#795 by Dispatches #1,676 by Author Reads #2,676 by Thread Reach Member #4,358 ATI Radeon NVIDIA GeForce
@max22
InfiniteMac community contributor with 10 recorded dispatches, 1 lead technical dossiers (6,285 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 62,663 historical readers.
Dispatches
10
Ranked #795 of 6,691
Author Reads
6,285
Ranked #1,676 · 1 dossiers
Thread Reach
62,663
Ranked #2,676 in reach
Lead Dossiers
1
6,285 avg reads / dossier
Member Number
#4,358
Joined 2009-01-19
Active Window
2009–2011
2009-02-08 → 2011-01-08
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
I'm using viarhine.kext on a asrock 4coredual motherboard.
- Archive Standing
- #795 of 6,691 by Dispatches (10 notes) · #1,676 of 3,454 by Author Readership (6,285 reads across 1 dossiers) · #2,676 by Thread Reach (62,663 cumulative reads)
- InfiniteMac ID
- Member #4,358 · Joined 2009-01-19
- Hardware & Kernel Topics
- ATI Radeon (2) · NVIDIA GeForce (1)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection
Distribution across 3 technical boards
Lead Dossiers Authored by @max22 (1)
6,285 cumulative reads on threads started by @max22
| Dossier Title & Summary | Collection | Readership |
|---|---|---|
| Network connection dropping my network connection drops after a while using leopard 10.5.6. I'm using viarhine.kext on a asrock 4coredual motherboard. A possible workarounds is setting cpus=1 at bootup, but this isn't relly an option. Any hints? max22 PS: Sorry, for… | Leopard 10.5 | 6,285 reads 2009-02-08 · 6 notes |
Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (9)
Direct links into threads where @max22 contributed solutions & commentary
| Thread & Dispatch Excerpt | Collection | Date & Reach |
|---|---|---|
| ATI 2600 xt pcie & Snow Leopard Troubles “don't think this is news, ati hd2600 is supported, but no QE -> still slow Just unterstood that the 2600XT on the imac work because they are Mobility Chips.” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-12-16 29,014 dossier reads |
| ATI 2600 xt pcie & Snow Leopard Troubles “I believe the issue is simply that no one is willing to put the effort forth to get the 2600 series to work with QE/CI on Snow Leopard. And that is a damn shame. try it better youself” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-11-15 29,014 dossier reads |
| ATI 2600 xt pcie & Snow Leopard Troubles “they have a different firmware also see http://netkas.org/?p=182 and www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html OpenCL requires one of the following graphics cards or graphics processors: * NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, GeForce 9600M GT, GeForce 8600M GT, GeF…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-10-02 29,014 dossier reads |
| boot0: error after Time Machine restore “didn't work for me, as /Extra/Extensions files aren't loaded and system doesn't bootup The error msg means, that the boot1 file can't be found. also one thing i learned: don't use something like this: "dd if=boot0file of=/dev/hdY" because i…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2011-01-08 16,721 dossier reads |
| Network connection dropping “I had to buy an Apple Ethernet USB adapter, seems to be better now (still some drops, but only a few times)” | Leopard 10.5 | 2009-03-19 6,285 dossier reads |
| Network connection dropping “i'm still getting random network dropouts, also with the new Realtek 8139-card. I've noticed, there are several different kexts for this card: PCGenRTL8139Ethernet-1.2.0.zip is working best for me (even in Leopard), the other kexts (AppleRT…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2009-02-26 6,285 dossier reads |
| OSx86 Library Build “I don't want to run this project down. But: The information should be kept in one place, editable by anybody (spell checking, fixing nonsense/not only by a moderator). under a cc licence. The format should be open, to make it possible to us…” | 10.X Core | 2009-02-11 5,957 dossier reads |
| OSx86 Library Build “do you mean http://www.insanelymac.com/osx86db/ ? why should we put the info in a library if you can use the wiki?” | 10.X Core | 2009-02-10 5,957 dossier reads |
| Simple, ONE last kext, please be courteous “There seem to exist different VENDOR-ID brandings for this chip. Only some are detected by OSX. see http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=208033 I would either try to reflash the chip (if you know how to do this) or better bu…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2010-03-15 4,686 dossier reads |