Mac OS X on x86 Hardware 2008–2024 Technical Archive
Member #4,272 · 2009-01-14 → 2009-02-12
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@PangOS

InfiniteMac community contributor with 8 recorded dispatches, participating in discussions reaching 91,699 historical readers.

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Member Number #4,272 Joined 2009-01-14
Active Window 2009 2009-01-14 → 2009-02-12
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#985 of 6,691 by Dispatches (8 notes) · #2,309 by Thread Reach (91,699 cumulative reads)
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Member #4,272 · Joined 2009-01-14
Hardware & Kernel Topics
ALC889a / Audio (3) · NVIDIA GeForce (3) · AMD OSx86 (2) · AHCI / SATA (2) · Voodoo / XNU Kernel (1)
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Leopard 10.5
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Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (8)

Direct links into threads where @PangOS contributed solutions & commentary

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LawlessPPC Phenom & AMD 10.5.4 Beta Release Discussion
“Ok, after erasing and re-installing and updating I have a nice working install. Except... Before when I installed, I installed sound by using an ALC883 Package I downloaded. It worked fine. Some installs afterward I used a driver and it gav…”
Leopard 10.52009-02-12
91,699 dossier reads
LawlessPPC Phenom & AMD 10.5.4 Beta Release Discussion
“Still running my Lawless installed, it's the only distro that boots and installs on my M2A-VM HDMI. Seems installing the AppleVIAATA.kext from the Slashack post cured the freezes with the 8GB RAM, But I can't see my PATA Drives (1 HD, 1 Pio…”
Leopard 10.52009-02-10
91,699 dossier reads
LawlessPPC Phenom & AMD 10.5.4 Beta Release Discussion
“all this is because you are running more than 3.5gb of memory. You need to use a 64bit aware kext or driver for your sata/ide. Yeah, after I posted I came across the Slashack postings and so on. I grabbed the VIAATA kext from the posts and …”
Leopard 10.52009-02-09
91,699 dossier reads
LawlessPPC Phenom & AMD 10.5.4 Beta Release Discussion
“have you tried booting in safe mode -x Need some help... Lawless PPC seems to be the latest install that would work for me (10.5.4) on my ASUS M2A-VM HDMI. All the other distros are "Still Waiting for root Device" Idunno how long they gonna…”
Leopard 10.52009-02-09
91,699 dossier reads
LawlessPPC Phenom & AMD 10.5.4 Beta Release Discussion
“have you tried booting in safe mode -x I did edit the post, problem was the NVInject and kexts on the disc. After many many many methods, Using NVinstaller v5.2 and grabbed a GeForce8xxxGLDriver.bundle from 10.5.2 NVkexts+.pkg However I can…”
Leopard 10.52009-01-15
91,699 dossier reads
LawlessPPC Phenom & AMD 10.5.4 Beta Release Discussion
“interesting this is news to me! Well, I found that out when trying to install on my machine. Even on my older ASUS K8VSE DLX it did it. When booting from the DVD and it's loading the drivers for the drive I usually hear the drive spin up, w…”
Leopard 10.52009-01-14
91,699 dossier reads
LawlessPPC Phenom & AMD 10.5.4 Beta Release Discussion
“to run a different kernel you must install it. I dont mind answering questions but i feel you should be searching the forums for some of your answers as these have all been answered on a number of occasions. If i keep giving the answers so …”
Leopard 10.52009-01-14
91,699 dossier reads
LawlessPPC Phenom & AMD 10.5.4 Beta Release Discussion
“k, and why, after installing sucesfully 2nd time(first time crashed), when it boots the install disc it dosen't enter mac it stops in the darwin boatloader. do i have to enter a command like startx ? You have to turn off the PC and turn it …”
Leopard 10.52009-01-14
91,699 dossier reads