Marvin's AMD Utility

For AMD users, this utility allows you to locate the binaries in your OSX installation which are encrypted or have cpuids. Then it will permit you to patch them so that they will operate on your AMD system.

Choose from the following 4 options:

Make Lists of Binaries

The utility will locate all binaries that are encrypted and those which have cpuids and will provide lists of them to use as you choose.

Create Patcher Package

This creates the standard patcher package for use in single user mode. The utility provides a folder containing:

• A folder of decrypts (decrypted binaries)
• A script that installs the decrypts for you (replace.sh)
• A data file containing the addresses of cpuids needing to be patched (cpuid.txt)
• The Maxxuss Patcher which is used to patch the cpuids listed in the data file.

Patch all cpuids using a cpuid data file

This allows you to patch all of your cpuids using a cpuid data file that you specify. Where you got the data file is hard to know. Maybe you got it from Marvin's utility. Or maybe it was just floating around the galaxy somewhere.

If this type of operation makes you panic, never fear - just click the "simulation" button. The cpuids won't be patched but you will be informed about what would happen if you tried.

Oh, you did patch the cpuids and it didn't go as planned. Don't Panic. Just click the "undo" button and try it again.

Patch all binaries

Now you are being bold. Just click that button and let Marvin have his way with your precious binaries. If you are lucky, all of the encrypted ones will be decrypted and all of those pesky cpuids will be patched.

Marvin says that you can find his utility here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/65445720/Don_t_Panic.zip.html

http://www.mediafire.com/?avncvt42nbk

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3U8IRVC7

And the answer? - 42 of course.

Awesome, thanks.

Works perfectly! Your app patched everything successfully after pointing it to a partition I restored leopard(9a581) onto. Thanks for showing us AMD users some love!

How do I go about using this? Do I need to have Leopard installed first? I'm running 10.4.10 right now.

Same question here...
I'm running 10.4.10...

I works in Tiger and leopard. I used it from 10.4.10 and it patched my big cat.

How would I run this patch if I want to do a clean install of Leopard?

the same question

I would download it and run it

-point it to your restored dvd
-patch it
-install leo

boot you Tiger
-point it to the leopard partition
-patch it

enjoy your 9a581 on amd

I dont have any Tiger installed

DON'T PANIC!

Folks - let's put on our thinking caps.

Marvin's utility runs on OSX. So, to run it, you need to have a running OSX installation. And if it is running, it doesn't need Marvin's utility.

So, you need an installation of OSX that isn't running for Marvin's utility to patch.

To summarize - one OSX partition with OSX that runs and another partition with an OSX installation that needs to be patched.

And neither partition has to be Leopard. You can patch 10.4.6 if that is what you desire.

great app, extremely useful
however has anyone had any luck cpuid patching nvdaresman.kext in leopard, it never seems to work for me for some reason

Is anyone try this with official OSX-Loepard.10.5.dmg?
Can you tell me step by step what to do?
I try it, but no result.

maxxuss patcher does not work on kexts that`s well known. One had to patch nvdaresman.kext with a hex editor. But Marvin was able to patch it for me.
Just make sure that you fixed permissions.
chown root:wheel and chmod 755

Where would I get the cpuid data file? No need to post a link, just give me a hint. I guess I'm too dense to get the hint in the original post.
Thanks

EDIT: Never mind...Duh! The tool generates a cpuid data file.

for the noobs out there.. can we get a tutorial on how to apply this patch to the x86 iso or the leopard.dmg image...

but where do I get the decrypts?

I need one for NVDAResman.kext !

When I run Create Patcher Package for the above file I get:
WARNING! Patcher folder won't have decrypts - none were created

What do I need to run this utility?

I have tried on a real Macbook/Leopard as well as on a AMD/Tiger and nothing.

All it does is ask a administration password then nothing.

edmund - Marvin patches Leo after it has been installed onto a partition. It is run from another known working OSX installation. You need two partitions. An iso or dmg could be patched, but it would be a very difficult thing to do. All of the installer packages on the disk image would have to be expanded (basically they would be installed into folders). Then run Marvin to patch whatever it finds inside those folders. Then the folders would need to be recompressed into their original packages and placed onto a new iso or dmg. The amount of work involved is essentially the same as installing it onto a partition - that is how far you would be breaking down the installation packages for patching. Yes, if you knew which packages contained binaries with encryption or cpuids, you could just expand those. But Marvin is designed to work on any current or future OSX release for which the location of encryption and cpuids is not known. Therefore, all packages would need to be expanded to find which files Apple decided to encrypt or embed cpuids.

