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Hackintosh

Hackintosh – Set Power Management Mode

March 28, 2010

Use the pmset command to manipulate power management settings on a hackintosh
pmset -g displays the current settings

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Hackintosh ATI Video Drivers Background

February 5, 2010

This thread is not a guide, it’s purpose is to gather information for reverse-engineering ATI cards. It’s not complete and if you can fill any of the holes, it’s very welcome. Email me here, johndavidson@gmail.com.
Support for ATI cards is provided by 2 kexts and a plug-in. The kexts are ATINDRV.kext and  an acceleration kext.
Each adapter has an associated frame-buffer driver to provide 2D support [...]

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Troubleshooting Buffalo WLI-UC-GN on OSX

January 31, 2010

These are some notes from trouble-shooting the Buffalo Wifi  WLI-UC-GN USB dongle on OS X.
I’m using an older Linksys BEFW1154 802.11 B wireless router as my test access point. I wasted a day trouble-shooting my airport because I plugged the cable modem into a LAN port rather than the WAN port. When I scanned for [...]

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Troubleshooting OS X 10.5.8 upgrade

January 22, 2010

When upgrading always try to upgrade to a new volume ideally on a separate partition. That way if anything goes wrong you still can boot into the old working volume.
I upgraded a client’s laptop from OS X 10.5.2 tp 10.5.8 in order to run the iPhone Software Development Kit. Unfortunately after the upgrade there [...]

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Wireless N USB Airport adapter for Mac’s or Hackintosh’s

January 19, 2010

All of Apple’s laptops come with a built-in wireless adapter.Why would you need a wireless N USB adapter?
There are a lot of reasons…. Perhaps the wireless asapter on your laptop is broken. Often when you buy an old used laptop the previous owner has scrounged and sold the wireless adapter. And if you [...]

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Brief notes on building Hackintosh OS X systems

January 19, 2010

These are some brief notes about things I’ve learned building Hackintosh computers.
OS X 10.5 Leopard distributions I’ve worked with
OS X Kalyway 10.5.2
iDeneb Version 1.4 10.5.6
iDeneb Version 1.6 10.5.8 Light
I recommend iDeneb 1.6 because you’ll end up with the most up-to-date version of OS X Leopard 10.5.8 (released in August of 2009). You’ll also be [...]

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Installing OSX iDeneb 10.5.6 onToshiba Satellite P200-BW1 Hackintosh

January 13, 2010

Important the install only works with MBR partition scheme with OS X loaded in the primary partition rdisk0s1!!
need to boot with -x -f after the initial install.
Getting the Intel High Definition Sound working:
verify Darwin kernel 9.6.0
download Voodoohda.kext from sourceforge.net
kextload -t VoodooHDA.kext
Apple=>System Preferences=>Sound to control preferences
use the directory utility to enable root user
Finder => Go => [...]

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