Re: DVD in OS X on a Lombard (How-To)
Hmm, I also forgot to mention that the instructions should also work on G4 upgraded Wallstreet machines. I would love to hear from anyone who would like to try this on a Lombard or Wallstreet that has a G4 in it. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: DVD in OS X on a Lombard (How-To)
-Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Thayer Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 6:31 PM To: G-Books Subject: Re: DVD in OS X on a Lombard (How-To) Hmm, I also forgot to mention that the instructions should also work on G4 upgraded Wallstreet machines. I have followed your lead and have a wallstreet II with a G4 Blue Chip 500 mhz installed, along with OSX 10.2.6. I have also hacked the Plist.Info per Accelerate Your Mac to add Device ID 0x4c501002 to the line of hardware identifiers. With and Without the Zoom card in the wallstreet the DVD player will launch, the screen will darken for a count of 2, then return with message that the DVD player has unexpectedly quit. This hardware, the dvd drive and the pc card work under OS 9.2.2. any thoughts? Thanks for the inspiration. I am trying to remember where the Dmessage log is under OSX. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: DVD in OS X on a Lombard (How-To)
On Sunday, August 24, 2003, at 02:22 AM, Tom Peterson wrote: -Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Thayer Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 6:31 PM To: G-Books Subject: Re: DVD in OS X on a Lombard (How-To) Hmm, I also forgot to mention that the instructions should also work on G4 upgraded Wallstreet machines. I have followed your lead and have a wallstreet II with a G4 Blue Chip 500 mhz installed, along with OSX 10.2.6. I have also hacked the Plist.Info per Accelerate Your Mac to add Device ID 0x4c501002 to the line of hardware identifiers. With and Without the Zoom card in the wallstreet the DVD player will launch, the screen will darken for a count of 2, then return with message that the DVD player has unexpectedly quit. This hardware, the dvd drive and the pc card work under OS 9.2.2. any thoughts? Thanks for the inspiration. I am trying to remember where the Dmessage log is under OSX. Hmm, well, the G4 hack should remove the need to use the DVD card, since the Altivec decoder uses the CPU for DVD decoding. For debug messages from apps (that spew to a console)... you can watch it using /Applications/Utilities/Console.app Or you can look in ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/DVD Player.crash.log (~ is your home directory) The reason why Lombard/Wallstreet machines don't work under OS X while they did under OS 9 is that they tied the DVD decoder bundles to the graphics card drivers. The RageProLT couldn't do DVD, and apparently Apple never finished the OpenGL drivers for the RageProLT either. See what those two sources give you in the way of information. (You can send me a personal e-mail with the crash log attached, that would help a lot) -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: DVD in OS X on a Lombard (How-To)
On Sunday, August 24, 2003, at 08:57 AM, Adam Thayer wrote: On Sunday, August 24, 2003, at 02:22 AM, Tom Peterson wrote: -Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Thayer Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 6:31 PM To: G-Books Subject: Re: DVD in OS X on a Lombard (How-To) Hmm, I also forgot to mention that the instructions should also work on G4 upgraded Wallstreet machines. I have followed your lead and have a wallstreet II with a G4 Blue Chip 500 mhz installed, along with OSX 10.2.6. I have also hacked the Plist.Info per Accelerate Your Mac to add Device ID 0x4c501002 to the line of hardware identifiers. Oh another thing... 3.0.1 and later (10.2 comes with 3.2) doesn't seem to need that hack. Where did you go to hack the hardware identifiers? The binary itself? -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
DVD in OS X on a Lombard (How-To)
This is my first post to the G-Books list, so I figured I might as well contribute some interesting information to the list... how to use Apple's DVD player in OS X with a Lombard (With a string attached!). Now before you get your hopes up, there is a catch: You must be using a G4 upgrade in your Lombard. This how-to relies on using Apple's Altivec DVD decoder bundle to enable proper playback. I am also assuming you have 10.2 available, and upgraded to at least 10.2.4 (where Apple added the Graphics Accelerator plug-in for the RagePro chipsets). STEP 1 - Edit the RagePro kext to recognize the Altivec DVD Driver... -- This is the first tricky part. open up a terminal window and enter the following commands: cd /System/Library/Extensions/ATIRagePro.kext/Contents sudo pico Info.plist (It will ask you for your admin password at this point) (pico is a simple text editor we will use to modify the information about your graphics card drivers) Hit Control-W, and type 'IOGLBundleName' and hit enter, it will search the file for that text and bring us to where we need to be... you should see these four lines: keyIOGLBundleName/key stringATIRageProGLDriver/string keyIOMatchCategory/key stringIOAccelerator/string Now... between the second and third lines, add these two lines: keyIODVDBundleName/key stringAppleAltiVecDVDDriver/string So that you get this: keyIOGLBundleName/key stringATIRageProGLDriver/string keyIODVDBundleName/key stringAppleAltiVecDVDDriver/string keyIOMatchCategory/key stringIOAccelerator/string Now hit Control-X and then 'Y' to exit and save the changes you made. Your ATIRagePro driver can now tell Apple's DVD player how to play DVDs on your machine... (I find it interesting that the driver references an OpenGL driver that isn't there... maybe Apple had intended to give OpenGL support or has some on low-priority in the works?) STEP 2 - Install DVD Player -- The tricky part is getting DVD Player to install and work now... Download Pacifist from www.macupdate.com, and pop in your Jaguar Disc 1. In the Essentials.pkg package is the 3.2 DVD player, and you should be able to just have Pacifist install it for you. Once this is done, reboot and you should be able to play DVDs on a G4-upgraded Lombard under 10.2... If there are any errors or steps I missed or left out, contact me and we will get it all sorted out. I have yet to get a G4 Lombard to test this on, but if 3.2 works the way people have been reporting, this should work. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
