Mac OS X on x86 Hardware 2008–2024 Technical Archive
Member #562 · 2008-02-05 → 2008-04-07
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@onAir

InfiniteMac community contributor with 10 recorded dispatches, participating in discussions reaching 187,195 historical readers.

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Member Number #562 Joined 2008-02-03
Active Window 2008 2008-02-05 → 2008-04-07
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#769 of 6,691 by Dispatches (10 notes) · #1,782 by Thread Reach (187,195 cumulative reads)
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Member #562 · Joined 2008-02-03
Hardware & Kernel Topics
AMD OSx86 (3) · AHCI / SATA (1)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 3 technical boards

Leopard 10.5
7 (70%)
10.X Core
2 (20%)

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (10)

Direct links into threads where @onAir contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
AMD Dual Core Timing Issue AKA Mouse Bug
“havent ever thought about temperature problems with my x2 4600+ running on 2,8 GHz with a big scythe mugen cooling fan on it. by the matter of fact that my cpu temps are about 55 degrees on vista64 running crysis or prime95 and no errors on…”
Leopard 10.52008-03-26
134,652 dossier reads
AMD Dual Core Timing Issue AKA Mouse Bug
“disabling energy saving features of the cpu sounds pretty clear... i bet if i try without that but disable the second core the mouse problem will be gone... but i wont try coz i dont have the time to test that, more have another problem btw…”
Leopard 10.52008-03-25
134,652 dossier reads
AMD Dual Core Timing Issue AKA Mouse Bug
“hehe sorry im not sure about the exact function, but it works for me and i thought i have to let u all know about that if u find more infos about that i would really appreciate sharing them with us although im not as interested in it as i w…”
Leopard 10.52008-03-25
134,652 dossier reads
AMD Dual Core Timing Issue AKA Mouse Bug
“im think its preventing the second core for stopping in idle mode”
Leopard 10.52008-03-25
134,652 dossier reads
AMD Dual Core Timing Issue AKA Mouse Bug
“didnt read all 9 sites of this thread - weird i dontknow if the mouse problem is still active... anyway i had the same prob and i enter following kernel flag to my boot.plist: Kernel Flags idlehalt=0 thats all never had any bad mouse issue …”
Leopard 10.52008-03-25
134,652 dossier reads
mach_kernel 9.2.2 and 9.2.2 System.kext for AMD
“can anyone tell me why my pc is rebooting automatically every night? is it a bug or just a cleaning procedure i have to switch off? im not sure if it comes from kernel 9.2.2”
10.X Core2008-04-07
29,851 dossier reads
mach_kernel 9.2.2 and 9.2.2 System.kext for AMD
“yamatoHD remove extensions.mkext and reboot without any -f or whatever... ______________________ my system worked with 9.2.2 kernel and system.kext better than now with all updates installed sure i ran marvin's utility and replaced decrypts…”
10.X Core2008-04-05
29,851 dossier reads
Software Update
“hey i'm using zeph's rev.2 with all updates except of timemachine (i dont need time machine and airport but it messed up my last install with a lot of bugs), using kernel 9.2.2, system.kext 9.2.2 and latest smbios.kext everyting seems to be…”
Leopard 10.52008-04-06
6,293 dossier reads
How to add a volume to bootloader
“u can set the default hdd to boot off in the bios settings my bios allows to press f11 during self-test to choose the boot drive ...just if u dont want a bootmanager”
Leopard 10.52008-02-05
3,469 dossier reads
New Desktop & About This Mac Thread
“heyo! this is mine...”
Software & Kexts2008-02-27
12,930 dossier reads