#63 by Dispatches #293 by Author Reads #34 by Thread Reach Member #989 📍 Italy NVIDIA GeForce Voodoo / XNU Kernel AMD OSx86
@gipo
InfiniteMac community contributor with 105 recorded dispatches, 7 lead technical dossiers (35,747 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 3,077,008 historical readers.
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Joined 2008-02-18
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2008–2010
2008-02-20 → 2010-12-28
Preserved Forum Signature & OSx86 Rig
Snow Leopard Client-Server 10.6.5 by Hazard
10.6.5 legacy kernel for INTEL/AMD V2 Kernel
Cpu: AMD Phenom X4 965
Motherboard: Asus M4A78 pro AMD 780G / AMD SB700 chipset
Ram: 6 gb @ 800 Mhz
Gpu: nVidia 8800gts 512 pci-xpress - Audio integrated: VIA VT1708S
AHCI mode HDs
- Archive Standing
- #63 of 6,691 by Dispatches (104 notes) · #293 of 3,454 by Author Readership (35,747 reads across 7 dossiers) · #34 by Thread Reach (3,077,008 cumulative reads)
- InfiniteMac ID
- Member #989 · Joined 2008-02-18
- Location
- Italy
- Hardware & Kernel Topics
- NVIDIA GeForce (13) · Voodoo / XNU Kernel (12) · AMD OSx86 (10) · Chameleon / Boot-132 (4) · Retail DVD / USB (4) · AHCI / SATA (2)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection
Distribution across 6 technical boards
Lead Dossiers Authored by @gipo (7)
35,747 cumulative reads on threads started by @gipo
| Dossier Title & Summary | Collection | Readership |
|---|---|---|
| 10.5.3 installed! Any comment about it... Was a long and difficult way to upgrade at 10.5.3... now with the great Zephyrot's work, most of us had success. Any comment about differences and feelings about upgrade? I made a benchmark with xbench and returned me a 132 points...… | Leopard 10.5 | 7,801 reads 2008-06-05 · 24 notes |
| Security update 2008-002 Is it safe to upgrade to this security for us Zephyrot's users... | Leopard 10.5 | 6,667 reads 2008-03-19 · 13 notes |
| Boot only in safe mode... Hello... first of all thanks to Zephyrot for his great work... Then... I can boot only in safe mode... Now i'm writing in safe mode... all seems to work, except for audio, even LAN that was a pain on tiger. But i can boot only with -x… | Leopard 10.5 | 6,013 reads 2008-02-23 · 17 notes |
| Ad1988 & 1988b work in progress... I'll would like to inform community that something is moving on for this audio controller... on Taruga's wiki page. Before with Azalia audio there were only 2 output channels, now i have front headphones and (not tested yet) spdif. Mic is… | 10.X Core | 5,176 reads 2008-05-09 · 4 notes |
| Strange issue with usb Sorry, i don't know if this is the right place to post it, if you want move it, mods... My machine won't boot if i boot with an usb key or hd drive inserted and turned on.. Simply i can boot chameleon but after that only freeze...… | 10.X Core | 3,969 reads 2010-03-10 · 1 notes |
| Problem with idvd and old themes It is very strange... i installed ilife 08, in idvd I can only access 7.0 themes, when I switch to the older themes (6, 5, and older) it brings up the list, then if I select one idvd crashes showing the error "The application MediaServer… | Software & Kexts | 3,442 reads 2008-03-03 · 4 notes |
| Usb issue at boot... My WKS suffer of a strange and annoying problem... Everytime i boot with anything (pendrive, hard disk, phone...) connected in usb ports lead me to a boot freezing... i must reset and disconnect usb... but booting without usb connected is… | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2,679 reads 2010-12-28 · 1 notes |
Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (40)
Direct links into threads where @gipo contributed solutions & commentary
| Thread & Dispatch Excerpt | Collection | Date & Reach |
|---|---|---|
