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Member #1,909 · 2008-04-02 → 2011-07-28
#545 by Dispatches #45 by Author Reads #581 by Thread Reach Member #1,909 📍 Monticello, MN, USA AHCI / SATA Retail DVD / USB ALC889a / Audio

@ludacrisvp

InfiniteMac community contributor with 14 recorded dispatches, 2 lead technical dossiers (345,805 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 934,672 historical readers.

Dispatches 14 Ranked #545 of 6,691
Author Reads 345,805 Ranked #45 · 2 dossiers
Thread Reach 934,672 Ranked #581 in reach
Lead Dossiers 2 172,902 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #1,909 Joined 2008-04-01
Active Window 2008–2011 2008-04-02 → 2011-07-28
Preserved Forum Signature & OSx86 Rig
REAL Mac Pro - OC 3.1Ghz -2x 2.8GHz -XFX 5770 1GB / 8800GT- 10GB RAM -1.55TB - 2 SATA Optical - Lion / Snow Leo / Windows 7 x64 / in AHCI Mode
Toshiba X205-SLI6 17" Dual 8600M GT 256MB SLI, 400GB -
Win7 x64 / Lion vanilla / Snow Leo Vanilla - Full QE/CI - WiFi Dell 1390 (pin 20 removed) - ALC268 VoodooHDA - working fingerprint reader, Bluetooth well everything but display brightness changing.
Dell poweredge T110 2.8ghz 8 core xeon server 8gb ram
Archive Standing
#545 of 6,691 by Dispatches (14 notes) · #45 of 3,454 by Author Readership (345,805 reads across 2 dossiers) · #581 by Thread Reach (934,672 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #1,909 · Joined 2008-04-01
Location
Monticello, MN, USA
Interests
Women, Cars, Computers
Website
webpages.cha rter.net/montecarlolmss
Hardware & Kernel Topics
AHCI / SATA (2) · Retail DVD / USB (1) · ALC889a / Audio (1) · NVIDIA GeForce (1)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 4 technical boards

10.X Core
10 (71%)
Hardware & Dev
2 (14%)
Leopard 10.5
1 (7%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @ludacrisvp (2)

345,805 cumulative reads on threads started by @ludacrisvp

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
HOW TO: Boot Mac Pro in AHCI mode under Vista and XP to use all 6 SATA ports
I have originally made this post on the InsanelyMac forums but I feel that it may be better suited on this site where everyone seems to be more welcoming and just more helpful in general. I have made some updates to this post to include…
Hardware & Dev338,350 reads
2009-06-17 · 6 notes
Help with QE/CI on 10.5.7 Toshiba Satellite x205-SLI6
I have been running OS X 86 on my Toshiba Satellite X205-SLI6 17" Some hardware details: Dual nvidia 8600m gt @ 256mb each in SLI Dual 200gb sata drives BD-RE pata drive Intel Core 2 Duo T9300 @ 2.5Ghz Intel ICH8M Chipset ALC268 I have a…
10.X Core7,455 reads
2009-05-18 · 5 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (12)

Direct links into threads where @ludacrisvp contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
BCM5754/M,BCM5755/M,BCM5787/M,BCM5906/M NIC driver for 10.6 (32/64)
“Hey, we used Xcode to compile the kext again using your latest sources. The best we can get now is 100BaseTX Full-Duplex. Using the kext from May it loaded up as half duplex 100BaseTX. It does seem to drop out the connection after a few hou…”
10.X Core2011-07-28
273,637 dossier reads
BCM5754/M,BCM5755/M,BCM5787/M,BCM5906/M NIC driver for 10.6 (32/64)
“I did actually get it to almost work. I had to manually set the MAC address for my work network to allow DHCP on my corporate network to assign an IP for me. It starts to load a webpage and KP! With complaints about IONetworking.kext. If I …”
10.X Core2011-05-15
273,637 dossier reads
BCM5754/M,BCM5755/M,BCM5787/M,BCM5906/M NIC driver for 10.6 (32/64)
“Does not work on the Dell PowerEdge T110 (brand new Intel Xeon server) 14e4:165A kext appears to be able to be manually loaded but will not auto load and will not 'see' the device. LSPCI can see the card it is the BCM5722. So since the kext…”
10.X Core2011-05-03
273,637 dossier reads
NEW VoodooHDA Intel High Definition Audio Driver
“This is the only way to have sound working on my Toshiba X205-SLI6 laptop with ALC 268 0.2.2 w/ prefpane works nice.”
10.X Core2009-05-05
138,288 dossier reads
Snow Leopard's Boot Camp Includes HFS+ Windows Drivers
“How about allowing OS X to read and write NTFS volumes? Apple should have done that a long time ago. That is already included inside of Snow Leopard. Build 10a190 had read and write to NTFS and I would assume that the rest of them do too. w…”
Releases & News2009-05-12
60,678 dossier reads
Toshiba Satellite P100 - 425 (Intel 945GM)
“The only version of OSx that i have been able to have full support on my Toshiba x205sli6 is Leo4all 10.5.2 v3. But I have a different graphical accelerator than you do.”
10.X Core2009-08-21
37,933 dossier reads
Toshiba Satellite P100 - 425 (Intel 945GM)
“For sound you should check out VoodooHDA.kext I am 99% sure it will work for you. It works on my x205 when nothing else did.”
10.X Core2009-05-08
37,933 dossier reads
Which Mac(s) do you use or own
“Currently running Mac Pro (Early 2008) 2.8 GHz Octocore Overclocked stable @ 3.1Ghz 10 GB RAM 1.55TB hard drive space SATA optical drives by Samsung Booting Windows XP Pro, Vista Business x64, Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Beta, 10.5.6, 10.6 on a …”
Hardware & Dev2009-05-05
35,779 dossier reads
mach_kernel 9.2.2 and 9.2.2 System.kext for AMD
“Properly installed the 9.2.2 kernel and system.kext and my system just hangs on boot. I can boot with the 9.2.2 kext with my 9.2.0 kernel but my time machine doesnt work properly with either system.kext. It is making backups but i cannot en…”
10.X Core2008-04-02
29,851 dossier reads
Recommendation needed mini-pci wifi card
“I am using the 1390 in my laptop to replace the intel 4965abgn card that doesnt work under osx.”
10.X Core2009-05-15
9,718 dossier reads
cpu high temprature ...
“That sounds to me like AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext is installed and working. Try removing it.”
Leopard 10.52009-05-18
2,983 dossier reads
NEW VoodooHDA Intel High Definition Audio Driver
“Most likely to the above 2 posters”
10.X Core2009-05-20
138,288 dossier reads