Mac OS X on x86 Hardware 2008–2024 Technical Archive
Member #2,829 · 2008-10-14 → 2009-09-12
#1,302 by Dispatches #1,049 by Author Reads #3,450 by Thread Reach Member #2,829 AMD OSx86 Chameleon / Boot-132 ASUS P5K / P5Q

@xevean

InfiniteMac community contributor with 6 recorded dispatches, 3 lead technical dossiers (10,794 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 27,156 historical readers.

Dispatches 6 Ranked #1,302 of 6,691
Author Reads 10,794 Ranked #1,049 · 3 dossiers
Thread Reach 27,156 Ranked #3,450 in reach
Lead Dossiers 3 3,598 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #2,829 Joined 2008-10-14
Active Window 2008–2009 2008-10-14 → 2009-09-12
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
rig: · AMD Athlon 64 x2 4400+ (Toledo) - socket 939 · Asus a8n-sli-deluxe · 2gb ram · ati x1900xt gfx card · wd 320gb sata 2 · distro: ideneb v1.1 (10.5.4) · bootloader:Chameleon-1.0.11 · kernel: 9.4.0 modbin
Archive Standing
#1,302 of 6,691 by Dispatches (6 notes) · #1,049 of 3,454 by Author Readership (10,794 reads across 3 dossiers) · #3,450 by Thread Reach (27,156 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #2,829 · Joined 2008-10-14
Hardware & Kernel Topics
AMD OSx86 (2) · Chameleon / Boot-132 (1) · ASUS P5K / P5Q (1) · Voodoo / XNU Kernel (1)
Frequent Thread Collaborators
@maya77 (3) @Voyn1x (3) @naquaada (3) @R0GUE (2) @caped_crusader @WinLinMac01 @YamatoHD @mercurysquad @nfoav8or

Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 3 technical boards

Leopard 10.5
3 (50%)
10.X Core
2 (33%)
Hardware & Dev
1 (17%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @xevean (3)

10,794 cumulative reads on threads started by @xevean

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
AMD and Leopard 64 bit mode? (indeneb v1.1 10.5.4)
rig: AMD Athlon 64 x2 4400+ (Toledo) - socket 939 Asus a8n-sli-deluxe 2gb ram ati x1900xt gfx card wd 320gb sata 2 distro: ideneb v1.1 (10.5.4) bootloader:Chameleon-1.0.11 kernel: 9.4.0 modbin -legacy boot flag is NOT being used the…
Leopard 10.53,970 reads
2008-10-14 · 4 notes
ati x1900xt 10.5.8 kext
hi, i just updated to 10.5.8 and it broke my graphics drivers. Does anyone know where I can get some 10.5.8 x1900xt drivers?
10.X Core3,909 reads
2009-09-12 · 1 notes
Zephyroth's Leopard-10 5 2-AMD-EFI-Rev2 fails at fixGUID package
Zephyroth's Leopard-10 5 2-AMD-EFI-Rev2 fails at the fix guid package. I'm going to try and install doing guid bootloader manually and see if it works... , relevant portion of install log is below
Leopard 10.52,915 reads
2008-10-17 · 2 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (3)

Direct links into threads where @xevean contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
64-bit mode
“But it works on Intel machines in 64-bit mode? Adobe CS4 will be 64-bit ready, so I'm wondering how it will use resources on Hackintosh... And btw is there a way to see in which mode Leopard is running currently? the Windows Vista version i…”
Hardware & Dev2008-10-16
10,417 dossier reads
Status: 64bit on OSx86
“It is / would it be possible to run 64bit programs on OSx86? This includes the question: Do we need it? Which programs make use of the 64bit bus width? Side Effects's Houddini is exclusive to 64 bit so yeah… sid efx.com/index.php?option=com…”
10.X Core2008-10-16
5,945 dossier reads
AMD and Leopard 64 bit mode? (indeneb v1.1 10.5.4)
“ok i don't know exactly what is causing this but when i use the -force64 regardless of the kernel (stagexnu, voodoo beta1, voodoo beta 2, modbin, etc) my system boots up as far as mounting the root volume but the system hangs and the hard d…”
Leopard 10.52008-10-22
3,970 dossier reads