mancat Posted October 8, 2007 Share Posted October 8, 2007 10.4.10 /w semthex 8.8.1 kernel. This is a Dell Optiplex GX280, Intel 915. Everything works great, everything is stable. BUT... Every game emulator that I have completely locks the system up when attempting to start! From what I can tell at this point, it seems to be related to USB devices. I can use Nestopia if I DON'T load Emulator Enhancer, which adds USB game pad support to Nestopia. Once I try to load the USB support, the system locks up so hard that I don't even get a kernel panic. Tried to trace the process via terminal by running Nestopia binary directly under ktrace, but all I got was a zero output ktrace dump file. Is there any other process tracing tool for OS X? Can't seem to google any. The game pad used to work perfectly under 10.4.8 once upon a time, but since then I've reinstalled 10.4.8 and then updated it to 10.4.10 using the incremental updates. I even tried reinstalling the extensions for IOUSBFamily.kext from 10.4.8, but the old kext didn't work any better. Yes, I did repair permissions and deleted the kext cache files before restarting.The odd thing is that System Profiler, and every other thing that probes the USB game pads? They cause no lockup, and have no trouble seeing either of the game pads. So... ANY IDEA WHAT GIVES? This doesn't really seem like the kind of hardware issue that would cause a hard lockup. EDIT: Confirmed it. I ran "Joystick and Gamepad Tester" utility, and the machine instantly locked up. Basically, it comes down to knowing what tool to use so that I can trace system activity up to the point where it locks up. Console/system logs haven't helped. I haven't been able to trace any of these processes successfully. I just don't know OS X debugging tools all that well.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/65781-game-emulators-freezeup/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
mancat Posted October 14, 2007 Author Share Posted October 14, 2007 Nobody has any idea? I can't use any gamepad device. It's getting pretty frustrating This never happened with 10.4.8, even with the same kernel. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/65781-game-emulators-freezeup/#findComment-470765 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lactobacillus P Posted October 14, 2007 Share Posted October 14, 2007 What emulators have you tried? If you use Richards emulators perhaps you don't have true CI and QE support as these emulators and other game software use this to output graphics. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/65781-game-emulators-freezeup/#findComment-470771 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjnnz Posted October 14, 2007 Share Posted October 14, 2007 Haha.. same exact scenario happened to me. I just use Windows / Linux now to play my NES / SNES emulators. Let me know if you find a solution. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/65781-game-emulators-freezeup/#findComment-471017 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mancat Posted October 15, 2007 Author Share Posted October 15, 2007 I have CI/QE working perfectly. Every piece of hardware on this system works perfectly. It's just this one little bug. I don't know what else to say. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/65781-game-emulators-freezeup/#findComment-471377 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeSuKuN Posted October 15, 2007 Share Posted October 15, 2007 Use another kernel, that solved it for me, I also had this problem. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/65781-game-emulators-freezeup/#findComment-471417 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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