Ernas Moethar | Ernas M. Jamil

Fixing NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT on My Hackintosh

2008-10-02T01:46:00.009+07:00

I realized that on my previous post my display adapter was not fully working. It's giving correct resolution, but as seen on screen capture, Core Image (CI) was Software and Quartz Express (QE) stated as Not Supported. It was bad, because some applications such as iMovie, iWeb and Need For Speed Carbon are not working.

Although the system profiler said the NVIDIA had 512MB RAM already, apparently Darwin only detect 256MB of it. I took some suggestions to flash my display adapter's ROM. It was rather scary because if I failed this, I might kill my adapter.

The whole procedures are discribed here. I used a '512MB ROM Patcher' to automatically fixed backup ROM, and It did a real good job. I just to need verify the patched ROM and calculate the result manually to make sure that it's ok. Below is an original ROM

and below is patched ROM

But flashing ROM only does not make CI & QE work. Once again Google saved my day. Just download and install NVkushInstaller.pkg from http://diabolik1605.com/DHF/, remove NVInject.kext and voila; I got CI & QE are fully working.

Instead of 'I Can has Model ?' line, everything seems good now.

Akhirnya Datang Juga

2008-09-27T11:33:00.003+07:00

Alhamdulillah, akhirnya datang juga. Setelah seminggu overdue dari estimasi jadual kelahirannya, putri kedua kami lahir pada hari Jum'at 26 September 2008 jam 22:45 di RSIA Tedja Bandung.

Terima kasih kepada seluruh rekan dan kerabat yang telah memberikan doa dan dukungan kepada kami sekeluarga.

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My First Hackintosh working!

2008-09-22T08:45:00.014+07:00

Finally I got my hackintosh working!

I was planning to have a PC at home. Usually I would install Linux on it, but I really love MacOS after using it for a year on my white macbook. I'd love to buy a real Mac but it way too expensive for me now.

After did a short research, I decided to go with following PC configuration:

ASUS P5LD2-X/GBL
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT
Elixir 2 GB DDR2 PC2-6400
Seagate 80 GB SATA
LG DVD Writer
BenQ T52WA LCD Display

My plan was I'm going to install using original Leopard Retail DVD, but I misplaced the disc somewhere. Fortunately, I found Leo4All v2 DVD on local store.

The Leo4All installation process was pretty straight forward. After installation, I found that the audio volume icon was missing, display set incorrectly and network card detected but not working.

Audio fix was easy, just download AzaliaAudio.pkg and installing the package will fix audio problem. But only rear panel working, front panel out channel is mute.

ASUS specification said that the network card was PCIe Gigabyte LAN but actually the chipset is Realtek RTL8111C. The great thing is the Mac driver provided by Realtek themselves! You can find here.

The display was a little bit tricky. As suggested by many thread on insanelymac.com, I tried to use Nvidia Universal Installer that you can find on internet. Here is the catch, after I installed the package, my PS2 mouse and keyboard freezing!

After many trials and errors, I think I can summarize the step to make those works below:

Boot to single mode by giving -s argument to Darwin prompt. Sometime this does not work, but since my ethernet card is working, I can log in remotely through ssh from my macbook.
Do these command

mount -uw /

mkdir /GeForce-backup

mv /System/Library/Extensions/GeForce* /GeForce-backup

mv /GeForce-backup/GeForce.kext /System/Library/Extensions/

mv /GeForce-backup/GeForce7xxxGLDriver.bundle \
/System/Library/Extensions/

reboot

Add display device to Boot.plist using EFIStudio. You may add other parameter as well. My configuration look like below:

The device-properties is an encoded format of this configuration. Don't worry, EFIStudio will do this for you :)

Now you can see all available display mode for your monitor.

Here is my system profile screenshots:

On the other hand, Leo4All already includes Azalia and NVIDIA drivers. You might try to select customize installation when installing Leo4All and select Azalia and Nvidia package from list of installed packages. I did not really notice that.

Update:

Installing AppleACPIPS2Nub.kext ( http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=114578) seems fixing PS2 keyboard/mice problem

Squid Cache Proxy & OpenLDAP

2008-07-09T03:52:00.003+07:00

Q: Bagaimana mengkonfigurasi Squid agar melakukan autentikasi terhadap OpenLDAP server dan akses hanya diberikan kepada user yang tergabung pada group Proxy_Users ?

A: Tambahkan baris seperti berikut:

auth_param basic program /usr/lib/squid/squid_ldap_auth -bdc=mydomain,dc=com -f (&(uid=%s)(objectclass=posixAccount)) -P -v3 -H ldap://127.0.0.1 -d
external_acl_type ldap_group %LOGIN /usr/lib/squid/squid_ldap_group -bdc=mydomain,dc=com -F (&(uid=%s)(objectclass=posixAccount)) -f (&(cn=%g)(member=%u)(objectclass=posixGroup)) -P -v3 -H ldap://127.0.0.1 -d
auth_param basic children 5
auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours

acl our_networks proxy_auth REQUIRED
acl InternetUsers external ldap_group Proxy_Users

# And finally deny all other access to this proxy
http_access allow InternetUsers
http_access deny all

TLS pada replikasi OpenLDAP

2008-07-09T03:17:00.006+07:00

Hampir dua tahun yang lalu terakhir kali setup server OpenLDAP. Hingga malam ini ada kesempatan untuk mengingat dan membaca kembali bagaimana cara mengkonfigurasi OpenLDAP server.

