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Member #90,034,460 · 2012-04-26 → 2012-06-19
#941 by Dispatches #1,508 by Author Reads #423 by Thread Reach Member #90,034,460 AMD OSx86 Retail DVD / USB ATI Radeon

@Visioneer

InfiniteMac community contributor with 8 recorded dispatches, 1 lead technical dossiers (7,190 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 1,082,900 historical readers.

Dispatches 8 Ranked #941 of 6,691
Author Reads 7,190 Ranked #1,508 · 1 dossiers
Thread Reach 1,082,900 Ranked #423 in reach
Lead Dossiers 1 7,190 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #90,034,460 Joined 2011-10-19
Active Window 2012 2012-04-26 → 2012-06-19
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T · ASUS Crosshair V Formula (990 chip) · ASUS AMD Radeon HD 6950 2gb · Onboard Realtek HD Audio OR Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Titanium if that can be used. · Intel Gbit LAN · 16gb Ram MY SPEC : · Cpu : AMD Athlon II X2 250 Dual Core 3.00 GHz · Mobo: ASRock N68C-S UCC | Gpu : ATI HD 5670 1GB DDR5 | Audio: Via audio · Chipset : Nvidia nForce 630a Ram: 2x2 GB DDR2/800 | Dvd : LG ide DVD-burner · HD: Western Digital 500 Gb 7200 RPM Sata OS : Snow Leopard 10.6.8
Archive Standing
#941 of 6,691 by Dispatches (8 notes) · #1,508 of 3,454 by Author Readership (7,190 reads across 1 dossiers) · #423 by Thread Reach (1,082,900 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #90,034,460 · Joined 2011-10-19
Hardware & Kernel Topics
AMD OSx86 (7) · Retail DVD / USB (5) · ATI Radeon (4) · NVIDIA GeForce (1) · AHCI / SATA (1) · Gigabyte G31M / P35 (1)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 2 technical boards

Lead Dossiers Authored by @Visioneer (1)

7,190 cumulative reads on threads started by @Visioneer

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
Getting 10.6.8 on AMD
I've followed a few guides. I've tried a few versions. I can get 10.6.8 to boot. I have extensive boot args I need to apply to get it to boot properly but it works. I don't have QE/CI because I have a Radeon 6950. Has anyone successfully…
Snow Leopard 10.67,190 reads
2012-05-02 · 7 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (7)

Direct links into threads where @Visioneer contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Lion with AMD
“LION 10.7.4 running hot on GA-990FXA-UD3 with Phenom II X6 1100T, here is my how-to and other details for AMD Inntal roo t86.org/showthread.php/4802-wie-man-LION-10-7-4-auf-GA-990FXA-UD3-mit-AMD-PHENOM-II-installieren-kann?p=54808#post54808…”
Lion – Catalina2012-06-19
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“You need to have SL installed on one drive or partition, and then install Lion on a seperate one so you can replace the kernel and any kexts manually, since there aren't any distros that are bootable on AMD hardware yet. Ok that's a start. …”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-13
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“So maybe I missed something... I spent about an hour or two sifting the last 20 or so pages here and I can't really follow it very easily... I can install snow leopard 10.6.0 or 10.6.2 or 10.6.3 (all retail) using ModUSB on my system and ev…”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-13
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“PHOTOSHOP CS6 WORKS ONLY IN 64 BIT MODE...I THINK THAT FOR ME AMD TIME IS OVER T_T MY SPEC : Cpu : AMD Athlon II X2 250 Dual Core 3.00 GHz Mobo: ASRock N68C-S UCC | Gpu : ATI HD 5670 1GB DDR5 | Audio: Via audio Chipset : Nvidia nForce 630a …”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-08
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Did I mention QE/CI? I don't remember/ really know what that is ha. Anyways, I mostly just like using OS X for everything except gaming... And it's gonna be a LONG time before I can get a real mac. So I figured I'd see if there was some hea…”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-26
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Any chance there's a way to get lion onto my machine? AMD Phenom II X6 1090T ASUS Crosshair V Formula (990 chip) ASUS AMD Radeon HD 6950 2gb Onboard Realtek HD Audio OR Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Titanium if that can be used. Intel Gbit LAN…”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-26
1,075,710 dossier reads
Getting 10.6.8 on AMD
“So how could I get those drivers into my OSX? I don't have a ML distro. Anyone have just those to download?”
Snow Leopard 10.62012-05-03
7,190 dossier reads