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@Imkantus
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AMD Phenom II X4 955 - ASRock AM3A770DE - 8GB DDR3-1333 - Radeon HD 5570 1GB passiv - BCM4318 802.11b/g - Snow Leopard Retail
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AMD Phenom X3 8450 - ASRock AM2NF6G-VSTA (BIOS L2.39) - 4GB DDR2-800 - Radeon HD 4650 512MB - Snow Leopard Retail (retired) / OpenBSD
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AMD Phenom X3 8450 - ASRock AM2NF6G-VSTA (BIOS L2.39) - 4GB DDR2-800 - Radeon HD 4650 512MB - Snow Leopard Retail (retired) / OpenBSD
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Lead Dossiers Authored by @Imkantus (21)
903,068 cumulative reads on threads started by @Imkantus
| Dossier Title & Summary | Collection | Readership |
|---|---|---|
| Snow Leopard 10.6.1-10.6.2 Intel AMD made by Hazard Snow Leopard 10.6.1-10.6.2 Intel AMD made by Hazard Snow Leopard for Intel and AMD. This distro include retail 10.6 with 10.6.1 and 10.6.2 update. It's include many fixes and drivers and fell free to experiment. Working perfectly 100% on… | 10.X Core | 459,566 reads 2009-12-23 · 106 notes |
| ATI Radeon HD46X0 Radeon HD46X0 Solutions This information is for use with the following graphic-cards: ATI Radeon HD 4650 (0x9498) & ATI Radeon HD 4670 (0x9490) This Thread does not provide any informations for owners of ATI Mobility HD4XXX cards - Apple… | 10.X Core | 100,605 reads 2010-05-28 · 48 notes |
| Support for some HD5000 series GFX cards emerged in MacMini 10.6.4 Image See latest entry on netkas.org: http://netkas.org/?p=465 The following cards have been reported to work, yet: HD5570, 5650, 5670, 5750, 5770, 5850, 5870 & 5970 Download the new ATI drivers from netkas file server: mirror.net… | 10.X Core | 65,749 reads 2010-07-04 · 27 notes |
| 10.4.0 XNU Kernel for INTEL/AMD by qoopz/nawcom/AnV/BlackKnight/mucha 10.4.0 XNU Kernel for INTEL/AMD by qoopz/nawcom/AnV/BlackKnight/mucha Standard fixes are included, plus a few extra stuff: * Built-in kernel blacklister automatically blacklists bad kexts from loading. Therefore you don't need to use a… | 10.X Core | 38,991 reads 2010-06-18 · 32 notes |
| 10.3.0 Legacy Kernel for INTEL/AMD by qoopz/nawcom 10.3.0 Legacy Kernel for INTEL/AMD by qoopz/nawcom Alright, xnu src was released so that means patching up that source code so everyone else can use the latest and greatest kernel. Standard fixes are included, plus a few extra stuff: *… | 10.X Core | 33,611 reads 2010-04-03 · 12 notes |
| Still no luck with 10.6 on eee-PC / Kernel Panic Since I saw photos of the 901 running 10A432 on the net, I couldn't longer wait to give it a try on mine, I have been trying since saturday but I am not getting it to work - I always hang at that Kernel Panic... :'( What I have been using:… | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 32,133 reads 2009-08-25 · 15 notes |
| 10.6.5 is avaible via Softwareupdate... Technical notes, hardware configuration, and community findings for 10.6.5 is avaible via Softwareupdate... (10.X Core). | 10.X Core | 28,329 reads 2010-11-10 · 29 notes |
| Max. compatible and >cheap< Hardware Well I definitely need to get some better Hardware, to be "Snow Leopard ready", since my current configuration was already hard work with Tiger running Semthex Kernel, and a b*tch with getting Leopard to work since common stuff like those… | 10.X Core | 23,810 reads 2009-09-01 · 13 notes |
| ASRock AM2NF6G-VSTA - Snow Leopard Retail ASRock AM2NF6G-VSTA (R.2.0) Snow Leopard "all-round-comfortable -package" This is an english repost of my recently write down - you can find german language version here. I know this mainboard is a very cheap & not very far spreaded one,… | 10.X Core | 16,957 reads 2010-04-21 · 12 notes |
| ATA Disk: Cheksum Cookie not valid After installing SnowLeopard, I am not getting past of this: ATA Disk: Cheksum Cookie not valid Asus eee PC 900A Chipset: ICH7 Build: 10A380 Bootloader: Chameleon 2 RC1 I tried to apply the IOATAFamily.kext builded for 10.5.7 from here:… | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 16,909 reads 2009-08-06 · 1 notes |
