Mac OS X on x86 Hardware 2008–2024 Technical Archive
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Member #2,197 · 2008-06-19 → 2011-03-29
#116 by Dispatches #494 by Author Reads #312 by Thread Reach Member #2,197 📍 Hungary AMD OSx86 Chameleon / Boot-132 Retail DVD / USB

@diskeeper

InfiniteMac community contributor with 64 recorded dispatches, 1 lead technical dossiers (22,570 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 1,623,275 historical readers.

Dispatches 63 Ranked #116 of 6,691
Author Reads 22,570 Ranked #494 · 1 dossiers
Thread Reach 1,623,275 Ranked #312 in reach
Lead Dossiers 1 22,570 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #2,197 Joined 2008-06-08
Active Window 2008–2011 2008-06-19 → 2011-03-29
Preserved Forum Signature & OSx86 Rig
APPLEMac OS X 10.7.2 11C40 - Vanilla kernelAPPLE
APPLEGigabyte GA-P43T-ES3G - Intel Q8300 - 4 GB Geil DDRIII 1333MHzAPPLE
EVGA GeForce GTX 460 SC 1024 MB - Linksys WMP54GS PCI
Archive Standing
#116 of 6,691 by Dispatches (63 notes) · #494 of 3,454 by Author Readership (22,570 reads across 1 dossiers) · #312 by Thread Reach (1,623,275 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #2,197 · Joined 2008-06-08
Location
Hungary
Hardware & Kernel Topics
AMD OSx86 (9) · Chameleon / Boot-132 (5) · Retail DVD / USB (5) · Voodoo / XNU Kernel (4) · DSDT (1)
Frequent Thread Collaborators
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 6 technical boards

10.X Core
33 (52%)
Leopard 10.5
14 (22%)
General
3 (5%)
International
3 (5%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @diskeeper (1)

22,570 cumulative reads on threads started by @diskeeper

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
Chameleon v2.0 RC 3 with Snow Leopard & Large Disk Support
This RC3 build is a small update to RC2, but we’re providing the long-awaited proper Snow Leopard extensions loading and a few fixes like 1TB+ disk addressing support. There are also some changes have been made to the graphics enabler and…
Snow Leopard 10.622,570 reads
2009-09-07 · 14 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (40)

