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@farcaller
InfiniteMac community contributor with 67 recorded dispatches, 4 lead technical dossiers (145,686 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 495,754 historical readers.
Dispatches
67
Ranked #107 of 6,691
Author Reads
145,686
Ranked #72 · 4 dossiers
Thread Reach
495,754
Ranked #1,096 in reach
Lead Dossiers
4
36,422 avg reads / dossier
Member Number
#1,599
Joined 2008-03-05
Active Window
2008
2008-03-06 → 2008-05-12
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
CPU: AMD Turion64 X2 TL-52 (two cores, 1.6GHz) · M/B: F3TSeries, NForce4-based · RAM: 2Gb, DDR2 333MHz · GPU: Nvidia GeFroceGo 7600 (256Mb) · HDD: SATA Hitachi 200Gb · DVD-RW: TSSTcorp · Audio Codec: Realtek ALC660-VD (HDA) · BT: BT-183 Bluetooth 2.0+EDR adapter · WiFi: Atheros AG5006EG
- Archive Standing
- #107 of 6,691 by Dispatches (67 notes) · #72 of 3,454 by Author Readership (145,686 reads across 4 dossiers) · #1,096 by Thread Reach (495,754 cumulative reads)
- InfiniteMac ID
- Member #1,599 · Joined 2008-03-05
- Hardware & Kernel Topics
- NVIDIA GeForce (12) · AMD OSx86 (8) · ATI Radeon (1) · ALC889a / Audio (1)
- Frequent Thread Collaborators
- @WinLinMac01 (17) @bhast2 (8) @Puttabong (8) @Ianxxx (7) @R0GUE (6) @DoiX (6) @naquaada (6) @StealthMode (4) @pαuℓzurrr. (4) @roisoft (4) @xx66stangxx (4) @Voyn1x (3) @mrburns05 (3) @zephyroth (3)
Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection
Distribution across 4 technical boards
Lead Dossiers Authored by @farcaller (4)
145,686 cumulative reads on threads started by @farcaller
| Dossier Title & Summary | Collection | Readership |
|---|---|---|
| AMD Dual Core Timing Issue AKA Mouse Bug After some time in MacOS mouse stops to move as it should be. The cursor is being moved on a very small distance with significant delay. One time this was fixed on its own but mostly I have to spawn iterm with spotlight and reboot. Applies… | Leopard 10.5 | 134,652 reads 2008-03-16 · 468 notes |
| Doesn't boot when AC power is not attached When I boot my notebook from battery OX boots to login screen (as usual), but as soon as I type my password and press enter the screen does not change anymore (i.e. its still on login window). Still, OSX seem to boot, I can toy with my dvd… | Leopard 10.5 | 3,999 reads 2008-05-04 · 4 notes |
| Sound distorted I've got some Realtek (688 IIRC) sitting on Intel HDA. It was working ok in Tiger (geez, I want my Tiger back!), however it works awfully in Leopard. The system sounds are very distorted, and listening to iTunes is completey impossible at… | 10.X Core | 3,623 reads 2008-03-17 · 4 notes |
| CPU frequency downscale Is there any way to downscale AMD CPU frequency? I've got Turion64 X2 working at 1600MHz (also capable of 800MHz clock). Top speed makes it rather hot resulting in fan always on and quick battery drain. If someone knows some place where I… | 10.X Core | 3,412 reads 2008-03-06 · 2 notes |
Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (40)
Direct links into threads where @farcaller contributed solutions & commentary
| Thread & Dispatch Excerpt | Collection | Date & Reach |
|---|---|---|
| AMD Dual Core Timing Issue AKA Mouse Bug “idlehalt seem to do the trick. but the problem is that my CPU fan is controlled by OSX and it doesn't want to speed up, so I gave up with this idea. Will try with single-core boot.” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-04-04 134,652 dossier reads |
| AMD Dual Core Timing Issue AKA Mouse Bug “New "feature" of the mouse bug. I've got QE/CI working and now when the bug appears not only the mouse behaves slowly, but it's very hard to type anything on keyboard too - all UI seems to be frozen” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-17 134,652 dossier reads |
| AMD Dual Core Timing Issue AKA Mouse Bug “[cite] Ianxxx:But that's like asking how could cpus=1 fix a networking problem. lol. However I can find an answer to this one” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-17 134,652 dossier reads |
| AMD Dual Core Timing Issue AKA Mouse Bug “Can someone please tell me how could hardware problem (timings) be magically fixed by just re-spawning a bunch of processes?..” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-17 134,652 dossier reads |
| AMD Dual Core Timing Issue AKA Mouse Bug “[cite] WinLinMac01:try reloading the kext and see what happens. sometimes this happens when the kexts go corrupt. which one?” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-17 134,652 dossier reads |
| AMD Dual Core Timing Issue AKA Mouse Bug “@lanxxx don't have firefox installed yet (I like safari ), but I'll give it a go” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-17 134,652 dossier reads |
