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[OpenCL-only Context]

1 OpenCL device found!

 

[Device 0]

Name: Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU E6750 @ 2.66GHz

 

 

Looks like its not working for you. But for me ...

 

 

1 OpenCL platform found!

 

[Platform 0]

Name: Apple

Vendor: Apple

Version: OpenCL 1.0 (Jul 15 2009 23:07:32)

Profile: FULL_PROFILE

 

 

[OpenCL-only Context]

2 OpenCL devices found!

 

[Device 0]

Name: GeForce 9400

Vendor: NVIDIA

Type: GPU

Device Version: OpenCL 1.0

Driver Version: CLH 1.0

Compute Units: 16

Work Group Size: 512

Clock: 1400 MHz

Global Memory: 256 MB

Local Memory: 16 KB

Cache Size: 0 KB

Cache Line Size: 0 Bytes

Available: Yes

Double-Precision: No

Extensions:

cl_khr_byte_addressable_store

cl_khr_global_int32_base_atomics

cl_khr_global_int32_extended_atomics

cl_APPLE_gl_sharing

cl_APPLE_SetMemObjectDestructor

cl_APPLE_ContextLoggingFunctions

 

[Device 1]

Name: Intel® Core2 Quad CPU Q8200 @ 2.33GHz

Vendor: Intel

Type: CPU

Device Version: OpenCL 1.0

Driver Version: 1.0

Compute Units: 4

Work Group Size: 1

Clock: 2432 MHz

Global Memory (Total): 4096 MB

Global Memory (Host): 3072 MB

Global Memory (PCIe): 1024 MB

Local Memory: 16 KB

Cache Size: 2048 KB

Cache Line Size: 64 Bytes

Available: Yes

Double-Precision: Yes

Extensions:

cl_khr_fp64

cl_khr_global_int32_base_atomics

cl_khr_global_int32_extended_atomics

cl_khr_local_int32_base_atomics

cl_khr_local_int32_extended_atomics

cl_khr_byte_addressable_store

cl_APPLE_gl_sharing

cl_APPLE_SetMemObjectDestructor

cl_APPLE_ContextLoggingFunctions

 

[shared OpenCL+OpenGL Context]

2 OpenCL devices found!

 

[Device 0]

Name: GeForce 9400

Vendor: NVIDIA

Type: GPU

Device Version: OpenCL 1.0

Driver Version: CLH 1.0

Compute Units: 16

Work Group Size: 512

Clock: 1400 MHz

Global Memory: 256 MB

Local Memory: 16 KB

Cache Size: 0 KB

Cache Line Size: 0 Bytes

Available: Yes

Double-Precision: No

Extensions:

cl_khr_byte_addressable_store

cl_khr_global_int32_base_atomics

cl_khr_global_int32_extended_atomics

cl_APPLE_gl_sharing

cl_APPLE_SetMemObjectDestructor

cl_APPLE_ContextLoggingFunctions

 

[Device 1]

Name: Intel® Core2 Quad CPU Q8200 @ 2.33GHz

Vendor: Intel

Type: CPU

Device Version: OpenCL 1.0

Driver Version: 1.0

Compute Units: 4

Work Group Size: 1

Clock: 2432 MHz

Global Memory (Total): 4096 MB

Global Memory (Host): 3072 MB

Global Memory (PCIe): 1024 MB

Local Memory: 16 KB

Cache Size: 2048 KB

Cache Line Size: 64 Bytes

Available: Yes

Double-Precision: Yes

Extensions:

cl_khr_fp64

cl_khr_global_int32_base_atomics

cl_khr_global_int32_extended_atomics

cl_khr_local_int32_base_atomics

cl_khr_local_int32_extended_atomics

cl_khr_byte_addressable_store

cl_APPLE_gl_sharing

cl_APPLE_SetMemObjectDestructor

cl_APPLE_ContextLoggingFunctions

 

Apperently, i just needed some rebooting. You can benchmark your gpu with OpenCLBench. Now i finally port some cpu intensive programs to CPU's. For interesting approach look at PyOpenCL.

 

 

$ ./OpenCL2_Bench_V025

...........................................................

.................. OpenCL Bench V 0.25 by mitch ...........

...... C2D 3GHz = 12 sec vs Nvidia 9600GT = 0,93 sec ......

