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Member #22,023 · 2010-03-31 → 2012-03-16
#75 by Dispatches #1,271 by Author Reads #476 by Thread Reach Member #22,023 AMD OSx86 Voodoo / XNU Kernel Gigabyte G31M / P35

@RayFlower

InfiniteMac community contributor with 93 recorded dispatches, 2 lead technical dossiers (8,835 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 1,064,341 historical readers.

Dispatches 93 Ranked #75 of 6,691
Author Reads 8,835 Ranked #1,271 · 2 dossiers
Thread Reach 1,064,341 Ranked #476 in reach
Lead Dossiers 2 4,418 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #22,023 Joined 2010-01-14
Active Window 2010–2012 2010-03-31 → 2012-03-16
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
Using a Phenom II X4 945 · Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD3P Sweet, any chance to get this working with other multi core processors? · I have a phenom II x4, i guess i could try and see if this works out of the box
Archive Standing
#75 of 6,691 by Dispatches (93 notes) · #1,271 of 3,454 by Author Readership (8,835 reads across 2 dossiers) · #476 by Thread Reach (1,064,341 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #22,023 · Joined 2010-01-14
Hardware & Kernel Topics
AMD OSx86 (31) · Voodoo / XNU Kernel (7) · Gigabyte G31M / P35 (3) · DSDT (3) · Chameleon / Boot-132 (3) · ATI Radeon (1)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 3 technical boards

Lead Dossiers Authored by @RayFlower (2)

8,835 cumulative reads on threads started by @RayFlower

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
Steam on AMD on snow leopard
Does not work for me, never has, but works fine on the same hardware in leopard, anyone else experiencing this?
10.X Core4,812 reads
2010-09-12 · 5 notes
Midiserver issues
I have been using my hackintosh for music making for several years now, recently I have gotten a few issues with it: Just to give you my specs: Model: MacPro 3,1, BootROM MP31.00C1.B00, 4 processors, 3.01 GHz, 4 GB, SMC 1.13f3 (It's a amd…
Snow Leopard 10.64,023 reads
2012-03-12 · 2 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (40)

