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Member #2,821 · 2008-10-14 → 2009-11-08
#346 by Dispatches #2,526 by Author Reads #711 by Thread Reach Member #2,821 AMD OSx86 NVIDIA GeForce Voodoo / XNU Kernel

@markswell

InfiniteMac community contributor with 23 recorded dispatches, 1 lead technical dossiers (3,819 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 871,427 historical readers.

Dispatches 21 Ranked #346 of 6,691
Author Reads 3,819 Ranked #2,526 · 1 dossiers
Thread Reach 871,427 Ranked #711 in reach
Lead Dossiers 1 3,819 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #2,821 Joined 2008-10-14
Active Window 2008–2009 2008-10-14 → 2009-11-08
Archive Standing
#346 of 6,691 by Dispatches (21 notes) · #2,526 of 3,454 by Author Readership (3,819 reads across 1 dossiers) · #711 by Thread Reach (871,427 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #2,821 · Joined 2008-10-14
Hardware & Kernel Topics
AMD OSx86 (5) · NVIDIA GeForce (4) · Voodoo / XNU Kernel (2) · Chameleon / Boot-132 (2) · ATI Radeon (1) · EVGA / X58 (1)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 5 technical boards

10.X Core
10 (48%)
International
2 (10%)
Leopard 10.5
1 (5%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @markswell (1)

3,819 cumulative reads on threads started by @markswell

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
Which videocard do you suggest
I decide to to sell my eah 3650 512Mb ddr2 silent magic. so wich nvidia you recommended.Is it true 9600GSO working in the box and wich video working in the box.Wich model vendor etc thanks very much
10.X Core3,819 reads
2008-10-16 · 4 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (20)

Direct links into threads where @markswell contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Installing Snow Leopard on ThinkPad X61
“some kernel functions like cpu identification change place in 10.6 so need wait 10.6 xnu apple sources release. beside this i think i knows how to make only for intel,much code lazing)”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-23
410,328 dossier reads
Coming Soon: iPC OSx86 Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3 (10.5.5)
“may be my radeon asus 3650 512mb ddr2 will work like in zeph os x”
10.X Core2008-10-14
127,513 dossier reads
10.5.6 Released
“new voodoo it's seems to be okey and now it's not need to asu i've install original apple update”
10.X Core2008-12-18
80,667 dossier reads
10.5.6 Released
“installed okey but ps/2 port not work,will try again when buy usb keyboard+mouse”
10.X Core2008-12-18
80,667 dossier reads
Snow Leopard kexts
“Wow really? Including the injectors, hdaenablers and so on? So most of the hackintosh kexts we have now are worthless for Snow? Is there a list of known 64-bit capable kexts? I'm afraid we would be running Snow in 32 bits for a loooooong ti…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-07-03
55,215 dossier reads
Wrong CPU info
“Apply "AboutThisMac" and all things go fine. media fire.com/?429xddziskv it's just picture in about this mac window, not info from system. то есть херня а не фикс.”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-23
20,733 dossier reads
Wrong CPU info
“could someone confirm that in snow leopard "system profiler" no information is given regarding the various CPU extensions (sse2/3 etc..) ? SL showed wrong cpu information that i correct with smbios.plist but i have no information about the …”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-23
20,733 dossier reads
Snow Leopard + Chameleon + PCEFI v10
“any chameleon2 based loaders has panic isue when mkext and kext permission is incorrect. but with right system cache chameleon 2 work's with 10.6 okey,so if you install via OSInstall.mpkg do repair permission and rebuild cache. only PCEFIv9…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-22
20,477 dossier reads
Для русскоязычных пользователей.
“скучно здесь гуру админы модеры ходют никто ничего не отвечает,пойду отсюда в другие места.”
International2009-07-03
19,652 dossier reads
Для русскоязычных пользователей.
“купи usb мышь и клаву и забудь о такого рода проблемах”
International2008-12-28
19,652 dossier reads
Snow Leopard AMD
“if you are novice maybe you would wait for full featured non legacy amd kernel,that be only after realese 10.6 legacy kernel has some limitation.”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-07-28
16,067 dossier reads
SL -> 32bit vs 64bit, kexts, Chameleon2RC2 and banana split with chocolate sprinkles
“r1000 need some change,not only recompiling. And you are now fully right. 10.6 sdk support kernel extensions x86_64 and i386. 10.5 support only i386. the people usually say 32 and 64bit,it's true to windows system for example.on windows64 a…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-14
15,137 dossier reads
Trying to run Vanilla with Chameleon 2, need some help
“althought don't want to create new thread so post there. Since source chameleon 2 and netkas PCI EFI v10 available anyone trying to vuild them? i don't like some default setting /i386/libsaio/smbios_patcher.c exactly static int sm_get_memsp…”
Leopard 10.52009-07-01
12,526 dossier reads
OSx86 tools at one place
“I think my tool can also be useful media fire.com/download.php?mr3ng52je05 generally developing is on projectosx forum. tool can monitoring fans voltage temps from supported motherboards super i/o even with amd cpu,and if motherboard anothe…”
10.X Core2009-11-08
11,573 dossier reads
Quick time 7.5.5 released
“i also want download patched quictime 7.5 or 7.4 neither asu or marvin's not help”
10.X Core2008-10-14
5,241 dossier reads
most powerful
“Ati generally isn't recommended for OS X... nVidia is way more supported.. try looking at the 9800 gtx, or the 8800 gt. I'm not sure about the most powerful. The current OS X drivers only support up to 9xxx cards at the moment.. 10.6 suppor…”
10.X Core2009-07-02
4,945 dossier reads
Which one Works the Best
“Its totaly depend on your hardware i'l try many amd distros only Kalyway don't loading on my machine,still waiting for root devices,all other work.Allthought i most like anbd everythink work on my amd machine leo4allv4.1”
10.X Core2008-12-14
4,247 dossier reads
What video card do you recommend
“Ah, thanks for the reply. I suppose I could go with the 9800, but I wouldn't mind something a little more powerful (especially for games in Windows). No one knows anything about the other cards I mentioned? GT200 doesn't support out of the …”
10.X Core2009-07-23
3,917 dossier reads
Which videocard do you suggest
“There are various graphic cards that work very well with OSx86. However, your decision should depend on your requirements. How much performance do you need? What is your range of application? For instance, I use a NVidia 7600 GT 256MB. It w…”
10.X Core2008-10-16
3,819 dossier reads
PC EFI V10 now released with Snow Leopard support
“the sources available. Anyone knows how to make?”
Releases & News2009-07-02
59,370 dossier reads