... time results are not comparable to older version! .....

...........................................................

 

Number of OpenCL devices found: 2

OpenCL Device # 0 = GeForce 9400

Device 0 is an: GPU with max. 1400 MHz and 16 units/cores

Now computing - please be patient....

time used: 3.681 seconds

 

OpenCL Device # 1 = Intel® Core2 Quad CPU Q8200 @ 2.33GHz

Device 1 is an: CPU with max. 2432 MHz and 4 units/cores

Now computing - please be patient....

time used: 7.826 seconds

 

Now checking if results are valid - please be patient....

:( Validate test passed - GPU results=CPU results :D

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I suspect you'd have better results by not using the dsdt.aml from burzel since his has at least a few couple of modifications just for Snow. I'd make the modifications directly to the Leopard dsdt.dsl and compile it yourself.

 

I'm pretty sure it works in Leopard since that is where the changes were uncovered.

 

Thank you for the advice. I've ran the dsdt compiler you mentioned with the NVCAP string from your post, ignored the warnings and sorted out an error (NVH7 method not returning a value), installed the compiled dstd.aml with the tool and repaired permissions.

 

The result is the same : the system boots OK with only the DVI connected but both screens turn black (and then in standby mode) as soon as I connect the VGA display and click "detect diaplays".

 

Update : It works, after several reboots. Thank you dlach ! The only thing remaining now it's that the boot process is showing on the VGA display and not on the DVI one.

 

Any ideas ?

 

Thank you very much.

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Thank you for the advice. I've ran the dsdt compiler you mentioned with the NVCAP string from your post, ignored the warnings and sorted out an error (NVH7 method not returning a value), installed the compiled dstd.aml with the tool and repaired permissions.

 

The result is the same : the system boots OK with only the DVI connected but both screens turn black (and then in standby mode) as soon as I connect the VGA display and click "detect diaplays".

 

Update : It works, after several reboots. Thank you dlach ! The only thing remaining now it's that the boot process is showing on the VGA display and not on the DVI one.

 

Any ideas ?

 

Thank you very much.

 

If you patch your BIOS with the new dsdt.aml you built using Koalala's patcher (in the forums), you'll have a better chance of it using the DVI for boot since the way the dsdt is being applied now is by Chameleon at some time during boot. If it is in the bios it might be activated earlier. Don't be afraid of the patcher it works well though only on windows (however it doesn't have to patched on the machine you'll be installing it on.). Needless to say it probably isn't a good idea to patch an already patched bios.

 

The other thing is to look for some way to indicate the primary display in the dsdt. Search is your friend there.

 

Please post back here when you find something. Also please post your dsdt.dsl so that anyone using Leopard can benefit.

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If you patch your BIOS with the new dsdt.aml you built using Koalala's patcher (in the forums), you'll have a better chance of it using the DVI for boot since the way the dsdt is being applied now is by Chameleon at some time during boot. If it is in the bios it might be activated earlier. Don't be afraid of the patcher it works well though only on windows (however it doesn't have to patched on the machine you'll be installing it on.). Needless to say it probably isn't a good idea to patch an already patched bios.

 

The other thing is to look for some way to indicate the primary display in the dsdt. Search is your friend there.

 

Please post back here when you find something. Also please post your dsdt.dsl so that anyone using Leopard can benefit.

 

Here we are :

 

The patched dsdt.aml, working in Leopard 10.5.8 and based on the patched BIOS from the first post of this thread :

 

dsdt.aml.zip

 

For the remaining of the problem (switch VGA with DVI as early as possible in the boot process), i'll try your suggestions and post back here.

 

10x.

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Haven't been around in a while, but check post 235 to see how I did it.

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adidasprince,

 

Have you submitted this patch to the voodoo team - link in this thread? They may be able to include it in future iterations.

 

This board is awesome, it just needs a more accessible vram solution so that newbies are not scared off by it.

 

That's a great idea!  But my patch is not a universal solution and just works for our e7aum right now.

 

 

Simply merging some code from Linux kernel would work perfectly.  I will try to find some time to complete my patch.

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Hi all

 

What's the version of nForceLAN you are using? It seems like to me new newest one had fixed the sleep/wake issue -> HERE

 

My most recent posts on this topic were after trying the most recent version at your link which is nForceLan_0.64.3. For those dropping in, the bottom line is it didn't work and I wound up getting a PCIe GigE card that works very well. If you want to know more go back a few pages.

