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Member #34,433 · 2010-09-16 → 2010-09-22
#717 by Dispatches #896 by Author Reads #2,731 by Thread Reach Member #34,433 Voodoo / XNU Kernel AMD OSx86 NVIDIA GeForce

@richiekh

InfiniteMac community contributor with 11 recorded dispatches, 2 lead technical dossiers (12,858 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 58,104 historical readers.

Dispatches 11 Ranked #717 of 6,691
Author Reads 12,858 Ranked #896 · 2 dossiers
Thread Reach 58,104 Ranked #2,731 in reach
Lead Dossiers 2 6,429 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #34,433 Joined 2010-09-16
Active Window 2010 2010-09-16 → 2010-09-22
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
Specs: · Mobo: Asus M2N-XE · CPU: AMD Phenom X4 9500 Quad Core · GPU: Asus Nvidia Geforce 8800GT 512mb · RAM: 2x 1GB OCZ XTC GOLD 800 Mhz DDR2 My specs: · Asus m2n-xe mobo, · AMD Phenom x4 9500 Quad Core Processor ~2.21 Ghz · 2x 1GB OCZ GOLD XTC DDR2 800Mhz Memory · Asus Nvidia Geforce 8800GT 512mb video. · Some unknown tv-tuner card, · And some standard realtek pci ethernet card of 10/100mbit (which works in safe boot)
Archive Standing
#717 of 6,691 by Dispatches (11 notes) · #896 of 3,454 by Author Readership (12,858 reads across 2 dossiers) · #2,731 by Thread Reach (58,104 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #34,433 · Joined 2010-09-16
Website
ani road.net
Hardware & Kernel Topics
Voodoo / XNU Kernel (3) · AMD OSx86 (2) · NVIDIA GeForce (2)
Frequent Thread Collaborators
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 2 technical boards

10.X Core
1 (9%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @richiekh (2)

12,858 cumulative reads on threads started by @richiekh

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
Kernel & system.kext doesnt match
Searching on the net, this seems to be a common issue. I'm not able to plug any usb device without rebooting the mac. First thing i've found on the net, was that (most likely) the kernel and system.kext doesn't match. I've checked, and…
Snow Leopard 10.67,870 reads
2010-09-20 · 10 notes
Another panic (0x2a7e57)
i'm pretty new to the all hackintosh stuff. Though I really wanted to give it a try. So untill now I wasted 3 dvd's for 3 differend versions of Mac OS X 86. And finally the snow leopard 10.6 works. Though only in safe boot. (-x) This is…
Snow Leopard 10.64,988 reads
2010-09-16 · 4 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (9)

Direct links into threads where @richiekh contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
XBench Results
“Name Score Detail Results 102.24 System Info Xbench Version 1.3 System Version 10.6.4 (10F569) Physical RAM 2048 MB Model MacPro2,1 Drive Type ST3400832NS ST3400832NS CPU Test 122.90 GCD Loop 165.72 8.74 Mops/sec Floating Point Basic 113.13…”
10.X Core2010-09-20
45,246 dossier reads
Kernel & system.kext doesnt match
“I've tried some kernels, by typing it in the bootloader, but there didnt change a lot systemwise. The Chocolate_kernel brought me back to 10.0.0, and the Legacy_kernel to 10.4.0, If I use lec_kernel (renamed it to that, easier to remember),…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-09-22
7,870 dossier reads
Kernel & system.kext doesnt match
“As Taisto wrote you can just type the name of your desired kernel file at the bootprompt. This would be the recommended way of testing a different kernel - if you know it works you can still edit the Boot.plist system.kext is just kind of p…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-09-21
7,870 dossier reads
Kernel & system.kext doesnt match
“As you see here, it uses the legacy kernel: (as you see, i allready feel home in the mac osx world .) As you can see here, it does exist: If I'm correct, I'm using the kernel of the guy you referred me to. Though I'm not entirely sure :-\ T…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-09-21
7,870 dossier reads
Kernel & system.kext doesnt match
“Just before I'll do this action, I want to be sure. If I do this, and it may damage the system, am I able to use single user mode, to edit that file again and change it back? (following by booting with -f)”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-09-21
7,870 dossier reads
Kernel & system.kext doesnt match
“Well the problem is, some how I can't really see what the kernel is. If I go to the root folder of my mac system, all possible kernels I see are the following: Chocolate_kernel mach_kernel.backup and legacy_kernel which doesnt have an icon.…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-09-20
7,870 dossier reads
Kernel & system.kext doesnt match
“Allright, I've updated the kernel to darwin 10.4.0, though the usbs still doesnt seem to work :S”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-09-20
7,870 dossier reads
Another panic (0x2a7e57)
“Thank you, that was indeed the problem!”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-09-20
4,988 dossier reads
Another panic (0x2a7e57)
“So thats the whole problem?”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-09-17
4,988 dossier reads