| iPC OSx86 Leopard 10.5.6 Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3 “I'm sorry... i tried to install this great release but no fortune... I upgraded the iso with both PPF and selected all i think was right for my HW, but on reboot i had an ACPI error, and panic. Tried three times at the moment, with and with…” | 10.X Core | 2009-01-09 965,272 dossier reads |
| Voodoo XNU 9.5.0 Kernel in Testing “you didn't boot with your busratio to fix sound you have to boot with busratio like mine is fsb is 200 and my cpu is 2.6GHz so it would be 2600 divided by 200 for a busratio of 13 so i boot with busratio=13 I can confirm that sound works ri…” | Releases & News | 2008-09-24 493,765 dossier reads |
| Voodoo XNU 9.5.0 Kernel in Testing “you didn't boot with your busratio to fix sound you have to boot with busratio like mine is fsb is 200 and my cpu is 2.6GHz so it would be 2600 divided by 200 for a busratio of 13 so i boot with busratio=13 I can confirm that sound works ri…” | Releases & News | 2008-09-22 493,765 dossier reads |
| Voodoo XNU 9.5.0 Kernel in Testing “i tested the new 9.5.0 XNU kernel... All seems to be ok except my audio was scratching for about 3 secs and then playing good. This issue on every kind of sound opening it, even on system sounds like recycle bin's one, after some seconds th…” | Releases & News | 2008-09-22 493,765 dossier reads |
| Snow Leopard 10.6.1-10.6.2 Intel AMD made by Hazard “finally works on my gigabyte phenom 2 x4 790x/sb750 chipset. Installed from hazard client/server distro selected only kernels and cmos fix from hazards customize screen. Then rebooted hazard dvd f8 to get hazard bootloader then selected my …” | 10.X Core | 2010-02-12 459,566 dossier reads |
| Dual boot Windows and OS X from different Hard Drives “Yes... but this isn't a really nice option... best to use a bootloader like easybcd, they are working about a 2.0 beta version booting from different drives and pc_efi. News about it on this thread” | 10.X Core | 2009-02-15 125,261 dossier reads |
| PNY GeForce 7600GS 512MB AGP “Hara... is it working for you the tv output? I tried several times but no success.. black screen.” | 10.X Core | 2009-02-26 106,106 dossier reads |
| PNY GeForce 7600GS 512MB AGP “Voodoo's 9.5 kernel is both 32 and 64 bit, on 10.5.5 i was running perfectly 64bit. Only problem was PPC appz not running, 'cause Rosetta not working...” | 10.X Core | 2009-02-08 106,106 dossier reads |
| PNY GeForce 7600GS 512MB AGP “It's important to install the correct applesmbios too. I reinstalled again all release, and, with same graphics kexts modified by me (mentioned in post above), qe and ci were not working. So i banged my head to understand what i changed fro…” | 10.X Core | 2009-02-07 106,106 dossier reads |
| PNY GeForce 7600GS 512MB AGP “So, perfect, i modify kexts inserting my id... needed to modify the injector kext too and on reboot with -f i had full resolution and CI + QE. I had issues with finder prefs and keyboard panel, resolved with files from 10.5.5. Last problem,…” | 10.X Core | 2009-02-05 106,106 dossier reads |
| PNY GeForce 7600GS 512MB AGP “which injector do you think it's best? nvdarwin, nvinject or what else?” | 10.X Core | 2009-02-03 106,106 dossier reads |
| PNY GeForce 7600GS 512MB AGP “i've got a 7600gs too... but 256mb, and i'm beating with it to make it work on your ipcx86 release. i didn't ticked any graphic driver on installation, so osx start in vga mode, but then, i tried several injectors, tried old kexts working w…” | 10.X Core | 2009-02-03 106,106 dossier reads |
| XBench Scores “superduper and CarbonCopy crash about 4 seconds from start create image... i'll try with diskUtility. If system is damaged (don't start anymore) is it possible with disk utility to restore image and boot again?” | 10.X Core | 2008-03-14 104,353 dossier reads |
