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Member #90,019,699 · 2011-06-23 → 2012-10-24
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@anonomys209

InfiniteMac community contributor with 71 recorded dispatches, participating in discussions reaching 1,593,782 historical readers.

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Member Number #90,019,699 Joined 2011-05-09
Active Window 2011–2012 2011-06-23 → 2012-10-24
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• AMD Phenom II X6 1075T
• ASUS M4A78LT-M
• 12GB DDR3
• XFX Radeon HD 5750 1GB
• 160GB HDD | OSX 10.6.7
• 500GB HDD | OSX 10.7.2
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#99 of 6,691 by Dispatches (71 notes) · #315 by Thread Reach (1,593,782 cumulative reads)
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Member #90,019,699 · Joined 2011-05-09
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California, USA (back in ~2012)
Hardware & Kernel Topics
AMD OSx86 (13) · Voodoo / XNU Kernel (8) · USB / EHCI (4) · Chameleon / Boot-132 (3) · ATI Radeon (2) · Retail DVD / USB (2)
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Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (40)

Direct links into threads where @anonomys209 contributed solutions & commentary

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Lion with AMD
“Thankss… Anyone have installed dual boot lion / snow. Now i ve install in this order snow/snow/lion but When in install chameleon in snow , lion don't start (stop in bsd root : disk ) ; When install chameleon in lion , don't start snow :S I…”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-17
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“hello, I wanted to thank you for this great job on the dévelloppent 10.7 AMD kernel, because we in France we have brains dévelloppés little for such work. In short, I managed to run fast and simple versions 10.7 to 10.7.3 with your kernel, …”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-16
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“iCloud ! What if we use the keychain access file for iCloud and transfer to AMD cpu from an intel or working logged in iCloud mac . i seen one in my keychain app. on my intel laptop but don't know where to find the location of the Keychain …”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-16
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Not sure if anyone else noticed this, but I started seeing around 13-20% CPU usage for no apparent reason at all, and I couldn't get rid of it to save my life, until I realized that it was only showing up when I booted verbose. If I boot wi…”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-16
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“whoops.. sorry for that.. well, we're replacing a next named "system". i wondered there must be something broken after that just replace your IO80211Family.kext with one from 10.7.3 (again). this fixed mine. Haha ya thanks buddy I had gotte…”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-16
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“@rizki_alkaf Thanks for the info mate You're right! The old system.kext (10.7.3) really does the trick Now I get a clean boot and my osx seems booting a bit faster than before NO ERRORS found! Here's the kext media fire.com/?444ib31p3384s5e…”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-16
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“...but are those errors actually causing any issues? I haven't seen any negative affect but I could be wrong.”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-16
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“If you read through the last ten pages or so you'll see my struggle lol It came down to rolling back AppleFileSystemDriver.kext and reinstalling it AFTER the 10.7.4 update. There were also a couple other things that were giving me trouble, …”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-16
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Yeah.. XPCHELPER still crashes here, even with the programs working. Anyone solved the weird (laggy) mouse issue? Is this what is causing the screen animations to be slow/laggy too? I was having this issue, but it was related to my graphics…”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-16
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Not here. Your fix for xpchelper got rid of that problem for me for good :knocking on wood: Does anyone know what changed with the v6 kernel?”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-15
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“-force64 is it working? or stay at -legacy Didn't work for me. Had to boot with -legacy still. I'm bummed Waiting for 64bit for FCPX and I would love a kernel that'll let us sign into iCloud/Messages/FT. Anyone know where to start?”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-15
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Yes ! You can download from mediafire ! Here link kernel (media fire.com/download.php?gz2zmxyb4c670dx) ! What's new with the new version? Are we in 64bit yet?”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-15
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Yes this is what I mean, it seems to know if the account is real, the next page where it shows the connected receipment addresses it seems to bug when it tries to register the mac as a receipent machine, hence why if you already sign in and…”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-15
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“It's worth a shot! dl.drop box.com/u/79094064/AppleATIATA.kext.zip Well, completely unrelated to what I was going to use it for, I was able to get my internal IDE CD & DVD drives working with this kext that haven't worked until now, thanks …”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-15
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“I've explained why it doesn't work, I don't see what you don't understand. You'll need someone who is good at configuring the kernel to authentic a correct UUID, and then maybe it'll work. Revogirl stated that the source they release isn't …”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-15
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Oh well. For the time being, I'm content with what we've been given LOL Thanks again to the bronzovka for the kernel ( although he hasn't said much since he said he was gonna stop working on the kernel : and jeaton2012 thank you buddy for e…”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-15
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Yeah, I get the same error as you Facetime, Messages, iCloud, they're all dependent on whether you have a vanilla kernel or not, unfortunately... hopefully someone can find a workaround sometime soon. Damn. Now I'm bummed lol I was using Fa…”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-15
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Okay I got it. I messed up my 10.7.4 install, so instead of restoring from my CarbonCopyCloner backup (yes, it is great ) I decided to start fresh from iAtkos L2. The kext that you need to back up and replace is IOStorageFamily.kext. But an…”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-15