Direct links into threads where @RayFlower contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support
“Latest AMD Fusion Mobile & Embedded cores have SSSE3 implementation & I think we will see Desktop CPUs with SSSE3 support end of this year. There are some Mini-ITX boards using AMD Zacate (Brazos) cores - some less then 100€ (like the E350I…”
10.X Core2011-08-23
165,733 dossier reads
Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support
“Uhm am i the only one that desires a ssse3 emulator for snow leopard?”
10.X Core2011-08-19
165,733 dossier reads
10.6.6 legacy kernel for INTEL/AMD 32+64bit ready to download
“Thanks for another update, I'm not a developer but i tried your kernel anyway: Logic doesn't seem to co-operate very well with this kernel: In 64bit mode with the 32-bit audio unit bridge: paste bin.com/6wz6hDrY 32Bit mode: paste bin.com/8R…”
10.X Core2011-01-25
109,368 dossier reads
10.6.6 legacy kernel for INTEL/AMD 32+64bit ready to download
“hum i downloaded the sources and compiled upx and packed /System/Library/CoreServices/pbs mail didn't work but i packed the binary and then it works. I don't know the benefits of this system yet or how much of the system that needs patching…”
10.X Core2011-01-16
109,368 dossier reads
Blackknight (AnV/Qoopz-based) kernel w/corrected Phenom FSB detection
“Awesome, can't wait! Considered making a sourceforge account with svn/cvs/git or something when its done so people can easier contribute to the project opposed to rapidsharing thing? Just a suggestion anyway, glad to see that someone is ded…”
10.X Core2010-06-03
90,162 dossier reads
Blackknight (AnV/Qoopz-based) kernel w/corrected Phenom FSB detection
“A phenom optimized leopard kernel would be most welcome!”
10.X Core2010-05-03
90,162 dossier reads
Blackknight (AnV/Qoopz-based) kernel w/corrected Phenom FSB detection
“Thanks, this kernel works fine for me with the exception of 64bit of course, however about the dyld fix, was this something that worked in leopard and can be backwards engineered or is this something completely different that will be hard t…”
10.X Core2010-04-21
90,162 dossier reads
Blackknight (AnV/Qoopz-based) kernel w/corrected Phenom FSB detection
“Did you notice that the kernel is for 10.6.2 and not 10.6.3? Wait for a new kernel based on 10.6.3. Yes, that I'm fully aware of, however i did a clean install, turns out my cpuids that i "fixed" with marvins tool caused a lot of touble, an…”
10.X Core2010-04-03
90,162 dossier reads
Blackknight (AnV/Qoopz-based) kernel w/corrected Phenom FSB detection
“Hey, this didn't work for me after upgrading to 10.6.3 and replacing the mach_kernel with this one i get the following kernel panic: Using a Phenom II X4 945 Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD3P”
10.X Core2010-03-31
90,162 dossier reads
Support for some HD5000 series GFX cards emerged in MacMini 10.6.4 Image
“Seems to work flawlessly in combination with 10.6.7 when i use the graphics enabler too, think I'm just going to stick with this for a while, has there been any new lion betas with new updates recently?”
10.X Core2011-04-11
65,749 dossier reads
Support for some HD5000 series GFX cards emerged in MacMini 10.6.4 Image
“Same, I don't really care about Benchmarks but I prefer to get things like that working in case It's a serious error that other things might bump into. Have you tried some steam apps with this driver?”
10.X Core2011-03-08
65,749 dossier reads
Support for some HD5000 series GFX cards emerged in MacMini 10.6.4 Image
“That almost worked out of the box on my 5750 hd, just had to add the devid(0x68be*) to the info.plist in ATI5000Controller.kext This is very good news indeed, but geekbench still crashes:S Can anyone else with a 5x series try geekbench and …”
10.X Core2011-03-08
65,749 dossier reads
Support for some HD5000 series GFX cards emerged in MacMini 10.6.4 Image
“Any idea as to why my 5750 can't go beyond these half year old drivers without a completely messed up framebuffer? As for now replacing ATIFramebuffer.kext ATISupport.kext and ATI5000Controller.kext with these ones does the trick without to…”
10.X Core2011-03-02
65,749 dossier reads
Support for some HD5000 series GFX cards emerged in MacMini 10.6.4 Image
“Yeah, i did that, but it only works when i use hdmi2dvi and dvi on my monitor at the same time, which is okay for now i guess:) Anyhow, thanks for the help!”
10.X Core2010-07-05
65,749 dossier reads
Support for some HD5000 series GFX cards emerged in MacMini 10.6.4 Image
“I don't get a kernel panic now. This "sortof" works with vga, however its stuck with silly displaymodes. Acutually... this is really odd, when i plug in hdmi dvi and hdmi i can get 1920x1200 on the hdmi output... but all i get is a blue scr…”
10.X Core2010-07-05
65,749 dossier reads
Support for some HD5000 series GFX cards emerged in MacMini 10.6.4 Image
“I didn't have much sucess with my 5750 but it was worth a try:”
10.X Core2010-07-05
65,749 dossier reads
Legacy kernel 10.4.0 updated
“uhm the rapidshare link is dead:S could you please upload it again?”
10.X Core2010-11-11
61,378 dossier reads
Legacy kernel 10.4.0 updated
“Just saw this when i booted now: warning: kernel was not built with custom dyld blob warning: using standard dyld with patcher enabled”
10.X Core2010-10-21
61,378 dossier reads
Legacy kernel 10.4.0 updated
“Thanks for another update, now the backtrace works so it gives a very verbose crash report, for the sake of not flooding this post I pastebin'd it: Steam paste bin.com/dQRYMwtd And this is the crash report i get when i try to use/validate m…”
10.X Core2010-10-05
61,378 dossier reads
Legacy kernel 10.4.0 updated
