It was determined that the G4 upgraded machines were the only ones 
with the problem and it has been fixed in XPF 2.2.2



>Version 2.2.2 fixes the Jaguar Classic problem September, 12, 
>2002 12:26 AM  OSXGuru
>Version 2.2.2 of XPostFacto is out, and it fixes the Jaguar Classic 
>problem (which had affected those with G4 upgrade cards).
>
>For the technically-minded among you, here's how I found the 
>problem. (Well, I'll leave out all the false starts and red herrings 
>:-)
>
>I did a "strings TruBlueEnvironment | grep cpu" command in the 
>terminal to see if anything interesting might show up. Out popped 
>the following strings:
>
>cpu-version IODeviceTree:/cpus
>
>Well, it seemed possible that Classic might be looking at the "cpus" 
>node in the device-tree to get the cpu-version. The problem is that 
>on the older machines, there is no "cpus" node. So I modified the 
>ApplePowerSurgePE kernel extension to make one, and put the 
>"PowerPC,60?" node underneath it.
>
>Reboot Mac OS X, launch Classic, and behold the happy Mac. It's 
>always nice to see a smiling face :-)
>

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