Mac OS X on x86 Hardware 2008–2024 Technical Archive
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Member #2,447 · 2008-09-07 → 2009-09-01
#375 by Dispatches #495 by Author Reads #2,647 by Thread Reach Member #2,447 NVIDIA GeForce Chameleon / Boot-132 ATI Radeon

@davidcmc

InfiniteMac community contributor with 21 recorded dispatches, 4 lead technical dossiers (22,565 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 64,942 historical readers.

Dispatches 20 Ranked #375 of 6,691
Author Reads 22,565 Ranked #495 · 4 dossiers
Thread Reach 64,942 Ranked #2,647 in reach
Lead Dossiers 4 5,641 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #2,447 Joined 2008-09-07
Active Window 2008–2009 2008-09-07 → 2009-09-01
Archive Standing
#375 of 6,691 by Dispatches (20 notes) · #495 of 3,454 by Author Readership (22,565 reads across 4 dossiers) · #2,647 by Thread Reach (64,942 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #2,447 · Joined 2008-09-07
Hardware & Kernel Topics
NVIDIA GeForce (2) · Chameleon / Boot-132 (1) · ATI Radeon (1) · Voodoo / XNU Kernel (1)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 3 technical boards

Leopard 10.5
12 (60%)
10.X Core
6 (30%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @davidcmc (4)

22,565 cumulative reads on threads started by @davidcmc

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
How to make HD4850 work with Snow Leo installation
I've tried a lot of methods to make Snow Leo installation boot with my HD4850. There are a lot of solutions involving kexts (ATIRDRV.kext, ATINDRV.kext, evoenabler.kext, gfxstring ) but none of them seems to work with Snow Leo…
Snow Leopard 10.69,290 reads
2009-08-31 · 4 notes
Repackage files
Hey. I just downloaded 10.5.4 update from apple website. I can unpack it and patch cpuids. How can I repackage it to install the patched update?
Leopard 10.55,437 reads
2008-09-08 · 18 notes
How do I know if my system supports EFI
How do I know if my system supports EFI?
10.X Core4,846 reads
2008-09-18 · 3 notes
After upgrade to 10.5.4, Leopard always boot with sound muted
Just upgraded to 10.5.4 and I've noticed that everytime Leopard is booted the sound is in mute. If I mark and then unmark the "Mute" option in Sound menu it comes back and works well. How can I make it "unmuted" as default?
Leopard 10.52,992 reads
2008-09-09 · 1 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (16)

Direct links into threads where @davidcmc contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
10.5.4 is out (Works on AMD, use ASU)
“I'm on 10.5.2. Do you know where I can download 10.5.3 pre-patched update? The torrent I've found has only 2 seeds and is downloading sooooooooo slow.”
10.X Core2008-09-13
33,256 dossier reads
10.5.4 is out (Works on AMD, use ASU)
“I've done that, but ASU still can't patch the 10.5.4 package... It says NO CPUID files found.”
10.X Core2008-09-13
33,256 dossier reads
10.5.4 is out (Works on AMD, use ASU)
“@ rogue I've tried to use ASU to patch my MacOSXUpdCombo10.5.4.pkg file but it ALWAYS says that NO CPUID files have been found. It patches Front Row Update with success, however... Am I doing anything wrong?”
10.X Core2008-09-13
33,256 dossier reads
10.5.4 is out (Works on AMD, use ASU)
“Same here. After I got my system recovered, I tried it patch only...It said no patching necessary. No need to rebuild...I then downloaded the update and extracted it into a test directory and ran Marvin's on it and it found lots of CPUIDs a…”
10.X Core2008-09-07
33,256 dossier reads
How to make HD4850 work with Snow Leo installation
“Same happened to me and my GTX 260, I found no solution currently. How did you install Snow Leopard?”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-01
9,290 dossier reads
Can't connect to Windows shares anymore
“Got some other fix for the different problems (the one with the File Sharing not working on the Hackintoth and the one with not connecting to another file share): The Rev.2-install has some problems with file paths of some symbol links. 1. …”
Leopard 10.52008-09-09
9,121 dossier reads
Repackage files
“I've managed to update my system. Here's what I did: Extracted MacOSXUpdCombo10.5.4.pkg (using Pacifist) Patched and decrypted all files Deleted these files (from the extracted files): - mach_kernel - mach_kernel.ctfsys - System.kext - IONe…”
Leopard 10.52008-09-09
5,437 dossier reads
Repackage files
“I'm doing that. Firstly must extract the .pkg content and patch it. Then I must rebuild the package. Right?”
Leopard 10.52008-09-08
5,437 dossier reads
Repackage files
“16:15:56 Downloading updates list ... 16:17:10 Updates list downloaded. 16:17:39 Preparing download ... 16:18:38 /private/var/folders/Rl/RlNpIvVBFKeOfbRBY3PSwE+++TI/-Caches-/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate/swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/37/52/0…”
Leopard 10.52008-09-08
5,437 dossier reads
Repackage files
“I've followed the instructions in that link but ASU simply doesn't detects cpuids in my MacOSXUpdCombo10.5.4.pkg. Maybe because it doesn't have the option "Show package contents" on right-click and ASU can't read it? Don't know...”
Leopard 10.52008-09-08
5,437 dossier reads
Repackage files
“Ok, just figured out how to make ASU patch .pkg files in my HD. I don't know why, but ASU just can't patch MacOSXUpdCombo10.5.4.pkg. Tried downloading FrontRow update and it patched successfuly, but somehow it doesn't detects cpuids in the …”
Leopard 10.52008-09-08
5,437 dossier reads
Repackage files
“Can you tell me what files I should delete before repack? I'd really like to use ASU but it's downloading so damn slow here...”
Leopard 10.52008-09-08
5,437 dossier reads
Repackage files
“I'm puzzled, you said in your first post you had unpacked it? : Btw, can I ask why you aren't just using Zeph's ASU to download and patch? It'll make your life alot easier. Just noticed that the option "Show package contents" is not showing…”
Leopard 10.52008-09-08
5,437 dossier reads
Repackage files
“Ok, Packagemaker is working, but I can't get into MacOSXUpdCombo10.5.4.pkg package contents... Anyone know what to do?”
Leopard 10.52008-09-08
5,437 dossier reads
Repackage files
“I was looking for it. Do I really have to download that 1Gb Xcode tools?”
Leopard 10.52008-09-08
5,437 dossier reads
How do I know if my system supports EFI
“I asked that because recently I tried to install leo4all v4.1 in my system and it didn't boot after install, gave me the error message "IOPCIDEVICE blocking blah blah bus..." reappearing every 3 seconds Leo4allv2 works fine here”
10.X Core2008-09-18
4,846 dossier reads