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Member #90,043,959 · 2012-07-02 → 2012-07-05
#1,804 by Dispatches #307 by Author Reads #3,179 by Thread Reach Member #90,043,959 Voodoo / XNU Kernel AMD OSx86

@sunfire

InfiniteMac community contributor with 4 recorded dispatches, 1 lead technical dossiers (34,536 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 34,536 historical readers.

Dispatches 4 Ranked #1,804 of 6,691
Author Reads 34,536 Ranked #307 · 1 dossiers
Thread Reach 34,536 Ranked #3,179 in reach
Lead Dossiers 1 34,536 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #90,043,959 Joined 2012-07-02
Active Window 2012 2012-07-02 → 2012-07-05
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#1,804 of 6,691 by Dispatches (4 notes) · #307 of 3,454 by Author Readership (34,536 reads across 1 dossiers) · #3,179 by Thread Reach (34,536 cumulative reads)
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Member #90,043,959 · Joined 2012-07-02
Hardware & Kernel Topics
Voodoo / XNU Kernel (2) · AMD OSx86 (1)
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Lead Dossiers Authored by @sunfire (1)

34,536 cumulative reads on threads started by @sunfire

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
10.7.2 works but not 10.7.3 or 10.7.4
Hey. I was able to get 10.7.2 to work on my AMD system, but if I update to a newer version I am not able to get it to function with the couple of kernels available. I'm not sure why. Is there a step I'm missing? I have an AMD Phenom 9850…
Lion – Catalina34,536 reads
2012-07-02 · 12 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (3)

Direct links into threads where @sunfire contributed solutions & commentary

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10.7.2 works but not 10.7.3 or 10.7.4
“That makes sense. I did try XNU 10.4.0 though and it also didn't work. I'm wondering if my processor is just too old. But the kernel I'm using now for 10.7.2 works great..”
Lion – Catalina2012-07-05
34,536 dossier reads
10.7.2 works but not 10.7.3 or 10.7.4
“I haven't used it with 10.7.2 but I did try it after updating to 10.7.4 and it didn't work. I thought it was only for 10.7.4?”
Lion – Catalina2012-07-05
34,536 dossier reads
10.7.2 works but not 10.7.3 or 10.7.4
“Right now I have busratio=15 specified because that's my bus ratio. If I don't have it set to that my sound doesn't work right. It pops every so many seconds. Will it really help to set it that high?”
Lion – Catalina2012-07-03
34,536 dossier reads