Either button will do.
Later...
On 14-Sep-08, at 10:59 AM, Chris Gilland wrote:
Wo! Now that! I didn't know! Just hold down the mouse button? OK,
I gotta two clicker mouse, so I assume you mean the left mouse button.
Chris.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Kilburn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS
X by theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2008 11:14 AM
Subject: Re: A Dreadful problem senario
Chris,
To force the CD tray to open, you can hold down the physical mouse
button while the startup chime is ringing and continue holding it
down until the tray opens. This will open it whether there is a
CD resident in the tray or not.
This along with other tips is available on my web-site at:
http://web.me.com/kilburns/voiceover/tips.html
or
http://homepage.mac.com/kilburns/voiceover/tips.html
Later...
On 10-Sep-08, at 4:32 AM, Chris Gilland wrote:
OK guys, this has not! thank? God! happened to me yet, and God
forbid! the day it does, however, I cannot help but to ask. I do
still have my Tiger system, and you'd better believe I plan on
keeping it, but, I just yesterday finally! got me a Mac running
Leopard! God do I love it! It is a Power Mac G4 just like the
Tiger machine, accept this one is 800 mhz. It's gotta 40 gig
hard drive. one gigga s d ram, a monitor, a mouse, not sure what
type, and a 24 X CD burner/dvd combo drive. It's a pretty sweet
system. Anyway, there is however one really big problem. Um?
Like, bloody hell? The guy from Craigs list who gave me this
thing has no clue about this and suggested I write yall for
help. Basicly, now you tell me if this is not lovely. Not? The
CD drive on the tower has no hardware based button on the front a
the tower. It's not slot loading, it actually is a tray, just
like normal, but no open/close button. So, then, I got this
keyboard. OK, well, this keyboard is kind of interesting. It's
newer than the keyboard I got with the Tiger box. Basicly, it
looks almost identical to a windows keyboard with very few
differences. For one, above your arrow keys, instead of a 6pack,
you got a 9 pack. Basicly in that 9pack, on the top is F13
through F15. Then below that is help, home, and page up.
Finally, the last row is delete, end, and page down.
Then you got your number pad, and above 7 8 and 9 is clear,
equals, divided by, I think? then multiply. Now, getting back to
the CD thing... I ran off on this tangence for a reason. So,
stick with me. Above this, you got four buttons. You got vol
down, vol up, mute, then eject.
Well, the keyboard is not plugged into a hub. It is going
directly via USB into the tower. Well, the eject key is doing
absolutely nothing. btw, to the right a the space bar is command,
then another option key, then a right control key. The guy said
this was a much newer keyboard. The end of the USB plug feels
real smoothe like the IPod USB plugs feel. The keyboard is kind
of a shiny tannish/off white color. There are no feet on the
bottom of it to slant it up. Not that they're broken off,
they're just not there. They never were. Now, I can find in my
desktop, the CD volume, and hit command e on it, and that works.
Then to get the thing back in, I just take my hand and very
lightly push the tray, and it goes back in. Well, this is all
good, and I also have if I vo m twice, then vo right a few times,
I do have an icon that says eject. Now if I vo down on that, I do
see one menu option which says eject combo drive. If I vo space
on that, it definitely does eject. Also in ITunes, if I do
command e, it opens. Where the underlying problem, however is,
is, ok, I turn my system on one day, well, o? sh**. It won't
boot up. Great. Lovely. So CD stuck in the drive or not. That
eject key ain't workin. So, I gotta get a Leopard disc in that
bloody thang. how 'em I gonna do that though, if I can't boot to
the OS to get to that volume and command e on it? How can I do
that if I can't get to ITunes to eject it. How do I do this if I
can't get the menu bar icon to be accessible? And, finally, how
do I do this, if the damn eject key won't work. See? I'm kind a
screwed at that point. Unless yall know something I don't. Do
yall know a way maybe we before bootup maybe like during bootup
could trick the drive into openning? While booting, command e
won't work. I already tried. Apparently, Command E only works in
ITunes, or on a selected mounted volume. I guess in theory, I
could always leave my damn Leopard disc in the drive, just in
case, but, that's kind a pathetic. There's gotta be a better
way. I am totally perplexed why the eject key won't work. I
even mounted an external volume, made sure cursor tracking was
on, highlighted it in the desktop, then hit the eject key instead
of command e, but that didn't even unount the thing. I turned
off voiceover, and it did no good. I'm just wonderring if maybe
even though this keyboard has that key, maybe it isn't supported
with this tower. BTW, this keyboard doesn't have an on/ off power
button. you gotta do it on the tower itself. I dono if this is a
newer IMac keyboard, or what. Again, God forbid the day this
senario happens, but it would be nice to be able to rest assured
that if this does wind up happenning, I have no reason to
pannick. If it crashed, I don't wanna have to take that darn
thing into a store, and say, hey I crashed and there's a CD in
here, can you pop it out for me? It's like, o, gr'r'r'rate, not
again, Cr'r'ris.
So, yeah, if anyone's got any idea, let me know please. I'll
check and see maybe if there are any software updates that'll fix
it, but somehow I doubt it, being last night, I updated
everything to the most current, or so I thought I did. Although
even if I didn't! you'd still! think I could get the booger
opened before it fully booted.
Anyway, this is really kind a pannicking me, not that it's gonna
crash any time soon, I hope, but, knowing if it does, I don't have
a way to really deal with it, um, yeah.
Chris.
Tim Kilburn
& Carter the Canine
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
Tim Kilburn
& Carter the Canine
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