| AMD Dual Core Timing Issue AKA Mouse Bug “hmph. Got macports and pstree. Seems that WindowServer is not spawning anything on its own (I could guess that). Ok, the only way to find the bad guy is one-by-one shotoff” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-17 134,652 dossier reads |
| AMD Dual Core Timing Issue AKA Mouse Bug “[cite] agrafuese:farcaller, i believe you have the same problem that i and numerous others are experiencing. Next time you'll catch this one log the state of WindowServer process ('ps aux' in console), something like: _windowserver 555 1.5 …” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-17 134,652 dossier reads |
| AMD Dual Core Timing Issue AKA Mouse Bug “as I've said earlier - there's no way for me to modify RAM timings. I wonder if this could be connected with absense of QE/CI (still I have to choose - QE/CI or menus. I do like menus).” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-16 134,652 dossier reads |
| AMD Dual Core Timing Issue AKA Mouse Bug “can you please say, how *this* could be connected with memory timings? I'm running 333MHz clock (DDR2), no overclocking etc. BTW, my BIOS doesn't allow memory underclocking.” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-16 134,652 dossier reads |
| AMD Dual Core Timing Issue AKA Mouse Bug “as I've already said, this applies to all mice at the same time (PS/2 touchpad, USB mouse, BT mouse). I've tried to turn BT on/off (thus "restarting" BT mouse) but that didn't help.” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-16 134,652 dossier reads |
| HCL OSx86 AMD 10.5.2 Revision 2 “CPU: AMD Turion64 X2 TL-52 (two cores, 1.6GHz) M/B: F3TSeries, NForce4-based RAM: 2Gb, DDR2 333MHz GPU: Nvidia GeFroceGo 7600 (256Mb) HDD: SATA Hitachi 200Gb DVD-RW: TSSTcorp Audio Codec: Realtek ALC660-VD (HDA) BT: BT-183 Bluetooth 2.0+EDR…” | 10.X Core | 2008-03-24 82,426 dossier reads |
| Beginners: Ask here first “After some more googling I've found "leo vid kexts" archive. that kexts do work (QE is working), but there are lots of rendering bugs (menus don't render until the last moment when I close them, dashboard rendering still buggy). I've got Op…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-08 37,386 dossier reads |
| Beginners: Ask here first “GFX string didn't help. And I've already tried that patches.zip resulting in kernel panic” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-08 37,386 dossier reads |
| Beginners: Ask here first “I've tried to fix IDs in GeForce.kext, NVADResman.kext, NVinject and HAL40 one, that got me to native resolution, but still no QE.” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-08 37,386 dossier reads |
| Beginners: Ask here first “Can't get my geforce 7600 go to work. I've installed macos from 10.5.2 amd efi dvd (with bundled nvidia update and nvinject go). That resulted in 1024x768 resolution (native is 1280x800) and no QE. Fixing permissions on /S/L/E got me to nat…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-08 37,386 dossier reads |
| Zephyroth Uploading 10.5.2 Revision 2 (Latest Release), Discuss Here “[cite] bubble_gum:[cite] farcaller:Shared on TPB 1 seed... it will be downloading for 3 months I hope to see somebody who has got the iso over nntp to join me.” | 10.X Core | 2008-03-12 20,157 dossier reads |
| Zephyroth Uploading 10.5.2 Revision 2 (Latest Release), Discuss Here “Shared on TPB: tiny url.com/3d7zfv Please join seeding, I have gray IP for half of the day” | 10.X Core | 2008-03-12 20,157 dossier reads |
| Zephyroth Uploading 10.5.2 Revision 2 (Latest Release), Discuss Here “Good points: - my GFGo7600 works in native resolution out of the box Bad points: - QE does not work :'( - permissions on ext2fs kext are wrong - killed GRUB in MBR (or that was rev1 bug in fact, preventing it from modifying MBR?..) Thanks f…” | 10.X Core | 2008-03-11 20,157 dossier reads |
| Zephyroth Uploading 10.5.2 Revision 2 (Latest Release), Discuss Here “how could ISO md5 be wrong if rar unpacked it without any errors?.. :-\” | 10.X Core | 2008-03-11 20,157 dossier reads |
| Zephyroth Uploading 10.5.2 Revision 2 (Latest Release), Discuss Here “$ md5sum Leopard-10.5.2-AMD-EFI-Rev2.iso c460e58614b2074969983b03dbca00d7 Leopard-10.5.2-AMD-EFI-Rev2.iso grrrrrrrrr” | 10.X Core | 2008-03-11 20,157 dossier reads |
| What do our usernames symbolize “Farcaller originates to old times of Turbo Pascal, x86 assembly and far calling convention” | General | 2008-04-26 14,759 dossier reads |
| 512mb pcie geforce 7600gs problems “I have native (1280x800) resolution using 10.5.2 video update from the DVD (with latest NVinject 2.1 or with manual PCI ID patching). But the leo vid kexts are the only ones that do enable QE for me.” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-10 11,867 dossier reads |
