jhunter Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 I got Leopard successfully installed a little over a year ago (so forgive me if I leave anything out, my memory doesn't go back that far) and there were some issues that I ignored, but I figured I'd post them now since I have time. They are as follows: 1. In order to boot to the IDE HDD containing Leopard, I have to have my boot sequence set to boot to CD-ROM first, and have the Leopard-10.5.2-AMD-EFI disk in the drive. Setting my computer to boot directly to that HDD causes the system to hang. Any way to fix that? 2. DVD Player does not work. It immediately "quits unexpectedly". Am I missing something? 3. The sound goes in and out. About 90% of the time I can hear the system sound effects (empty trash can, file transfer complete, etc.) but the sound in iTunes and FCP tends to work only 10-15% of the time. Any ideas? Leopard-10.5.2-AMD-EFI AMD Athlon 64 4000+ MSI K8N Neo4 NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS 2GB DDR RAM Maxtor 45(ish)GB IDE HDD Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/186634-3-specific-issues/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
srs5694 Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 For #1, your boot loader is messed up. Check any of the numerous threads on this topic for details. (Chameleon, PC-EFI, and Boot Think are three OSx86 boot loaders that get a lot of discussion, so look for threads about them.) For #2, I'm less certain, but you might check that Quartz Extreme (QE) is set to "Supported" and Crystal Image (CI) is set to "accelerated." You'll find these settings in the System Profiler under Hardware->Graphics/Displays. Note that you won't be able to adjust these values there. If they aren't correct, the only solution is to futz around with video drivers. In extreme cases you may need to replace your video card. If these values are set correctly, I'm afraid I don't have any ideas, although you might look for alternative DVD player software. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/186634-3-specific-issues/#findComment-1266563 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanceomni Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 I got Leopard successfully installed a little over a year ago (so forgive me if I leave anything out, my memory doesn't go back that far) and there were some issues that I ignored, but I figured I'd post them now since I have time. They are as follows: 1. In order to boot to the IDE HDD containing Leopard, I have to have my boot sequence set to boot to CD-ROM first, and have the Leopard-10.5.2-AMD-EFI disk in the drive. Setting my computer to boot directly to that HDD causes the system to hang. Any way to fix that? 2. DVD Player does not work. It immediately "quits unexpectedly". Am I missing something? 3. The sound goes in and out. About 90% of the time I can hear the system sound effects (empty trash can, file transfer complete, etc.) but the sound in iTunes and FCP tends to work only 10-15% of the time. Any ideas? Leopard-10.5.2-AMD-EFI AMD Athlon 64 4000+ MSI K8N Neo4 NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS 2GB DDR RAM Maxtor 45(ish)GB IDE HDD Which kernel are you running? Type uname -a in Terminal and reply with the results Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/186634-3-specific-issues/#findComment-1266911 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhunter Posted September 15, 2009 Author Share Posted September 15, 2009 Which kernel are you running? Type uname -a in Terminal and reply with the results Darwin Kernel Version 9.2.0 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/186634-3-specific-issues/#findComment-1267366 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhunter Posted September 15, 2009 Author Share Posted September 15, 2009 For #1, your boot loader is messed up. Check any of the numerous threads on this topic for details. (Chameleon, PC-EFI, and Boot Think are three OSx86 boot loaders that get a lot of discussion, so look for threads about them.) For #2, I'm less certain, but you might check that Quartz Extreme (QE) is set to "Supported" and Crystal Image (CI) is set to "accelerated." You'll find these settings in the System Profiler under Hardware->Graphics/Displays. Note that you won't be able to adjust these values there. If they aren't correct, the only solution is to futz around with video drivers. In extreme cases you may need to replace your video card. If these values are set correctly, I'm afraid I don't have any ideas, although you might look for alternative DVD player software. Well thank you. I will look into the boot loader soon. As far as DVD Player goes, I actually just got it to recognize and play a DVD. I had problems with the Quartz Extreme back when I first installed Leopard, but I got that fixed a long time ago. Also, the audio seems to dislike Quicktime and DVD Player. I can get it to work, but only by dragging the Output Volume slider in the Preferences window back and forth, or pausing and playing the video until the audio decides to work. I'm not too worried about it though, since I'm building a whole new system soon, I just wanted to see if anybody knew any fixes, should I encounter these issues again. And I have a stupid question. I just looked into Chameleon, and I'm getting ready to install it, but I don't know where my OS X installation is (diskxsx). How do I find that information? I know that I should know this, but it's been so long... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/186634-3-specific-issues/#findComment-1267446 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vilpostus Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 And I have a stupid question. I just looked into Chameleon, and I'm getting ready to install it, but I don't know where my OS X installation is (diskxsx). How do I find that information? I know that I should know this, but it's been so long... Terminal diskutil list You'll get a list of all disks and partitions you have. Locate the disk what has an EFI partition on it. The next partition to EFI is the OS X partition (I assume a GUID formatted disk). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/186634-3-specific-issues/#findComment-1267500 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhunter Posted September 15, 2009 Author Share Posted September 15, 2009 Terminaldiskutil list You'll get a list of all disks and partitions you have. Locate the disk what has an EFI partition on it. The next partition to EFI is the OS X partition (I assume a GUID formatted disk). Thank you, that's exactly what I needed. Now I may have accidentally installed it onto my Windows disk as well, and I read the Chameleon SNAFU about not doing that, but it doesn't go about how to fix it. Currently, Windows won't boot... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/186634-3-specific-issues/#findComment-1267527 Share on other sites More sharing options...
srs5694 Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 A better way to determine your installation partition is to type "df" at a command prompt. This will show you a list of mounted volumes. The first one in the list should have a mount point of "/", and that's your main OS X partition. The corresponding disk device will appear on the left side of the line with this mount point. Other lines can correspond virtual filesystems (for instance, for /dev) that don't have any matching physical disk device, or they can be real disk devices (other HFS+ partitions, FAT partitions, NTFS partitions, etc.). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/186634-3-specific-issues/#findComment-1267591 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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