Direct links into threads where @diskeeper contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Snow Leopard 10A432 Install
“Run Marvin's Utility like in the picture: When finished go to desktop AMD.Patch.Folder, the current date folder, and copy patches folder to the root of Snow drive: Reboot and boot with -s and type this: And here is the Front Row.app fix Cop…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-27
694,068 dossier reads
Kernel Panic - 10A432 - AMD
“With test7 kernel I can use all 4 cores. With the 432 kernel I can use only 1 core.”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-21
166,396 dossier reads
10.6.6 legacy kernel for INTEL/AMD 32+64bit ready to download
“Yes, I have random graphic problem in 10.6.7 with nawcom 10.7.0 kernel. The console log: The screen flashing, and the GUI not responding.”
10.X Core2011-03-29
109,368 dossier reads
AnV XNU 9.7.0 V1.5
“Do you solve the boot issue? How did you do that?”
10.X Core2009-07-08
65,248 dossier reads
AnV XNU 9.7.0 V1.5
“Same here maya77. Boot stopped on "using 16384 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers". The next line should be ACPI?”
10.X Core2009-07-03
65,248 dossier reads
Legacy kernel 10.4.0 updated
“Hey Andy! Thanks for your work! Installed your updated kernel and VmWare Fusion stopped working. With the 10.4.0 rel 4 kernel everything good.”
10.X Core2010-09-18
61,378 dossier reads
XBench Results
“Results 168.86 Xbench Version 1.3 System Version 10.5.5 (9F33) Physical RAM 4096 MB Model MacPro3,1 Drive Type SAMSUNG SP2504C CPU Test 125.54 GCD Loop 175.31 9.24 Mops/sec Floating Point Basic 121.24 2.88 Gflop/sec vecLib FFT 85.81 2.83 Gf…”
10.X Core2008-12-31
45,246 dossier reads
XBench Results
“Results 174.84 Xbench Version 1.3 System Version 10.5.6 (9G55) Physical RAM 4096 MB Model MacPro3,1 Drive Type SAMSUNG SP2504C CPU Test 126.41 GCD Loop 174.92 9.22 Mops/sec Floating Point Basic 121.97 2.90 Gflop/sec vecLib FFT 86.60 2.86 Gf…”
10.X Core2008-12-31
45,246 dossier reads
ATY_Init.kext for Nvidia gf 8400gs 512mb pci-e
“The last probe... Install these 4 kext with kext helper!”
Leopard 10.52009-07-11
42,000 dossier reads
ATY_Init.kext for Nvidia gf 8400gs 512mb pci-e
“Sorry, I forgot the first link: Read this: and try this”
Leopard 10.52009-07-10
42,000 dossier reads
ATY_Init.kext for Nvidia gf 8400gs 512mb pci-e
“Read this... & Delete the Aty_init.kext, and try this”
Leopard 10.52009-07-10
42,000 dossier reads
ATY_Init.kext for Nvidia gf 8400gs 512mb pci-e
“Please add more information for me. Machine specs, distro, version number.”
Leopard 10.52009-07-10
42,000 dossier reads
ATY_Init.kext for Nvidia gf 8400gs 512mb pci-e
“Go to Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/ copy the com.apple.Boot.plist to Your desktop. Open with text edit. Remove these 2 lines: Save the file, then copy back to original folder. If You use Chameleon 2, this file is located in the L…”
Leopard 10.52009-07-10
42,000 dossier reads
ATY_Init.kext for Nvidia gf 8400gs 512mb pci-e
“Delete the Video card EFI string from com.apple.Boot.plist.”
Leopard 10.52009-07-10
42,000 dossier reads
Qoopz AnV xnu 10.4.0 Rel4
“I have a small problem with some .mov and .mp4 files. The QuickLookHelper is quitting.”
10.X Core2010-08-28
41,686 dossier reads
Qoopz AnV xnu 10.4.0 Rel4
“Mine seems to be normal: 32-bit Geekbench on 32-bit Snow: 32-bit Geekbench on 64-bit Snow: 64-bit Geekbench on 64-bit Snow:”
10.X Core2010-08-26
41,686 dossier reads
AnVAL (ACPI Loader)
“Ok, I renamed the Extra folder, installed the RC5 which created a new Extra folder. Copied my 4 kext to the new Extra folder, copied the Themes from the RC5 DMG file. Started Kext Utility. I do not have DSDT. Reboot and the result is the sa…”
10.X Core2011-01-27
39,980 dossier reads
AnVAL (ACPI Loader)
“I have a retail install with these kexts: AppleUpstreamUserClientDisabler.kext AppleVIAATA.kext fakesmc.kext IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector.kext All in the Extra folder No NullCPUPowerManagement.kext or OpenHaltRestart.kext or SleepEnabler.kext”
10.X Core2011-01-27
39,980 dossier reads
AnVAL (ACPI Loader)
“So, i tried the RC5 693 installer, rebooted and resulted the same ACPI KP... BTW, thank You for your time and patience. I wait for the official RC5 that maybe works, and I'll be back here”
10.X Core2011-01-27
