InfiniteMac · 2008–2024 Archive
Mac OS X on x86 Hardware
Retail installation guides, DSDT patches, XNU kernel releases, and hardware compatibility reports.
Mac OS X & Hardware Collections
Consolidated into 9 high-signal technical boards
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OSx86 Core & 10.X 2008–2024
Cross-version kernels, DSDT patching, bootloaders, and general x86 hardware architecture
2,465 dossiers 17,430 notes 33,288,299 reads -
Snow Leopard 10.6 2009–2012
Mac OS X 10.6 (10A432–10K549) retail DVD & USB builds, 64-bit K64 kernel transitions, DSDT fixes, and kext packs
1,007 dossiers 8,111 notes 21,713,433 reads -
Leopard 10.5 2007–2010
Mac OS X 10.5 retail installations, Voodoo XNU 9.x kernels, and Intel/AMD distributions (iPC, iATKOS, Kalyway, Zephyroth)
2,395 dossiers 17,516 notes 18,186,404 reads -
Lion to Catalina (10.7–10.15) 2011–2024
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, 10.8 Mountain Lion, 10.9 Mavericks, 10.10 Yosemite, 10.11 El Capitan, 10.12 Sierra & 10.15 Catalina
107 dossiers 2,349 notes 4,214,145 reads -
Software, Drivers & Kexts 2008–2016
Application compatibility, audio/network/graphics kexts (AppleHDA, VoodooHDA, FakeSMC), and system utilities
191 dossiers 1,368 notes 1,321,943 reads -
Hardware, Systems & Dev 2008–2016
Mac desktops, notebooks, motherboards, GPUs, peripherals, iOS devices, and Cocoa / Xcode engineering
76 dossiers 465 notes 1,054,873 reads -
Kernel & Community Releases 2008–2015
Official announcements, Voodoo kernel test releases, and Apple / OSx86 ecosystem dispatches
55 dossiers 474 notes 1,936,230 reads -
General Discussion 2008–2016
Workstation setups, benchmarking, cross-platform computing discussions, and community notes
101 dossiers 1,047 notes 721,236 reads -
International Dispatches 2008–2015
Multilingual OSx86 guides and regional hardware notes (Greek, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Polish)
324 dossiers 3,376 notes 4,863,701 reads
Landmark Field Guides & Technical Dossiers
| Dossier & Credited Voices | Collection | Readership |
|---|---|---|
| T-Mobile Internet - warning Installing the ZTE T-Mobile Mobile Broadband drivers will leave your Snow Leopard system unbootable! If your thinking of getting mobile broadband, make sure it's NOT T-Mobile! Here's some solutions: Download the kexts attached and install… | Snow Leopard 10.6 2009-08-13 | 3,118,134 reads 1 notes |
| Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L UPDATE March 12, 2010: sold my ES2L Quicksilver PowerHack a few weeks back so my last update on this guide... it's been fun guys since we started this thread (August 17, 2009 - it all starts on Leopard thread here).. i'm sure we will bump… | Snow Leopard 10.6 2009-08-17 | 1,741,402 reads 763 notes |
| iPC OSx86 Leopard 10.5.6 Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3 iPC OSx86 10.5.6 Universal FINAL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ISO INFO: ISO Size on Disk: 4.3GB DVD Base System: Mac OS X 10.5.4 9E25 Retail Installed OS: Mac OS X 10.5.6 with AppleDecrypt.kext and Disabler.kext (every install)… | 10.X Core 2008-12-23 | 965,272 reads 315 notes |
| iATKOS v7 iATKOS v7 10.5.7 Intel/AMD DVD you can grab it from tpb.. Attention! - This DVD is designed for Non-Apple x86 computers (PC). So, do not try to boot it on Apple Hardware! - This DVD includes Apple's Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.7 (9J61)… | 10.X Core 2009-06-22 | 932,692 reads 78 notes |
| DELL D620/630/830 kext pack here is the kext pack for your DELL D620/630/830 machines. I'm back even with better english so I corrected the first post. All links are still up (and they will be...thanks box.net ;)). Btw. I switched to MacBook Pro 13... Download X3100… | Snow Leopard 10.6 2009-08-30 | 895,283 reads 289 notes |
| Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode T hanks to all the wonderful users of this community I have now a nearly perfect vanilla, up-to-date, 10a432 hackintosh My system : P5k-E Wifi ap mobo cpu Q6600 (Core 2 Quad) 2gb ram 667 AD1988B sound chip WG311-t network card asus sata… | Snow Leopard 10.6 2009-07-15 | 808,277 reads 368 notes |
| Snow Leopard 10A432 Install Before we begin to install Snow leopard On AMD system we need to prepare some file : 1. Kernel : Because AMD cant boot with vanila kernel.. for me the most success kernel is mach_kernel.test7 from modbin. test7 its because its kernel… | Snow Leopard 10.6 2009-08-22 | 694,068 reads 243 notes |
