EXC_BAD_ACCESS Exception

[weeguy]

I've been getting the following exception when launching apps that require QE/CI such as Screensaver settings and iWeb. My graphics card doesn't support QE/CI but several users out there have managed to get iWeb working after editing the defaults.plist. However, that trick didn't work for me when it worked so well for many others.

 

"Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)

Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS (0x0001) at 0xd9d8ffde"

 

Is anyone else getting a similar error message?

 

 

 

A detailed error message:

 

Thread 0 Crashed:

0 com.apple.ATIRadeonGLDriver 0x0d973774 gldChoosePixelFormat + 1974

1 GLEngine 0x0d8203a0 gliChoosePixelFormat + 78

2 com.apple.opengl 0x932c2c20 glcPluginChoosePixelFormat + 126

3 com.apple.opengl 0x932c14fa cglChoosePixelFormat + 1881

4 com.apple.opengl 0x932c0d55 CGLChoosePixelFormat + 115

5 com.apple.AppKit 0x9347483e createPixelFormat + 62

6 com.apple.AppKit 0x934747d9 -[NSOpenGLPixelFormat initWithAttributes:] + 63

7 com.apple.Flurry 0x0d5c6fa5 0xd5c6000 + 4005

8 com.apple.ScreenSaver 0x998510c3 -[screenSaverModules loadModuleWithPath:frame:isPreview:] + 985

9 ...pscreeneffect.screeneffects 0x0c94fd47 appendInfoSection + 5737

10 ...pscreeneffect.screeneffects 0x0c94f702 appendInfoSection + 4132

11 com.apple.Foundation 0x9270e0d3 __NSFireDelayedPerform + 403

12 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x90822e8d CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 3341

13 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x90822179 CFRunLoopRunInMode + 61

14 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x92ed18e0 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 285

15 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x92ed0fe7 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 385

16 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x92ed0e3e BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 81

17 com.apple.AppKit 0x93351ad1 _DPSNextEvent + 576

18 com.apple.AppKit 0x933516be -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 137

19 com.apple.AppKit 0x9334b443 -[NSApplication run] + 512

20 com.apple.AppKit 0x9333f397 NSApplicationMain + 573

21 com.apple.systempreferences 0x0000deea 0x1000 + 52970

22 com.apple.systempreferences 0x0000de05 0x1000 + 52741

[weeguy]

Followed the instructions of another forumer and removed all ATI related files in /System/Library/Extensions. Doesn't make a difference since the drivers didn't provide any acceleration for me anyway. But I do have screensavers and iWeb working.