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Member #8,777 · 2009-09-26 → 2010-01-27
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@never_mind

InfiniteMac community contributor with 23 recorded dispatches, 1 lead technical dossiers (142,213 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 986,491 historical readers.

Dispatches 23 Ranked #317 of 6,691
Author Reads 142,213 Ranked #74 · 1 dossiers
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Lead Dossiers 1 142,213 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #8,777 Joined 2009-07-22
Active Window 2009–2010 2009-09-26 → 2010-01-27
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#317 of 6,691 by Dispatches (23 notes) · #74 of 3,454 by Author Readership (142,213 reads across 1 dossiers) · #514 by Thread Reach (986,491 cumulative reads)
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Member #8,777 · Joined 2009-07-22
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Hardware & Kernel Topics
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10.X Core
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Lead Dossiers Authored by @never_mind (1)

142,213 cumulative reads on threads started by @never_mind

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
Anyone FULL CI/QE/resolution on any AGP Video Card in Snow Leopard
Anyone out there using an AGP Video Card in Snow Leopard that is supporting full CI/QE and resolution change? Please share your experience! N.M. (p.s. Asking because I haven't come across anyone that has AGP video fully working yet)
10.X Core142,213 reads
2009-10-19 · 18 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (22)

Direct links into threads where @never_mind contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Anyone FULL CI/QE/resolution on any AGP Video Card in Snow Leopard
“Thank you for your further info/anwers. Somehow i keep getting this KP, even though I've repaired permissions and built an mkext of /s/l/e. Maybe I will get there later |-) Thanks again! nm nevermind: Best of luck with your project!”
10.X Core2009-10-30
142,213 dossier reads
Anyone FULL CI/QE/resolution on any AGP Video Card in Snow Leopard
“Thanks a bunch for you reply, greatly appreciated! More hope for AGP I've a Geforce 6200 AGP 256MB myself, so I guess this enabler could work for me too. I am trying it at the moment, I get the login prompt, but when I log in i get a kernel…”
10.X Core2009-10-28
142,213 dossier reads
Anyone FULL CI/QE/resolution on any AGP Video Card in Snow Leopard
“An alternative might be to get a Geforce 9400 or 9500 GT PCI Card - Sparkle produced such… Hi! Thanks for that info, didn't even know they exist Have seen somewhere on a forum that it can work in Leo, wonder if it works in SL too Wonder eve…”
10.X Core2009-10-21
142,213 dossier reads
Snow Leopard xnu kernel test patch
“Mmm, i didn't get any errors in pexpert... Did you see my PM? Yes it did No errors when it generated... Generating bsd/sys/sysproto.h from /Users/paulzurrr/Desktop/XNU/xnu-1456.1.26/bsd/kern/syscalls.master Here is the generated sysproto.h …”
10.X Core2009-09-30
106,479 dossier reads
Snow Leopard xnu kernel test patch
“What do you mean with original? Cause i dont have sysproto.h. Only when i apply andy's patch... Edit: When deleted its generated from syscalls.master... Sorry, I meant after the patch.. I don't know, that generated one didn't work right?”
10.X Core2009-09-30
106,479 dossier reads
Snow Leopard xnu kernel test patch
“Not sure if this was "right", but what i did is put the sysproto.h from the 10.6 SDK in bsd/sys/ and included the bit in there that was in the original bsd/sys/sysproto.h That takes me past that error.. never_mind, did you figured out the p…”
10.X Core2009-09-30
106,479 dossier reads
Snow Leopard xnu kernel test patch
“wait, now i get it, slave_tsc_init moved, so i guess those declarations need to go somplace else.. ok for now i just chucked those static definitions it needs into the file Now, I ended up at an important bit! SSE3 emulator start! Arrgh. No…”
10.X Core2009-09-30
106,479 dossier reads
Snow Leopard xnu kernel test patch
“wait, now i get it, slave_tsc_init moved, so i guess those declarations need to go somplace else.. Morning I get these errors now: xnu-1456.1.26/osfmk/i386/i386_init.c: In function ‘slave_tsc_init’: /xnu-1456.1.26/osfmk/i386/i386_init.c:679…”