Salah satu hal penting adalah bagaimana melakukan konfigurasi replikasi antara dua server. Saya menyimpan catatan step-by-step tentang hal ini, tapi tidak saya temukan detil konfigurasi menggunakan TLS bersama replikasi. Error yang terjadi adalah OpenLDAP (slurpd) tidak menerima server yang menggunakan self-signed certificate.

Beruntung dokumentasi OpenLDAP cukup lengkap, sehingga tidak sulit menemukan petunjuk tentang hal ini. Agar tidak lupa berikut adalah caranya:

Pada sisi master, pastikan file /etc/openldap/slapd.conf terdapat baris seperti berikut:

# Replicas of this database
replogfile /var/lib/ldap/openldap-master-replog
replica host=172.27.1.18:389 starttls=critical
bindmethod=simple binddn="cn=replicator,dc=mydomain,dc=com"
credentials=mypass

Dan tambahkan baris berikut pada file /etc/openldap/slapd.conf di sisi slave server

TLSCACertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt
TLSCertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/slapd.pem
TLSCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/slapd.pem
TLSVerifyClient never

slurpd pada sisi master server tidak membaca konfigurasi TLS yang terdapat di slapd.conf, tapi di /etc/openldap/ldap.conf. Tambahkan baris berikut pada file tersebut

TLS_CRLCHECK none
TLS_CACERT /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt
TLS_CERT /etc/pki/tls/certs/slapd.pem
TLS_KEY /etc/pki/tls/certs/slapd.pem
TLS_REQCERT never

Dengan demikian slurpd yang berperan sebagai client akan mengabaikan self-signed certificate.

Liburan Kecil

2008-07-06T20:58:00.001+07:00

Akhirnya bisa ajak Kezia berenang. Sayangnya musim liburan seperti saat ini, Bandung penuh sesak oleh turis. Tidak terkecuali di kolam renang Cipaku, hampir seperti sup manusia. Walau pun harus nabrak sana-sini kami masih bisa bersenang-senang.

SmsLib HTTP Interface

2008-07-01T16:21:00.007+07:00

I implemented kannel sms gateway long time ago. It's a great software, but it only available on Unix/Linux platform. Since we move to java recently, we want all modules ported to java, including sms gateway. The available solutions is very limited and SmsLib is our choice.

It's very easy to integrate kannel with other application. Kannel uses HTTP Get method to communicate with other application. Prior to version 3.3, such interface not available to SmsLib.

I wrote SmsLib's HTTP interface to make my Struts2 application get immediate notification upon sent or received message. Thanks to Thanasis Delenikas for including my contribution in next 3.3 release.

Check here to view full documentantion.

Awal Baru

2008-07-01T11:42:00.005+07:00

Lama sekali tidak posting. Tahu-tahu sudah dua tahun silam. Lihat foto anakku, sudah besar sekali bukan?

Banyak hal terjadi, tapi satu hal adalah tidak lama lagi anak keduaku akan lahir.

Banyak rencana baru untuk awal baru.

Ngojek

2006-06-05T18:02:00.000+07:00

Anti Denmark - 2

2006-03-07T09:23:00.000+07:00

Anti Denmark di Gedung Sate

Anti Denmark - 1

2006-03-07T09:08:00.000+07:00

Denmark Go to Hell!

Malu-malu

2006-02-13T09:38:00.000+07:00

Sayang

2005-12-13T00:17:00.000+07:00

Sayang

Menanti Matahari

2005-11-29T11:27:00.000+07:00

Menanti Matahari

Sunset di Kampung Halaman

2005-11-16T07:57:00.000+07:00

Sunset di Kampung Halaman

A Day to Remember

2005-11-15T22:36:00.000+07:00

A day to remember

Beyond the Sea

2005-11-14T23:26:00.000+07:00

Diantara banyak hal yang berubah, kadang ada hal kecil yang mengingatkan kita bahwa ada yang tak pernah berubah.

"Aku takut sekali dengan laut!" ujarku pada istriku.

Aku mengingat meskipun masa kecilku beberapa kali diwarnai perjalanan menyebrangi samudra, ketakutanku pada air yang luas dan dalam tak surut. Hingga kini, selalu terbayang kengerian yang amat sangat.

Tetapi bersamanya selalu ada kenangan baik akan 'embah' dan kampungnya setiap melihat laut.

Ingatan akan hal-hal baik dan menyenangkan yang kita kenang dan simpan dengan erat tidak akan berubah. Pasti.

Main Kembang Api

2005-11-07T20:09:00.000+07:00

Main Kembang Api

Did you see what I see ?

2005-10-09T00:55:00.000+07:00

Did you see what I see ?

Through the father eyes, everything could be seen in different way

2005-09-05T20:47:00.000+07:00

Sang Kakek

2005-07-07T20:18:00.000+07:00

Cikapundung, riwayatmu kini

2005-07-05T10:57:00.000+07:00

Tol Pasupati - Menjelang Dibuka

2005-06-20T19:41:00.000+07:00

A flower

2005-05-14T08:34:00.000+07:00

Ngintip

2004-04-06T17:53:00.000+07:00

test post