Escape311 Posted February 4, 2006 Share Posted February 4, 2006 When I first installed OSX, you could access the screensaver section just fine. They were however a little sluggish. But now(after no major changes) I can't get to them at all. I just get an error that says "The application System Preferences quit unexpectedly". I also get crashes anytime I try to watch a video in Quicktime or iTunes. Is this somehow related to my video card drivers? I just installed Jas' Ati.kext which seemed to make a bit of a difference in speed but still can't watch videos or access screensavers. Anybody know? My specs are: AMD Athlon 64 2800+ Giga-byte K8M800M 768MB ram 40GB hdd ATI Radeon 9000 Pro AGP 128MB You can see my graphics configuration here. I DO have an nVidia Geforce4 MX440 and an MX420 I could try. Do you think it would make a difference? Thanks in advance. Jeff Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8465-quicktimescreensaver-crashes/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escape311 Posted February 5, 2006 Author Share Posted February 5, 2006 UPDATE: I swaped graphics cards with an nVidia Geforce MX420 and still have the same problem. I've gone through the instructions at macvidia to install the NVidia.kext but cannot get it to load at all. I can however open the screensaver pane now but the "flurry" screensaver is what crashes the pane when I try to select it. Also if I choose one of the other simple screensavers, it will initialize the screensaver but never actually change images. Very strange. I heard there is some good news coming from macvidia soon. Does anybody know if perhaps it's sme good working drivers? By the way, I guess I should say I have Mac OSX x86 10.4.3 installed. Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8465-quicktimescreensaver-crashes/#findComment-52828 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Druid Posted February 7, 2006 Share Posted February 7, 2006 Hi, have you ran "sudo periodic daily weekly monthly" from terminal, I am still usin 10.4.1 myself, I had about the same issue awhile back, can't remember if that's what fixed it, I have been havin some issues with mail locking up when I try to write and a few other probs that have about made me want to smash this sucker recently, ran the chron scripts last night and it seemed to help, this machine is on 24/7, I dunno why I have to manually run them, but if it doesnt get done, it just turns to {censored}, might help your problem, I dunno Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8465-quicktimescreensaver-crashes/#findComment-53867 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escape311 Posted February 8, 2006 Author Share Posted February 8, 2006 No I haven't run that yet. What does that do? I don't think I've ever heard of it. The screensaver issue is kind of strange. It is now actually working but, after about 5 minutes of the screensaver being on, it freezes. So far video playback is better too. I did downlaod the lastest Quicktime too so I don't know if that made a difference or not. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8465-quicktimescreensaver-crashes/#findComment-54081 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escape311 Posted February 8, 2006 Author Share Posted February 8, 2006 Ok, I may have found the reasoning behind the screensaver working for a whie then freezing. I downloaded a program called Xupport from Apple's website; under the settings tab there is a sub tab called disk; under disk it shows a few various settings. One of which is disk spin-down time. There is a slider there for adjustment which is set at 10 minutes. Unfortunatly, the slider is locked so I can't change it. Would I be able to boot into safe mode and change this setting? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8465-quicktimescreensaver-crashes/#findComment-54121 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tek_No Posted February 8, 2006 Share Posted February 8, 2006 The fact that your ScreenSaver Preferences panel is crashing is a result of loading the ATI kexts for your Radeon 9000: goto /System/Library/Extensions and move the ATIRadeon*.kext files to another location (e.g. DeskTop). Run a Repair Disk Permissions and reboot... The ScreenSaver Preferences panel should now be displaying correctly As our Radeon 9000 is currently not being supported there is no real or any benefit of loading the kexts for it... Maybe one day whenever the ATI driver has been released (including frame buffering and pixelclock calculations) we will be able to use our Radeon 9000 on OsX86 as well... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8465-quicktimescreensaver-crashes/#findComment-54149 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escape311 Posted February 8, 2006 Author Share Posted February 8, 2006 Yeah what I ended up doing actually is using my old GeForce 4 MX420 card which doesn't even get a kext loaded for it, but it works much better. The Radeon 9000 gets the Radeon8500.kext loaded for it and it just never ran right. I would prefer to use my Radeon but like you said, until it's supported..... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8465-quicktimescreensaver-crashes/#findComment-54266 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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