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“After all this, are they seriously gonna tell me now that I can't register for Messages with my @me account? :”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-15
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“I'm in! Had to install that IOStorageFamily.kext and then I had to boot up with safe mode (it said the drive was repaired during fsck in verbose boot) and now it's booting fine! Have to roll back my graphics driver to the custom kext for Ra…”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-15
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Ok man. Gonna give this another shot before I restore again from my 10.7.2 backup and try to just update to 10.7.3, since all I really want is Messages. Will post results. Thanks again guys, this thread has been really helpful.”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-14
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Ok this is getting weird lol using that kext I'm gonna have to change SATA config in bios? Every Hackintosh install I've ever had required me to turn on AHCI. So this is gonna be interesting lol and it will probably not let me boot into my …”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-14
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“I don't believe I have that kext installed even on 10.7.2, maybe that's my problem? I just rolled back the AppleFileSystemDriver.kext, mach_kernel & Finder.app, rebooted and I'm stuck at the same point. Maybe I should install that kext?”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-14
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“I was able to update to 10.7.4 pretty flawlessly. The only weird thing is that when I boot, it gives me a bunch of ?kxld? error notifications. It doesn't seem to affect anything, though. Lion works just the same as it did in 10.7.3. I updat…”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-14
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Maybe it has something to do with updating from 10.7.2 to 10.7.4 directly. I'm gonna download the 10.7.3 combo update and start there, cuz I've now bombed my install 3 times. Thank GOD for Carbon Copy Cloner (if you don't have it you should…”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-14
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“I have similar issue, installed 10.7.2 and booted fine, seems to work. Wanted to get imessage, so updated to 10.7.3 using comboupdate, change kernel, then won't boot. : tried with bunch of kernel flags then somehow booted with -x -v ncpi=0x…”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-14
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“He means exiting fullscreen mode...happened to me as well but i think it happens just on non apple Apps cause for me it happend on angry birds but never in Safari And BTW is there any ALC892 kext? Cause VooDooHDA makes my audio fuzzy,AppleH…”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-14
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Thanks for the tip! And is anyone here having trouble exiting full screen apps? Like sometimes it will make the whole system freeze when exiting them. It also happens sometimes when I delete a desktop space from dashboard. Now there's ONE i…”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-14
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Apparently the new Photo Booth effects only work in 64 bits. Same problem here, so I don't think it's camera related. Actually just figured that out, thanks tho bro. MotionFX on the AppStore is actually really cool and it still utilizes the…”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-13
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Has anyone tried to use the new Photo Booth yet? I have a Logitech HD Webcam that I've been using for Facetime and Photo Booth on SL with no problem. Still works on Lion, but the new Photo Booth effects don't seem to be working... does anyo…”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-13
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Guys...I was installing next using next utility and... Repair Permissions for "/System/Library/Extensions/VoodooTSCSyncAMD.kext" ... Done. -- Total processed: 8 files (1 kexts) for 0 sec. Updating system caches MAC OS X "Lion"… will that up…”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-13
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“I have similar issue, installed 10.7.2 and booted fine, seems to work. Wanted to get imessage, so updated to 10.7.3 using comboupdate, change kernel, then won't boot. : tried with bunch of kernel flags then somehow booted with -x -v ncpi=0x…”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-13
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“try specifying a bus ratio with a flag busratio=x x= your prossesor bus ratio frequency on my phenom if i don't use this i get sound distortion and weird lags I'm using original first mach_kernel 10.7.3 bronzovka So I really have no idea wh…”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-13
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Ok that's a start. But how do I actually install to another partition? Do I want to boot into Snow Leopard and run an installer? Also what files am I supposed to replace and where to get said replacements? I have a Lion retail image btw. Al…”
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
“try specifying a bus ratio with a flag busratio=x x= your prossesor bus ratio frequency on my phenom if i don't use this i get sound distortion and weird lags I'm using original first mach_kernel 10.7.3 bronzovka How do you properly identif…”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-13
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“I really cannot figure out why I'm having these IOHIDSystem errors and QE/CI lags. I've tried the VoodooTSCSyncAMD.kext fix, I've tried rolling back my IOHIDFamily.kext, and I've tried just leaving it alone and running off a fresh install. …”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-13
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“None of the options which you gave me, did not work! Everyone is having this problem or just me? What are you talking about man...? If you follow the instructions he gave it will work perfectly.”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-13
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“I've managed to fix the system preferences crashing that people have been experiencing when opening network preferences! Just put this (dl.drop box.com/u/79094064/Network.prefPane.zip) into /System/Library/PreferencePanes/ and replace the e…”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-13
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Just bombed my install... Oh well, gonna start fresh from iAtkos L2. At least now I have a gameplan…”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-12
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