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Hi, folks!

Since i started using a three-graphics-card setup (two discrete GeForces and the Intel HD4000 as primary card) i cannot make this feature to work, despite it's been previously working when using only the GeForce 9800 GT (connected via DVI). I thought things would normalize after i enabled proper Ivy Bridge Power management with a custom SSDT generated by Pike's script, but it's not happening. OSX 10.8.3 installed, i5 3570K CPU and H77-DS3H motherboard. Custom DSDT for native USB 3.0, HDMI audio and the three-graphics-card setup. Both Clover UEFI and Chameleon 2.2 installed. The funniest thing is that automatic sleep works flawlessly with my AMD rig with a common 32-bit SleepEnabler.kext (but that machine runs 10.7.5). Any help or directions to an actual solution (not a workaround like PleaseSleep.app, which would only mask a possible setup error, and it's not working anyway) would be much appreciated.

All the best!

Microsoft decided to gave Nokia a much-needed hand and came up with a Nokia Lumia 920 commercial that's brilliant and dangerous at the same time: will customers get the message they want to send - why bother arguing about two more-of-the-same products when there's a much better option around? - or, after all the laughs are gone, will people only remember that no one fights about a Windows Phone?

Decide by yourselves:

The issue: you are on 10.8.x, and decide to watch a DVD movie. You insert a disc in your DVD-RW device and either nothing happens or a dialog box opens offering to open media with some other application. You try to manually open DVDPlayer.app (Applications>Utilities) and this happens:  DVD Player Error 70012-1.jpg   13.93K   24 downloads

The cause: in general, this error is caused by an unsupported AHCI SATA controller. Click on the Apple logo>About this Mac>More info>System report, and locate SATA. It's likely DVDPlayer won't work for you if you see this:  Screen Shot 2013-04-05 at 4.57.54 AM.png   149.68K   30 downloads

Possible workarounds: DVDPlayer.app needs a properly recognized internal SATA DVD-R or RW device. When your SATA controller is not supported, all SATA devices will be seen as external - and will be displayed with orange icons in your desktop. So the orange icon kext fix could possibly solve the issue, but then you'll lose hot swapping (http://lnx2mac.blogs...disk-icons.html). An user, rd8111, developed a fix for unknown SATA controllers (http://www.insanelym...em-information/), but it's untested for this particular issue and if it would break hot swapping. So the optimal fix is to deal with the issue where it occurs - the DVD playback itself!

The solution: Copy to your desktop the file in /SystemLibrary/Frameworks/DVDPlayback.framework/Versions/A/DVDPlayback. Download a hex editor of your choice - i used HexEdit - and open it. Select find/replace (or hit command+f) and find the word internal and replace it by external. Repeat for all ocurrances or use the replace all options. Let the wrap box checked. When you're done, back up the original file, save the one you just edited to the place the original was located in and try to insert a disc on your DVD-RW device: it should open the DVDPlayer.app immediately.

Credits: this solution was not a creation of mine and its inventor deserves all our appreciation. You can say thank you here: http://macenstein.co...orking-in-lion/

All the best!

So you installed Mountain Lion in your AMD machine. You did it despite all you heard about heavy graphics corruption rendering the system unusable, at least in a hardware accelerated environment. But you also read some ATI cards would work with full QE/Ci, with enough stability to make your big cat purr, so you researched and asked, read and compared, and then bought an ATI card that could give you reasonable expectations and, voilà, it did work like a joy! Or perhaps you already had an ATI card and found out that it was in the joy list, or even wasn't there and you decided to give a go anywhay: if you don't play the game, how can you win - and you really did it.

So you installed Mountain Lion and, after found all or almost all drivers you needed for your machine to fully work, you could realy brag about having a top notch, modern and innovative OS, roaring like an alpha cat on your not-so-pricey machine. Mission control? Improves yor productivity. Full screen apps? Really smooth? Cloud services? Well, that was hard but you found a workaround and perhaps have it working? Safari 6 and its iCloud integrated browsing? Huh? Well, if you like letter soup games, or solving word puzzles, or even admiring abstract pictures, you might as well have enjoyed it. Otherwise, you swtched to another browser, like Firefox or Chrome: they have some fine-tuning options, and you found out that, by disabling hardware accelerated compositing, they worked just they should.

It really bothered you: besides missing the iCloud tab, which is a cool feature in itself and could be very helpful if you are a happy owner of an iDevice, not being able to use a core app like Safari felt like being able to watch the movie, but sitting behind a man with a big hairy head, or being served delicious pancakes, but with no syrup, or visiting Paris, only to find out the Louvre was closed for maintenance. Having the OSX experience, but not all that experience you could. Up to now, you had to live with it, because the fine-tuning options that saved the game for the other browsers are simply not available in Safari.

Up to now, because in fact they are available. And i'll teach you how to make them naughty tools to show up, and how they can grant you the Safari experience you were craving for.

First, open our good old friend the terminal. Copy this to the window and type enter:

defaults write com.apple.safari IncludeInternalDebugMenu 1

Then open Safari. You'll see the messed graphics it usually have shown, but at the top, there's the menu bar, and you'll find a new guest there, the debug option:  Screen Shot 2013-03-28 at 12.02.41 AM.png   14.5K   22 downloads

Clicking on it, this window will show:  Screen Shot 2013-03-28 at 12.04.46 AM.png   80.7K   15 downloads

You will select Drawing/Compositing Flags and another window will show up:  Screen Shot 2013-03-28 at 12.06.28 AM.png   46.61K   11 downloads

Then you'll check Disable Canvas Accelerated Drawing and Disable Full Page Accelerated Drawing in New Windows, just like in the last picture. That done, restart Safari and you will be able to try the Mountain Lion version of this wonderful browser on your AMD hackintosh. Live with that, Intel users!

Enjoy your Safari. Be kind with the wildlife!

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All the best!