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My most recent posts on this topic were after trying the most recent version at your link which is nForceLan_0.64.3. For those dropping in, the bottom line is it didn't work and I wound up getting a PCIe GigE card that works very well. If you want to know more go back a few pages.

 

Thank you dlach, as usual ;)

 

 

I'll see what i can do about the nForceLan.

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Thank you dlach, as usual :tomato:

 

 

I'll see what i can do about the nForceLan.

 

Thanks AdidasPrince! Let us know what you find.

 

Be careful and backup your kexts. IRC, the nForceLan kext doesn't work in /Extra/Extensions. It needs to go in /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/ and there is a conflict with the nvenet.kext that is there by default.

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Nope really meant OpenCL as in Open Computer Language, i.e. doing computations on the GPU in stead of the CPU. As SnowLeopard does support OpenCL for the 9400M, its interesting the use the 16 cuda cores for computation.

 

-X

 

[Platform 0]
Name: 		Apple
Vendor: 	Apple
Version: 	OpenCL 1.0 (Oct 16 2009 04:12:08)
Profile: 	FULL_PROFILE


[OpenCL-only Context]
2 OpenCL devices found!

[Device 0]
Name: 			GeForce 9400
Vendor: 		NVIDIA
Type: 			GPU 
Device Version: 	OpenCL 1.0 
Driver Version: 	CLH 1.0
Compute Units: 		2
Work Group Size: 	512
Clock: 			1400 MHz
Global Memory: 		256 MB
Local Memory: 		16 KB
Cache Size: 		0 KB
Cache Line Size: 	0 Bytes
Available: 		Yes
Double-Precision: 	No
Extensions: 
			cl_khr_byte_addressable_store
			cl_khr_global_int32_base_atomics
			cl_khr_global_int32_extended_atomics
			cl_APPLE_gl_sharing
			cl_APPLE_SetMemObjectDestructor
			cl_APPLE_ContextLoggingFunctions

[Device 1]
Name: 			Pentium(R) Dual-Core  CPU	  E5300  @ 2.60GHz
Vendor: 		Intel
Type: 			CPU 
Device Version: 	OpenCL 1.0 
Driver Version: 	1.0
Compute Units: 		2
Work Group Size: 	1
Clock: 			2696 MHz
Global Memory (Total): 	2048 MB
Global Memory (Host): 	1536 MB
Global Memory (PCIe): 	512 MB
Local Memory: 		16 KB
Cache Size: 		2048 KB
Cache Line Size: 	64 Bytes
Available: 		Yes
Double-Precision: 	Yes
Extensions: 
			cl_khr_fp64
			cl_khr_global_int32_base_atomics
			cl_khr_global_int32_extended_atomics
			cl_khr_local_int32_base_atomics
			cl_khr_local_int32_extended_atomics
			cl_khr_byte_addressable_store
			cl_APPLE_gl_sharing
			cl_APPLE_SetMemObjectDestructor
			cl_APPLE_ContextLoggingFunctions

[shared OpenCL+OpenGL Context]
2 OpenCL devices found!

[Device 0]
Name: 			GeForce 9400
Vendor: 		NVIDIA
Type: 			GPU 
Device Version: 	OpenCL 1.0 
Driver Version: 	CLH 1.0
Compute Units: 		2
Work Group Size: 	512
Clock: 			1400 MHz
Global Memory: 		256 MB
Local Memory: 		16 KB
Cache Size: 		0 KB
Cache Line Size: 	0 Bytes
Available: 		Yes
Double-Precision: 	No
Extensions: 
			cl_khr_byte_addressable_store
			cl_khr_global_int32_base_atomics
			cl_khr_global_int32_extended_atomics
			cl_APPLE_gl_sharing
			cl_APPLE_SetMemObjectDestructor
			cl_APPLE_ContextLoggingFunctions

