An update: I e-mailed the guy from xlr8yourmac about this. He says the
profiles were not meant for OS X. He has added warnings that people
shouldn't try to use them with OS X.
Jim
On Thursday, July 26, 2001, at 09:22 PM, (G-Books) wrote:
> I've been having big problems with OS X on my Pismo and I think I've
> narrowed it down to the ColorSync profile I downloaded here:
>
> http://forums.xlr8yourmac.com/software/Pismo_iBookProfiles.sit
>
> I'm wondering if other people have been experiencing this problem and
> why? If the ColorSync profile is the problem, I thought people should be
> warned.
>
> My OS X has been failing for the past month and I haven't been able to
> figure out the problem. After a couple of hours of use any new
> applications I launch "unexpectedly quits". When I reboot, I can't get
> back into X. The finder quits repeatedly and I have to go back to 9.1. I
> reinstalled X several times, even formated my HD a couple of times, but
> the problem always returned after a couple of hours of use. This has
> taken up tons of my time and has been very frustrating.
>
> This last time it failed shortly after installing the ColorSync profile.
> I didn't believe that could be the problem, but I removed the file and
> bingo. OS X started right up. I'm not even sure if these profiles were
> meant for X, or if I did something else wrong, but I thought people
> should be warned. I installed it under Library/ColorSynch/Profiles and
> selected the profile in the Displays preference.
>
> Jim
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