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Member #1,990 · 2008-07-10 → 2009-09-14
#444 by Dispatches #3,070 by Author Reads #329 by Thread Reach Member #1,990 Voodoo / XNU Kernel NVIDIA GeForce ALC889a / Audio

@terrorgen

InfiniteMac community contributor with 17 recorded dispatches, 1 lead technical dossiers (2,914 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 1,516,306 historical readers.

Dispatches 17 Ranked #444 of 6,691
Author Reads 2,914 Ranked #3,070 · 1 dossiers
Thread Reach 1,516,306 Ranked #329 in reach
Lead Dossiers 1 2,914 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #1,990 Joined 2008-04-16
Active Window 2008–2009 2008-07-10 → 2009-09-14
Preserved Forum Signature & OSx86 Rig
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (Vanilla Retail) APPLE Processor: Intel Dual Core E2200 APPLE Mobo: MSI P35 Neo2-FR, ICH9, ALC888 (5.1) APPLE RAM: 4x 1G 800MHz DDR2-SDRAM APPLE Graphics: XFX NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS 256MB DDR3 RAM APPLE Wireless: Third Party Airport (Broadcom 4318) APPLE
Archive Standing
#444 of 6,691 by Dispatches (17 notes) · #3,070 of 3,454 by Author Readership (2,914 reads across 1 dossiers) · #329 by Thread Reach (1,516,306 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #1,990 · Joined 2008-04-16
Hardware & Kernel Topics
Voodoo / XNU Kernel (2) · NVIDIA GeForce (1) · ALC889a / Audio (1) · AMD OSx86 (1) · AHCI / SATA (1)
Frequent Thread Collaborators
@mormegil (3) @hops (3) @cmdshft (2) @pcwiz (2) @pαuℓzurrr. (2) @CyCLoBoT (2) @zuz242 (2) @Hara Taiki (2) @Taisto @R0GUE @nfoav8or @palmpje @Mitch @klaafstra99

Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 3 technical boards

10.X Core
8 (47%)
Leopard 10.5
2 (12%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @terrorgen (1)

2,914 cumulative reads on threads started by @terrorgen

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
It Worked No More? (SB600)
I had installed Leopard using either Leo4Allv2 or Zephyroth rev.2 few months ago. I couldn't remember which one worked and I have been using it for months. I downloaded Leo4Allv3 and injected SB600 kext and booted it with "-f", however it…
Leopard 10.52,914 reads
2008-07-12 · 2 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (16)

Direct links into threads where @terrorgen contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
iPC OSx86 Leopard 10.5.6 Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3
“Thanks Hara Taiki, my hackintosh is running in full glory with Voodoo 9.5 kernel... ...EXCEPT... - System Information shows that I have 1 of 2 cores turned on. I would like both cores working. - None of my two optical drives are detected, w…”
10.X Core2009-01-12
965,272 dossier reads
iPC OSx86 Leopard 10.5.6 Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3
“well, as a matter of fact, I did. It's in my sig. Anyways, I finally got 10.5.6 running on my Hackintosh. Everything is up and running. Only one thing: My two IDE optical drives are not detected. How can I get this fixed? is there something…”
10.X Core2009-01-10
965,272 dossier reads
iPC OSx86 Leopard 10.5.6 Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3
“Natit is oldschool. Try NVkush, NVinject or NVdarwin instead, as these are all vastly more updated injectors than Natit, Titan, or MacVidia. Aren't they for NVidia cards only?”
10.X Core2009-01-09
965,272 dossier reads
iPC OSx86 Leopard 10.5.6 Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3
“so shall I delete Dont Steal Mac OS X.kext instead? I read about replacing it with dsmos.kext, is it OK to do it? I tried copying Natit.kext from my 10.5.5 but it doesn't work either (in fact I didn't see it loaded)”
10.X Core2009-01-09
965,272 dossier reads
iPC OSx86 Leopard 10.5.6 Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3
“With voodoo kernel I entered the blue screen with one mouse cursor on the top left corner and another that I can move it with my mouse. So I thought it was the decrypt problem and deleted appledecrypt.kext (I have a 10.5.5 installation on a…”
10.X Core2009-01-09
965,272 dossier reads
ALC889a (with analog 5.1 surround)
“After trying several unzip programs, Stuffit Expander was the one that successfully extracted the kext for me. the link above works with the default unzip program in Mac”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-14
497,008 dossier reads
ALC889a (with analog 5.1 surround)
“man... lost the pleasure to adjust volume from the keyboard...”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-08
497,008 dossier reads
ALC889a (with analog 5.1 surround)
“mormegil, snow... I am setting up 5.1 using Audio MIDI Setup, but it only works for a while... now the volume control is greyed out and when I tried to adjust the volume it says something like the device has no output controls... any ideas?”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-08
497,008 dossier reads
ALC889a (with analog 5.1 surround)
“yes i did... anyways, I got sound working by installing it into /S/L/E of the SL drive (I use a flash drive to boot SL) now it's time to make 5.1 working THANKS for all your hard work!”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-08
497,008 dossier reads
ALC889a (with analog 5.1 surround)
“I finished editing applehda.kext, put into /E/E of my boot thumb drive, reboot with -x32. Doesn't work...”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-08
497,008 dossier reads
ALC889a (with analog 5.1 surround)
“referring to the guide, the LayoutID i got from AppleHDAHardwareConfigDriver.kext was 12, but in the plist it was 888. Should I just change it?”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-08
497,008 dossier reads
ALC889a (with analog 5.1 surround)
“I tried downloading it and it extracts fine. Try it again. hi m8, i tried downloading it and it doesn't download properly... if you could, can you please PM me the kexts?”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-08
497,008 dossier reads
Chameleon 2.0-RC3 with Snow Leopard and Large Disk support
“looks like EFI Strings doesn't work for graphic cards anymore! and it's tedious to boot into x32 mode, and my Sony IDE DVD RW Drive wasn't detected as well... Going back to the PC-EFI10 mode...”
10.X Core2009-09-11
25,523 dossier reads
setup SB600 Windows XP AHCI driver
“My computer has SB600 too but both methods won't work for it.”
10.X Core2008-07-10
16,964 dossier reads
iPC on AMD Install Issue
“what is your southbridge chipset though? it might not be supported.”
Leopard 10.52009-01-10
8,625 dossier reads
iPC OSx86 Leopard 10.5.6 Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3
“thanks Hara Taiki... I will try it later”
10.X Core2009-01-09
965,272 dossier reads