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Member #90,044,081 · 2012-07-10 → 2012-11-17
#623 by Dispatches #2,583 by Author Reads #1,141 by Thread Reach Member #90,044,081 AMD OSx86 Voodoo / XNU Kernel DSDT

@thebluewonderland

InfiniteMac community contributor with 12 recorded dispatches, 1 lead technical dossiers (3,735 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 490,098 historical readers.

Dispatches 12 Ranked #623 of 6,691
Author Reads 3,735 Ranked #2,583 · 1 dossiers
Thread Reach 490,098 Ranked #1,141 in reach
Lead Dossiers 1 3,735 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #90,044,081 Joined 2012-07-10
Active Window 2012 2012-07-10 → 2012-11-17
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
CPU: AMD FX-8120 · Mobo : Asus Sabertooth 990fx · Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce GT 240 · RAM : 8gb of DDR3
Archive Standing
#623 of 6,691 by Dispatches (12 notes) · #2,583 of 3,454 by Author Readership (3,735 reads across 1 dossiers) · #1,141 by Thread Reach (490,098 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #90,044,081 · Joined 2012-07-10
Hardware & Kernel Topics
AMD OSx86 (3) · Voodoo / XNU Kernel (3) · DSDT (2) · NVIDIA GeForce (1) · ALC889a / Audio (1)
Frequent Thread Collaborators
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 2 technical boards

10.X Core
2 (17%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @thebluewonderland (1)

3,735 cumulative reads on threads started by @thebluewonderland

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
Help installing OS X
I've spent the last 2 weeks researching anything I can find and tried to prevent having to be "that guy" who has others solves his problems, but I am stuck and I need help. Here are my system specs: CPU : AMD FX-8120 (bulldozer…
10.X Core3,735 reads
2012-07-10 · 4 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (11)

Direct links into threads where @thebluewonderland contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
10.7.4 AMD Kernel
“Cheers! Thanks again for all your help. I'll try and drop by from time to time to help others with what I can, and maybe I'll write a guide on how I did it.”
Lion – Catalina2012-11-17
486,363 dossier reads
10.7.4 AMD Kernel
“Alright, I ended up having to just reinstall Lion and I only patched 2 files this time and everything works great. Font rendering is normal and graphics rendering is as well. Both 32-bit and 64-bit apps are functioning perfect and benchmark…”
Lion – Catalina2012-11-16
486,363 dossier reads
10.7.4 AMD Kernel
“Perhaps an update to java? Alright so this isn't normal, and it's mostly likely not an issue related to 64-bit stuff. I'll go through and update OpenCL, Java, QuickTime, and whatever other rendering dependancies I can find and I'll post bac…”
Lion – Catalina2012-11-15
486,363 dossier reads
10.7.4 AMD Kernel
“maybe chrome need an update ? No it's all 32-bit apps that this happens with. They work, but text rendering seems to be broken or something. When i boot with the -legacy flag, everything broken text. Here is a screenshot of what it looks li…”
Lion – Catalina2012-11-15
486,363 dossier reads
10.7.4 AMD Kernel
“yep ! tu as loupé quelques chose . Activation mode 32/64 bit Comme je le disais un peu plus haut dans le tuto , vous disposez du mode 32 bit (-legacy) ou du mode 64 bit (par défaut) mais il s'avère que les appli 32 bit comme Flash Player po…”
Lion – Catalina2012-11-14
486,363 dossier reads
10.7.4 AMD Kernel
“yes, you need to install this patch via terminal for proper operation;) Yeah I was definitely doing it wrong lol. Thanks! New problem though. I've been able for fix a few things but I can't fix the 3 main ones in the guides (quicktime, dyld…”
Lion – Catalina2012-11-14
486,363 dossier reads
10.7.4 AMD Kernel
“ah! agree! no it is not worth it. you have patched your kernel with the patch ANV ? osx 86.co/attachment.php?attachmentid=1645&d=1320876221 I've tried. Maybe I'm not doing it right though? I run amd_insn_patcher, then do the sudo update tha…”
Lion – Catalina2012-11-13
486,363 dossier reads
10.7.4 AMD Kernel
“je vois legacy_kernel !? pourquoi ? tu est sous SL 10.6 ou Lion 10.7 ? I just have it named legacy_kernel because I haven't removed mach_kernel. I can go ahead and fix that if you think that might be causing the problem though.”
Lion – Catalina2012-11-13
486,363 dossier reads
10.7.4 AMD Kernel
“I just rebooted and here is a paste of my most recent kernel log.”
Lion – Catalina2012-11-13
486,363 dossier reads
10.7.4 AMD Kernel
“I read through as many posts as I could and tried a wide variety of different things to fix this problem but, I can't seem to get a large portion of apps to work (not sure if 64bit apps don't work or if 32bit apps don't' work). Cinebench sa…”
Lion – Catalina2012-11-13
486,363 dossier reads
Help installing OS X
“Thanks for the reply. I've got a vanilla 10.7.4 disk now, I also have a disk with modcd on it, but how do I use a lion kernel with modcd?”
10.X Core2012-07-12
3,735 dossier reads