| Gigabyte G31M-ES2L Retail Tutorial What you need: Your Retail DVD of Leopard. A blank CD for the Boot CD. A computer to burn an ISO. A hard drive for installation. Benefits of a retail installation against prepatched versions (iPC, iAtkos, iDeneb, Kalyway, JaS etc): Full… | 10.X Core 2009-06-20 | 669,898 reads 80 notes |
| Various DSDT mods. There are many threads on installing OS X with DSDT override, if you do that you can mod it to fix and activate some features. Things you can do/fix. 1. Activate the PWRB - Power button. 2. fix the blank display on System Wake. 3. Activate… | 10.X Core 2009-01-19 | 625,378 reads 107 notes |
| Asus K50IN GUIDE for the ASUS K Series / OS X 10.6.x / 10.7.x The ASUS K50/70 notebook is designed to provide a no-frills computing experience to users while on the move. The K Series of notebooks sport the nVidia MCP79 / MCP75 chipsets containing… | 10.X Core 2009-10-12 | 606,173 reads 1029 notes |
| Install Snow Leopard from USB stick/Drive (Updated 12/11/09) Use this guide to avoid the Disk Utility Packages issue and Kernel Panics, especialy in 64bit (related to permissions) It's mainly focused on Intel desktops but I guess when you apply your own custom kexts it can be used for laptops too.… | Snow Leopard 10.6 2009-08-20 | 538,606 reads 48 notes |
| Possible solutions for "Still waiting for root device" Here you will find some solutions to the common "Still waiting for root device" issue which has been compiled from information in the osx86project wiki. If anyone has managed to solve it another way, please post it here. :) Solution 1 -… | Leopard 10.5 2008-10-20 | 538,220 reads 55 notes |
| List of NVIDIA GPUs supported in Snow Leopard 10.6.1 I compiled this list of what NVIDIA GPUs are supported in Snow Leopard 10.6.1 according to kexts, I think it could be useful to know what is supported and what is not. It doesnt mean it should work, it just means their device ids are… | 10.X Core 2009-10-11 | 508,489 reads 25 notes |
| ALC889a (with analog 5.1 surround) Just wondering if anyone has 5.1 sound working in Snow (or Leo for that matter) Not digital out but normal surround via the 3 analog ports. If so could you share the method please (DSDT, kext) UPDATE : Solved thx to all for your input,… | Snow Leopard 10.6 2009-08-23 | 497,008 reads 219 notes |
| UHCI/EHCI Built in with dsdt fix First the issues, than the fixes. My usb1 (UHCI) and usb2 (EHCI) ports were showing up in system profiler as "expansion slots". This was causing 2 main problems for me. First, I had to use the power button to wake the computer from sleep.… | 10.X Core 2009-08-30 | 496,156 reads 160 notes |
| Voodoo XNU 9.5.0 Kernel in Testing The XNU-Development team has wasted no time in attempting to bring an up-to-date kernel to non vanilla 10.5.5 users. Apple has been quick in releasing the 10.5.5 kernel sources, and XNU-dev has been quick in porting it. The… | Releases & News 2008-09-22 | 493,765 reads 17 notes |
| EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation OSX LION 10.7.2 INSTALLATION http://www.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=169&t=36909&p=232859#p232859 From 10.6.0 to 10.6.6 Other tutorials/useful links: 1. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=198294… | Snow Leopard 10.6 2009-08-31 | 491,666 reads 478 notes |
| 10.7.4 AMD Kernel This is my assembly of 11.4.0 XNU / Lion Kernel patches. : I started this with the aim to achieve the most optimal function on my AMD FX equipt workstation, even though it also works on many other AMD & legacy-Intel machines with some… | Lion – Catalina 2012-05-19 | 486,363 reads 526 notes |
| How to port AppleHDA to SL Okay. I've been getting a lot of requests from people who wants to convert their Leopard AppleHDA.kext into Snow Leopard. This guide assumes you have fully working kext or at least one which works well enough for your needs. Edit: This… | Snow Leopard 10.6 2009-09-08 | 478,935 reads 117 notes |
| Snow Leopard 10.6.1-10.6.2 Intel AMD made by Hazard Snow Leopard 10.6.1-10.6.2 Intel AMD made by Hazard Snow Leopard for Intel and AMD. This distro include retail 10.6 with 10.6.1 and 10.6.2 update. It's include many fixes and drivers and fell free to experiment. Working perfectly 100% on… | 10.X Core 2009-12-23 | 459,566 reads 106 notes |