#201 by Dispatches #417 by Author Reads #153 by Thread Reach Member #90,043,097 AMD OSx86 ATI Radeon Chameleon / Boot-132
@instant idiot
InfiniteMac community contributor with 36 recorded dispatches, 1 lead technical dossiers (27,045 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 1,752,624 historical readers.
Dispatches
36
Ranked #201 of 6,691
Author Reads
27,045
Ranked #417 · 1 dossiers
Thread Reach
1,752,624
Ranked #153 in reach
Lead Dossiers
1
27,045 avg reads / dossier
Member Number
#90,043,097
Joined 2012-05-18
Active Window
2012–2013
2012-05-19 → 2013-01-22
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
From information from various forums, I have managed to get Mac OS X 10.7.4 running well enough to be posting this from it. Below are my specs.
There has been at least one report of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion booting to desktop on an AMD Phenom II x4 640!
- Archive Standing
- #201 of 6,691 by Dispatches (36 notes) · #417 of 3,454 by Author Readership (27,045 reads across 1 dossiers) · #153 by Thread Reach (1,752,624 cumulative reads)
- InfiniteMac ID
- Member #90,043,097 · Joined 2012-05-18
- Hardware & Kernel Topics
- AMD OSx86 (5) · ATI Radeon (5) · Chameleon / Boot-132 (3) · AHCI / SATA (2) · Voodoo / XNU Kernel (2) · NVIDIA GeForce (1)
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- @Godofwar (5) @akimoa (3) @The Connactic (3) @davisin666 (2) @jeaton2012 (2) @xmaniak100 (2) @R:A:W:X86 (2) @gils (2) @ham4ever (2) @corrado891 @xXrkidXx @scififan68 @LinearBurn @wastez
Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection
Distribution across 2 technical boards
Lead Dossiers Authored by @instant idiot (1)
27,045 cumulative reads on threads started by @instant idiot
| Dossier Title & Summary | Collection | Readership |
|---|---|---|
| Mountain Lion Running on AMD Processors There has been at least one report of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion booting to desktop on an AMD Phenom II x4 640! Please don't give me credit for any of this; Sinetek, AnV, The Connactic, Deltac0 and all the other folks at InsanelyMac did all… | Lion – Catalina | 27,045 reads 2012-12-31 · 5 notes |
Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (35)
Direct links into threads where @instant idiot contributed solutions & commentary
| Thread & Dispatch Excerpt | Collection | Date & Reach |
|---|---|---|
| Lion with AMD “You mean the one that's supposed to be for 48XX?” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-11-07 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “check this out http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/03/mac-os-x-may-natively-support-pc-radeon-graphics-cards/ I know that OS X has native support, but all I can get is a garbled black and white screen that flickers a bit when I move the mouse…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-11-01 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “I'm here, but I've all but given up at trying to get my ATI Radeon HD 5670 working with Lion.” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-10-31 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HL-EE8lxpI&feature=youtu.be Please add -v to the kernel flags so we can know where it's hanging.” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-10-23 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “What do you mean by "...system boots up only when..."? How does it fail? It might help to add -v to the kernel flags so we know what's happening.” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-10-22 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Here I am assuming that the only flags you have to specify at boot are these: Also, I reccomend making a backup of /Extra/org.chameleon.Boot.plist before making these changes. (Just in case, y'know...) Change to No. Remove and add PCIRootUI…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-10-20 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “I don't overclock my graphics cards. A gtx 470 maxed out almost every game with the exception of Metro2033. Now my gtx 570 maxes out everything at 1920x1200 resolution. I meant the unlikely idea of the OS X driver accidentally overclocking …” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-10-12 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “*shrugs* My 5670 isn't dead yet! The only way I can see OS X in particular damaging a graphics card is if it somehow overclocked it by accident. (or by default)” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-10-09 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “@Godofwar: Right click on the Applications folder in the Dock and select "Display as Folder."” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-10-02 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “I have tried using ATY_Init.kext, but that doesn't completely work. It shows a garbled black and white display that flickers a bit when I move the mouse. (with the 10.7.5 ATI kexts) Getting closer!” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-29 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “I installed Lion using myHack on my ProBook 4530s and installed the 10.7.5 update combo using the ProBook and vanilla kernel of course. Then I copied R:A:W:X86's kernel and the DP2 Finder and removed the ATI kexts: it booted right up into 1…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-26 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “None whatsoever. I don't even use OS X as my main OS. There's a new version, so I figure I might as well try to install it. About the graphics card: I haven't even got it to work in Lion yet, while it works fine in Snow Leopard. (ATI Radeon…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-23 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Instant Idiot, i never saw anything like you're experiencing. Sorry if i'm of little help now. Oh well, I have a flawless Snow Leopard installation, so I'm not missing out big time. I think I'll try a different HDD and connect it via SATA i…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-23 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “It happens during boot. I also forgot to mention that the installer claims it failed: there's an I/O error with some temp file in /var/zz. (I think.) If it would be useful, I can reinstall (again) and post the exact error from the log.” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-22 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Now I don't know what's going on: I tried to install the 10.7.4 combo update, and the same thing happened! (corrupted filesystem) Ideas, anyone?” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-22 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Bad news: I tried installing 10.7.5 again: it corrupted the filesystem again ! Now, I'm going to try first updating to 10.7.4 and then to 10.7.5.” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-22 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “I just tried installing the 10.7.5 update combo, and it corrupted the filesystem! (Fsck says "invalid node structure.") I'm going to try installing it again. If that fails, I'll know something strange is going on. @The Connactic: Thanks for…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-22 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “O.K, I'm about to try this all again. Can someone please remind me what the procedure for fixing reportcrash is? I just don't feel like digging through 116 pages. EDIT: osx 86.co/f100/lion-with-amd-t7106/page89.html#post57631 And, remove /S…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-21 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “I had to replace FakeSMC.kext with the latest one from here.” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-05-19 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “To fix that error just replace System.kext with this (dl.drop box.com/u/79094064/Kexts/System.kext%2810.7.3%29.zip) one from 10.7.3. I'll try that. What will it do that I'll notice, if anything? I've created an app to enable or disable all …” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-05-19 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “From information from various forums, I have managed to get Mac OS X 10.7.4 running well enough to be posting this from it. Below are my specs. ASUS M4A88T-V EVO/USB3 AMD Athlon II x4 640 XFX ATI Radeon HD 5670 12GB DDR3 1333Mhz RAM Assorte…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-05-19 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| 10.7.4 AMD Kernel “Can you please clarify what you're actually trying to do now?” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-11-06 486,363 dossier reads |
| 10.7.4 AMD Kernel “If your npci value is incorrect, then at boot time it'll hang at [PCI Configuration Begin]. Some motherboards don't need it at all, as far as I know. If you want -f to be permanent, then yes, that's the right place to put it; however, I tho…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-11-02 486,363 dossier reads |
| 10.7.4 AMD Kernel “Try the kernel flag -f. My laptop running vanilla Lion won't boot without it, so I just thought...” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-11-02 486,363 dossier reads |
| 10.7.4 AMD Kernel “I have never used Google Chrome on OS X, so I'm not much help there. I use Firefox on all platforms.” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-11-01 486,363 dossier reads |
| 10.7.4 AMD Kernel “The kernel flags section of org.chameleon.Boot.plist is exactly the same as what you type into chameleon at startup: try adding your flags there.” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-11-01 486,363 dossier reads |
| 10.7.4 AMD Kernel “Godofwar, If you're still using Bronzovka's kernel, you should definitely replace it with R:A:W:X86's kernel from the first post on this page. Also, you can put all those kernel flags in the section of /Extra/org.chameleon.Boot.plist.” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-10-01 486,363 dossier reads |
| 10.7.4 AMD Kernel “Is this updated kernel different from the one on the first post?” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-09-27 486,363 dossier reads |
| kernel 12.0 AMD SVP “Merci pour le test! Est-ce que vous pouvez faire la meme test sûr ton FX-6100? Autant que je sache, The Connactic n'a personne avec un Bulldozer (ou un autre CPU AMD avec SSSE3) pour tester son kernel de Mountain Lion.” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-11-03 124,114 dossier reads |
| kernel 12.0 AMD SVP “Gils: voici un lien pour le kernel le plus recent de The Connactic. Il ne marche pas du tout dans ce moment, mais si vous l'essayez et affichez un photo, il peut être utile pour The Connactic. omp ldr.org/vZzQ1Yg/connatic.zip” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-11-02 124,114 dossier reads |
| AHCI in Gigabyte GA-M68MT-S2 “If there's a RAID option, try that. RAID usually means AHCI.” | Lion – Catalina | 2013-01-22 20,001 dossier reads |
| Which build can be used for AMD E350(APU) HTPC Board “That processor's built-in GPU is not and probably never will be supported by OS X: that pretty much rules out its use as an HTPC; however, since your motherboard has one PCI-E x16 slot, if your case is big enough, you could add a supported …” | 10.X Core | 2012-10-12 19,391 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Use K ernelCache must be uppercase.” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-10-21 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Anyone got any ideas about this?” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-05-25 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| 10.7.4 AMD Kernel “This (from post 465) plus this equals this:” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-11-02 486,363 dossier reads |