Mac OS X on x86 Hardware 2008–2024 Technical Archive
Member #1,902 · 2008-03-31 → 2008-04-05
#380 by Dispatches #608 by Author Reads #3,694 by Thread Reach Member #1,902 NVIDIA GeForce AMD OSx86 ATI Radeon

@hey

InfiniteMac community contributor with 20 recorded dispatches, 2 lead technical dossiers (18,101 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 20,394 historical readers.

Dispatches 20 Ranked #380 of 6,691
Author Reads 18,101 Ranked #608 · 2 dossiers
Thread Reach 20,394 Ranked #3,694 in reach
Lead Dossiers 2 9,050 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #1,902 Joined 2008-03-31
Active Window 2008 2008-03-31 → 2008-04-05
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#380 of 6,691 by Dispatches (20 notes) · #608 of 3,454 by Author Readership (18,101 reads across 2 dossiers) · #3,694 by Thread Reach (20,394 cumulative reads)
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Member #1,902 · Joined 2008-03-31
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 2 technical boards

Leopard 10.5
19 (95%)
General
1 (5%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @hey (2)

18,101 cumulative reads on threads started by @hey

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
Apps dont work.
I did a search in the forum but didnt find much. My problem is that I installed both ilife 08 and iwork 08 on my Zephyroth AMD rev 1, but when I open the apps they all unexpectedly quit. All of them keynotes, pages, iphoto, imovie,etc.…
Leopard 10.59,719 reads
2008-03-31 · 41 notes
Need NVDANV40Hal.kext please
I need this kext guys. Any idea where I can get it? Its NVDANV40Hal.kext I did nvinject for my 7900 card but I realized that I needed this kext. Thanks for any help.
Leopard 10.58,382 reads
2008-04-05 · 3 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (18)

Direct links into threads where @hey contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Apps dont work.
“I am trying to boot with -s but it just loads some mach kernels and reboots again. It will not even let me type anything else. This is what I am trying to do: for patches boot with -s and mount -uw / cd /patches ./replace.sh ./patcher cpuid…”
Leopard 10.52008-04-04
9,719 dossier reads
Apps dont work.
“well i got a cracked version of macdrive and it let me move the patches over. I will try the fix and see if it boots again. thanks for your help. i will let you know what happens.”
Leopard 10.52008-04-04
9,719 dossier reads
Apps dont work.
“Thanks, but I am using a trial Transmac and it wont let me copy the files from windows. Is it because it is a trial?”
Leopard 10.52008-04-04
9,719 dossier reads
Apps dont work.
“Dang it! i did the dang updates and now it wont boot! i read a thread where i have to replace to files but i dont know where the root is?”
Leopard 10.52008-04-04
9,719 dossier reads
Apps dont work.
“I finally got my card installed and did nvinject! qe+ci is now supported! Although my other apps work but garageband still forces me to restart. any ideas? Thanks for your help, I am now running an almost perfect leopard!”
Leopard 10.52008-04-04
9,719 dossier reads
Apps dont work.
“I guess either one. The 7900gt should be slightly better so I will get that one. I will just use the NVinject. Thanks guys.”
Leopard 10.52008-04-03
9,719 dossier reads
Apps dont work.
“I can get the geforce 7600 gt or the geforce 7900gt. I know the 7600 works but is the 7900 just as compatible, because I would rather get that one. What do you guys think?”
Leopard 10.52008-04-03
9,719 dossier reads
Apps dont work.
“i am a little confused... The above comment was not for me, right?”
Leopard 10.52008-04-02
9,719 dossier reads
Apps dont work.
“Well I have decided to get a new graphics card. Leopard works well with the one I have it is just certain apps that dont work without the qe+ci. It should be easy to install, right? Just replace and reboot? I hope so because I am tri-bootin…”
Leopard 10.52008-04-02
9,719 dossier reads
Apps dont work.
“I think, not sure, that my problem is that qe+ci is not supported therefor not on, so that is why these programs (ilife 08 and iwork 08, although I did get Iphoto to work after patching) dont work. They open but just kind of freeze and dont…”
Leopard 10.52008-04-02
9,719 dossier reads
Apps dont work.
“This is what i got from the product info from the website (it says integrated graphics) : Video graphics -Internal onboard graphics using system memory -PCI Express x16 slot Base processor Athlon 64 3500+ 2.2 GHz 2000 MT/s (Mega Transfers/s…”
Leopard 10.52008-04-02
9,719 dossier reads
Apps dont work.
“i ran marvins, and it patched some things. Thanks for your help guys! Although my Quartz Etreme says its not supported, maybe i need a kext or something. any idea guys. My other apps dont work without this.”
Leopard 10.52008-04-02
9,719 dossier reads
Apps dont work.
“well i ran marvin on my extensions folder and no decrypts were formed so i got no text file. what volume do i run marvin on, is it a specific folder or the whole leopard drive? thanks”
Leopard 10.52008-04-02
9,719 dossier reads
Apps dont work.
“My pc says quarts extreme is not supported! May i need a driver or am i screwed? Here is what it says in the Display/Graphics: Type: Display Bus: PCI VRAM (Total): 256 MB Vendor: ATI (0x1002) Device ID: 0x5954 Revision ID: 0x0000 Kernel Ext…”
Leopard 10.52008-04-02
9,719 dossier reads
Apps dont work.
“well marvins utility is a little confusing. My question is: do I just patch everything?”
Leopard 10.52008-04-01
9,719 dossier reads
Apps dont work.
“Thanks guys! I will run Marvins Utility after I figure out how to do it. I will also check the qe+ci. Also what is applesm.bios.kext? Thanks for the help, I really appreciate it. Although I am not on my pc till tomorrow but I will let you k…”
Leopard 10.52008-04-01
9,719 dossier reads
Need NVDANV40Hal.kext please
“Thanks I really appreciate it! It worked out just fine! That will teach me to run the time machine update!”
Leopard 10.52008-04-05
8,382 dossier reads
New get a Mac ads Very funny stuff
“those ads are very funny! I had no idea they had so many!”
General2008-04-03
2,293 dossier reads