@cgsheen

Sorry, I'll warn you upfront this post will likely be longish... Some unusual things I've learned fooling around with Zephyroth 10.5.1: A. Installing on an EXTERNAL hard drive: I've tried several installs on spare hardware I have lying…

“Ya, I've never had a problem, but I don't leave my any of my machines running 24-7. My son probably does - but he's using a single core Turion64 socket 754 CPU. The longest any of my dual (quad) cores run is 15-20 hours at a stretch (well, …”

“Enable AHCI in the BIOS for your SATA drives. What southbridge does your MB use? Is it an SB600 or SB700 (like my 780G motherboards...) I have OSx86 running on 2 780G machines - 1 with a Phenom, 1 with an A64 X2. I doubt that your video car…”

“@eMatoS: I have a Asus A8N-SLI with the latest Bios update. The only option I can change in the bios is ACPI enabled/disabled and S1 or S3. I tried every combination without success. Ya, I can promise you - it's NOT whether you're usin…”

“@Ianxxx: @eMatoS: I'm getting this error when I boot from the DVD: Local APIC versions not 0x14 as expected … use only one style panic (cpu 0 caller 0x0042F4E3): "Unable to find driver for this platform: \"ACPI\"… I have tried wit…”

“@lanxxx & eMatoS It's not that... My own install gives me the "... not 0x14 as expected" every time I boot, but it's never stopped an install or a boot into 10.5.1 or 10.5.2. He's most likely using an unsupported or poorly supported chipset…”

“@freshcuts Did you try all of the ALC880 codec dumps (all the alc880.txt files) in the repository referenced at netkas.org? There are probably 7 or 8 different .txt files (codec dumps) for the ALC880. They are from various motherboards (but…”

“@freshcuts: @cgsheen: @freshcuts: I tried everything and still no sound on my alc850. I don't get it. Our ALC850 was supported natively by 10.5.1 - I don't know why it wouldn't be in 10.5.2... ) So you are telling me that on …”

“@timeflux If he hasn't found and read the MULTITUDE of posts on how to get 10.5.2 via USENET already... ALL the information is already here man...”

“@Skyper: HOW DO U USE NEWSLEACHER? Seriously dude... Do yourself a favor (& us too) and just ride the torrent. Go outside and play for a day or two... ( oh, do you remember how to UNDO the "Caps Lock" on your keyboard? )”

“@freshcuts: I tried everything and still no sound on my alc850. I don't get it. Our ALC850 was supported natively by 10.5.1 - I don't know why it wouldn't be in 10.5.2... ( that's the sound codec used on my son's MB on our very first Z…”

“@Leviathan: WOW thx thx thx for the great release works on my machine, posting this with safari, but i have 2 problems: onboard network card doesn't work onboard soundcard doesn't work (is there a way to use my 2.nd soundcard: Creative…”

“@macprodan: AnyThing I can Do, Does MBR work any better for other Users, which group has had the most success ? YAAA! I fought with a GUID + EFI install for a couple of hours, then re-partitioned MBR + EFI and stinking 10.5.2 installed…”

“@braid: thanks for those who did answear my question! Did you understand the reference (or are you being a smart-ass? It's cool if you are - I'm just asking...) Just so everyone is clear: If you read the rules of just about every Forum…”

“@braid: ok guys I read about the newsgroup, but there is no other way to download it? no ftp? no torrent? no other way? Just sittin' by the dock of the bay...”

“@WinLinMac01: @zephyroth, is there any reason I don't have the option to turn the translucent bar off in the Desktop and Screensaver Preferences? Must have something to do with graphics card capabilities...”

“@WinLinMac01: @cgsheen, are you able to see an option for making the menu bar translucent or not? Last question: I was forced to name my volume with only one word. However, in the O/S environment, I changed the name and put it back to …”

“@WinLinMac01: Unfortunately, MBR is the only way to go on my side. @Zephyroth, I only installed the 9.2.0 kernal, do I have to install both kernals (9.2.0 and 9.1.0)? Also, why am I not able to see my complete CPU info as stated that i…”

“@zephyroth Why can't I get a bootable disk out of the install using 9.2.0, GUID, & EFI? Do I HAVE to partition MBR? I've tried 4 times now with GUID and the install actually completes without stalls, I get the "big green check mark" & reboo…”

“@Cooalis: Ok, I'm one step closer now. I now know what causes my problem. When I boot in -v mode I get an error with firewire drivers and then "Still waiting for root device". But I don't have Firewire. Here are my specs a bit more det…”