“The kernel patches? You wont need them unless you plan to modify the source yourself, i haven't done it in osx for ages but check out this if you're interested. shantonu.blog spot.com/2009/09/mac-os-x-kernel-source-xnu-has-been.html And ple…”
10.X Core2010-09-24
61,378 dossier reads
Legacy kernel 10.4.0 updated
“when patching with amd ins patcher it says bus error Same here:S”
10.X Core2010-09-19
61,378 dossier reads
Legacy kernel 10.4.0 updated
“Thanks for yet another kernel andy! I still have the problems i had before with steam and abobe cs3 pse and cs5 and some au plugins though. Just out of curiosity, does this make any sense to you?:”
10.X Core2010-09-17
61,378 dossier reads
Legacy kernel 10.7.0 with custom dyld (now also with atom patch)
“There is nothing wrong with using the nawcom kernel, Anv kernel has a custom dyld and it does not work with every application. Your flags look right but also add "std_dyld=yes", it will work the same way as the nawcom kernel. Custom dyld is…”
10.X Core2011-04-20
59,085 dossier reads
Legacy kernel 10.7.0 with custom dyld (now also with atom patch)
“uhm, that doesn't decrypt anything though, besides thats done in the kernel now, I only use that to patch some libs that crashes some apps. Anyhow, if there is a good and safe way to decrypt binaries i would be a lot more likely to use the …”
10.X Core2011-04-18
59,085 dossier reads
Legacy kernel 10.7.0 with custom dyld (now also with atom patch)
“hum, are there any tools that i can use to decrypt these apple binaries?”
10.X Core2011-04-17
59,085 dossier reads
DSDT Auto-Patcher
“Nice, have I understood this correctly if I assume these fixes are motherboard specific? Or can it detect errors in a dsdt and fix things independent of the model? I have a GA-870A-UD3 and I'm having firewire issues so I have to use cpu=3 i…”
10.X Core2010-11-30
50,022 dossier reads
Qoopz AnV xnu 10.4.0 Rel4
“They don't have any backtraces... It's too bad as I can't find what is causing the issue this way (damn, too bad). It's also too bad I don't have an AMD around so I could test it myself. I'll continue the work though Is there anyway i could…”
10.X Core2010-08-28
41,686 dossier reads
Qoopz AnV xnu 10.4.0 Rel4
“Thanks eMatos, that did the trick! Also for my benchmarking: Turns out the tests done there gives -force64 the better hand but my results there are marginal. An on other news i noticed some new(to me) errors in some software i have: and”
10.X Core2010-08-26
41,686 dossier reads
Qoopz AnV xnu 10.4.0 Rel4
“I noticed with -force64 its rather slow myself but without that flag its as efficient as it should be, anyhow this is the first revision of a kernel/dyld that can use 64bit binaries simultaneously as 32 bit on amd so i guess it can take a b…”
10.X Core2010-08-26
41,686 dossier reads
Qoopz AnV xnu 10.4.0 Rel4
“Thanks again for the quick fix, there are some improvements over the last that I've identified, for instance i can now use Logic with the 32bit audio unit bridge in 64bit mode, that is very nice! however some plugins still crashes the audio…”
10.X Core2010-08-21
41,686 dossier reads
Qoopz AnV xnu 10.4.0 Rel4
“It's not working under 64-32bit if I don't use patcher_opts=2, same kp as the one above. Once it boots in 32bit everything seems fine. ^this Oh and to clear up, do we have to use -force64 or arch=x86_64 on amd with this kernel? Well, I stil…”
10.X Core2010-08-18
41,686 dossier reads
AnVAL (ACPI Loader)
“Got my new Lacie Firewire 400 pci today, and it seems to behave a bit better.. But 5.1.2 has the same issues a i had with my built in fw, i guess its because it reports a fsbfreq of 215, forcing it down to 100 has no effect on this, it repo…”
10.X Core2011-02-02
39,980 dossier reads
AnVAL (ACPI Loader)
“hum i couldn't find out which one i was using but i gave 5.0.9 a shoot and the audio works just fine with that as well: here is the bdmesg: paste bin.com/fXQ73x4E hum with this this the sound actually works so well that I don't need cpus-3 …”
10.X Core2011-01-29
39,980 dossier reads
AnVAL (ACPI Loader)
“Whoops, sorry here it is: For 5.1.2 paste bin.com/FCxxrwWV And for an earlier version that doesn't make my sound glitch: paste bin.com/r1haReDL”
10.X Core2011-01-29
39,980 dossier reads
AnVAL (ACPI Loader)
“did u tried booting with ForceFSB (in boot.plist) ? which value did u give it ? what about 5.1.2 ? hum since my processor and mobo doesn't specify a fsb(uses hypertransport instead) value i just blindly tried 266 but didn't help at all Also…”
10.X Core2011-01-29
39,980 dossier reads
AnVAL (ACPI Loader)
“Tried the custom rc5 installer, boots just fine. copied the boot, same issue as before I'm afraid:)”
10.X Core2011-01-29
39,980 dossier reads
AnVAL (ACPI Loader)
“hum well, it sounds silly i guess, but every time i try a bootloader that fails to boot anything I would have to boot either another drive with a working bootloader or a boot cd to fix it:) How to do it hum.. well a menu system like grub wo…”
10.X Core2011-01-18
39,980 dossier reads
AnVAL (ACPI Loader)
“Sounds good, I'm just wondering if there could be a option to chose between multiple boot files in the boot loader itself. And since this fix seems to be something that is going away from new kernels, wouldn't it make sense that we could ho…”
10.X Core2011-01-18
39,980 dossier reads
AnVAL (ACPI Loader)
“hum I tried your 5.1.3 fixed but it doesn't boot for me, its just stuck at a black screen showing something like "/", I guess I'm the only one experiencing this?”
10.X Core2011-01-16
39,980 dossier reads
AnVAL (ACPI Loader)
“am sorry about sound. regarding the kernel I just realize the hassle, as other testers never complained about. The boot-loader is also acting strangely P-State 2: Frequency: 400, Multiplier: 2, vid: 32 P-State 3: Frequency: 800, Multiplier:…”
10.X Core2011-01-13
39,980 dossier reads