Mac OS X on x86 Hardware 2008–2024 Technical Archive
Member #20,170 · 2009-12-14 → 2010-08-02
#969 by Dispatches #963 by Author Reads #1,650 by Thread Reach Member #20,170 AMD OSx86 ALC889a / Audio NVIDIA GeForce

@deesto

InfiniteMac community contributor with 8 recorded dispatches, 2 lead technical dossiers (11,954 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 242,727 historical readers.

Dispatches 8 Ranked #969 of 6,691
Author Reads 11,954 Ranked #963 · 2 dossiers
Thread Reach 242,727 Ranked #1,650 in reach
Lead Dossiers 2 5,977 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #20,170 Joined 2009-12-14
Active Window 2009–2010 2009-12-14 → 2010-08-02
Archive Standing
#969 of 6,691 by Dispatches (8 notes) · #963 of 3,454 by Author Readership (11,954 reads across 2 dossiers) · #1,650 by Thread Reach (242,727 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #20,170 · Joined 2009-12-14
Hardware & Kernel Topics
AMD OSx86 (4) · ALC889a / Audio (3) · NVIDIA GeForce (3) · DSDT (2) · ATI Radeon (1) · Retail DVD / USB (1)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 2 technical boards

10.X Core
2 (25%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @deesto (2)

11,954 cumulative reads on threads started by @deesto

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
Gigabyte MA725GM onboard support
I've just purchased a new motherboard and graphics card, since I got frustrated with getting my prior equipment working: GIGABYTE GA-MA785GM-US2H LAN: Realtek 8111C Audio: Realtek ALC889A Video: - onboard: ATI Radeon HD 4200 - PCI-E:…
Snow Leopard 10.67,201 reads
2010-01-06 · 10 notes
10.6 install problems
I have a SATA partition running 10.5.8 with an AMD CPU. I'm trying to install 10.6 to an IDE disk using a retail DVD install image, and I'm running into problems. When I copy the retail image to a USB stick, patch it with myHack, and…
Snow Leopard 10.64,753 reads
2009-12-17 · 3 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (6)

Direct links into threads where @deesto contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
AMD Patcher 0.31 available to download
“Thanks for this. I've had quite a bit of trouble running Marvin's AMD patcher (system freezes every time) and I look forward to giving this a try. Is there a way to run this package on the not-currently-active OSX instance? I would like to …”
10.X Core2009-12-15
230,773 dossier reads
AMD Patcher 0.31 available to download
“Thanks for this. I've had quite a bit of trouble running Marvin's AMD patcher (system freezes every time) and I look forward to giving this a try.”
10.X Core2009-12-14
230,773 dossier reads
Gigabyte MA725GM onboard support
“Did you get AppleHDA working with ALC889A on AMD mobo or did you use VoodooHDA ? cynargo: if you're asking me, it was the internal sound that I'd gotten (barely) working. If you're asking Orc900 which one he/she got working, I have no idea.”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-08-02
7,201 dossier reads
Gigabyte MA725GM onboard support
“I have this motherboard and I am running Leopard 10.5.7. I used iAKTOS 7. I have sound and video 1440x900 with additional kext (dont have additional videocard). The network card is working fine (if boot without connection it wont get online…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-07-14
7,201 dossier reads
10.6 install problems
“Thanks for the help so far ... Anyway, I'm getting closer ... with some additional modifications, I now have sound. But modifying the yukon info.plist in ionetworkfamily.kext with my device info didn't help with ethernet. Before, in Profile…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-12-20
4,753 dossier reads
10.6 install problems
“Here's what I've been able to do so far: Wiped out and reformatted the SL partition (IDE disk) From Leopard (SATA partition), ran the DVD installer (not an image, but the actual DVD, which was the only way I could get past the package error…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-12-18
4,753 dossier reads