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@infiniteThanks

InfiniteMac community contributor with 18 recorded dispatches, participating in discussions reaching 1,741,402 historical readers.

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Member Number #15,999 Joined 2009-10-18
Active Window 2009–2010 2009-10-18 → 2010-06-20
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#406 of 6,691 by Dispatches (18 notes) · #166 by Thread Reach (1,741,402 cumulative reads)
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Member #15,999 · Joined 2009-10-18
Hardware & Kernel Topics
Retail DVD / USB (5) · DSDT (5) · Chameleon / Boot-132 (3) · Gigabyte G31M / P35 (2) · ALC889a / Audio (1)
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Snow Leopard 10.6
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Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (18)

Direct links into threads where @infiniteThanks contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“I could not get audio to work after moving to 10.6.3 no matter how hard I tried. So i did something drastic: Got a USB stereo adapter. You may pick any of the ones available; I picked the one that works without drivers for OSX. The one I ch…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-06-20
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Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“iztec, jetpr : I made every mistake as far as audio is concerned but now it is all good. Here is some stuff: (a) Use the the DSDT update posted by brfransen, (b) Update the extensions.mkext under /Extra. It may be that the LegacyALC883.kext…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-01-18
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“Summary of problem 1. I set the Energy Saver for the screen screen, not PC, to one minute. 2. Rebooted the machine and had the same black screen as I normally get after the update to 10.6.2. i.e. I can move the mouse but cannot see the scre…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-12-02
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“Anybody tried adding an additional Ethernet NIC card? I added a Realtek 8139D which should run natively in OSX but for some reason, it does not show up in Snow. Could this be caused by the DSDT patch that included the ethernet fix? My built…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-11-14
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Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“Also, I have Rev 2.0. That would probably be causing some of my issues, yes? The person with the best answer to the question (brfransen) If it is a rev 2.0 board there are no drivers in OS X that work for the on board ethernet. I use this P…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-11-12
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“anyone have some instructions to dual boot chamelion and windows7 on the same drive ? ive spent days following different instructions, and reinstalling windows7/leopard, i think ill just ask here. The latest version of ubuntu will not only …”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-11-12
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“Followed the guide here, and on netkas's site to update to 10.6.2 fine. But i've always had a problem with sleep not being reliable. Sometimes it'll go to sleep fine, then when I wake it (keyboard or power button) it'll all spin up but noth…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-11-12
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“Looks like the 6.2 (nov 11) breaks the install. Hopefully It wont require a reinstall. Go to netkas.org and download the latest SleepEnabler.kext. 1. Boot from the USB Installer and go to the install drive and remove /Extra/CustomExtensions…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-11-12
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“I should specify for help. Tried to install realtek driver in ES2L kit, tried to use that other tool in original post, but don't know how to use it. Tried to install a couple of kext thingys from insanelymac post linked in original post. IN…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-11-12
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“How Can I change from 64 bit kernel to 32 bit kernel mode? I have 7600gt card, it cause me KP after uprgaded to 10.6.2 In /Extra/com.apple.boot.plist add Kernel Flags arch=i386 It is in the OP instructions.”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-11-12
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“EDIT::::: Wow, did this F up my hard drive. I can't find a good way to repartition my hard drive to reinstall windows 7. I even erased all of it via partion magic, disk utility, and windows 7 install cd. Nothing works at all. I can still in…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-11-10
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“I have installed and everything runs smooth just the sound doesn't work i had to use an external usb, can someone give me some advice Sound was tricky for me. I finally got it by (a) making sure I rebuilt the /Extra/Extensions.mkext after h…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-11-10
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“Some thoughts: E5200 is good enough. I built a full system on the ES2l with no issues. I moved to a Q9550 because I was doing heavy image processing. DSDT : One problem could be that your DSDT may be very different. DSDT is, in very crude t…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-11-08
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“I could not get Chameleon to launch OSX so I decided to use grub to launch OSX. Ubuntu 9.10 has moved to Grub 2, different from legacy grub. Ubuntu will detect OSX HFS+ boot partitions and create boot menu items and scripts but I it kept on…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-11-08
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“I followed the guide and my system has been up and running for many days now. Many thanks to people on this forum. I even upgraded the system from a lowly E5200 to a Q9550. I guess I want to do more. (a) Add a clean Ubuntu I installed Ubunt…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-11-08
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“iztec, jetpr : I made every mistake as far as audio is concerned but now it is all good. Here is some stuff: (a) Use the the DSDT update posted by brfransen, (b) Update the extensions.mkext under /Extra. It may be that the LegacyALC883.kext…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-11-02
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“brfransen: It WORKED ! I went to Disk Utility and used it to repair permissions and SMB share now works. Thank you ! simsim: Thank you! The warnings generated by the command line confused me so I wanted to use the MKext Tool to visualize wh…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-10-19
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“Many thanks to OP for the really hard work. Everything worked except Sound and Samba shares. I had problems with the audio like some of the others. Forgive me if I missed any similar solution posted earlier; it seems this thread is very pop…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-10-18
1,741,402 dossier reads