Sound bug and Users on different drive |
July, 29, 2003 8:40 PM |
steven |
Hello all, This week I installed Mac OS X 10.2.6 on my old 8600. This Mac has a MaxPowr G3 400Mhz processor upgrade, 512 MB RAM, the original 4 Gb Quantum Fireball disk and an IBM DNES-309170W 9 GB drive connected to a Adaptec 2940U2B SCSI card. It was my plan to install Mac OS X to the 9 Gig drive but I decided to test it first on the Fireball. This worked OK. So I decided to go ahead and install it to the IBM drive but I found out this wouldn't work... I undertstand this is a problem with the Adaptec SCSI card. So now I am looking to rearrange things.. I was thinking of keaping the Fireball as the starup disk but putting the users and the swap on the larger drive. Or maybe only the users on the larger drive and the swap to yet another drive. Would this be possible and how do I accomplish it? A second question I have is the following: The last few times I start up the System I see the following behavior: The very first time I click on something with the cursor or I type something I get a droplet sound effect and a transparent sound icon on screen, after this all sound is muted and some of the behaviors of the dock stop working. Processes I activate don't have a animated startup icon in the dock and don't get the triangle widget to indicate they are active. But what's worse: I can't use modifier keys to select multiple items (icons on the desktop, messages in a list etc). I can unmute the sound in the sound panel but the dock and the modifier keys remain degraded. The day before yesterday it thought I fixed it by zapping the PRAM but today it returned after a restart. Anybody have an I idea what is causing this behavior? What can I do about it? What is the usual way to troubleshoot something like this in Mac OS X? Are there some prefs I can trash? Any help appreciated! Thanks, Steven |
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RE: Sound bug and Users on different drive |
July, 31, 2003 11:41 AM |
steven |
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I have no USB devices/ports. The problem seems to be returning after I add (or change something about the) hardware. I re-connected two SCSI scanners that I disconnected before installing. A Nikon Coolscan III and a Linotype Hell Jade 2. At first the Coolscan at least was recognized in the system profiler (the Jade scanner was turned off) but not but it was not found by the Vuescan software and after trying to get the Coolscan III to work with Vuescan Vuescan became unresponsive (even to the force quit command). After this the scanner hasn't been recognized by System Profiler. To get rid of the "mute sound/disabled modifier keys"-bug I have to boot into Mac OS 9, then zap the PRAM then boot back into Mac OS X. Zapping the PRAm and booting directly back into OS X doesn't work. But the scanners remain unrecognized... If any of this rings a bell... Thanks, Steven |
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RE: Sound bug and Users on different drive |
July, 29, 2003 11:42 PM |
joevt |
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That transparent sound icon is only supposed to appear when you press the volume up/down keys on one of the newer Apple USB Keyboards but it appears on Old World Macs with ADB keyboards when you do something with the mouse or whatever. I've seen that problem on my 8600 but not recently. I reported it in this forum a long time ago but I don't think anyone had anything useful to say about it. I have an XLR8 500 MHz G3, Sonnet Trio card, Radeon 7000, and ADB mouse & keyboard. I have a USB mouse connected to the Sonnet card. Maybe plugging in a USB device fixes the problem? |
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