That's what I was thinking. I know that macs have used the Intrepid
chipset and all the hardware that entails for a long time (my 12" PB
867 had one, and that shipped with 10.2), you might not get working
sound in 10.2 since the 'Toonie' sound codec is only used in the mini
AFAIK. There were definitely ATI R200 (ATI 8500-9200) drivers in OS X
long before 10.4 though I don't know which version was the first to
have the device IDs for the 9200 in the mini in it's plist (Though
that should be a simple matter of adding it. It's only an XML
file ;)) The only thing that worries me a little is that Apple tend
to clump together sets of kernel extensions into so-called 'platform
drivers' and PowerMac10,1 (mini 1.25 & 1.42) are unlikely pre 10.3.6
and PowerMac10,2 (mini 1.33 and 1.5) are unlikely to be in versions
pre-10.4.2. It may be possible to get round that (at least in my
experience with OS X on x86) by holding Apple-X during boot the first
time so it can rebuild the kernel extension cache.
Jason Mayfield-Lewis
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On 27 Oct 2005, at 11:27 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Oct 27, 2005, at 1:59 PM, Daniel wrote:
Shawn,
Since the very first Mac, Apple has used a process known as
"controlled obsolescence" and has decided that every new Mac
should run only the version of Mac OS that it came with, or a
later OS.
That is arrant BS. Macs run the earliest version of the OS that has
the drivers for the hardware they're using. One of the basic tenets
of the mac OS is that the user shouldn't have to juggle drivers for
their hardware, that it should come with everything ready to run.
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