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Voodoo XNU Kernel - Release Candidate .. released ;-)


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Success vs. Failure of RC1  

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  1. 1. Has Voodoo RC1 been working well for you?

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Guys, this works GREAT on AMD!

I've just managed to install a fresh system using boot-132 + slimbuild + Voodoo Kernel with retail Leopard DVD.

This also solved my timing problems that caused old AMD kernels to crash randomly at boot. As soon as I have enough time I'll try 64 bit mode. You can't imagine my happiness :)

 

Best kernel I've ever seen. Well done.

 

Sherry Haibara

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Me too, I can report a successful installation of the RC1 kernel with vanilla 1055 on an EFI booted P4 3.4 Ghz CPU with an Intel d945PAW board with gf8500GT.

Tested ok with sleep, reboot.

Untill now, 3 hours, all programms function fine. FCP, iDreamx, Safari, Camino and VLC.

I'd say its rock steady overhere.

Thanks alot !!!!

Simpi.

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works badly for me...

 

bt don't pair with my bt mouse, and i've a kp every 5 minutes...

 

so, i come back to beta 2c...

 

I think you and me, Intel C2D or Pentium E2XXX Users may stay with vanilla (orig. Apple kernel).

Why should we use voodoo of 99% of the benefist is not for our CPU-Types ?

 

Why do you use beta 2 for normal work, insted of vanilla ?

I also tested beta2c, but went back to vanilla.

Its great work and maybe sometimes (10.6) also very good for us too !

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mercurysquad@

 

You still have your old Avatar ?

Yes, why? :)

It was the orion nebula btw.

 

Hi, my Turion processor becomes hot as if it was under heavy load. Fan works loud all the time. Still Activity Monitor shows CPU's idle about 95% of time. This issue appeared with beta2 of the kernel and remains with RC.

Try booting with c1ramp=0 (or c1ramping=0 .. I can't remember).

 

Why should we use voodoo of 99% of the benefist is not for our CPU-Types ?

Correct. Those who can run vanilla and are satisfied with it really don't have a benefit running voodoo. IF you have problems with vanilla which voodoo solves, then you have a reason to use it.

 

Voodoo is mainly for processors that Apple doesn't support.

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Unfortunately i decided to get back to Beta2c, as i had 3 KPs today+an instant reboot+1 frozen screen (without any message), parallels crashed once :(

Since AMD also defaults to 64bit now, you can always try bumping it down to 32bit mode (bootflag –legacy) and see if the problems persist. 64bit support is new so might cause problems.

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you should not have that kext installed anyway , it might fry your cpu.

Thats not correct for all systems!

Since dsdt patches (chameleon with dsdt support) you can use it if you want.

It does the same at merury Speedstep or superhais speedstep (i would use the 1.0.20 stable, the new 1.1 is not ready).

I would use one of that speedsteps because you have influence of settings (both in their .plists)

Both work also with orig. vanialla kernel.

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damn.. what should i choose :) speed (RC 64bit)? or stability (32bit)?

Has anyone run Geekbench on a freshly booted AMD system in both 64bit and 32bit mode and compared how much of a difference it makes?

 

Either that, or some other simpler benchmark, perhaps encoding an mp3 or something.

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