| BCM4318 (rev 02) not working on Snow Leopard I need some help with this PCI NIC: It has been working out of the box on my old 10.5 Leopard install, so I applied it again since I can't longer use wired network... But it was not regognized. Even the corresponding Kernel Extensions… | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 14,734 reads 2009-12-19 · 9 notes |
| Just some thoughts about the project InfiniteMac... When I registered here about more than one and half year ago, this was a great community, with a rock solid core of advanced users, open for everyone who was looking for the knowledgebase to start of with OSx86. This once worked like a… | 10.X Core | 11,150 reads 2011-04-03 · 5 notes |
| EvOReboot - Freeware alternative for OpenHaltRestart EvO Team introduces you EvOReboot. Tired of finding Psystar everytime we checked the IOREG, we decided to develope a new solution for Shutdown/Restart, EvOReboot it´s the replacement for Openhaltrestart from Psystar, it solves shutdown and… | 10.X Core | 10,883 reads 2009-11-12 · 2 notes |
| Apple Magic Trackpad www.apple.com/magictrackpad/ Someone who has it? Using it with your Hackintosh? How is the handling, battery lifetime, etc - a complete mouse replacement? I just saw one at a reseller far off from my location - sadly a lot of people have… | 10.X Core | 8,882 reads 2010-10-05 · 1 notes |
| 10.5.0 XNU Kernel for AMD & Legacy Intel Update : Andy has released an official Build made by using his XNU Kernel patches see here: osx 86.co/f36/10-6-5-legacy-kernel-for-intel-amd-t6730/ Original post: 10.5.0 Legacy XNU Kernel The Kernel Patch reworked by andyvand goes into… | 10.X Core | 8,238 reads 2010-11-17 · 8 notes |
| VoodooHDA = SystemProfiler crash & one other little thing OK so here I am - on Snow Leopard Just two issues are left. 1. Since I installed 64-Bit VoodooHDA driver, my SystemProfiler crashes when i click on "Software > Extensions" :-| - fixed - 2. Any one has an idea how I could get rid of the… | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 6,977 reads 2009-09-20 · 3 notes |
| Pc_efi 10.6 PC_EFI 10.6 February 04th 2010 Posted to Snow Leopard, pc efi New in this release: • Support for desktop Radeons 4300/4500/4600 in GraphicsEnabler • Added system-id fix, system doesn’t forget your keyboard settings anymore • Added fix for… | 10.X Core | 6,180 reads 2010-02-04 · 3 notes |
| fakesmc v2.5 New features: • Reworked 3rd party patch for reading cpu temps, now kext does it on demand, not in loop. You can use Istat to monitor cpu temps, default tjmax value is 100, you can adjust it Info.plist, works only for intel’s core 2/core… | 10.X Core | 5,154 reads 2009-11-21 · 1 notes |
| Do I need Efi to run 10.5.6 or higher I have some question: I am currently onto OS X 10.5.5 (installed via "iAtkos v4 10.5.4") and like to update to 10.5.6 or maybe 10.5.7 I got my eyes onto this guide - there is the instruction to install PC_Efi v9 before updating to avoid… | Leopard 10.5 | 5,048 reads 2009-07-27 · 4 notes |
| Some thoughts about running Tiger on non-SSE2 Well I recently received some old notebook as a gift with 1.2 Ghz Celereon CPU, SiS chipset and 256MB RAM, which I plan to upgrade to 1GB, as soon as I will get some universall power line cord I will be able to provide more informations...… | 10.X Core | 4,988 reads 2010-01-07 · 2 notes |
| Wanted: AM2+/AM3 Mainboard with AppleHDA solution Someone out here, who is using an AM2+ or AM3 Mainboard with AMD chipset, who can confirm 1/8" rears for stereo out, Line-In and Mic to work using AppleHDA.kext? Finding capable hardware appears to be very difficult, most cheap mobos ship… | 10.X Core | 4,174 reads 2011-01-29 · 2 notes |
Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (40)
Direct links into threads where @Imkantus contributed solutions & commentary
| Thread & Dispatch Excerpt | Collection | Date & Reach |
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| Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L “Has anyone gotten CPU temp to display using any app? You can use CPUi it needs it's own kext to be installed, but works fine on a Hack.” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-10-17 1,741,402 dossier reads |
