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[Acro_Design]

specs listed in sig. im sorry to sound like a newb, but i am really keen to make a dsdt, im unlikely to find pre-made patches for my motherboard. i would very much like to sweep up the various generic errors i get during boot. if theres anything i can do to show you what needs doing please let me know. perhaps if i post my dsdt here that may help. and if you could give me some ideas as to what i could get working that would be awsome.

what my specs list doesnt say is that i am on 10.6.3 fresh install from mod cd.

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[Acro_Design]

ok heres a quick question, i will be more specific this time. why does my cpu have a entries cpu0 through to cpu7. there not cores obviously so what am i looking at? do i know how a cpu works? no not really. i just know they have cores clockspeed and a bigger number is better. as a gamer you think you know hardwhere but you dont? im really keep to understand whats what but i cant get my brain around computer engineering talk. would anybody break it down for me as if you where talking to your grand parents or perhaps your mum or dad. i think im at mum or dad level of computer engineering.

[sirbow2]

when i first tried to do DSDT modding, it made no sense at all to me. Then, i by chance started to learn some C++ programming; this was a great base for learning the structure of the DSDT file and how its all organized with all the braces, parentheses and stuff.

cpu0->cpu7 is referring to how many CPU cores your mobo can support(8 cores in your case)

download DTDTSE; it has built in examples of patches that work on pretty much any DSDT.

[Gringo Vermelho]

Yes getting your head around the syntax helps a lot, when I first started out most of my compiling errors were caused by formatting breakage after inserting or editing code. I'm sure this is the case for most people who have never done something like this before. By now I've forgotten way more than I ever learned about DSDT editing, at the time I was "insanely digesting DSDT" (like the sig of a certain forum member says) left and right, even studying things I was never going to use on my own hardware. The more you look at it, the more it starts to makes sense...hopefully.

DSDTSE also has a really helpful function in the editor where you can close and expand sections. This makes it easy to see exactly where a section ends and begins, this helps a lot when finding the correct place for inserting something, or when removing redundant code if that's your thing.

Acro_Design, on 05 April 2012 - 10:30 PM, said:

i would very much like to sweep up the various generic errors i get during boot.

Post excerpts from kernel.log showing those messages. mom and dad computer engineering level eh? lol

[Acro_Design]

is that a challenge i can do that.... wait no i cant. i need a little bit of time to "learn" that from google. do you suppose that the google culture has stunted the learning of millions who would be curing cancer if they didn't know useless information like how to eat a chicken wing with one hand (that is the best tip i have ever googled btw it really works so i have contradicted myself), maybe not as we learn from others and are now able to be alot closer too our teachers without needing to be personal, this is the function of the allies i fear. anyway enough profoundness for today.

i wish DSDTSE would give me instance names of my devices so i don't need to work them out for myself, < you see what i just did :/ shame on me!  

as for C++ that is a language i really want to learn, is just don't know if i could learn that on my own. i think all computer literate users have there limits mine is programming. the most i can do is AS2 and 3 and XML and plists, i am fluent in any creative software that is intuitive to adobe software gui. i suppose image editing is coding really, the pixel is shaped by the user, like the code of any digital language.

i will be doing an install of lion today and then will try and work out where to start learning C++ for example.