[Device 1]
Name: 			Pentium(R) Dual-Core  CPU	  E5300  @ 2.60GHz
Vendor: 		Intel
Type: 			CPU 
Device Version: 	OpenCL 1.0 
Driver Version: 	1.0
Compute Units: 		2
Work Group Size: 	1
Clock: 			2696 MHz
Global Memory (Total): 	2048 MB
Global Memory (Host): 	1536 MB
Global Memory (PCIe): 	512 MB
Local Memory: 		16 KB
Cache Size: 		2048 KB
Cache Line Size: 	64 Bytes
Available: 		Yes
Double-Precision: 	Yes
Extensions: 
			cl_khr_fp64
			cl_khr_global_int32_base_atomics
			cl_khr_global_int32_extended_atomics
			cl_khr_local_int32_base_atomics
			cl_khr_local_int32_extended_atomics
			cl_khr_byte_addressable_store
			cl_APPLE_gl_sharing
			cl_APPLE_SetMemObjectDestructor
			cl_APPLE_ContextLoggingFunctions

logout

[Process completed]

 

 

OpenCL works here on 9400. Thanks for posting about it.

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Thanks AdidasPrince! Let us know what you find.

 

Be careful and backup your kexts. IRC, the nForceLan kext doesn't work in /Extra/Extensions. It needs to go in /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/ and there is a conflict with the nvenet.kext that is there by default.

My SL@e7aum seems like working fine about ethernet sleep/awake ......

 

Is there anything i missed?

 

 

 

 

 

My spec:

 

10.6.0 + External USB HDD + My Chameleon memory patch + nForceLan 0.64.3 + Sleep only (not hibernate) + kexts below:

 

  • **** from bootcd's preboot
  • AHCIPortInjector
  • ATAPortInjector
  • IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector
  • NullCPUPowerManagement
  • UUID
  • fakesmc

  • **** from jon55's kexts
  • LegacyHDAPlatformDriver
  • OpenHaltRestart
  • PlatformUUID
  • Sleepenabler

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My SL@e7aum seems like working fine about ethernet sleep/awake ......

 

Is there anything i missed?

 

 

 

 

 

My spec:

 

10.6.0 + External USB HDD + My Chameleon memory patch + nForceLan 0.64.3 + Sleep only (not hibernate) + kexts below:

 

  • **** from bootcd's preboot
  • AHCIPortInjector
  • ATAPortInjector
  • IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector
  • NullCPUPowerManagement
  • UUID
  • fakesmc

  • **** from jon55's kexts
  • LegacyHDAPlatformDriver
  • OpenHaltRestart
  • PlatformUUID
  • Sleepenabler

 

After you resume from sleep your on-board audio is working? And you onboard ethernet is working? If so how did you install nForceLan, did you clear caches etc? I haven't installed your memory patch, maybe that is the key. Also, I upgraded to 10.6.2 so maybe there is something it that.

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After you resume from sleep your on-board audio is working? And you onboard ethernet is working? If so how did you install nForceLan, did you clear caches etc? I haven't installed your memory patch, maybe that is the key. Also, I upgraded to 10.6.2 so maybe there is something it that.

 

Audio, which is using AppleHDA, does not work after resume,  but ethernet works.  So i think i got a "real" sleep.  :D

 

 

Here's my process:

 

  1. I have only IDE DVD drive, so i didn't got the BootCD method worked.  I installed SL and my chameleon patch into a usb hdd from another 10.6.2 laptop.
  2. After that, i copied kexts to /E/E which followed your guide from 7) - 18).  Without those kexts, i can't get SL booted.
  3. Boot SL first time.  After account things done, i installed nForceLAN 0.64.3 which is from the original thread and got ethernet worked without restarting.

I'll try the upgrading today or tomorrow after me backuped the current SL.  see you later.

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Audio, which is using AppleHDA, does not work after resume, but ethernet works. So i think i got a "real" sleep. :P

 

 

Here's my process:

 

  1. I have only IDE DVD drive, so i didn't got the BootCD method worked. I installed SL and my chameleon patch into a usb hdd from another 10.6.2 laptop.
  2. After that, i copied kexts to /E/E which followed your guide from 7) - 18). Without those kexts, i can't get SL booted.
  3. Boot SL first time. After account things done, i installed nForceLAN 0.64.3 which is from the original thread and got ethernet worked without restarting.

I'll try the upgrading today or tomorrow after me backuped the current SL. see you later.