“@althon: I can't boot the DVD MD5 is right. Burn it on a DVD-RW. After loading mkext - restart. That's what was happening to me - only I had a bad .iso - MD5 wasn't right (I didn't check the MD5 until AFTER I burned an install DVD and …”

“Finally got the .iso via BT. Usenet didn't work for me. On my news server 7 of the parts had CRC errors and repairing them didn't work. Anyway, I'm at work, but Zephy's new installer is a no-go on the 2 machines I've tried the new 10.5.2 fo…”

“You have to chill with newsgroups... Sometimes it takes a while to fully "propagate". I'm surprised to see so many complete parts this early. If there are terminally broken parts, Zephy will upload those parts again AFTER it's all up and al…”

“@Jare Ya, they're up including Zeph's original posts and the "PAR" file. On my news server everything is complete 1 thru 46 are complete with the exceptions of parts 28 & 29 which are still incomplete...”

“@WinLinMac01: what usenet clients do "you" recommend for this kinds of hefty download? Newsbin is giving my all incompletes. That probably isn't as much your newsreader as your news SERVER...”

“@WinLinMac01: Zephyroth, I'm seeing that the total image size is roughly 3.7GB in size. Was there anything that was stopping you from including the extensions folder? A typical single-DL is 4.7GB. Dude, I'm sure the .iso is compressed …”

“28 and 29 are incomplete on my server 30-33 are all there and 34-36 are still being uploaded I've only got half of what's available and I've already got 2 "parts" that have CRC errors. I hate newsgroups... I'm going to bag this until the ba…”

“@WinLinMac01: really? I have some files that are 25, and some that are as low as 11.67 and high as 53. Is there something wrong? I have not figured where the files are being saved yet. @mentos: Files are 50M each. I am just wonder…”

“They're made up of 152 "messages" which are each about 325KB. So one "part" of the .rar (archive) is about 50MB. Your newsreader holds the "files". Some newsreaders combine and decode the messages automatically and save the "attachments" as…”

“Looks like my news server is up to part 28, but I still can't find a newsreader that'll do yEnc and stay connected to my server...”

“Sorry, I'm "spilling the beans" - I just stumbled across the upload alt.binaries.mac.cd-images for those of you who haven't discovered it already. It's yEnc so what do I use as a newsgroup reader? MS Entourage won't decode yEnc will it? On …”

“I'll wait for the torrent. DL thousands of pieces from a newsgroup is a PITA. If the news servers suck there are always missing pieces.”

“There's another string list (SystemVersion.plist) that contains all the version information. Including the: "ProductUserVisibleVersion" ... I didn't dare change anything else, but I figured it's the "user visable" entry, so...”

“Look at mine now. Notice the "z" for Zephyroth? No, I didn't change the version string in "AboutThisMac.strings"…”

“@WinLinMac01: How do you add a Startup disk info in the About this Mac graphics? I don't seem to have that. Thanks. I've never added it. I think it's always been there in all of my installs...”

“@megaargon: Do you know how I can change my info and logo on the About-this-mac graphics? I mean, is there an easier way? Please let me know. Thanks. We could all come over to your house and DO IT FOR YOU!”

“What motherboard do you use? I've got 10.5.4 running on two different 780G motherboards (well, they're both Gigabyte GA-MA78GM S2H, but, ones a revision 1.0 and ones a revision 1.1). One has a Phenom and one uses an Athlon 64 X2...”

“1st GarageBand AMD Mac: Zephyroth 10.5.1 + AMD 10.5.1 Updates + Marvin MB: Gigabyte GA-K8N51GMF-RH 6100/410MCP - ( I/O: Winbond W83627 ) CPU: AMD Turion64 ML40 Socket 754 Drives: IDE DVD and HD - SATA unused - (External USB & 1394 drives wo…”

“wow... I'm Swedish-Norweigan/English-Irish-Welsh-German errr "United Stater"”

“@gaz919: Does the above indicate that with software raid on one harddrive the hd is faster? you need to show the baseline for comparison Errrm, YA! Disk speed on Hackintoshes usually sucks by comparison! Get xbench - the baseline figur…”

“@maxunderkill: I have an HP dv8210US Laptop - Slightly the same as my Compaq V2312us... Here's where you may have trouble: AMD Turion ML 32 --> no problem here 2Gb Ram --> or here ATI Radeon Xpress 200 --> biggest stumbling block, may …”