ptesone - The status from Marvin should have said: - Encrypted: 0 and CPUID: 1. NVDAResman.kext does not have an encrypted binary - there is nothing to decrypt. But it does have a CPUID that needs to be patched. The CPUID is code that checks for an Intel processor before it will run. Unfortunately, there is a known problem patching cpuids in kexts. It is being worked on, but the method is entirely different. Marvin will patch the kext using the standard method, but this may not help - try it out. If Marvin did not find NVDAResman.kext as having a cpuid (look in the cpuid.txt file or the log file), then you need to change the permissions on the kext. Go to Terminal and type:


If you have already patched your Leo installation and you ask Marvin to do it again, he will get confused and stop - sorry about that. To patch NVDAResman.kext, point Marvin to the Extensions folder and run "Create a Patcher package". Then run again with "Patch all cpuids using cpuid file" and point Marvin to Leo and to the cpuid.txt file in the patcher package that was just created. Or, see if maybe a kext from 10.4.x will work. I examined most of the prerelease versions of Leo to see if one of them had a version of NVDAResman.kext without the cpuid, but no luck.

Nomade - I can't really think of a reason that Marvin is not working. It has been tested on both Intel and AMD machines running both Tiger and various versions of Leo including the final release. I just downloaded the file from Rapidshare and it worked just fine. One thought - did you expand the zip file in Windows? The zip was created on OSX and the Archive/Compress routine separates the original file into two parts to preserve them for later reconstruction - some OSX files are comprised of two parts and other OS's only recognize one part. In Windows, the two parts do not get combined and therefore the app probably won't run. In Windows, you might see two files in the folder - the second one would be called: "._Marvin's AMD Utility v.25" (there is a leading dot and underscore). That is the part that did not get recombined. The only solution it to expand the zip on OSX by double-clicking it or using a very recent version of Stuffit.

Still no luck running it.

I have tried on my Macbook running Leopard 10.5.1 as well as on a DELL SX280 running Tiger 10.4.11.

Both have the same results... nothing

Is there any way to trace what is going on? Why no interface are showing?

thanks

Excuse me if I sound retarded but I'm still lost here.

I have a working Tiger 10.4.10 install (see sig) and would like to know what exactly I have to do after getting the Leopard DVD.

Thx

Could it be possible to install Leopard and patch it with Marvin's tool from the Installer? I install the OS, reboot and launch the installer again and open this utility from Terminal. Would that work or is it a waste of time? Then I wouldn't need two OS X installations

One more thing, do I have to patch the installer before using it?

Thanks!

I've updated my 10.5.1 components using "Software Update"... (I know it's m fault) now Mac boots normally... I can see the desktop... but in 10-20sec the screen goes black and I'm forced to login window... I login - the same happens...

I'm sure I have to patch my files, but the problem is that I have patcher package made with Marvin's DVD Utility before instaling that updates...
(I've tried to run those patcher - no changes)

I wonder if there is some kinda of non-GUI version of the patcher that I can run from single-user mode?
Or can someone post here patcher for the latest, fully updated Leo?

What are the possible reasons for Utility to hang my machine when it finds any encrypted binary? I feel panic.

Would be great if this worked on a leopard install that keeps rebooting to the login screen. I have a 2nd Mac and would like to run it over the network to patch the buggy install.

Also tried booting from the install cd and launching Marvin with open, but "open requires some user to be logged in a the console, even when run as root" and after that I gave up.

does anyone know how to fix this?

note that skype works perfectly, but the tool keeps on saying it wants to patch it.

How to use when MAC frozes within 1min after login?!

I cannot seem to patch my Leopard anymore with Marvin's Utility from within Leopard, from boot or from my Tiger 10.4.10 install.

I have a lot of files to patch but it doesn't even start the process and comes up with this error message:

********************************************************************************
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* Marvin's AMD Utility v.25 - 2008.01.12 11:31:51
********************************************************************************
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* Input arguments:
* target_dir="/"
* dmount="/"
* cat="leopard"
* do_run_cpuid_file="yes"
* cpuid_file="/Patches/cpuid.txt"
* simulation_mode="no"
* undo="no"
********************************************************************************
*****************************
********************************************************************************
*****************************
* Parsing cpuid file: /Patches/cpuid.txt
* Patching files
--+ /Applications/Absynth 4/Absynth 4.app/Contents/MacOS/Absynth 4
+ File is fat
*** err041 - parse cpuids - No base addr or cpuids for prev file name
*** Trying to undo cpuid patches made prior to error
*** err070 - undo cpuid patching: file of patched cpuids not found



Any ideas? Thx

HAVE A TRY

Thanks alot for making this great utility! It would be awesome to have a command line version of this program, then we would able to boot with -s after installing updates then patch and just continue to boot up the system. We wouldnt need to get in to a working os x install to patch.