 

OK great, please keep us updated. How did you install nForceLAN? Kext Utiity or some other method? Did you have to remove the nvenet.kext? Please detail. I'll see if I can reproduce it and maybe somebody else will try too. Thanks AdidasPrince!

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OK great, please keep us updated. How did you install nForceLAN? Kext Utiity or some other method? Did you have to remove the nvenet.kext? Please detail. I'll see if I can reproduce it and maybe somebody else will try too. Thanks AdidasPrince!

 

I upgrade SL to 10.6.2 and got nForeceLAN worked normally but the sound.  So weird......

 

 

Here's the little more detailed process:

 

  1. I have only IDE DVD drive, so i didn't got the BootCD method worked. I installed SL and my chameleon patch into a usb hdd from another 10.6.2 laptop.
  2. After that, i copied kexts to /E/E which followed your guide from 7) - 18). Without those kexts, i can't get SL booted.
  3. AND, I DELETED nvenet.kext FROM IONetworkFamily.
  4. Boot SL first time. After account things done, i installed nForceLAN 0.64.3 by the installer package which is from the original thread and got ethernet worked without restarting.
  5. Remove SleepEnabler to upgrade to 10.6.2.
  6. After upgrading, i didn't boot into SL but the old 10.5.8 on internal sata hdd.  Delete nvenet.kext FROM IONetworkFamily again.
  7. Then, after restarted into SL,  i copied new SleepEnabler into /E/E.  Without it, SL didn't sleep.
  8. Check ethernet sleep/resume issue ... didn't happened ... Sound problem still.

 


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Possible fix for sound and LAN not working after sleep:

 

 

I had a Mac which had a really weird behaviour in that when it woke from sleep the networkport (en0) was woken only 7 out of 10 times. This was fixed by installing SleepWatcher and then editing the installed files /etc/rc.wakeup to add these lines:

 

kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworking.../...Contents.. / Plugins ../AppleRTL8169..kext
sleep 2
kextload /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworking.../...Contents.. / Plugins ../AppleRTL8169..kext

before any other lines of script "code" in /etc/rc.wakeup

 

(sorry about not giving the full and correct path to the kext, I can't remember it and I'm not using a Mac now. You obviously need to give a correct path to your kext...)

 

This should be possible to do with the kexts for LAN and sound in the case of this thread also.

 

Maybe one might need to add the unloading to /etc/rc.sleep (also installed by SleepWatcher) instead?

 

Hope this helps! Would be really interesting to get some feedback on the idea...

 

For more ideas on how/for what to use SleepWatcher see macosxhints.com.

 

Cheers!

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Hi!

 

my system,

 

MB@GA-E7AUM-DS2H

BIOS GA-E7AUM-DS2H F4e(Gigabyte Vanilla)

RAM 8GBytes (2G DDR2(PC6400@800MHz)x 4DIMM)

Video Card Geforce 9800GTX+ @512M

 

internal Video chip setting @External Video Card only. & Video Memory Disable(Zero Mega Byte)

 

BIOS POST Memory Check Size [8387584K] OK

 

Install OS ,

OSX 10.5.x

OSX 10.6.x

WindowsXP Pro.

Windows 7

 

It writes it from Chameleon RC2 BIOS Memory Disp.

~/

 

Address~~~~~~~~End Address --------- Length ---------- Type

0000 0000 0000~~~0000 0009 E7FF ---- [0000 0009 e800] ____ Type1

0000 0009 E800~~~0000 0009 F7FF ____ non memory mapping

0000 0009 F800~~~0000 0009 FFFF ---- [0000 0000 0800] ____ Type2

0000 000A 0000~~~0000 000E FFFF ____ non memory mapping

0000 000F 0000~~~0000 000F FFFF ---- [0000 0001 0000] ____ Type2

0000 0010 0000~~~0000 CFEE FFFF ---- [0000 CFDF 0000] ____ Type1

0000 CFEF 0000~~~0000 CFDF 2FFF ---- [0000 0000 3000] ____ Type4

0000 CFEF 3000~~~0000 CFFE FFFF ---- [0000 0000 D000] ____ Type3

0000 CFF0 0000~~~0000 EBFF FFFF ____ non memory mapping

0000 EC00 0000~~~0000 EDFF FFFF ---- [0000 0200 0000] ____ Type2

0000 EE00 0000~~~0000 FEBF FFFF ____ non memory mapping

0000 FEC0 0000~~~0000 FFFF FFFF ---- [0000 0140 0000] ____ Type2

0001 0000 0000~~~0002 2FFF FFFF ---- [0001 3000 0000] ____ Type1

 

/~

 

 

8387584KBytes = 8588886016Bytes.....