10.X Core2009-09-30
106,479 dossier reads
Snow Leopard xnu kernel test patch
“Yeah... same time here... 22:58... Also is early day for me tomorrow but I'll continue a little bit longer Morning I get these errors now: That stuff it errors on is defined in osfmk/i386/mp.c, but I don't get how this should be available i…”
10.X Core2009-09-30
106,479 dossier reads
Snow Leopard xnu kernel test patch
“Since the installer can't load up due to the not working kernel... I tried installing from USB HD Oh hehe, i thought you tried to install via OSinstall.mpkg... Need that kernel too BTW, I am compiling the SL kernel on LEO. That of course do…”
10.X Core2009-09-29
106,479 dossier reads
Snow Leopard xnu kernel test patch
“I am not pleased with the modbin kernel... It panics right after init I'm not able to install SL on my external HD Me neither! Need custom kernel with SSE3 emulator, or no go Forward we go! p.s. why are you not able to install it on externa…”
10.X Core2009-09-29
106,479 dossier reads
Snow Leopard xnu kernel test patch
“look for the file in spotlight use /usr/bin/mig to try to mig it... Check the returned info + files + line Hi Andy, migging the .h file (there's no .mig files?) is giving me buckets of error, but also on other .h files, so I am probably not…”
10.X Core2009-09-29
106,479 dossier reads
Snow Leopard xnu kernel test patch
“Check task_access_server.mig... Try manually migging it and check for errors, then let me know... Could you give me some hints on howto do that please?”
10.X Core2009-09-28
106,479 dossier reads
Snow Leopard xnu kernel test patch
“btw, "why is the rum gone?" sse3emu.c: ///////////////////// #include /* kaitek: the SSE3 emulator is automatically disabled if sse3emu_size is zero. */ const uint8_t sse3emu_data = { 0x00 }; const uint32_t sse3emu_size = 0; ///////////////…”
10.X Core2009-09-28
106,479 dossier reads
Snow Leopard xnu kernel test patch
“I guess _SYS_LINKER_SET_H_ is not defined (should it be?), cause if code in libkern/libkern/kernel_mach_header.h is changed to : //#ifndef _SYS_LINKER_SET_H_ void *getsectdatafromheader(kernel_mach_header_t *, const char *, const char *, un…”
10.X Core2009-09-28
106,479 dossier reads
Snow Leopard xnu kernel test patch
“getsectdatafromheader is declared in you should put #include into the failing header That should fix this up Should the "Missing }." that is mentioned in RMB post also be caused by a missing inclusion of the libkern/kernel_mach_header.h? Wh…”
10.X Core2009-09-27
106,479 dossier reads
Snow Leopard xnu kernel test patch
“how apply the patch? patch -p0 -i xnu-1456.1.26-AnV_test.diff from the directory you have both the patch and the sources in (in xnu-1456.1.26)”
10.X Core2009-09-27
106,479 dossier reads
AnV XNU 9.8.0 V1.7
“nope... no sources available for sse3emu in voodoo style kernel... sorry... only SSE3 x86_64 Hiya Andy! Great to hear that you are working on a 10.0.0 kernel! Very disappointing though to read about the SSE3 emulator. Here you mention it wo…”
10.X Core2009-09-26
79,843 dossier reads
10.6.2 Kernel - Pcj XNU Release
“Thank you for the kernel! Finally trying it. Running the PCJ Release v0.9 now on my P4 with SSE2 only. It seems to have the similar issues for my like the 10.0.0 qoopz kernel (quick list): - high cpu for some processes at some point (Finder…”
10.X Core2010-01-03
76,126 dossier reads
AnV Qoopz based Darwin 10.2.0 kernel 32/64-bit
“Do people run SL without the described problems when they have a Pentium (4) that does have SSE3 instructions and this legacy kernel? So, do you have Pentium (4) +SSE3, and do you use this/a legacy kernel without (described) problems? Let u…”
10.X Core2010-01-27
73,341 dossier reads
AnV Qoopz based Darwin 10.2.0 kernel 32/64-bit
“Thank you for your version of the kernel, great! Running this on my P4/SSE2 only Looks like date/time is working better with this one, time seems right now, and now viewable in menu bar, date partly ok too, but the callender is not complete…”
10.X Core2010-01-04
73,341 dossier reads
List of NVIDIA GPUs supported in Snow Leopard 10.6.1
“thank you for this info Gives hope for my GF6200 (0221)”
10.X Core2009-10-12
508,489 dossier reads