail DVD / USB (1)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection
Distribution across 6 technical boards
Lead Dossiers Authored by @crawle (12)
87,346 cumulative reads on threads started by @crawle
| Dossier Title & Summary | Collection | Readership |
|---|---|---|
| Leopard installed, but hanging in the Startup-Assistant ## Automatic notice to thread opener: If you post this kind of message into the News Category again, your Account will be disabled Hey guys, For two weeks I was trying this stuff, and NOW it worked - a little bit: I installed Leopard by… | Leopard 10.5 | 23,784 reads 2008-01-26 · 27 notes |
| Sleep on AMD - report your experience I know, it's a well discussed topic, but it always ends with "Hey, we're AMD, not Intel". I think that's no reason to capitulate, so let's start collecting information about sleep on AMD. I think it's not only up to the processor, but to… | Leopard 10.5 | 10,079 reads 2008-05-02 · 49 notes |
| NVidia GeForce 6600GT PCI-E - Dual Monitor support I think, I'll make a new discussion for this, 'cause it's very important for me. I've got Zeph's Leopard working and a GeForce 6600GT. Following situation: Two monitors: Benq 19" plugged in by VGA + LG 20" plugged in by DVI 1st situation:… | Software & Kexts | 9,594 reads 2008-01-29 · 7 notes |
| How to inject kexts into Leopard with/on Windows I found many instructions to inject kexts into the Leopard DVD-Image, but I haven't installed Leopard yet, because my hd doesn't run (I have a VIA-Chipset - not supported in Rev 1). So how can I inject the VIA-Kext in my image? I've got… | Software & Kexts | 9,020 reads 2008-01-09 · 22 notes |
| Boot Camp on AMD without EFI I heard, that Boot Camp is only a Boot Manager for Mac OS X. So I wondered, if there isn't a method to install Boot Camp on an Zeph-AMD-OSX - but without EFI. I have following hard disk structure: {First Hard Disk} - 400GB, ATA, disk0 --… | Software & Kexts | 5,929 reads 2008-01-30 · 16 notes |
| Boot works only sometimes (randomly) I've got a very, very strange problem. I had it in my old JaS Tiger to. I'll describe it: When I boot, it appears my Windows Bootloader. I select "OSX86" and the Darwin Bootloader appears. I click double-enter (for start without any… | Leopard 10.5 | 5,193 reads 2008-02-02 · 14 notes |
| Curious problem with QE/CI for GeForce 6600 GT Today I decided to upgrade to 10.5.3, so I downloaded the installer with ASU (newest version) and it patched the package succesfully. After that I installed it on my "Test-Partition". I restarted and installed the new (amd-patched) Kernel.… | Leopard 10.5 | 5,023 reads 2008-06-23 · 4 notes |
| Alternative for my hardware specs I started looking through this OSX86-Stuff, but I finally don't know, what's really best version for me and my PC. I've already tried the (great, great, great!) Zephyroth-Version, but aa unknown kernel panic occurred (we discussed about it… | 10.X Core | 4,893 reads 2008-01-18 · 6 notes |
| Adding OSx86 to Windows Bootloader (GUID) after reinstalling OSx86 on my second harddrive with GUID I wanted to add OSx86 (Zeph's Leo 10.5.2 Rev1) to my Windows Bootloader again. But I couldn't get it work with the chain0 file. It says "chain0 error". I think its up to the fact,… | Leopard 10.5 | 4,857 reads 2008-03-24 · 18 notes |
| How to add a volume to bootloader ## Automatic notice to thread opener: If you post this kind of message into the News Category again, your Account will be disabled Hey guys, short and precisely: How can I add a volume from another HDD to the Darwin Bootloader? Or is there… | Leopard 10.5 | 3,469 reads 2008-01-27 · 8 notes |
| EyeTV is crashing on start with Hauppauge HVR 900 strange problem: every time I install(ed) OSx86 and EyeTV3, at first EyeTV worked perfectly with my Hauppauge HVR 900 stick. But after a while and editing some kexts (especially the video drivers) EyeTV started crashing at start. Because I… | Software & Kexts | 3,314 reads 2008-03-11 · 7 notes |
| Graphic problems after 10.5.3/10.5.4 (?) in the last weeks I updated my system two times, 10.5.2 to 10.5.3 and 10.5.3 to 10.5.4. It seemed to be working at all, but now, after a few weeks of working and playing (games) on the updated system, I see many graphical problems. For… | Leopard 10.5 | 2,191 reads 2008-07-20 · 3 notes |
Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (40)
Direct links into threads where @crawle contributed solutions & commentary
| Thread & Dispatch Excerpt | Collection | Date & Reach |
|---|---|---|
| XBench Scores “I think, I've got the worst results Though my Hackintosh works like a dream, trust me. -crawle” | 10.X Core | 2008-02-10 104,353 dossier reads |
| XBench Scores “OS: Leopard 10.5.1 by Zephyroth on MBR without EFI Board: EPOX 9HEAI Rev. 3 with VIA Chipset CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice RAM: 2GB DDR SDRAM (4x 512MB @ 200Mhz) Graphics: NVidia GeForce 6600 GT HD: Samsung 400GB (ide1) + Seagate 140GB (i…” | 10.X Core | 2008-02-09 104,353 dossier reads |
| Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB) “Please excuse me guys, if this was already mentioned here, but I can't read 30 pages at once I found following "bugs": - Some language files are missing for new features like list stacks. I've got the german languagepacks installed, but on …” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-02-22 74,206 dossier reads |
| Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB) “I just selected the newer ToH-Kernel, MBR-EFI bootloader, NVidia drivers and AC97-Audio. Install went fast (about 20min) and my specs are: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ NVidia Geforce 6600GT VIA Chipset 400GB ATA IDE 160GB ATA IDE ...” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-02-17 74,206 dossier reads |
| 'About this Mac' Graphics “Nice graphic I think it's made by yourself, isn't it? -crawle BTW: We've got the same processor type A3200 forever!” | Software & Kexts | 2008-01-29 53,545 dossier reads |
| Bootloader with 2 HDDs “What about Boot Camp? I'm serious! On EFI with GUID should it work, shouldn't it?” | 10.X Core | 2008-02-09 44,101 dossier reads |
| Bootloader with 2 HDDs “@xan: I don't know if it works with GUID/EFI. Doesn't seem so. I'm sorry. With MBR that would be all... -crawle” | 10.X Core | 2008-02-08 44,101 dossier reads |
| Bootloader with 2 HDDs “Or you copy the chain0 file from your Leopard System to the root of your Windows partition. Now add C:/chain0=Leopard to your Win-Bootloader. (only on XP) P.s.: Select in BIOS the HDD priority to the Windows' one ...” | 10.X Core | 2008-02-07 44,101 dossier reads |
| Member Nationalities “Greetings to FoneBone (Berlin rocks!) and xlslx (Germany though, too)” | General | 2008-02-10 41,477 dossier reads |
| Member Nationalities “@7eventh: Yeah! Berlin rocks! (I'm from there, too)” | General | 2008-01-25 41,477 dossier reads |
| Member Nationalities “Ok guys, let's continue the thread with YOUR ACTUALLY TIME! In Germany, it is now 12:39 - so what time is now in your country? I think it's interesting, because in this moment, a lot of members are online... =)” | General | 2008-01-13 41,477 dossier reads |
| Member Nationalities “Oh my god, me, too. Ok, Jack: We'll become friends! (arrange it to him)” | General | 2008-01-13 41,477 dossier reads |
| Member Nationalities “Muahahaha, "Jack". Sure you are from Germany? I thought here dogs have to be named like "Fiffi" or something else Stuff it, greetings to Jack” | General | 2008-01-12 41,477 dossier reads |
| Member Nationalities “[City], [Country] - [time] So, still Berlin, Germany and it's 3:22 PM (15:22) ... now you!” | General | 2008-01-12 41,477 dossier reads |
| Member Nationalities “Germany, Chicago/USA, Netherlands, Wales/UK, France, Spain, Canada, Portugal, Russia, Poland, Romania, Brazil, Italy, Georgia/USA, Boston/USA, Australia, Florida/USA, Venezuela, Belgium, Montenegro, Mexico Not bad. Hey, let's found a new pl…” | General | 2008-01-12 41,477 dossier reads |
| Member Nationalities “"Grüße" (greetings) to naquaada, Puttabong and creative_ I'm from Berlin, Germany” | General | 2008-01-10 41,477 dossier reads |
| Desktop Thread “how can I get something like CPU load and Network Up- and Downspeed upon my bar? (where the watch is etc.) I saw it on many desktop pictures ... -crawle” | Software & Kexts | 2008-02-02 37,712 dossier reads |
| Beginners: Ask here first “Start with -v flag and make a photo of your kernel panic. -crawle” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-03 37,386 dossier reads |
| Beginners: Ask here first “@bacardi: for some chipsets, it IS possible. But in most cases (as far as I know) you have to inject a kext for your chipset into the dvd/image. You can do this with transmac. Have a look here: 3rd Party Drivers - OSx86 . copy the .kext int…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-02-17 37,386 dossier reads |
| Beginners: Ask here first “I think, when injecting kexts with XP (transmac) permissions doesn't matter. Maybe you should inject a kext for your chipset to be sure, that SATA'll work. Did you try it without any changes to your image/DVD? P.s.: Use DVD-RW, so you won't…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-02-10 37,386 dossier reads |
| Rev.2 Beta 2 Test Reports “Okay, I've tested it. It works, but at mine only one monitor. Like before.” | 10.X Core | 2008-01-29 36,277 dossier reads |
| Rev.2 Beta 2 Test Reports “Does this nVidia kext work on my Zeph Leopard? Maybe with it I can get my dual monitor work. -crawle” | 10.X Core | 2008-01-29 36,277 dossier reads |
| Zephyroth Leopard 10.5.1 AMD - Rev. 2 - Discussion Thread “My HDD slides up and down in my pc, 'cause I had to bring it one track up (cable to short) and there are no fitting holes for fixing the HDD.” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-01-13 30,877 dossier reads |