| XBench Scores “Which are the benefits to have GUID vs MBR partition? GUID is more close to a real mac? At the moment i can see a bad thing... i can't backup the partition with AcronisTrueImage. It can't see GUID partition... so i'm looking for something e…” | 10.X Core | 2008-03-14 104,353 dossier reads |
| XBench Scores “[cite] Ianxxx:[cite] gipo:These are my benchmarks... thanks to great job from Zeph. OS X: Leopard 10.5.2, EFI & Guid Board: Asus M2N32-sli deluxe CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ RAM: 2 GB K DDR 800 Graphic: Peak GeForce 7600 Gs 256mb Don't supp…” | 10.X Core | 2008-03-12 104,353 dossier reads |
| XBench Scores “These are my benchmarks... thanks to great job from Zeph. OS X: Leopard 10.5.2, EFI & Guid Board: Asus M2N32-sli deluxe CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ RAM: 2 GB K DDR 800 Graphic: Peak GeForce 7600 Gs 256mb” | 10.X Core | 2008-03-11 104,353 dossier reads |
| Mac OS X 10.5.7 Released “I upgraded to 10.5.7 from apple update, then not restart and install AnV_XNU_9.6.0_kernel_V1.4... a couple of reboots and system is working. Only problem, audio disappeared and in system profiler an error on hardware summary. Reinstalled Ta…” | Releases & News | 2009-05-21 99,651 dossier reads |
| Blackknight (AnV/Qoopz-based) kernel w/corrected Phenom FSB detection “Running great for me... very smooth. My mouse run perfectly without lags... that were present with 10.3 by nawcom/qoopz Xbench even raised up.” | 10.X Core | 2010-04-18 90,162 dossier reads |
| 10.5.6 Released “My preparation to 10.5.6 was unsuccessful. I have an AMD PC with Zephyroth Leopard 10.5.2 (initial) and GUID boot loader from same installation disk. Over time I've updated PC successfully with updates patched by bhast2 to 10.5.5 (Kernel 10…” | 10.X Core | 2008-12-18 80,667 dossier reads |
| 10.5.6 Released “just two questions... 1)May i use pcwiz's Universal OSx86 Installer in order to install pcefi v9 and DSDT Patcher GUI to install dstd patch? that's enough to install upgrade? 2)what about kernel? is there a new one inside the 10.5.6? Zephyr…” | 10.X Core | 2008-12-15 80,667 dossier reads |
| Voodoo Kernel - Release candidate is out now “Tomorrow i'll reinstall final release and if there will be KP i'll make snapshots. Great releases... ASU was a milestone, VoodooKernel as well is a great great job. It's my opinion.. but is it possible in 64bit my wks is faster than in 32?” | 10.X Core | 2008-12-07 41,736 dossier reads |
| Voodoo Kernel - Release candidate is out now “Don't misunderstand me... i said "it's a backstep for me..." intended as for my own Pc, i know that this is a great step forward for all of us... anyway i'll try again and again and again... Today it's a busy work's day... I had KP after so…” | 10.X Core | 2008-12-07 41,736 dossier reads |
| Voodoo Kernel - Release candidate is out now “Well, for me this final release is a backstep... I returned to RC that is great for me (and my Pc). I installed the kernel and kexts with pkg inside the dmg. At the restart hanged for a long time about 3 min... (36 secs with RC release) the…” | 10.X Core | 2008-12-07 41,736 dossier reads |
| Voodoo Kernel - Release candidate is out now “Me too... using Rogue kexts, but my machine is seen as imac 7.1... Anyway, this kernel seems rocks... stable and speedy. Boot time seems to be the same.” | 10.X Core | 2008-12-01 41,736 dossier reads |
| Voodoo Kernel - Release candidate is out now “Parallels4 is perfectly working now.. with the old kernel was not permitting to install without tricks...” | 10.X Core | 2008-11-30 41,736 dossier reads |
