Keeping it relatively brief: my Sonnet Tango FW/USB no longer danced/ played well with the others under 10.5.4 (also projecting to 10.5.5 and 10.5.6) ... maybe its age ... maybe 10.5.4(5,6) // USB/FW ... now finishing up Steve's suggested Nuke & Pave back to 10.5.4, using my original nvidia Geforce 4MX agp video.
Getting ready to re-install the ATI Radeon 9800Pro, as I went "all the way" with the original agp video card. Between each step below are many Restarts, Cold Boots, running Xbench, other apps, viewing and saving snap-shot system profiler files, etc. 1. Original Installation with Retail Mac OS X 10.5 after zeroing out my 10.5 partition. No printer drivers, no X11. Retained Additional Fonts and Languages. 2. Ran previously downloaded 10.5.4 Combo. 3. Installed the Rosewill 10/100/1000 NIC in PCI Slot 5. 4. Ran Software Update (1st x): Accepted > Airport Utility, Remote Desktop Client, iTunes, Quicktime, Java 10.5 Update 2. Denied > Combo 10.5.6. 5. Ran Software Update (2nd x): Accepted > Front Row Update, Quicktime H.264 Compatibility. Denied > Combo 10.5.6 6. Disk Utility > Verified Disks, Verified Permissions: Showed Airport Utility/Contents/various.png and System/Library/Launch Daemons/com.apple.usbmuxb.plist "needed" Repair. Also private/etc/ cups should be Group 0, is Group 26. So I Repaired Permissions. All Repaired except cups remains Group 26. 7. Installed M-Audio's 2496 driver using fresh download of Delta_OSX_2.0.8.dmg. Restarted/Shutdown. Installed the M-Audio Delta 2496 audio PCI card in Slot 4. Log seemed clean, except began getting log "formatting" break, which wasn't occurring before installing the M-Audio card (and is in all the 10.5.5 and 10.5.6 problematic logs): For example ... Dec 19 13:03:06 Moonstone-Art-Studio DeltaHelper[122]: Delta published! Dec 19 13:03:06 Moonstone-Art-Studio kernel[0]: USBF: 43.785 DELTA: iTotalBufSize = 40959 Dec 19 13:03:06 Moonstone-Art-Studio com.apple.SystemStarter[16]: 2008-12-19 13:03:06.586 DeltaHelper[122:10b] Delta published! ... 8. Installed the Yamaha's USB/MIDI driver using fresh download of YAMAHA USB-MIDI v1.1.1.mpkg for my Yamaha motif es8 digital keyboard. 9. Attempted to install Sonnet Tango FW400/USB1 in PCI Slot 3. opt- command-P-R, CUDA Button, Battery Out ... Crash ... Boom ... Bang. No video, then video but kp. So removed it. My QS 2002 Dual 1GHz is now running along lines of what I would call normally. No out the ordinary looking log entries. I did take a "snapshot" of the process, at each stage using About This Mac > More Info ... and saved the spx files for posterity. Maybe my issues were with the Sonnet FW/USB card ... but I also suspect the audio drivers are just at 10.5.4 level as well. I think Apple is changing USB and FW protocols, so older cards don't work as well, some attached FW drives are not connecting well. I'm also suspicious of Intel Power Management on a PPC. Now back to replacing the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro to finish this somewhat lengthy recovery task. Thanks for listening and making suggestions. They worked. Bill Connelly artsite: http://mysite.verizon.net/moonstoneartstudio myspace: http://www.myspace.com/moonstoneartstudio --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
