#34 by Dispatches #1,789 by Author Reads #3 by Thread Reach Member #2,737 📍 Midwest USA AMD OSx86 AHCI / SATA Chameleon / Boot-132
@scififan68
InfiniteMac community contributor with 229 recorded dispatches, 1 lead technical dossiers (5,850 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 8,723,697 historical readers.
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Lead Dossiers
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5,850 avg reads / dossier
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#2,737
Joined 2008-10-05
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2008–2012
2008-10-05 → 2012-04-07
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GA-Z68XP-UD3: Lion 10.7.3, Windows 7 Professional 64bit SP1 and FreeBSD 9-RELEASE, Core i5 2500K @ 3.3GHz, 16GB 1333 Mhz DDR3 ram(Soon), 1GB GDDR5 Nvidia Geforce GTX 560 Ti, 2X 1TB Samsung F3 SATA HDDs, 1X WDC Blue 500GB HDD; Dell Mini 10v: Obsidian Black, 2GB DDR2 533MHz Ram, 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270, 120GB HDD, 6-Cell, Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 Build 10K549
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- #34 of 6,691 by Dispatches (229 notes) · #1,789 of 3,454 by Author Readership (5,850 reads across 1 dossiers) · #3 by Thread Reach (8,723,697 cumulative reads)
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- Member #2,737 · Joined 2008-10-05
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- AMD OSx86 (26) · AHCI / SATA (15) · Chameleon / Boot-132 (10) · NVIDIA GeForce (9) · DSDT (8) · ALC889a / Audio (7)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection
Distribution across 7 technical boards
Lead Dossiers Authored by @scififan68 (1)
5,850 cumulative reads on threads started by @scififan68
| Dossier Title & Summary | Collection | Readership |
|---|---|---|
| Random Still Waiting for root device error well I recently bought a GIGABYTE GA-970A-UD3 with an AMD SB950 (rebranded SB850), and it read about all the bugs that the SB850 has with Samsung F3's. I have the firmware(1AJ10001) on my Samsung F3 1TB that isn't supposed to have bugs,… | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 5,850 reads 2011-09-03 · 1 notes |
Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (40)
Direct links into threads where @scififan68 contributed solutions & commentary
| Thread & Dispatch Excerpt | Collection | Date & Reach |
|---|---|---|
| Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L “Where did you get the ar8131 ethernet drivers? Can you post a link please? I've been looking for it for over a month! iats.googl ecode.com/files/build_x64_20100425.zip for Snow Leopard and 64bit.” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2010-07-09 1,741,402 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “It does indeed, there is something else wrong in the kernel itself.. I personally reverted to a older kernel. Which kernel you using now?” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-07 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Unrealized, well I already followed your instructions to make it unexecutable, still acts like its sluggish a bit.” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-07 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Ah yeah, upgraded to kernel v3 and finder from dp2 works as it should on boot. But my system feels slower for some reason now. dl.drop box.com/u/38348368/Screen%20Shot%202012-04-07%20at%201.13.03%20AM.png EDIT: @ xmaniak100 mine shutdown ju…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-07 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “I can confirm that DP2 Finder works, but it won't on startup for some reason it causes a hang before the desktop. Moving it before boot and placing it in /System/Library/CoreServices after boot works.” