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Member #113 · 2008-01-13 → 2008-07-17
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@timdsmith72

InfiniteMac community contributor with 32 recorded dispatches, participating in discussions reaching 365,497 historical readers.

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Member Number #113 Joined 2008-01-13
Active Window 2008 2008-01-13 → 2008-07-17
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#230 of 6,691 by Dispatches (32 notes) · #1,360 by Thread Reach (365,497 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #113 · Joined 2008-01-13
Hardware & Kernel Topics
AMD OSx86 (7) · NVIDIA GeForce (2) · Retail DVD / USB (1) · AHCI / SATA (1) · Voodoo / XNU Kernel (1)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 4 technical boards

Leopard 10.5
19 (59%)
10.X Core
4 (12%)
General
2 (6%)

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (31)

Direct links into threads where @timdsmith72 contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
XBench Scores
“This is after 2 week uptime and several programs open. iTunes, terminal, Mail, Safari, and Transmission. Plus another user logged in via Fast User Switching. Home cooked install: MSI K8N Neo4-F nForce4 Socket 939 ATX Motherboard AMD Athlon …”
10.X Core2008-02-10
104,353 dossier reads
Desktop Thread
“Here's mine. Pretty plain, but everything works 100% allyoucanupload.webs hots.com/v/2004043152011669529”
Software & Kexts2008-01-17
37,712 dossier reads
Rev.2 Beta 2 Test Reports
“With the ToH kernel, they must have done some binary hacking, because even though you don't have to do -legacy any more, it's still only running 32 bits.”
10.X Core2008-02-01
36,277 dossier reads
10.5.4 is out (Works on AMD, use ASU)
“[cite] kroviken:hi all... updating 10.5.4 using ASU is bad. i've updated it, and my hack crashed! so wait from our guys to confirm it. my daily hack, ohh... Same here. After I got my system recovered, I tried it patch only...It said no patc…”
10.X Core2008-07-17
33,256 dossier reads
mach_kernel 9.2.2 and 9.2.2 System.kext for AMD
“[cite] DoiX:i see that most single core processor users have problems with this kernel.. I have Single Core AMD and the new kernel / system.kext work fine here.”
10.X Core2008-04-07
29,851 dossier reads
10.5.2 Update for AMD only, eddie11c
“WinLinMac01: When you boot into Single User Mode, your hard drives are not mounted anyway. So you just change into whatever directory you have the EFI files in and run that command. Then type reboot.”
Leopard 10.52008-02-16
13,226 dossier reads
10.5.2 Update for AMD only, eddie11c
“As far as configuring EFI. You need to have some other source to store the files to set it up. I think it could be done from the install DVD from terminal, but you still need a mountable source other than your OSX drive to run the startupfi…”
Leopard 10.52008-02-15
13,226 dossier reads
New Desktop & About This Mac Thread
“Huh? High quality pictures? That one was 1280x1024. Pretty high. There is a link at the bottom that says view original image. Oh well. Here's the link to original image. aycu20.webs hots.com/image/44579/2002040034860413112_rs.jpg”
Software & Kexts2008-02-16
12,930 dossier reads
Time Machine (The backup volume could not be found).
“Yeah, you have to have the 'fixed' IONetworking.kext (which i assume the install came with...)”
Leopard 10.52008-02-19
11,071 dossier reads
Time Machine (The backup volume could not be found).
“As root: cd /System/Library/Extensions find IONetworkingFamily.kext -exec xattr -d com.apple.quarantine {} \; Let it run...takes a minute or two. and ignore the errors... EDIT: Took out un-needed quotes.”
Leopard 10.52008-02-19
11,071 dossier reads
Time Machine Update, any latest news in when the patch will come out for AMD users
“I installed it and patched everything up with Marvin's. You pretty much have to have a working installation on a separate partition to be able to do this though.”
Leopard 10.52008-04-07
8,331 dossier reads
Eddie11c's Leo4Allv2 Leopard AMD/Intel 10.5.2 Issue Discussion
“hahaha! No problem. I don't blame you at all. Intel rigs are a lot less trouble. The only reason I have AMD is because it was all I could afford at the time. I will be going Intel one of these days / years.”
Leopard 10.52008-04-18
8,040 dossier reads
Eddie11c's Leo4Allv2 Leopard AMD/Intel 10.5.2 Issue Discussion
