Mac OS X on x86 Hardware 2008–2024 Technical Archive
Member #15,107 · 2009-10-08 → 2010-07-26
#743 by Dispatches #574 by Author Reads #372 by Thread Reach Member #15,107 Chameleon / Boot-132 AMD OSx86 Voodoo / XNU Kernel

@Giuly

InfiniteMac community contributor with 10 recorded dispatches, 5 lead technical dossiers (19,455 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 1,245,610 historical readers.

Dispatches 10 Ranked #743 of 6,691
Author Reads 19,455 Ranked #574 · 5 dossiers
Thread Reach 1,245,610 Ranked #372 in reach
Lead Dossiers 5 3,891 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #15,107 Joined 2009-10-07
Active Window 2009–2010 2009-10-08 → 2010-07-26
Archive Standing
#743 of 6,691 by Dispatches (10 notes) · #574 of 3,454 by Author Readership (19,455 reads across 5 dossiers) · #372 by Thread Reach (1,245,610 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #15,107 · Joined 2009-10-07
Hardware & Kernel Topics
Chameleon / Boot-132 (2) · AMD OSx86 (1) · Voodoo / XNU Kernel (1) · Retail DVD / USB (1)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 3 technical boards

10.X Core
7 (70%)
Leopard 10.5
1 (10%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @Giuly (5)

19,455 cumulative reads on threads started by @Giuly

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
Installing SL on MSI VR601
Follow prasys' installation guide. Replace /Extra/CustomExtentions on USB-Stick with files provided. Put com.Apple.Boot.plist in /Extra. Run installVoodoo.sh on the Stick. Boot your Stick and install from it. After the installation it will…
Snow Leopard 10.64,330 reads
2009-10-25 · 3 notes
ADI1980 - "Crunchy Sound"
I have a problem with the ADI1980 onboard sound. It work's, but it's kind of crunchy. Does anyone know either how to fix that, or where to find new versions of the driver?
Leopard 10.54,222 reads
2009-10-11 · 1 notes
Dualbooting Win7 and SL
I have now SL running. I installed it on a HDD (MBR-Partitioned) where Win7 is installed. When I try to boot Win7 now, I get Error 0xc000000a (Error while Startchoose, Access on an neccessary device not possible). only thing I did is…
Snow Leopard 10.64,034 reads
2009-10-25 · 3 notes
Giulystall - Creating Install-USB-Stick on GNU/Linux
Using prasys' USB stick method from Linux-LiveCD/DVD in an automated way. If you have a GNU/Linux distribution installed on your computer, skip steps 1+2 1) Get your favorite GNU/Linux Live-CD/DVD and burn it. 2) Boot it 3) Change to root…
10.X Core3,687 reads
2010-07-26 · 1 notes
Mac mini: Socket P
as far as I can see, the new mini has P7350 (2x2GHz) and P8400 (2x2,26Ghz) Socket P. Is that correct, or does the mini have Socket M-CPUs like it's predessor? Asuming that it has Socket P, it could be upgrated to T9600 (2x2,8Ghz, 35W TDP)…
10.X Core3,182 reads
2009-10-09 · 1 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (4)

Direct links into threads where @Giuly contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
iATKOS v7
“Thanks for the great work... Installed iAtkos...installation was very smooth. But after that it doesn't boot…it shows a blank screen with a binking cursor. System Hardware is Intel Core 2 Dou 2.2 ghz Intel 945 gcnl motherboard. 160 gb seaga…”
10.X Core2009-10-15
932,692 dossier reads
SSE2/SSE3 - 32/64 Bit Kernel for Snow Leopard by qoopz
“fakesmc.kext is from netkas (V2), no dsmos. All I can get is singleusermode.”
10.X Core2009-10-14
194,515 dossier reads
SSE2/SSE3 - 32/64 Bit Kernel for Snow Leopard by qoopz
“I don't know whats going on there, I don't come any further. Any ideas? (AMD SSE2, Installed from Leopard, copied kernel and some kexts)”
10.X Core2009-10-14
194,515 dossier reads
Intel® GMA X3100 10.5.X Combo Drivers
“Question: How did you actually installed OSX on such a GMA X3100-Machine? I don't even get to the installer. (MSI VR601 w/ GMA X3100, ICH8)”
10.X Core2009-10-08
98,948 dossier reads