39,980 dossier reads
AnVAL (ACPI Loader)
“Ok, but when I installed 5.0.9, 5.1.1, 5.1.2, 5.1.3, not only replaced the boot file, installed boot0 and boot1h from your package”
10.X Core2011-01-27
39,980 dossier reads
AnVAL (ACPI Loader)
“I tried 5.0.9, 5.1.1, 5.1.2, 5.1.3, 5.1.4 and alpha1, none of them worked for me and I don't use those flags, i run SL in 32-bit and all 4 CPU cores work.”
10.X Core2011-01-27
39,980 dossier reads
AnVAL (ACPI Loader)
“Update: Ok, I removed the -pci0 flag, but nothing changed.”
10.X Core2011-01-27
39,980 dossier reads
AnVAL (ACPI Loader)
“I tried 3 times a normal boot, 3 times boot with -f and 2 times boot with -v -f. All ended up with the same AppleACPIPlatform KP.”
10.X Core2011-01-26
39,980 dossier reads
AnVAL (ACPI Loader)
“Ok, here is the results: alpha1 = same as before 5.1.2 = worked but kernel panic...”
10.X Core2011-01-26
39,980 dossier reads
AnVAL (ACPI Loader)
“hum I tried your 5.1.3 fixed but it doesn't boot for me, its just stuck at a black screen showing something like "/", I guess I'm the only one experiencing this? Same problem here... no boot-loader's gui ? Yep, no bootloader gui”
10.X Core2011-01-17
39,980 dossier reads
10.5.4 is out (Works on AMD, use ASU)
“Updated my Phenom system with ASU 0.5. Working...”
10.X Core2008-06-30
33,256 dossier reads
Slow Hard Drive access on Snow
“This is only cosmetics, not necessary. Mine is the same: unknown, but working.”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-27
27,093 dossier reads
Slow Hard Drive access on Snow
“@hubba: Try to remove AHCIPortInjector, ATAPortInjector, JMicronATAInjector. Use only the IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector.”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-26
27,093 dossier reads
9.8.0 Kernel
“And here is the Qoopz 9.8.0 v2 based on Voodoo kernel. Compatible with Intel/Amd/i7 Download”
10.X Core2009-08-11
25,283 dossier reads
Kernel Panic on Acer Aspire One with Voodoo 1.0
“You're not using 10.5.5, your version on the pic is 9G55 which is 10.5.6. Please check the Rosetta. Type in terminal:”
10.X Core2008-12-29
14,289 dossier reads
Snow Leopard First Impressions
“most impressive fact was all i needed to boot a retail was kernel and fakemc.kext Same here + AppleYukon2Injector.kext for Onboard network controller + IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector.kext.”
10.X Core2010-01-12
12,988 dossier reads
Terminal Commands for Hidden Settings (Leo+SL)
“QUICKLOOK SNOW LEOPARD To set any of these, go to terminal and enter in the code for whichever preference you want to set. Remember, to reset the setting to its default value, just change the "1" at the end to a "0" (or vice versa). Restart…”
International2009-10-03
10,242 dossier reads
Terminal Commands for Hidden Settings (Leo+SL)
“New list view (only 10.6) Deny Snow Leopard Stack Highlight”
International2009-09-28
10,242 dossier reads
Terminal Commands for Hidden Settings (Leo+SL)
“Force the Dock to only show running applications Use FALSE at the end to disable.”
International2009-09-27
10,242 dossier reads
Help -- Retail Install via Boot-132 for AMD
“Try the another method! Intel Leopard Retail Install w/out...”
10.X Core2009-08-09
9,740 dossier reads
Intel Leopard Retail Install w/out...
“Yes, working on AMD, I used the same way to install Retail on my config. The only one difference is replacing the mach_kernel to a compatible version before reboot.”
10.X Core2009-06-01
8,890 dossier reads
Volume Icon
“Sorry, i forgot that, yeah use safe mode or boot another install if exist. There is something wrong with the built in decrypter in the Voodoo kernel, this is a decrypted file from 10.5.6 Retail with Marvin's AMD Utility.”
Leopard 10.52009-03-12
8,397 dossier reads
Volume Icon
“I installed the newest version of iPC Leopard (the DL one). Everything is working smoothly so far except there is one minor bug I have encountered. The Volume icon in the menu is missing. I checked in Sound under Preferences and it does sho…”
Leopard 10.52009-03-11
8,397 dossier reads
Snow Leopard 10A432 Install
“And how You fixed iTunes?”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-22
694,068 dossier reads
Kernel Panic - 10A432 - AMD
“Get it on IRC. irc.osx86.hu room: snowleopard”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-21
166,396 dossier reads