“Ok…Some Specs: MSI K8N Neo4-F nForce4 Socket 939 ATX Motherboard AMD Athlon 64 3400+ Single core 256MB Nvidia 7300 GT 1 Gig RAM 200 Gig IDE hard drive I have a PCI network card because the built in one didn't work with Leopard. My BIOS sett…”
Leopard 10.52008-04-16
8,040 dossier reads
Eddie11c's Leo4Allv2 Leopard AMD/Intel 10.5.2 Issue Discussion
“Headed off to work now, but I'll get you some info as soon as I can man.”
Leopard 10.52008-04-16
8,040 dossier reads
Eddie11c's Leo4Allv2 Leopard AMD/Intel 10.5.2 Issue Discussion
“Yes, mine is as stable as it can be. Yeah, your System.kext really needs to match your running kernel. You'll have all kinds of issues if not.”
Leopard 10.52008-04-16
8,040 dossier reads
Eddie11c's Leo4Allv2 Leopard AMD/Intel 10.5.2 Issue Discussion
“Yes, I have. Safari and iTunes stay open all the time. From the time I start up until I reboot. I've had a virtual machine running in VMware for 3 or 4 days at a time when work was really busy. Frequently leave Toast Titanium open at least …”
Leopard 10.52008-04-10
8,040 dossier reads
Eddie11c's Leo4Allv2 Leopard AMD/Intel 10.5.2 Issue Discussion
“Hate to break it to you man, but I use it for everything. It's my main machine. I can run PS just fine. Lightroom I don't use. I use iWeb all the time. PS all the time. Flash, iphoto, visualhub, Toast...There is a large number of apps that …”
Leopard 10.52008-04-09
8,040 dossier reads
Eddie11c's Leo4Allv2 Leopard AMD/Intel 10.5.2 Issue Discussion
“Hmmm…Funny that you say it's just a toy, because I've had Leopard running perfectly on my AMD machine since...wow...late October, early November… QE / CI works, Toast works iLife works iWork works CS3 works vmware Fusion works (i have to ha…”
Leopard 10.52008-04-09
8,040 dossier reads
Eddie11c's Leo4Allv2 Leopard AMD/Intel 10.5.2 Issue Discussion
“Awesome! That did the trick. Oh! And the root device issue was because I forgot to check the ICH8 patch during install. My bad.”
Leopard 10.52008-04-07
8,040 dossier reads
Eddie11c's Leo4Allv2 Leopard AMD/Intel 10.5.2 Issue Discussion
“Thanks man, but the DVD booted fine so that wasn't the issue. I actually let the Kalyway DVD partition and format the hard drive, re-installed and it works fine now. Except for LAN. Marvell chip set but I don't know the Device ID. Any netwo…”
Leopard 10.52008-04-06
8,040 dossier reads
Eddie11c's Leo4Allv2 Leopard AMD/Intel 10.5.2 Issue Discussion
“I'm working on a new computer for a friend. It's an Intel Core2Duo. Asus P5B. Intel P965 / ICH8. JMicron disabled in BIOS. DVD boots fine. Created the partitions fine. Installs fine. Eject the DVD and it boots in Verbose mode loads lots of …”
Leopard 10.52008-04-04
8,040 dossier reads
Why are you coming to OS X
“I hate Winbloze. I run Linux at home also, but some things I need to do, I just either can't do in Linux or the software they have to do it with, I just don't like. I love OS X, but can't afford a Mac Pro so I built my own version of a Mac …”
General2008-04-19
5,876 dossier reads
iTunes error
“Well...I did, but the link got removed. Guess that's not allowed. Sorry.”
Software & Kexts2008-02-15
4,773 dossier reads
iTunes error
“That's strange because Album art started working fine also for me after replacing that file.”
Software & Kexts2008-01-16
4,773 dossier reads
iTunes error
“on irc go to server: irc.osx86.hu then join channel #leoamd There is an iTunes fix in the topic. Works great. I had them put it there. It also fixes iPhoto crash when importing photos and syncing music to your iPhone. EDIT: Oh...put that fi…”
Software & Kexts2008-01-15
4,773 dossier reads
marvin's utility not working
“That is correct. There is no kernel yet that runs AMD in 64 bit mode.”
Leopard 10.52008-02-10
4,511 dossier reads
PC EFI on a AMD PC
“You can install EFI on an AMD system same as intel. you just can't use the stock Apple kernel. Still have to use a hacked one.”
Leopard 10.52008-02-10
4,094 dossier reads
New Desktop & About This Mac Thread
“- Sorry, your URL has been deleted -”
Software & Kexts2008-02-16
12,930 dossier reads
Apps dont work.
“hint: AppleSMBios.kext… and Marvin's”
Leopard 10.52008-03-31
9,719 dossier reads
Eddie11c's Leo4Allv2 Leopard AMD/Intel 10.5.2 Issue Discussion
“I'm using this one: http://netkas.org/?p=58”
Leopard 10.52008-04-15
8,040 dossier reads
iTunes error
“tiny url.com/24z9jy”
Software & Kexts2008-02-15
4,773 dossier reads