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Member #9,729 · 2009-08-15 → 2010-09-27
#474 by Dispatches #138 by Thread Reach Member #9,729 Dell Inspiron / Latitude AHCI / SATA NVIDIA GeForce

@jtillwick

InfiniteMac community contributor with 16 recorded dispatches, participating in discussions reaching 1,786,456 historical readers.

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Member Number #9,729 Joined 2009-08-15
Active Window 2009–2010 2009-08-15 → 2010-09-27
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#474 of 6,691 by Dispatches (16 notes) · #138 by Thread Reach (1,786,456 cumulative reads)
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Member #9,729 · Joined 2009-08-15
Hardware & Kernel Topics
Dell Inspiron / Latitude (5) · AHCI / SATA (2) · NVIDIA GeForce (2) · DSDT (2) · Gigabyte G31M / P35 (2) · Chameleon / Boot-132 (1)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 3 technical boards

10.X Core
2 (12%)
Leopard 10.5
2 (12%)

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (16)

Direct links into threads where @jtillwick contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
DELL D620/630/830 kext pack
“I have a D630 with an NVidia graphic card When i install SL the first time, shutdown, restart and sleep work After i apply the driver pack, sleep, restart and shutdown won't trigger the hardware to stop I just have a blank (black) screen :'…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-09-27
895,283 dossier reads
DELL D620/630/830 kext pack
“I have a D630 with an X3100 and an Alps trackpad. I have looked everywhere and tried dozens of guides to get touchpad scrolling to work and it just doesn't. With ffscroll, my touchpad is all over the place. It will scroll with one finger in…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-09-25
895,283 dossier reads
DELL D620/630/830 kext pack
“Why doesn't touchpad scrolling work? I have a D630 model PP18L with an X3100, I have everything working great except touchpad scrolling. Adding the AppleACPIPS2Nub and ApplePS2Controller from this kext pack as well as the ffscroll daemon ju…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-09-25
895,283 dossier reads
DELL D620/630/830 kext pack
“I have a D620 and have installed Snow Leopard and updated to 10.6.4. I installed all kexts and when booting, I get stuck at IOAPIC. Did a little research and it seems to be caused by the inability to turn on AHCI mode in the D620. Is there …”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-07-22
895,283 dossier reads
Install Snow Leopard from USB stick/Drive (Updated 12/11/09)
“I have a Gigabyte GA-EP45T-DS3R and am currently running 10.5.8 without any issues. I tried installing a retail Snow Leopard I received today and I too get a kernel panic on first boot immediately after loading of extensions. Have also trie…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-29
538,606 dossier reads
SSE2/SSE3 - 32/64 Bit Kernel for Snow Leopard by qoopz
“This topic is a bit misleading as the SSE3 emulator for SSE2 CPUs is simply broken. I have tried this an many other legacy kernels with no success. On SSE2 CPUs, when you boot into SL with this or other kernels you will see that your backgr…”
10.X Core2010-09-14
194,515 dossier reads
Quad Core Anyone
“I have a GA-EP45T-DS3R running a q9550 Core 2 Quad. System Profiler does not show an entry for Processor Name. This is used by many programs to determine PPC vs Intel. Since mine does not exist, many programs assume PPC and it causes issues…”
Leopard 10.52009-08-15
76,251 dossier reads
ATI 2600 xt pcie & Snow Leopard Troubles
“It is so frustrating that the AGP Nvidia 6200 I have works just fine with QE/CI, but my 2 newer ATI 2600 cards wont work, and most likely never will.”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-08-18
29,014 dossier reads
ATI 2600 xt pcie & Snow Leopard Troubles
“Is there no way to use a DSDT hack to get full QE/CI on the 2600 cards? I have a ATI 2600 XT and a 2600 Pro. If Snow Leopard only works with the mobility chipset, is there no way to do a firmware flash to get them working?”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-08-18
29,014 dossier reads
ATI 2600 xt pcie & Snow Leopard Troubles
“try it better youself Wow. You don't need to be rude about it. It is disappointing that a large number of people in the hackintosh community have to buy a new card to use Snow Leopard. No one is blaming any of the community developers for n…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-11-25
29,014 dossier reads
ATI 2600 xt pcie & Snow Leopard Troubles
“I have a HD2400 PCI-e which doesn't have qe/ci under leo either, so I'm in the same boat. It will, however, play some video with Quicktime player, but since there's no hardware acceleration it uses the CPU and isn't nearly as smooth as 10.5…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-11-15
29,014 dossier reads
ATI 2600 xt pcie & Snow Leopard Troubles
“they have a different firmware also see http://netkas.org/?p=182 and www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html crossposting: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=185824 Who said anything about OpenCL. OpenCL and QE/CI are not dependen…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-11-15
29,014 dossier reads
ATI 2600 xt pcie & Snow Leopard Troubles
“So, is this dead? Even though the iMacs with 2600 cards in them work fine with QE/CI in Snow Leopard, we are just giving up on the hackintosh end?”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-10-01
29,014 dossier reads
DSMOS deleted & replaced w FAKESMC - still 'Waiting for DSMOS'
“When you say that you added JMicronATA, do you mean the injector, or JMicronATA.kext? Also, do you have a jmicron chipset? I am experiencing this problem on a Dell D620 with Snow Leopard 10.6.4. I have AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext and it is getti…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-07-23
28,191 dossier reads
How to install New Silverlight beta 2
“Would be nice if we could get the root of the problem fixed. Anyone know a solution for getting the "Processor Name" to show up correctly in System Profiler?”
10.X Core2009-08-15
8,246 dossier reads
ALC653 - AC97 audio thread
“I don't see an attachment here.”
Leopard 10.52010-06-01
16,350 dossier reads

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