| 512mb pcie geforce 7600gs problems “seems that I'm not alone try googling for "leo_vid_kexts.zip". That stuff does partially work for me (QE works, but there is a render bug in all menus). I wonder, if that is some kind of GF7600 feature. Mine is not even supported by officia…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-09 11,867 dossier reads |
| Torrent up yet? For Rev.2 “[cite] WinLinMac01:good to hear, you're the one who created the torrent in the first place right? I was having skepticism in the beginning about that torrent file, but all seems credible. >20 seeders. Torrent has gone on its own” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-12 11,090 dossier reads |
| Sleep on AMD - report your experience “Windows flashing utility can't detect bios eeprom type, and I don't think I'll give dos flasher a try. Let it be as it goes” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-05-12 10,079 dossier reads |
| Sleep on AMD - report your experience “/me is going to try updating his BIOS to latest "Vista-compatible" version...” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-05-08 10,079 dossier reads |
| Sleep on AMD - report your experience “One more box never waking from sleep here In fact it does not even tries to hibernate (susped-to-disk): it's going low-power in seconds, and that's definitely not enough to store all 2Gb of ram to disk” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-05-04 10,079 dossier reads |
| Mouse Movement Bug (Fix or Solution) “just installed leo4all v3. It's the first leo install where all my h/w works out-of-the-box (I mean - full graphics and audio). Sleep does work too. But the same bug (or pretty similar one) is reproducible without idlehalt=0. *sniff*” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-04-27 9,963 dossier reads |
| Mouse Movement Bug (Fix or Solution) “is leo4allv3 already released?.. edit: oh, "bayed" it” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-04-26 9,963 dossier reads |
| Mouse Movement Bug (Fix or Solution) “just type it into the boot prompt. It seems to disable CPU idle. I seem to track this problem down to broken LAPIC implementations (both my boxes have it broken, so no cpu idle in linux). Might be same issue in OSX.” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-04-18 9,963 dossier reads |
| OS X Tips and Tricks and Hotkeys “win+(left|right) - previous word, next word alt+(left|right) - start of line, end of line does work with shift for selection.” | Hardware & Dev | 2008-04-29 8,457 dossier reads |
| OS X Tips and Tricks and Hotkeys “btw, my favorite (unix) way to start applications is to open spotlight (mapped it to win+space) and type first letters of the application name. That's not exactly same as running apps in e.g. Linux/KDE, but you get more features like built-…” | Hardware & Dev | 2008-04-29 8,457 dossier reads |
| Kernel Panic on using NVinject drivers “Here it goes. 1.1.1. Get GraphicsUpdate, unpack it with pacifist and fix cpuid with Marvin's AMD Utility 1.1.2. Manually copy all the updates to root. or 1.2.1. Get GraphicsUpdate, get patches.zip from this thread. Unpack patches to root (/…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-17 8,066 dossier reads |
| Kernel Panic on using NVinject drivers “WOW! IT DOES WORK! and BT mouse is magically fixed” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-17 8,066 dossier reads |
| Kernel Panic on using NVinject drivers “My current NVCAP is In [16]: get_nvcap('BAAAAAAAAwAMAAAAAAAABwAAAAA=') Out[16]: '04000000 00000300 0c000000 00000007 00000000' that corresponds to "PCIe GeForce 7 series, dual DVI", looks pretty much like what I have” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-17 8,066 dossier reads |
| Kernel Panic on using NVinject drivers “@WinLinMac01 4 outputs: built-in LCD, D-SUB, DVI, TV-Out” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-17 8,066 dossier reads |
| Kernel Panic on using NVinject drivers “Latest update (installed kexts from GU1, fixed PCI ID). Result - black screen. Same black screen on external monitor connected to D-SUB, unfortunately I don't have anything DVI-like to plug to my DVI port.” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-17 8,066 dossier reads |
| Kernel Panic on using NVinject drivers “Erm... I just realised that I forgot to backup known "good" kexts. Seems that I'm not going back in this MacOS instance… PS: gee, tried of tweaking Adium again and again... PPS: have I coped correct kexts?.. Shouldn't be here by now PPPS: g…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-17 8,066 dossier reads |
| Kernel Panic on using NVinject drivers “Is that going to fix kernel panic?... ok, I'll try now (the truth is that I didn't remember ID, and lspci doesn't work in single mode).” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-17 8,066 dossier reads |