Mac OS X on x86 Hardware 2008–2024 Technical Archive
InfiniteMac OSx86 › Contributors › @FoneBone
Member #602 · 2008-02-04 → 2008-07-07
#390 by Dispatches #1,690 by Author Reads #1,725 by Thread Reach Member #602 AMD OSx86 NVIDIA GeForce ATI Radeon

@FoneBone

InfiniteMac community contributor with 19 recorded dispatches, 2 lead technical dossiers (6,169 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 207,142 historical readers.

Dispatches 19 Ranked #390 of 6,691
Author Reads 6,169 Ranked #1,690 · 2 dossiers
Thread Reach 207,142 Ranked #1,725 in reach
Lead Dossiers 2 3,084 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #602 Joined 2008-02-04
Active Window 2008 2008-02-04 → 2008-07-07
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
OS: MacOSX Leopard 10.5.1 (Zephyroth) · CPU: AMD Sempron 3000+ · Mainboard: ASRock K8Upgrade-NF3 · Mem : 1,5GB DDR · Graphics : ATI Radeon 9600 Pro · Audio : onboard AC97 · Ethernet : onboard · Hard drives: IDE / S-ATA · DVD : Atapi I run Zephs 10.5.1, successfully updated to 10.5.3 with all other updates. · Kernel 9.3.0, with EFI · Mainboard: ASRock K8upgrade-NF3 · CPU: AMD Athlon64 3200+
Archive Standing
#390 of 6,691 by Dispatches (19 notes) · #1,690 of 3,454 by Author Readership (6,169 reads across 2 dossiers) · #1,725 by Thread Reach (207,142 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #602 · Joined 2008-02-04
Hardware & Kernel Topics
AMD OSx86 (2) · NVIDIA GeForce (2) · ATI Radeon (2)
Frequent Thread Collaborators
@DoiX (7) @Puttabong (6) @roisoft (4) @zephyroth (4) @jshanh (3) @naquaada (3) @braid (3) @crawle (2) @Firewalk (2) @Ianxxx (2) @bonkey (2) @LeeAMDMAC (2) @Yogi (2) @Raldo (2)

Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 4 technical boards

Leopard 10.5
7 (37%)
10.X Core
6 (32%)
General
2 (11%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @FoneBone (2)

6,169 cumulative reads on threads started by @FoneBone

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
AppleSMBIOS.kext
I've got a little question: I'm not able to run any of the newer AppleSMBIOS.kext versions without the problem of temporarly shutting down the finder when starting the "About this Mac" dialog. The only version that works is the 1.0.1,…
Leopard 10.53,204 reads
2008-06-17 · 2 notes
"About this Mac" crashs Leopard...
I've got the problem, that "About this Mac" crashs my fine working Leopard. I've found this 'known issue' at the wiki -> http://osx86.wikidot.com/known-issues#toc6 but the problem is, that the file 'ToH_Kexts.zip" is not longer online.…
Leopard 10.52,965 reads
2008-02-04 · 8 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (14)

Direct links into threads where @FoneBone contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
'About this Mac' Graphics
“[cite] Puttabong:Hi FoneBone, the issue has been solved, all attachments have been fixed. Yours, Puttabong Thank you for this quick response”
Software & Kexts2008-06-08
53,545 dossier reads
'About this Mac' Graphics
“[cite] Puttabong:@fire, Please try again, the attachment errors should now be fixed. Sorry for inconvenience. sorry for telling you, but the download of dark.zip isn't working. maybe someone can attach it again. thx.”
Software & Kexts2008-06-08
53,545 dossier reads
Hardware Thread
“OS: MacOSX Leopard 10.5.1 (Zephyroth) CPU: AMD Sempron 3000+ Mainboard: ASRock K8Upgrade-NF3 Mem : 1,5GB DDR Graphics : ATI Radeon 9600 Pro Audio : onboard AC97 Ethernet : onboard Hard drives: IDE / S-ATA DVD : Atapi”
10.X Core2008-02-14
46,836 dossier reads
ATI Cards
“okay… now, after i reinstalled osx, i've tried your hint. but i guess it isn't nessessary to change it, cause osx "knows" my graphic card maybe there is another hint somewhere out there, which tells me, how to get my finderbar translucent. …”
10.X Core2008-02-06
16,436 dossier reads
ATI Cards
“would you like to give me a short instruction, please?”
10.X Core2008-02-05
16,436 dossier reads
ATI Cards
“Are there any driver out for an older ATI Radeon 9600?”
10.X Core2008-02-04
16,436 dossier reads
"About this Mac" crashs Leopard...
“Now it works… I've found an AppleSMBIOS.kext and there was no need for the IOFamilyNetwork.kext. netkas.free flux.net/blog/archive/2007/07/11/new-pretty-fine-all-fixed-smbios.html”
Leopard 10.52008-02-10
2,965 dossier reads
"About this Mac" crashs Leopard...
“[cite] DoiX:file beam.com/3d9a6fc5ab9ab26a3aaa37bf347b197b These are mine reply back if they work so i can update the wiki link is it possible that your files aren't compatible to OS X 10.5?”
Leopard 10.52008-02-07
2,965 dossier reads
"About this Mac" crashs Leopard...
“so i decided to reinstall and i gave it another chance, but the end was the same. has anyone else the ToH_kexts.zip from the wiki? btw. it's not nessessary to reinstall, you only have to copy the two files from the boot cd to your hd and re…”
Leopard 10.52008-02-06
2,965 dossier reads
"About this Mac" crashs Leopard...
“i did... boot-process goes on until a blue background appears with the mouse-pointer in the upper left corner (moveable)... and then stucks”
Leopard 10.52008-02-05
2,965 dossier reads
"About this Mac" crashs Leopard...
“hmm,... I don't know what went wrong, but now my system won't boot.”
Leopard 10.52008-02-05
2,965 dossier reads
'About this Mac' Graphics
“did anyone of you had to change some .kext-files to enable "About this Mac"-dialog?”
Software & Kexts2008-02-07
53,545 dossier reads
What's your average boot up time
“52 sec with 10.5.4”
10.X Core2008-07-07
31,845 dossier reads
ATI Cards
“thx... will try after reinstall of osx”
10.X Core2008-02-05
16,436 dossier reads