| iATKOS v7 “@WAQASJEHANXEB Please post some Hardware Info. Specially Mainboard and Chipset are important to give a statement on how to solve this.” | 10.X Core | 2009-09-02 932,692 dossier reads |
| Asus K50IN “(thanks man) on a GUID partition (the other one is a Windows 7). So Windows 7 supports beeing installed to GUID schema? (Sorry I just wonder about this, but might be so - I am not that much into using Windows. ;)) 1. the audio which is work…” | 10.X Core | 2009-10-17 606,173 dossier reads |
| EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation “The link in the OP to iasl is broken. Where could one find a copy? Google: http://www.projectosx.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=386&st=0 The complete ACPICA-utilities are also default part of most Linux/BSD OS-derivates.” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2011-01-01 491,666 dossier reads |
| Snow Leopard 10.6.1-10.6.2 Intel AMD made by Hazard “You've got nForce chipset mobo - you need to select an according driver to make your southbridge work properly - if you did so it might be the "more than 2GB RAM issue" - try maxmem=2000 bootflag.” | 10.X Core | 2010-03-17 459,566 dossier reads |
| Snow Leopard 10.6.1-10.6.2 Intel AMD made by Hazard “I tried to boot & then pressed F8 & tried entering both [-v arch=i386 & arch=i386], after doing that my PC reboots again doin nothin..! Tried booting the DVD or the installed system? Tried to boot with busratio=20 on boot prompt?” | 10.X Core | 2010-01-03 459,566 dossier reads |
| BootThink 2.3.18 Released! With better Snow/DVD support “The files in the 1st post says "deleted by author" MIRROR - rapidshare.com” | 10.X Core | 2009-12-07 417,988 dossier reads |
| Intel GMA945 (0x27AE8086) resolution + CI/QE/OpenGL solution “@Andy Maybe AppleLPC kext is not loaded on yours, and / or does the debug-version of IOUSBFamily let errors about UHCI appear at your dmesg? I experienced those two things to be reasons for Wake from Sleep not to work on some setups...” | 10.X Core | 2010-04-25 407,228 dossier reads |
| Intel GMA945 (0x27AE8086) resolution + CI/QE/OpenGL solution “Does this just allow us to replace GMA950 EFI String with GraphicsEnabler, or is it making it possible to work without bin-patching AppleIntelGMA950 & AppleIntegratedFramebuffer Kernel Extensions?” | 10.X Core | 2010-02-13 407,228 dossier reads |
| 4 n00bs with laptops! (-Specially crafted for Acer Gemstone 6935G-) “getting error message at the last step.. - "- from folder run VoodooHDA.prefpane" I reckon it's caused as VoodooHDA.kext isn't loaded - so just try again to install the PrefPane after restart or check if VoodooHDA kext is loaded with using …” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-10-21 363,459 dossier reads |
| iPC X-DL 10.5.6 Release “Sorry but i cant find where to download it, im quite new in the forum thanks Then welcome to the InfiniteMac Community. One recommanded thing to do when beeing new, is reading the Rules. This site does not deal with warez - use Google if yo…” | 10.X Core | 2010-06-27 274,027 dossier reads |
| 10.5.8 is out “It got to the point where theres a blue screen with the embedded spinning loading circle (not the rainbow cursor), but there was no HD activity so I waited a few minutes and forced it to power off, then rebootd. The update was installed. No…” | 10.X Core | 2009-08-07 265,008 dossier reads |
| 10.5.8 is out “Could you be a bit more specific? Am I supposed to run the updater again, wait until it hangs when restarting and force it to power off, then copy a backup of that .kext when I boot it up again and then restart and it'll show up as 10.5.8? …” | 10.X Core | 2009-08-07 265,008 dossier reads |
| 10.5.8 is out “Ok, well it downloads and 'installs' fine, but when it gets to the restart it just closes the menu bar and everything and stays on the blue screen.. it doesn't restart. It doesn't seem to be hanging, the mouse is responsive.. but theres no …” | 10.X Core | 2009-08-06 265,008 dossier reads |
| AMD Patcher 0.31 available to download “Can you maybe post a full screen-snapshot, where it hangs up on boot?” | 10.X Core | 2010-01-04 230,773 dossier reads |
