Mac OS X on x86 Hardware 2008–2024 Technical Archive
Member #7,552 · 2009-06-13 → 2009-06-19
#605 by Dispatches #713 by Author Reads #2,771 by Thread Reach Member #7,552 Voodoo / XNU Kernel AMD OSx86 NVIDIA GeForce

@kameko

InfiniteMac community contributor with 13 recorded dispatches, 3 lead technical dossiers (16,037 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 54,419 historical readers.

Dispatches 13 Ranked #605 of 6,691
Author Reads 16,037 Ranked #713 · 3 dossiers
Thread Reach 54,419 Ranked #2,771 in reach
Lead Dossiers 3 5,346 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #7,552 Joined 2009-06-13
Active Window 2009 2009-06-13 → 2009-06-19
Preserved Forum Signature & OSx86 Rig
lawlessppc 10.5.4 build / vista 64 bit home premium
amd phenom triple core 2.1 ghz
4 gig ddr2 ram
nvidia gforce 8200 (onboard video) / discrete ati radeon HD 4650 low profile
640gb sata hard drive
nvidia nforce onboard ethernet/lan
realtek hd audio
Archive Standing
#605 of 6,691 by Dispatches (13 notes) · #713 of 3,454 by Author Readership (16,037 reads across 3 dossiers) · #2,771 by Thread Reach (54,419 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #7,552 · Joined 2009-06-13
Hardware & Kernel Topics
Voodoo / XNU Kernel (6) · AMD OSx86 (5) · NVIDIA GeForce (4) · ATI Radeon (3) · AHCI / SATA (3)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 1 technical boards

Leopard 10.5
13 (100%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @kameko (3)

16,037 cumulative reads on threads started by @kameko

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
updating lawlessppc 10.5.4 to 10.5.7
alright so after hours of grueling research/reading/installing and getting no responses at all from the threads i've started here, i finally have lawlessppc 10.5.4 running on my system. the specs are in my signature. now my next goal is to…
Leopard 10.58,007 reads
2009-06-15 · 10 notes
installing lawlessppc build on acer x3200
i've just started doing some research today on how to install osx86 on my system. the specs are as follows: current OS : vista 64 bit home premium amd phenom triple core 2.1 ghz 4 gig ddr2 ram nvidia gforce 8200 (onboard video) but i also…
Leopard 10.54,902 reads
2009-06-13 · 1 notes
running lawlessppc build...cannot get internet/lan working
i'm using the lawlessppc 10.5.4 build and the latest .13n NFORCELAN driver from here. everything else seems to be working fine. the onboard lan works just fine in vista. for some reason no matter what i do i keep getting a 169.xxx ip…
Leopard 10.53,128 reads
2009-06-14 · 2 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (10)

Direct links into threads where @kameko contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Update Lawless PPC AMD Phenom 10.5.4
“looks like you got a kext (~dont_steal_mac_osx.kext?) hindering your system. it has to be deleted. but i wonder as i thought these kexts (as well as the apple..powermanagement.kext) get disabled by the voodoo kernel. or does the pic just sh…”
Leopard 10.52009-06-16
18,509 dossier reads
Formatting PARTITION to HFS+
“The OSx86 community is a total letdown. Fine, I'll use the search engines; but over half the results I get contain no solutions at all, but are instead mere threads back here or insanelymac.com that are completely ignored. Kexts.com contain…”
Leopard 10.52009-06-13
10,089 dossier reads
iPC 10.5.6 live and radeon 4650
“afaik this card is not supported. i wish it was though. currently running in vesa mode (but at least getting 1280 x 1024 resolution :”
Leopard 10.52009-06-18
9,784 dossier reads
updating lawlessppc 10.5.4 to 10.5.7
“alright so after about a day of usage i'm considering going back to 10.5.4. there are way too many annoying little things happening in 10.5.7 and i personally don't think the upgrade is worth it to me. i've spent way too much time getting h…”
Leopard 10.52009-06-19
8,007 dossier reads
updating lawlessppc 10.5.4 to 10.5.7
“damn. that seatbelt.kext replacement did not work. had a kernel panic when trying to mount a dmg. still unclear as to which version of seatbelt i should be running? i'm now on 10.5.7 and 9.50 voodoo kernel. does that mean i should be using …”
Leopard 10.52009-06-18
8,007 dossier reads
updating lawlessppc 10.5.4 to 10.5.7
“hey hey, thanks for the info and for seatbelt.kext file. so i went ahead and patched 10.5.7 combo update. installed it and rebooted. it kept freezing at this line: "nvethernet::media changed: link down" so i just deleted any nvidia related …”
Leopard 10.52009-06-18
8,007 dossier reads
updating lawlessppc 10.5.4 to 10.5.7
“i'm also a little confused about a few things... if you're running an intel based machine and have voodoo kernel installed, you should *generally* be fine updating via software update, because the voodoo kernel patches on-the-fly is that co…”
Leopard 10.52009-06-17
8,007 dossier reads
updating lawlessppc 10.5.4 to 10.5.7
“i got the voodoo kernel 9.5 added it. patched the combo update w/ zeph's patcher. installed, booted it all worked great. changed my seatbelt kext and it was done. i went straight from 10.5.4 to 10.5.7 ok i just installed voodoo 9.5. do you …”
Leopard 10.52009-06-16
8,007 dossier reads
running lawlessppc build...cannot get internet/lan working
“i have absolutely no idea why, but after installing itunes and quicktime (via downloading through vista first then switching over to mac and installing from there), all of a sudden my lan card picked up a valid ip.”
Leopard 10.52009-06-15
3,128 dossier reads
updating lawlessppc 10.5.4 to 10.5.7
“thanks! so i should stick with just voodoo 9.5? or can i just go to 9.6 straight away?”
Leopard 10.52009-06-16
8,007 dossier reads