Hi there! ################### # Specs: # Apple Power Mac G3 Blue & White (Codename “Yosemite”) # PowerMac1,1 # Rev.1 system board (faulty CMD646 IDE chipset!) # 350 MHz G3 (PowerPC 750) # 1.0 GB of PC100 SDRAM # 32GB CF drive as main boot drive (using a CF-to-IDE adapter) # ATi Rage 128 PCI graphics card # USB 2.0 PCI expansion card #http://lowendmac.com/ppc/blue-white-power-mac-g3.html #http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g3/stats/powermac_g3_350_bl.html ################### I'm now running this “Yosemite” at work for some time now. I'm really satisfied. Only some things concern me:
1) When I disconnect the USB keyboard (plus Mouse, which is connected to the USB 1.1 Hub of the keyboard) right after I locked the screen, I am unable to log in again. It will refuse to re-activate the USB keyboard+mouse once reattacted to the USB 1.1 port of my G3 B&W. 2) Putting it to standby is strange: a) it goes into standby alright, but the fans remain on. Waking up is working correctly. b) after standby-wakeup it will not shut down correctly, meaning: it hangs forever on shutdown 3) I noticed that the standard builds of Mozilla Firefox and Camino (at least) keep crashing regularly. I then tried the optimized builds mentioned here: http://lowendmac.com/tech/optimized-builds.html Firefox: http://firefoxmac.furbism.com/ Camino: http://www.rpm-mozilla.org.uk/builds/camino/ 4) Strangest thing: I have a USB 2.0 PCI expansion card installed (NEC chip). When I have an external USB 2.0 hub connected AND this hub is then also powered with a seperate +5V power supply to be able to give full USB power to connected devices (such as external 2.5 inch hard disks) IT DOES NOT power up. But when this external +5V power supply is disconnected it starts normally. I can then reconnect the power supply to use more than one external 2.5 inch hard drive. 5) When the system is very busy and I enter something (like the login password) and press enter, all keys are stored and processed later, except for the Enter/Return keys. This is a good behaviour of Mac OS X, only that my G3 is very often very busy and it can be annoying sometimes. I'd like to know your thoughts on these issues. Additionally, about upgrade options: 1) Which CPU G3/G4 ZIF upgrade should I consider? I've seen a G4 800 MHz ZIF card lately that doesn't use fans, so it would be very silent. Isn't there a MHz limit on the early G3 Rev.1 boards such as mine? (>500 MHz is vaguely poping up in my head) 2) PCI graphics card: I have a PC card version of a Radeon 9250 PCI. I'm looking for modifying it for the Mac, like found here: http://themacelite.wikidot.com/9250-trick Have any of you tried that already? Will it work? 3) What about getting Quartz Extreme working? PCI-Extreme or something? Does it work with Mac OS X 10.4.11 also (I've read somewhere it works up to 10.4.8 only…)? 4) What about Core Image? I fear a Radeon 9250 won't support it. Is it important? I'm glad about every help I can get with upgrade decissions… I also have a problem with a startup script – that is, I want to add a personal startup script, but don't know how. 1) I made a shell script, originally myscript.sh, that I want to be executed after each login. I found that renaming it to myscript.command and adding it to start objects of my user in the control panel works, but also always opens the Terminal application and leaves it open therafter. Isn't there a better way? Thanks in advance, Andreas aka Mac User #330250 -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
