A follow-up on print browser problems on daughter's iBook: I've got everything working right now, after wiping the disk clean and reinstalling X.
Had some strange results along the way, though. I first tried an archive and install, which seemed to install okay, but when I booted up I got the gray boot-up screen with the spinning "gear" and above that was the international symbol for "don't do that" -- the circle with the slash in the middle. No other message appeared; it just sat there with the gear spinning and that symbol on the screen until I held down the power key to shut it off. That's the first time I've seen that screen. Does anyone know what it means? And at some point during the reinstall, the iBook's trackpad quit working. The OS X install disk software displayed a screen with illustrations that looked like it was trying to tell me to install new batteries in a mouse. I finally got a mouse from another computer and attached it to the iBook, at which point the installer let me continue with the install. All of this strange behavior led me to repartition the disk and start over from scratch. After installing Tiger and downloading all the updates, everything seems to be working fine now: the Printer Browser appears as it should; Disk Utility has the "repair permissions" tab and the trackpad is working. Dan | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