So how to use this? I run it and it finds a few CPUIDS but after that it doesn't seem to do much. I load the txt file that says it has CPUIDS in it and the Utility says it doesn't.... what gives?

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...c=78434&hl=

Good luck!

hi i have a q if anyone still ever read this does the marvin util patch the kernel too or is that something you have to get specif for your install. i am runing 10.4.9 and i am trying to upgrade to 10.4.11 and i was wondering if i could just prepatch everything and than just install like a regular install or do i still need to omit the kernell and setain files from installing.

does this patch leopard and or tiger to run on an amd machine?

this is the best find any AMD user could find Just install any update from apple run this application (of course restoring mach_kernel and certain kext files) and your system is ready to go what else could you wantWell we could do with a utility that hacks/modifys the Mach_kernel file so you can use the latest (or does it exist)this is the best find any AMD user could find Just install any update from apple run this application (of course restoring mach_kernel and certain kext files) and your system is ready to go what else could you wantWell we could do with a utility that hacks/modifys the Mach_kernel file so you can use the latest (or does it exist)

I've tried to patch NVDAResman.kext with this utility, it produces the following patch:

but running the patcher results in:

If I run Marvin's AMD Utility it finds the cpuid again and generates same patch. Any ideas?

Logic studio 8 says 'not supported on this architecture'... running AMD +4800 would this patch help? it found the cpuids on logic, mainstage, etc.. and i patched using Marvins util... but still no luck. Is anyone running Logic on AMD?

Yes it would fix this. Every Apple (Proper) app will probably have an Intel CPUID, so patching them would be necessary and Marvin's will do so for you. That's how I run Logic.

I downloaded Guitar Combos installer from Native-Instruments,wich is .app and for Intel! How i can patch it?

It doesn't launch
I run OS Tiger in VMware Workstation with connected Leopard as a virtual disk.

I download "Marvin's AMD Utility", unpack, lauch .app and… nothing.
I even tried to run it in terminal ("open M*.app") and it (terminal) says nothing too.

In the properties I see Architecture "Intel, PowerPC", but not AMD or something. Aslo I cannot launch other applications like Joost, Twitterific of iTunes, which I downloaded for testing.
Can anybody help me?

Hi, im trying to launch your app but it exits with the errormsg that it cannot run on my platform.
Im running Zephyrs Leopard 10.5.2 rev2 and your patcher is already preinstalled ...

profiler says about my processor:

Modellname: Mac
Modell-Identifizierung: System Product Name
Prozessortyp: AMD Athlon™ 64 Processor 3700+
Prozessorgeschwindigkeit: 2.2 GHz
Gesamtzahl der Kerne: 1
L2-Cache: 1 MB
CPU-Funktionen: FPU VME DE PSE TSC MSR PAE MCE CX8 APIC SEP MTRR PGE MCA CMOV PAT PSE36 CLFSH MMX FXSR SSE SSE2 SSE3
Speicher: 2 GB
Busgeschwindigkeit: 800 MHz
Boot-ROM-Version: Hack.88Z.int.0sh.061193037 (Phoenix Technologies, LTD)
Seriennummer: YM8659M6W0A

Can someone give me a pointer on what is going wrong? How would i have to patch this app manually?

cu Bofh41

Hi, Marvin runs, finds several CPUIDs and outputs a AMD.Patch.Folder on Desktop. But there`s just Decrypts, Logs and Patches subfolders. No Patcher anywhere. What gives?

Thanks!

I`ve found the patcher in Package, never mind.


BUT! when I try to run marvin in the same Leopard install that I want to be patched, it says that there are no encrypted binaries (which there aren`t), but there are 37 CPUIDs. Is it so that Marvin can patch only encrypted binaries? Thanks!

i really don't have any idea on how to use Marvin's amd utility... i need step by step instruction on how to use this program.... i cant patch IPHONE SDK.... every time i try to patch anything ... no decrypts comes up, no patches just some stupid log.........\


can some body please tell me how to use this program

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=78434

Can i youse this for apps or what . can i youse sofware updat im such a n00b tho