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-07 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Where do we find this? Can I update from Hazard 10.6.6i directly to Lion with the right kernel for my Amd Phenom II x965? Is gtx 480/470/460 drivers supported on Lion? I have a gtx 470. Am I using retail Lion or a distro of Lion? What is th…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-02 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Hmm..Thanks for your feedback. One more question; I have an iMac running 10.7, can i use the recovery partition to install to an external drive, and boot that drive on my AMD? I made an iBoot lion 10.7 installer on my Intel hac with the van…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-02 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “i am using retail lion 10.7.3 hotiso dmg using fakesmc iopcifamily from netkas using mbr patch + smbios of macpro5.1 + gfxenabler=yes ethbuiltin=yes iam using usb flash memory 8gb and restored lion on it as i do with my notebook where is th…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-03-31 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Good work bronzovka! I installed Lion on my AMD server, with an AMD Athlon II X3 445 @ 3.1GHz cpu, most things seemed to work, but not everything and I couldn't get Finder to work, it said it couldn't find a symbol in the crash log.” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-03-30 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Its just easier to upgrade to Intel, like I have recently and I just love it! Of course my AMD wasn't working correctly for me, so I upgraded. Also Snow Leopard is fine to run at this time, Lion is just like SL with some ios features, but I…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-03-07 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “I have a computer with Lion on it, though I doubt the patches would just work without changing anything.” | Lion – Catalina | 2011-08-11 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Not until the sources for the kernel comes out, which will be after Lion is officially released.” | Lion – Catalina | 2011-04-16 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Snow Leopard 10A432 Install “Select the last option and patch the /System folder and it will work =)” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-09-14 694,068 dossier reads |
| Asus K50IN “RGGG, try running kext utility, when the perms are messed up on my extra extensions i have a keyboard, but no trackpad.” | 10.X Core | 2009-11-28 606,173 dossier reads |
| Asus K50IN “Is anyone else getting the odd kernal panic at all? I've had 3 KP's this week. Seems to be just random…not a deal killer, but just seems odd… Ryan Have you went into energy saver and unchecked Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible? It…” | 10.X Core | 2009-11-22 606,173 dossier reads |
| How to port AppleHDA to SL “Hey!, thanks for this sweet guide, it really helped me port the applehda kext to work for my alc888!” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-11-21 478,935 dossier reads |
| Intel GMA945 (0x27AE8086) resolution + CI/QE/OpenGL solution “@Andy Maybe AppleLPC kext is not loaded on yours, and / or does the debug-version of IOUSBFamily let errors about UHCI appear at your dmesg? I experienced those two things to be reasons for Wake from Sleep not to work on some setups... Ah y…” | 10.X Core | 2010-04-26 407,228 dossier reads |
| Intel GMA945 (0x27AE8086) resolution + CI/QE/OpenGL solution “Do you have sleepenabler.kext in /Extra/Extensions ?” | 10.X Core | 2010-04-24 407,228 dossier reads |
| Intel GMA945 (0x27AE8086) resolution + CI/QE/OpenGL solution “hmmm well it seems your fix works on 10.6.3 for me.” | 10.X Core | 2010-03-31 407,228 dossier reads |
| Intel GMA945 (0x27AE8086) resolution + CI/QE/OpenGL solution “New version: This one also detects secondary display + auto patches (and it shows in System Profiler). It also fixes resolution support for 0x27AE8086/0x27A68086 thanks to the VBIOS ROM dump I made + code changes... Use RadeonPCI.kext and R…” | 10.X Core | 2010-03-02 407,228 dossier reads |
| Intel GMA945 (0x27AE8086) resolution + CI/QE/OpenGL solution “This fix also works for 0x27A28086. In this case you do everything but KEEP THE STOCK AppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer.kext and AppleIntelGMA950.kext Would this work if patched intelgma950 kexts are in /E/E or do they have to be in /S/L/E on…” | 10.X Core | 2010-02-15 407,228 dossier reads |
| Intel GMA945 (0x27AE8086) resolution + CI/QE/OpenGL solution “I tried to install this on my dell mini 10v and it failed to install the bootloader.” | 10.X Core | 2010-02-13 407,228 dossier reads |
| 9.6.0 Kernel, Based on Voodoo “I installed the kernel and now all my ppc apps now crash before they load with "EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)" :-| I boot with -legacy. Any ideas?” | 10.X Core | 2009-01-10 351,844 dossier reads |
