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Member #24,401 · 2010-08-22 → 2012-08-07
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@davisin666

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Member Number #24,401 Joined 2010-02-20
Active Window 2010–2012 2010-08-22 → 2012-08-07
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System

• MoBo: MSI K9N2GM-FD, Chipset GeForce 8200 (MCP78)
• CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ @3,02 Ghz
• RAM: Kingston 2GB DDR2 800Mhz + Corsair 2GB DDR2 800Mhz @747Mhz
• VGA: EVGA 9800GT SSC
• HDD: 300GB WD SATAII
• Optical Drive: Sony SATA 24X
• OS: Vanilla Mac OS X Server 10.6.0 + Nawcom ModCD, upgraded to 10.6.8 and Windows 7 x64.

Everything works, except sleep, so system isn't Energy Star compilant :cool:.
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#66 of 6,691 by Dispatches (98 notes) · #78 by Thread Reach (2,349,845 cumulative reads)
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Member #24,401 · Joined 2010-02-20
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Santiago, Chile (back in ~2012)
Hardware & Kernel Topics
AMD OSx86 (31) · NVIDIA GeForce (11) · Voodoo / XNU Kernel (9) · Chameleon / Boot-132 (7) · Retail DVD / USB (5) · DSDT (4)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 3 technical boards

10.X Core
63 (64%)

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (40)