| Voodoo Kernel - Release candidate is out now “So i don't need any other kext? only the kernel update as for other voodoo's releases? is it right? thanks...” | 10.X Core | 2008-11-29 41,736 dossier reads |
| Voodoo Kernel - Release candidate is out now “This is a public service announcement -- AMD processors are identified as Intel Core Solo/Duo on purpose. So something is wrong in mine hack?” | 10.X Core | 2008-11-29 41,736 dossier reads |
| Voodoo Kernel - Release candidate is out now “this is my boot.plist Kernel mach_kernel Kernel Flags Timeout 5” | 10.X Core | 2008-11-29 41,736 dossier reads |
| Voodoo Kernel - Release candidate is out now “i upgraded too at this kernel... first reboot kernel panic, then reboot again and all fine. Some applications crash... My cpu it's seen correctly but doesn't run in 64bit mode (as report Geekbench) and system profiler see my Hackintosh as: …” | 10.X Core | 2008-11-29 41,736 dossier reads |
| Member Nationalities “Hello 2 all... i'm italian and i'm from Genova. Belin!” | General | 2008-02-23 41,477 dossier reads |
| 10.4.0 XNU Kernel for INTEL/AMD by qoopz/nawcom/AnV/BlackKnight/mucha “Perfectly updated to 10.6.4 then installed this kernel. All seems to be perfect, only issue some strange crash in apps like iphoto or SL Ntfs.” | 10.X Core | 2010-06-24 38,991 dossier reads |
| 10.3.0 Legacy Kernel for INTEL/AMD by qoopz/nawcom “This kernel give me the mouse's lag problem... The mouse run slower and with steps... not fluid. Can be the FSB detection? So i returned to 10.2 BlackKnight's one, working flawlessly for me. but I'm still waiting to see if Andy has some mor…” | 10.X Core | 2010-04-08 33,611 dossier reads |
| 10.5.4 is out (Works on AMD, use ASU) “Great job for Zeph's ASU 0.5 app... Upgraded without any kind of problem to 10.5.4 and then upgraded kernel to 9.4.0 modbin's one. Thanks Zephyrot.” | 10.X Core | 2008-07-01 33,256 dossier reads |
| mach_kernel 9.2.2 and 9.2.2 System.kext for AMD “[cite] agrafuese:there's a thread here on that gipo. do a search. Yes... thanks. It's here osx.kb ot.de/comments.php?DiscussionID=843” | 10.X Core | 2008-03-31 29,851 dossier reads |
| mach_kernel 9.2.2 and 9.2.2 System.kext for AMD “upgrade... done. All seems to be ok... only thing, before mach_kernel was invisible now is visible... how to hidden it again?” | 10.X Core | 2008-03-31 29,851 dossier reads |
| List of Snow Leopard distributions “I'm not sleeping... if you drive me maybe i can do it... How can you install retail dvd on amd? Retail dvd doesn't boot, with empire efi... black screen, from another partition...? with my hardware i can't install leopard as well. If you ar…” | 10.X Core | 2010-02-16 29,668 dossier reads |
| List of Snow Leopard distributions “How can you have a vanilla AMD install? I thought that only Intel could have the vanilla kernel. Agree with you... how can we install retail on amd? I tried with empire efi but nothing to do, only black screen on dvd retail boot...” | 10.X Core | 2010-02-15 29,668 dossier reads |
| Mac OS X 10.5.5 released “I have installed the 10.5.5 update using ASU and I had no problem except the kernel continues to be 9.4.0... Has anyone got the 9.5.0 kernel working or do we have to wait for the new 9.5.0 Voodoo XNU kernel? i tried a moment ago the new 9.5…” | Releases & News | 2008-09-22 29,135 dossier reads |
| Mac OS X 10.5.5 released “Great work as usual of Zeph's Asu 0.5. My only problem was an hang at reboot… restarted with -x in safe mode, restored backupped mach_kernel and all done. Well not all, i had more to reinstall audio kexts. All working now, QE & QI too...” | Releases & News | 2008-09-17 29,135 dossier reads |
| Parallels 4, On AMD “Parallels4 installing and run perfectly now with the last voodoo kernel rc. Before it asks for virtualization.” | 10.X Core | 2008-12-01 28,485 dossier reads |