Gantlett Posted January 23, 2010 Share Posted January 23, 2010 Hello, I'm running a vanilla 10.6.1 with (the amazing!) Chameleon 2.0 RC3 on the following system: ---------------- C2D E6550 GA-EP45-DS3R 8800GT 512MB 4GB RAM SATA HDD's & DVD DSDT.aml with Audio com.apple.Boot.plist w/ graphics string ---------------- I have a problem where the input source settings (System Prefs >Language & Text >Input Sources) keeps resetting to default (English only) whenever I log out / shut down / restart. I need to have two input sources, English and Hebrew, but whenever I log out the Hebrew input source is missing and I have to re-add it. I have two user accounts on this machine and the same problem happens on both user accounts. I tried repairing permissions but it didn't help. I thought that this might be a known bug but I seem to be the only one suffering from it. I have a SL 10.6.1 iMac at work and this problem doesn't exist there. Any help will be greatly appreciated! Thanks guys Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208643-input-source-keeps-resetting/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gantlett Posted January 27, 2010 Author Share Posted January 27, 2010 Guys, any idea? I would really appreciate that. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208643-input-source-keeps-resetting/#findComment-1397093 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Z0ID Posted January 27, 2010 Share Posted January 27, 2010 post your dsdt.aml and tell us what Audio chip is on your board... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208643-input-source-keeps-resetting/#findComment-1397331 Share on other sites More sharing options...
westwaerts Posted January 27, 2010 Share Posted January 27, 2010 it is mostly a permission error. try to find the referring preference.plist ( can either be in library>preferences>, library>preferences>by Host>, (user)>library>preferences) look at the file-info ( right-click) if you see an owner "Everyone" with "Own" permissions on top of the list, the finder or the App cannot write to it. ( nasty problem, i had it here, needs correction manually a bunch of pref.plists) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208643-input-source-keeps-resetting/#findComment-1397435 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gantlett Posted January 31, 2010 Author Share Posted January 31, 2010 Guys, thanks for the replies. So I tried to look for a corresponding plist in Library\Preferences, but there is none. I did find something in User\Library\Preferences and the file name is "com.apple.menuextra.textinput.plist". It had the same permissions as the other plists - User= Read+Write, Everyone= No Access. So I deleted the file and, keeping the User\Library\Preferences folder open, re-added the Hebrew language, expecting to see this plist get re-created by the system. The weird thing is that it didn't. The only option that caused this file to re-create is enabling "Show input source name". So the only explanation I can think of is that this file doesn't control the input source settings. I've attached my DSDT.aml file (audio chip=ALC 889A). I had to change the extension from .aml to .txt to upload the file. Thanks dsdt.txt Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208643-input-source-keeps-resetting/#findComment-1400205 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gantlett Posted February 10, 2010 Author Share Posted February 10, 2010 SOLUTION: Netkas has released PC-EFI version 10.6 which addresses this exact issue. I simply replaced my (system root)\boot file with this version, restarted and problem solved! Thank you very much Netkas - your contribution to the community is much appreciated! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208643-input-source-keeps-resetting/#findComment-1407344 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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