8Giga Bytes = 8589934592Bytes.....

 

8Giga Bytes - 8387584KBytes = 1024KBytes(1M)

Classical 8086 System memory map = 1MByte.....????

 

lost 1MByte Memory is classical 8086 system reserve?

 

 

......and....

 

memory Length .....total add....?

0x0000 0009 e800+

0x0000 0000 0800+

0x0000 0001 0000+

0x0000 CFDF 0000+

0x0000 0000 3000+

0x0000 0000 D000+

0x0000 0200 0000+

0x0000 0140 0000+

0x0001 3000 0000......

 

total add Ans.

0x0002 032A F000....???????????????

 

8Giga Bytes = 0x0002 0000 0000

 

 

What's Happen' ?

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Possible fix for sound and LAN not working after sleep:

 

Install SleepWatcher and then editing the installed files /etc/rc.wakeup to add these lines:

kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworking.../...Contents.. / Plugins ../AppleRTL8169..kext
  sleep 2
  kextload /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworking.../...Contents.. / Plugins ../AppleRTL8169..kext

before any other lines of script "code" in /etc/rc.wakeup

Excellent idea! I tried this, and so far, it does not work. I get a kernel panic... the first time I've gotten a kernel panic, ever, since starting this project (which shows how fantastic this guide is). Fortunately, the KP only occurs when I resume from sleep, so it's very simple to re-edit rc.wakeup. (i.e., don't be afraid to try this, it won't mess your system up)

 

There is a lot more to experiment with... I may have done this wrong, here's what I did:

 

kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleHDA.kext
sleep 2
kextload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleHDA.kext

 

If I do this at the command line, it unloads and re-loads sound. I think I will continue this experimentation, like so:

1) Test it at the command line (unload the driver, sleep the computer, resume, re-load the driver)

2) Try it differently: Instead of unload/reload at wakeup, unload at sleep, and load at wakeup.

3) Post this in the hope that somebody tells me I'm a dummy and I need to invoke these commands differently, or on a different kext, or maybe on an item several folder layers inside the kext.

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Hey all,

 

Im glad there are other still fiddling with this board. I've had mine since the topic came up in late '08.

 

I just noticed that my e8400 isnt stepping in 10.6. sysctl shows the min and max cpu freq the same at 3.06G. Have you guys addressed this in the dsdt table or with custom kexts?

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Keep up the good work.

 

-zd

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Hey all,

 

Im glad there are other still fiddling with this board. I've had mine since the topic came up in late '08.

 

I just noticed that my e8400 isnt stepping in 10.6. sysctl shows the min and max cpu freq the same at 3.06G. Have you guys addressed this in the dsdt table or with custom kexts?

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Keep up the good work.

 

-zd

 

... easiest way - try the attached kext. Place it in /S/L/E

 

Hope it will do speedstep for you ...

VoodooPState.kext.zip

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I see now that the max and min frequencies on my Q9300 are the same, while my NBI-installed netbook has a min value that is half the max value. So this VoodooPState.kext won't conflict with the required NullCPUPowerManagement.kext? I have no reason to be concerned other than the words "NullCPUPowerManagement" seem to be at odds with this Voodoo kext that lowers the power consumption of the CPU. :-) I have nothing more than that on which to base my concern..

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I see now that the max and min frequencies on my Q9300 are the same, while my NBI-installed netbook has a min value that is half the max value. So this VoodooPState.kext won't conflict with the required NullCPUPowerManagement.kext? I have no reason to be concerned other than the words "NullCPUPowerManagement" seem to be at odds with this Voodoo kext that lowers the power consumption of the CPU. :-) I have nothing more than that on which to base my concern..

 

Rule of thumb: the less custom kexts absolutely needed, the better.

i.e., NullCPU, Voodoo, etc...

 

Processor stepping, as with most other system functions, can be handled natively using dsdt, which is where EVERYONE should be. Don't be afraid of AppleIntelCPUPM unless your processor starts to want to cook you some eggs.

 

-zd

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