| AMD Patcher 0.31 available to download “stanca, You do not need to patch CPU Opcode manually anymore, with using 9.5.0 Voodoo Kernel. Just place the Voodoo Binary on your filesystem with name different to mach_kernel, for example /voodoo_kernel - then make sure Disabler.kext is i…” | 10.X Core | 2010-01-01 230,773 dossier reads |
| Atheros card 9285 “WHAT AM I DOING WRONG? You're posting in the wrong forum into a topic with a different subject.” | Leopard 10.5 | 2009-11-14 198,920 dossier reads |
| Atheros card 9285 “There are various people around, who have reported this card not to work with new AirPortAtheros21.kext ... I just wanted to let you know that netkas released a legacy kext that injects the Device-ID, so that you don't need to edit the Kern…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2009-11-14 198,920 dossier reads |
| SSE2/SSE3 - 32/64 Bit Kernel for Snow Leopard by qoopz “Maybe check out amd_insn_patcher by andyvand, there is an extended version, that is capable of patching SSE3 instructions...” | 10.X Core | 2011-02-01 194,515 dossier reads |
| Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support “try -force64 (patches come from Snow Leopard so...) It is still instant reboot after Chameleon says "Staring Darwin x86" I have also tried stripping the Kernel with lipo in order to be ensure booting i386 Kernel...” | 10.X Core | 2011-08-26 165,733 dossier reads |
| Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support “Keep patient guys - we had to wait till 10.5.4 for the Voodoo XNU to be released - we had to wait until 10.6.5 till Andy had figured a fully working Kernel patch for Snow Leopard. : Btw: Mac OS X 10.7.1 source code has been released today. …” | 10.X Core | 2011-08-26 165,733 dossier reads |
| Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support “I think it´s over for amd with lion if nobody can create a 32 bit kernel. It was also not possible to run amd in 64 kernel mode in snow leopard. The Kernel you compiled should be multiple architecture. should look like this: So there is sti…” | 10.X Core | 2011-08-26 165,733 dossier reads |
| Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support “Uhm am i the only one that desires a ssse3 emulator for snow leopard? Latest AMD Fusion Mobile & Embedded cores have SSSE3 implementation & I think we will see Desktop CPUs with SSSE3 support end of this year. There are some Mini-ITX boards…” | 10.X Core | 2011-08-22 165,733 dossier reads |
| Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support “Is there any way i can fix H.264 and Quicktime in 64 bit mode on an AMD procesor? Anything i can do with amd_insn_patcher or should i just give up and go back to 32 bit mode? SSE3 != SSSE3 The amd_insn_patcher just removes those nasty SYSEN…” | 10.X Core | 2011-08-16 165,733 dossier reads |
| Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support “Ok, if all Lion apps are 64bit only I'll construct the current kernel as I will make it. It'll only work on 64bit computers then too... As you should know, Finder (and some other stuff) is 64-Bit only since Lion DP2 (and any later release).…” | 10.X Core | 2011-08-13 165,733 dossier reads |
| Anyone FULL CI/QE/resolution on any AGP Video Card in Snow Leopard “As people have them working with GFX-String on Leopard, it should not be a problem, to make them to work with Snow Leoaprd, too. However, I don't find any shop from Australia carrying them... Here in Germany they are avaible through Alterna…” | 10.X Core | 2009-10-21 142,213 dossier reads |
| Anyone FULL CI/QE/resolution on any AGP Video Card in Snow Leopard “An alternative might be to get a Geforce 9400 or 9500 GT PCI Card - Sparkle produced such…” | 10.X Core | 2009-10-19 142,213 dossier reads |
| 10.6.6 legacy kernel for INTEL/AMD 32+64bit ready to download “Good to hear that your work on the Kernel continues. Any idea about a solution for custom dyld to work with >4GB RAM, yet? And a little off-topic-question: Any thought on binpatching xnu-1699.21.15 / 11A390 Kernel? Lion on MacBook rulez & I…” | 10.X Core | 2011-03-13 109,368 dossier reads |
