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Member #4,188 · 2009-01-09 → 2009-01-18
#1,051 by Dispatches #592 by Author Reads #503 by Thread Reach Member #4,188 NVIDIA GeForce Voodoo / XNU Kernel AMD OSx86

@schismatic

InfiniteMac community contributor with 7 recorded dispatches, 2 lead technical dossiers (18,561 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 995,725 historical readers.

Dispatches 7 Ranked #1,051 of 6,691
Author Reads 18,561 Ranked #592 · 2 dossiers
Thread Reach 995,725 Ranked #503 in reach
Lead Dossiers 2 9,280 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #4,188 Joined 2009-01-09
Active Window 2009 2009-01-09 → 2009-01-18
Archive Standing
#1,051 of 6,691 by Dispatches (7 notes) · #592 of 3,454 by Author Readership (18,561 reads across 2 dossiers) · #503 by Thread Reach (995,725 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #4,188 · Joined 2009-01-09
Hardware & Kernel Topics
NVIDIA GeForce (4) · Voodoo / XNU Kernel (1) · AMD OSx86 (1) · AHCI / SATA (1)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 2 technical boards

Leopard 10.5
5 (71%)
10.X Core
2 (29%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @schismatic (2)

18,561 cumulative reads on threads started by @schismatic

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
9600GT on iPC 10.5.6 - Can you help
Until last week, I had a perfect install of iPC 10.5.6 PPF v2 running on my machine and I got a power shortage which damaged my video card. Had to get a new one. I've now got a GeForce 9600GT 512MB card and I cannot figure out how to…
Leopard 10.512,728 reads
2009-01-17 · 7 notes
iPC OSx86 10.5.6 Graphics Problems
My iPC OSX 10.5.6 installation with patched iso to PPF2 worked fine. My system is: ASUS M2N32SLI-DELUXE -nForce 590i MCP55 Chipset AMD Athlon X2 4800+ 2GB RAM XFX nVidia 6800GT 256MB Realtek 8187 USB mouse and keyboard. My issue: I install…
Leopard 10.55,833 reads
2009-01-09 · 3 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (5)

Direct links into threads where @schismatic contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
iPC OSx86 Leopard 10.5.6 Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3
“Try using an EFI string. Ok. I had a 8600GT previously I used an EFI string with that, but that time I also had some drivers installed, the 9f9 package from nvinstaller.com. Is there some sort of graphics driver package for the 9600GT or 9x…”
10.X Core2009-01-16
965,272 dossier reads
iPC OSx86 Leopard 10.5.6 Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3
“great distro, i have it all up and running but i don't have any drivers for my geforce 9600gt. what's the best way to install for the 9600gt on iPC 10.5.6?”
10.X Core2009-01-15
965,272 dossier reads
9600GT on iPC 10.5.6 - Can you help
“Do you happen to know which package it is? Pcwiz told me to use the MacBook Latest Kexts package, but I can't find it on my iPC DVD. Any ideas what the filename is?”
Leopard 10.52009-01-18
12,728 dossier reads
Mouse lags with 10.5.6
“how did you downgrade to 10.5.5 drivers? i am currently on iPC 10.5.6 with a fresh install as last time i installed graphics drivers, i got mouse lag and it made the system unusable. i have an xfx nvidia 6800gt card (10de:0402] (rev a1) and…”
Leopard 10.52009-01-10
11,892 dossier reads
iPC OSx86 10.5.6 Graphics Problems
“bump. nobody knows which graphics driver i should be using for 10.5.6 then? it is clear that the graphics driver causes the issue - the mouse freezes up with 3 different drivers i've tried. any suggestions?”
Leopard 10.52009-01-10
5,833 dossier reads