jfn Posted December 4, 2005 Share Posted December 4, 2005 My screensaver worked fine in 10.4.1 installed from the deadmoo image. Now I've installed 10.4.3 and the whole system runs great, except that System Preferences quits whenever I try to go to the screen saver panel. I've tried booting in different resolutions and with platform=X86PC and platform=ACPI. Any ideas? By the way, setting platform=ACPI in Boot.plist still doesn't give me a battery indicator. It used to in 10.4.1, though I usually using X86PC - what is the difference now? I do use coconutBattery to see my battery status, though. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5373-screensaver-prefpane-crashes-in-1043/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
stryder Posted December 4, 2005 Share Posted December 4, 2005 My screensaver worked fine in 10.4.1 installed from the deadmoo image. Now I've installed 10.4.3 and the whole system runs great, except that System Preferences quits whenever I try to go to the screen saver panel. I've tried booting in different resolutions and with platform=X86PC and platform=ACPI. Any ideas? By the way, setting platform=ACPI in Boot.plist still doesn't give me a battery indicator. It used to in 10.4.1, though I usually using X86PC - what is the difference now? I do use coconutBattery to see my battery status, though. Works here. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5373-screensaver-prefpane-crashes-in-1043/#findComment-34076 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfn Posted December 4, 2005 Author Share Posted December 4, 2005 Any way to manually edit a preferences file for this, so I can at least set what I want my screensaver without using the GUI? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5373-screensaver-prefpane-crashes-in-1043/#findComment-34093 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted December 5, 2005 Share Posted December 5, 2005 My screensaver worked fine in 10.4.1 installed from the deadmoo image. Now I've installed 10.4.3 and the whole system runs great, except that System Preferences quits whenever I try to go to the screen saver panel. I've tried booting in different resolutions and with platform=X86PC and platform=ACPI. Any ideas? By the way, setting platform=ACPI in Boot.plist still doesn't give me a battery indicator. It used to in 10.4.1, though I usually using X86PC - what is the difference now? I do use coconutBattery to see my battery status, though. If you have an SSE2 processor on build 8F111 some things like the screensaver fail as the kernel in not 100% working. For the battery issue maybe the lack of some kexts for ACPI in 10.4.3 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5373-screensaver-prefpane-crashes-in-1043/#findComment-34150 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfn Posted December 5, 2005 Author Share Posted December 5, 2005 I neglected to mention that it's 8f1099 (patched with maxxuss' 1.1a). I did a clean install. Also, the OpenGL test in xBench crashes. Maybe that's related (didn't happen in 10.4.1). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5373-screensaver-prefpane-crashes-in-1043/#findComment-34156 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted December 5, 2005 Share Posted December 5, 2005 If you have ATI card move temporarily ATI kext out the /System/Library/Extensions, boot enter the screensaver pane modify your settings and bove back the kexts, reboot. EDIT: Did you try booting in Safe Mode and enter the secreensaver pane? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5373-screensaver-prefpane-crashes-in-1043/#findComment-34161 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfn Posted December 5, 2005 Author Share Posted December 5, 2005 Thanks for the tip. I moved the kext to my Documents folder and rebooted, and then was able to access the prefpane (using -F to boot). I then moved it back and tried to boot again, but the system won't boot now, even with -F or -x. Permissions? How should I fix this? Not sure what is wrong... but once I fix the problem, I imagine it will work fine. Maybe I can even use the prefpane now that the selection is on a picture folder instead of an OpenGL screensaver. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5373-screensaver-prefpane-crashes-in-1043/#findComment-34188 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted December 5, 2005 Share Posted December 5, 2005 Weird, what does it say with -v Any error/panic ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5373-screensaver-prefpane-crashes-in-1043/#findComment-34207 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfn Posted December 6, 2005 Author Share Posted December 6, 2005 (edited) Well, now it works without any boot options... weird. I don't know why. However, the screensaver doesn't run. Oh well. Anyone know of a pref file or something where it is set, so I could edit it manually? EDIT: Part of my problem was that my system won't boot in Safe Mode (using just "-x" at the command line). Kernel panic. Hmm.... Edited December 6, 2005 by jfn Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5373-screensaver-prefpane-crashes-in-1043/#findComment-34475 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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