| 10.6.6 legacy kernel for INTEL/AMD 32+64bit ready to download “It's a good idea to install 10.7 Lion? I'm downloading it xdd It is not possible yet. Not even on Intel machines, as it's neither supported by Chameleon to boot the base system that's placed in a dmg nor the new Kernel. Once there will be s…” | 10.X Core | 2011-02-26 109,368 dossier reads |
| 10.6.6 legacy kernel for INTEL/AMD 32+64bit ready to download “Decompress with upx the CoreServices (Finder and pbs) In case of Finder - No. The Finder from thr pkg is not just compressed, it' stripped down to i386, so highly recommended, to reinstall Finder using Pacifist from 10.6.6 Update!” | 10.X Core | 2011-01-29 109,368 dossier reads |
| 10.6.6 legacy kernel for INTEL/AMD 32+64bit ready to download “Andy has posted a patched Finder in this thread. But could you or some others try in -force64 mode? I am somewhat curious if you will suffer sysenter trap patching to stop working properbly after some time like I did or not...” | 10.X Core | 2011-01-26 109,368 dossier reads |
| 10.6.6 legacy kernel for INTEL/AMD 32+64bit ready to download “Your installer doesn't patch libsystem, so I have to do that manually and 32 bit apps / PPC work For sure patching sysenter traps in libSystem.B.dylib will fix 32-Bit Apps, but this should theoretically not be necessary using this Kernel, a…” | 10.X Core | 2011-01-26 109,368 dossier reads |
| 10.6.6 legacy kernel for INTEL/AMD 32+64bit ready to download “Damn it! Since about two hours I am just like wtf?! For the first: Finder problem is legacy mode only, works in -force64 But that doesn't matter to me currently: System has freezed from one moment to another - after reset the most hatet sce…” | 10.X Core | 2011-01-25 109,368 dossier reads |
| 10.6.6 legacy kernel for INTEL/AMD 32+64bit ready to download “I have just booted latest Kernel on the testing installation (packed pbs - everything else left untouched), booting with -force64 - same like in case of RayFlower, there are no issues within Finder. Everything works well, except Firefox is …” | 10.X Core | 2011-01-25 109,368 dossier reads |
| 10.6.6 legacy kernel for INTEL/AMD 32+64bit ready to download “I think everyone with more than 4GB of RAM cannot boot into 32-bit userspace without fsck crashing. Thanks for pointing that out. Binary decryption works (after "DSMOS has arrived" message) but I will add SystemUIServer, Finder and also VLC…” | 10.X Core | 2011-01-24 109,368 dossier reads |
| 10.6.6 legacy kernel for INTEL/AMD 32+64bit ready to download “Sorry for double-posting... After putting one and one together, I think it is obvious, that binary decryption ain't working by the Kernel. So Andy - if that bug in Kernel Patch cannot be fixed yet; do you have been able to build apb_decrypt…” | 10.X Core | 2011-01-20 109,368 dossier reads |
| 10.6.6 legacy kernel for INTEL/AMD 32+64bit ready to download “Okay here is my testing experience: I took an empty harddrive and did a fresh install of Snow Leopard + applied the 10.6.6 Combo Updater - installed PC_EFI 10.6, added just the Kernel + NForceATA, fakesmc, SleepEnabler, patched AppleHDA + a…” | 10.X Core | 2011-01-19 109,368 dossier reads |
| iPortable Snow x86 10.6.2 (Intel SSE2/SSE3 or higher), iPortable Snow is out “Third, I'm working on the very same image with a Window/PC installation method.. With this method you have a working Snowleopard installation within 10 minutes! You don't need any OS to install! haha I don't need any OS but Windows? That's …” | 10.X Core | 2010-02-09 106,188 dossier reads |
| iPortable Snow x86 10.6.2 (Intel SSE2/SSE3 or higher), iPortable Snow is out “@PROTOCOLX Read the Rules! OSx86 Core & 10.X 9.) No Warez. Members are asked to respect the copyright of other users, sites, media, etc. Users linking to or asking for information on warez, crackz, torrents etc. will receive a warning and t…” | 10.X Core | 2010-02-09 106,188 dossier reads |
| ATI Radeon HD46X0 “Little Update: 10.6.5 ATI Framebuffer drivers are working similiar as the 10.6.2 drivers did. I had to use old kexts for DVI to work. I am sorry I cannot give all of you an adequate answer - if my steps don't work for you, you might have to…” | 10.X Core | 2010-12-20 100,605 dossier reads |