| Intel GMA X4500HD “I doubt the gma x4500 will ever work in os x, because Apple switched to nvidia chipsets, it's now very unlikely.” | 10.X Core | 2008-12-08 266,730 dossier reads |
| Atheros card 9285 “You could try something like: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=122365 but it's risky. But if successful it may work because I'm lead to believe the iMac11,1 has something close to these cards. From sys profiler dump: pci…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2010-04-22 198,920 dossier reads |
| SSE2/SSE3 - 32/64 Bit Kernel for Snow Leopard by qoopz “sounds like an appleforceata kext that doesnt have the 64bit fix. Find a kext that allows use of 4GB+ of ram.” | 10.X Core | 2010-01-09 194,515 dossier reads |
| SSE2/SSE3 - 32/64 Bit Kernel for Snow Leopard by qoopz “Do you have both dsmos.kext and fakesmc.kext in Extra or /S/L/E remove dsmos.kext if you do and make sure your fakesmc.kext is for snow leopard” | 10.X Core | 2009-10-14 194,515 dossier reads |
| Kernel Panic - 10A432 - AMD “Have you tried just using pcefiv9 and just bare extensions like only dsmos.kxt in /Extra?” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-08-20 166,396 dossier reads |
| Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support “Well how about I post them on my own website, cefso.doesn texist.org/temp/100_1824i386.JPG cefso.doesn texist.org/temp/100_1827x86_64.JPG” | 10.X Core | 2011-08-26 165,733 dossier reads |
| Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support “Is there another site I could upload them to that isn't blocked, since my images are too large to upload on the forums.” | 10.X Core | 2011-08-26 165,733 dossier reads |
| Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support “dl.drop box.com/u/38348368/100_1824i386.JPG kp in 32bit mode dl.drop box.com/u/38348368/100_1827x86_64.JPG in 64bit mode This is with andy's kernel complied in Snow Leopard. The one complied in Lion just gives me a black screen.” | 10.X Core | 2011-08-26 165,733 dossier reads |
| Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support “It didn't reboot on my 64bit Pentium 4 HT, but it crashed later in the boot. I can take a picture of the kp.” | 10.X Core | 2011-08-26 165,733 dossier reads |
| Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support “How about a bootloader that patches the kernel to allow non-supported Intel and AMD support for lion. Kind of like the Intel atom patch but for more cpus?” | 10.X Core | 2011-08-26 165,733 dossier reads |
| Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support “It won't even load in full 64bit on AMD in lion, I just tried and got a reboot. But it loads on my 64bit Pentium 4 in 32bit mode but then kps(Lack of ssse3 maybe?). @ wastez it is possible to run full 64bit mode in Snow Leopard, but no 32bi…” | 10.X Core | 2011-08-26 165,733 dossier reads |
| ATI Radeon HD46X0 “That's exactly how I had Chameleon RC4 configured (except that I use a different theme). But, since I substituted the RC4 boot file with the flicker one, I always get the text menu. I already double checked the com.apple.Boot.plist file, an…” | 10.X Core | 2010-07-29 100,605 dossier reads |
| AnV XNU 9.8.0 V1.6 “I tried you kernel on my Dell Inspiron 531 and it just kernel panics: Please, how can i fix this? Edit: never-mind, i figured it it myself!” | 10.X Core | 2009-09-23 95,354 dossier reads |
| 10.5.6 Released “And which version of the AppleNForceATA kext are you using? Thnx AppleNForceATA: Version: 1.0.3 Last Modified: 8/2/08 8:27 AM Get Info String: 1.0.3, Copyright Domenico 'MeDevil' Colella. 2007 Location: /System/Library/Extensions/AppleNForc…” | 10.X Core | 2008-12-16 80,667 dossier reads |
| 10.5.6 Released “hmmm all seems good to me after I replaced the seatbelt.kext because it caused Kernel panics when I mounted any disk image. No window lagging on my Dell Inspiron 531.” | 10.X Core | 2008-12-16 80,667 dossier reads |
| Install works, setup, not so much... “Can you please tell me what graphics card you have?” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-11-10 80,579 dossier reads |
| Install works, setup, not so much... “This loop can be fix by getting a compatible pci lan card or usb ethernet, or http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=135169&view=findpost&p=958124” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-11-08 80,579 dossier reads |