| Zephyroth Leopard 10.5.1 AMD - Rev. 2 - Discussion Thread “Hey Skyper. I don't know really, what your problem is, but try following: - plug the DVD-Rom and the HDD about one cable into the IDE or SATA port - set the HDD to Master (by setting the jumper on your HDD) and the DVD-Rom to Slave (by sett…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-01-13 30,877 dossier reads |
| Zephyroth Leopard 10.5.1 AMD - Rev. 2 - Discussion Thread “I'm looking forward to Rev. 2 and I have a little question about it: I've got a kernel panic, something like this: Panic (cpu 0 caller 0x0036DAC7):"Process 1 exec of /sbin/launchd failed, errno 88\n"@/volumes/disk1s2/leo_xnu-1228/bsd/kern/k…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-01-13 30,877 dossier reads |
| Leopard installed, but hanging in the Startup-Assistant “I used "cpus=1 -f -x". Then, I used the "Already have and import from another volume"-Option. And it worked!” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-01-30 23,784 dossier reads |
| Leopard installed, but hanging in the Startup-Assistant “I got it work with a lot of flags and choose my Tiger partition to load. So it worked for me. Now my "kext"-question: Does anyone know, how to get Dual Monitor work on my GeForce 6600 GT ? Actually I can only use my VGA-Screen. DVI doesn't …” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-01-26 23,784 dossier reads |
| Leopard installed, but hanging in the Startup-Assistant “Okay. I'll try to. Thanks a lot, DoiX. I'll answer here, when the installation was finished and EFI installed. -crawle” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-01-26 23,784 dossier reads |
| Leopard installed, but hanging in the Startup-Assistant “Sorry, I don't know if it hang - I wasn't there. Not special exciting I think it's Rev 1 ... this torrent: edit by pb : POSTING links of this kind is not allowed and causes a ban, so please don't post them! edit by me : Alright, I'm sorry. …” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-01-26 23,784 dossier reads |
| Leopard installed, but hanging in the Startup-Assistant “I can't boot leo at all. By the way is my PC sometimes just rebooting after loading kexts. But when he passes this, he's hanging at BSD Root. AMD Athlon 64 3200 Venice (SSE3) GeForce 6600GT Epox Mainboard with VIA-Chipset First HD: Leopard …” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-01-26 23,784 dossier reads |
| Leopard installed, but hanging in the Startup-Assistant “Ok, tried again. But same hang at BSD Root. (see screenshot above) Any solutions? Thanks, -crawle” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-01-26 23,784 dossier reads |
| Leopard installed, but hanging in the Startup-Assistant “Ok, I'll wait. Make a cup of coffe and wait ... P.s.: I tried already with Graphics Mode P.p.s.: Who's irritating who? (EDIT: Ok, nobody ^^)” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-01-26 23,784 dossier reads |
| Leopard installed, but hanging in the Startup-Assistant “Oh thanks DoiX. I'll try this. But after reboot my PC, I can't even start Leopard anymore. The result on bootup, is this screen:” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-01-26 23,784 dossier reads |
| Dual Boot VISTA/LEOPARD, same HD over GUID+EFI V8 “Oh, it's a pitty. So is there no way to install Leopard?” | 10.X Core | 2008-01-26 22,155 dossier reads |
| Dual Boot VISTA/LEOPARD, same HD over GUID+EFI V8 “Alright. It worked. So I rebooted ... and ... "System config file 'com.apple.Boot.plist' not found. ... Any idea?” | 10.X Core | 2008-01-26 22,155 dossier reads |
| Dual Boot VISTA/LEOPARD, same HD over GUID+EFI V8 “BTW: just "unmount -f ..." doesn't work. Only "diskutil unmount" works, but without the flag.” | 10.X Core | 2008-01-26 22,155 dossier reads |
| Dual Boot VISTA/LEOPARD, same HD over GUID+EFI V8 “So what should I do first? I think, I didn't understand you right, excuse me.” | 10.X Core | 2008-01-26 22,155 dossier reads |
| Dual Boot VISTA/LEOPARD, same HD over GUID+EFI V8 “A little question: I couldn't use the "unmount"ing when installing EFI (unknown function or similiar), so I skipped it. I can't execute the last command: dd if=./guid/boot0 of=/dev/disk0 bs=400 count=1 It says: Ressource busy -crawle” | 10.X Core | 2008-01-26 22,155 dossier reads |
| osx hp dv series “Can't answer your question, but do you know punctation marks? Like ".", ",", "!", ";" and "?"? Maybe this will help to structure your sentences better ... Thanks Aquilosx! -crawle” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-05 21,928 dossier reads |
| Leopard SATA HDD not found “Now, I'll burn the image and try to install Leopard. LEOPARD WILL BE MINE! Muahahahaha” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-01-12 17,244 dossier reads |