Direct links into threads where @davisin666 contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Lion with AMD
“What if Apple's iCloud reads the uname -v output?”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-13
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“With the fix, it works awesome, even with those programs who use xpchelper (TextEdit, iTunes, etc). But I'm still trying to enable QE/CI in my 9800GT (DVI/DVI) with many enablers (Even I've flashed the Mac Pro's 8800gt bios, because 9800GT …”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-13
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“So, which version of the kernel is the latest? V5? If there is a new version, please post the download link”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-12
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Looks like we will need to create a new branch of the kernel, and upload it to a version control system like git/svn. BTW I'm selling my AMB MB/CPU in order to buy at least a 775 socket MB/CPU. Nawcom is going to work in a kernel for AMD cp…”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-06
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Huh, seems like most kernel users are having video issues. I can't boot with GraphicsEnabler=Yes, otherwise the monitor loses the signal when entering the gui (GeForce 9800GT). Same result with the G92 enabler in iAtkos, rom injection, efi …”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-22
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Does xpchelper still crash with the latest kernels? Yep But only a few apps use xpchelper (TextEdit, Preview, etc)”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-16
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Reverted to Chameleon 2.1 rev 1819 and my 9800GT worked, no more black screen. EDIT: Also worked with 1902 What if we get a DP2 xpchelper and we replace it?”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-07
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Niresh12495 made a 10.7.3 install iso with the amd kernel, here it is: …no warez .link deleted AKI From Niresh12495 Facebook: "AMD Users Must Type "Kernel Cache"=\amd arch=i386 or "Kernel Cache"=\amd arch=i386 -v for Verbose Mode Have Teste…”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-06
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“If it boots, then it is. If it reboots immediately then it isn't (or you are having a old boot loader) Offtopic: Just tested a few games, all of them work fine. Modern Combat Domination and CS Source both run over 60fps easily. And no crash…”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-05
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“just tried and get a instant reboot, so I don't know if I got a kernel panic. Delete IntelCPUPowerManagement.kext and the client one”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-05
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“I never realized how vital Finder was until I now ... Apparently you can't even empty the trash without Finder ... (rm -rf does the job but still ...) Use PathFinder And you can empty the trash with it, the item is in the PathFinder menu”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-05
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Are you using the 10.7.3 kernel for L2 which is 10.7.2? Yep, because is not possible to install 10.7.3 retail/updater over Snow Leopard to the lion partition, but with iAtkos is possible. Also, I've installed the 10.7.3 update and the nvidi…”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-04
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Unrealized, there apparently needs some more work done on the kernel to prevent launchd from crashing. Davis, boot with GraphicsEnabler=Yes npci=0x2000. I'm already using those settings (GraphicsEnabler=Yes npci=0x2000 and -legacy), and kee…”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-04
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Huh, reinstalled iAtkos L2, now I can't boot with GraphicsEnabler=Yes, otherwise the system won't have video signal. I have a 9800GT, I reinstalled twice and the same bug happens, and I tried with Natit, without success. Also, the system do…”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-04
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Hell yeah! bronzovka compiled a kernel for me, media fire.com/?u4647i57tuqk18e Now Lion boots and runs as expected, but, the system, after a while, starts to run slowly. The console is getting nuked with this error The full crash report is …”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-03
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Maybe there're some kexts which aren't compatible with your hardwares Have you tried to modify the S/L/E and also unpack the extensions.mkext to remove the uncompatible kexts and add the current working ones from Snow-Leo If you have a spar…”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-01
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“I guess the OSX LION doesn't support your nForce mobo (MoBo: MSI K9N2GM-FD, Chipset GeForce 8200 (MCP78)) Does your mobo have AHCI support ? If not, have you tried to boot the LION with your current working old kext for Snow-Leo ? Hmmmm, my…”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-01
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Doesn't work for my Athlon 64 X2 5200+ machdep.cpu.family: 15 machdep.cpu.model: 107 It self restarts when Starting Darwin/X86.”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-01
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Huh, looks like your kernel doesn't work with my AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+, can you make it work for my cpu? Here is my cpu-z output , dude, thanks for your hard work!”
Lion – Catalina2012-03-31
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Please try it is mach_kernel_lion_amd_for_10_7_3_fam-15-16_model-6 (media fire.com/?ontvl5nznf58n9h) ! No work on intel ! You should write in boot flag "-legacy" - it is 32 bit ! How do you installed lion?”
Lion – Catalina2012-03-30
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Awesome ! I need it Finder 32-bit from 11a380 ! My mach_kernel for amd with Family 0x15 or 0x16 and model 0x6 ! See the Video LION (media fire.com/download.php?y1qb69kxhf79ymz) ! What if you patch the dyld and the libsystem.b?”
Lion – Catalina2012-03-28
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“I written and compiled xnu 10.7.3 only 32 bit and work on my amd x2 250 LION ! It is picture ! Awwwwwwwwwww yeaaaah! Awesome! How do you did it? Please, post links dude”
Lion – Catalina2012-03-27
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“And Lion kernel is pure 64bit, right? Nope, the kernel has both i386 and x86_64 parts, but you can't run it without -force64 (If you are booting with arch=i386) because application binaries are only x86_64 :-|”
Lion – Catalina2011-11-18
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“any news on the amd lion front? See the posts at the very end of the topic”
Lion – Catalina2011-10-29
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“History repeats... Voodoo Team have done great work on 10.5 kernel for AMD. 10.6 came out, Voodoo Project was dead, and we were not able to run 10.6 on AMD for a long time (at least there was no stable solution). nawcom made great legacy ke…”
Lion – Catalina2011-07-25
1,075,710 dossier reads
10.7.4 AMD Kernel
“best thanks for the last adjustment of the kernel Now the system hangs at USBF: 6719 AppleUSBOHCI … . without this message >>> still waiting for root device my BIOS settings are unchanged and are also set correctly what should I do? OHCI me…”
Lion – Catalina2012-08-07
486,363 dossier reads
10.7.4 AMD Kernel
“Any SMBIOS I try to put the Extra folder, the system will not start. I can see that your vga is a 250GTS (G92). How do you got it working? I can't activate QE/CI on Lion, if I start with some graphics inyector it loses video signal.”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-23
486,363 dossier reads
10.7.4 AMD Kernel
“this kernel is capable of running in 64 bit? No, is 32 bit only (Checked with sudo ditto sudo ditto --arch x86_64 /Volumes/Lion\ HD/mach_kernel /Volumes/Lion\ HD/mach_kernel_x64, it didn't gave any output) 64 bit is harder to get it working…”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-20
486,363 dossier reads
Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support
“I have done nothing helped!. Well that I mach_kernel with amd patcher! legacy_kernel and I have not amd patcher. So I did mach_kernel with amdpatcher works with 8GB does everything as well Plants vs aliens, apshalt 6, photoshop cs5 work exc…”
10.X Core2011-11-14
165,733 dossier reads
Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support
“not_interrupts_enabled It seems like there is a heavy mess with interrupts and threads”
10.X Core2011-11-10
165,733 dossier reads
Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support
“For the usb messages, did you disable the usb legacy support (In BIOS, because it seems that in OHCI, usb 1.1, is the problem)? If doesn't work, maybe using usb kexts from 10.6.8 can do the trick”
10.X Core2011-11-10
165,733 dossier reads
Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support
“It seems like xmove doesn't work very well with amd, gotta mod iatkosx L1, I will have to buy a blank dvd xddd”
10.X Core2011-11-09
165,733 dossier reads
Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support
“Pthread support ABORTS when sync kernel primitives misused No interval found for . Using 8000000 Looks like we need to compare the log with the vanilla dmesg if these messages appears”
10.X Core2011-11-09
165,733 dossier reads
Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support
“I'm almost done compiling the universal (32+64bit) kernel (using Xcode 3.2.6). Lets hope that at least works... I'm crossing my fingers :-|”
10.X Core2011-11-08
165,733 dossier reads
Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support
“cl .ly/1z3j321i2a0g1i171819 In this download is missing the Autopatch x86_64”
10.X Core2011-11-08
165,733 dossier reads
Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support
“---- yeah! Someone confirm that if is working, so I can install Lion now , thanks Andy for your hard work”
10.X Core2011-11-08
165,733 dossier reads
Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support
“The problem is that there is no solution to run 32 bit apps on an amd with the 64 bit kernel. It´s just possible to run 32 bit kernel in 64 bit userland. Sorry dude. Here something different: I would have a look on these kexts, because ther…”
10.X Core2011-10-28
165,733 dossier reads
Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support
“Andy, I booted with arch=x86_64 with your latest legacy_kernel for Snow Leopard (With x64 Finder). I can't run any 32 bit / Rosetta app, only in force64 mode I can run 32 bit apps. My libSystem.b is patched too. The dmesg from my pc is in t…”
10.X Core2011-10-26
165,733 dossier reads
Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support
“This weekend I can put some time aside for making a new Lion kernel... Keep you posted. <B Dale compadre, que la fuerza te acompañe Buena suerte!”
10.X Core2011-10-21
165,733 dossier reads
Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support
“I could boot Snow Leopard with arch=x86_64 (V2 10.6.8 kernel), but all apps were crashing after the desktop appeared. Bootargs in org.chameleon.Boot.plist: arch=i386 -force64 std_dyld=Yes npci=0x2000 Setting -v arch=x86_64 at chameleon boot…”
10.X Core2011-10-19
165,733 dossier reads

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