Re: DVD on 500mhz G3 only? /Shocking list nanny Post

From: Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 20:50:22 -0400 On Aug 9, 2004, at 7:36 PM, Alejandro wrote: The Lombard has an ATI RAGE PRO LT not supported on OSX. There are OS X drivers for this card which make almost nothing. I'm sorry, but I have GOT to step in here. Alejan

Re: DVD on 500mhz G3 Only?

All PBs from Pismo on have mpeg playback hardware as part of their ATI graphics subsystems. Hey Dan. Thanks kind of a stretch, wouldn't you say? Those graphics systems don't have dedicated hardware for decoding MPEG-2. Rather, they have enough horsepower and a few extensions that lend themselve

Re: DVD on 500mhz G3 Only?

My lombard will not run osx for more than an hour. Other than that it is fine. allen Alejandro wrote: "If it disappoints you that your Lombard isn't supported, buy a newer laptop!" If you believe that money grows from trees You are one of these who be

Re: classic problems in OSX

on 09/08/04 19:19, mmanion mmanion at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Powerbook G4/867 - 10.2.3 > Suddenly, Acrobat Reader, Explorer, Netscape, ICQ, all unexpectedly quit. > Other software appears to be ok, but I haven't tried everythig. Crash logs for > each program start with EXC Bad Access - Kern in

Re: DVD on 500mhz G3 Only?

"If it disappoints you that your Lombard isn't supported, buy a newer laptop!" If you believe that money grows from trees You are one of these who believes that you are lucky because Apple is still able to sell you Software. As I can see you should check your head. "Alejandro, SHUT UP!" I

Re: DVD on 500mhz G3 Only?

All PBs from Pismo on have mpeg playback hardware as part of their ATI graphics subsystems. The Lombard 400 (and some 333) have a: [quote] ZiVA PC DVD Decoder Some configurations have a built-in DVD decoder IC: a ZiVA-PC made by C-Cube Microsystems. The IC provides video support for a DVD drive i

Re: OS 10.3.5

Hi, how and why is this upgrade different from the others that we must do these procedures before the update? Thanks, Jim. On Aug 9, 2004, at 5:19 PM, Zoltan Batiz wrote: On Aug 9, 2004, at 4:52 PM, Aaron Willems wrote: I just installed OS 10.3.5. I've been running it for 2 hours now with no pr

Re: DVD on 500mhz G3 Only?

On Aug 9, 2004, at 7:36 PM, Alejandro wrote: The Lombard has an ATI RAGE PRO LT not supported on OSX. There are OS X drivers for this card which make almost nothing. I'm sorry, but I have GOT to step in here. Alejandro, SHUT UP! From the minute you joined this list you have been repeating this sam

Re: OS 10.3.5

On Aug 9, 2004, at 4:52 PM, Aaron Willems wrote: I just installed OS 10.3.5. I've been running it for 2 hours now with no problems. I give this advice to anyone who's planning on installing it. Be sure to boot off your Panther CD first, and repair the Boot Disk, followed by repairing disk permis

Re: OS 10.3.5

Since we are on the subject(somewhat,)can I update from 10.1.5 directly to panther? Or do I have to have Jaguar first? Michael --- Aaron Willems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Excellent advice. For those people who don't feel > comfortable in using the > terminal, following my advice will work just

Re: OS 10.3.5

Excellent advice. For those people who don't feel comfortable in using the terminal, following my advice will work just fine. -- Aaron Willems Network Administrator Lieberman Productions & Philo Television > One could do this from the command line like so: > > sudo diskutil repairPermissions /

Re: OS 10.3.5

Aaron, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >I just installed OS 10.3.5. I've been running it for 2 hours now with no >problems. I give this advice to anyone who's planning on installing it. Be >sure to boot off your Panther CD first, and repair the Boot Disk, followed >by repairing disk permissions. DO THIS B

Re: DVD Issue on Lombards.

Alejandro, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >You don't like to talk about problems you don't have. We can talk until we are blue in the face, but unless you and others take legal action Apple won't change anything with support for your model. We reached that insight weeks ago. As you have stated your probl

Re: OS 10.3.5

Thanks for the Advise. --- Aaron Willems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just installed OS 10.3.5. I've been running it for > 2 hours now with no > problems. I give this advice to anyone who's > planning on installing it. Be > sure to boot off your Panther CD first, and repair > the Boot Disk, fo

OS 10.3.5

I just installed OS 10.3.5. I've been running it for 2 hours now with no problems. I give this advice to anyone who's planning on installing it. Be sure to boot off your Panther CD first, and repair the Boot Disk, followed by repairing disk permissions. DO THIS BEFORE YOU INSTALL THE UPDATE! After

Re: DVD Issue on Lombards.

Mikael, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >Most likely you checked the Mplayer 0.1 and not the Mplayer 2 betas. I >only had great success with beta 4 and 7 (current is 8, but I haven't >tried it yet). I missed to point out that these are 2 DIFFERENT applications, at least on Mac OS X. That's why they have

Re: DVD on 500mhz G3 Only?

Alejandro, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >The Lombard has an ATI RAGE PRO LT not supported on >OSX. >There are OS X drivers for this card which make almost >nothing. Will you please stop repeating this? While correct, you have said the same thing over and over. We were discussing also other sub 500 Mhz

Re: DVD Issue on Lombards.

"I don't care what Apple do as long as I can watch DVDs, MPG4s and S-VCD titles." I do. You don't have that problem, so I understand you don't care. If I'm egocentered, I believe you are too. You don't like to talk about problems you don't have. Instead of taking legal actions, I made a different

Re: DVD on 500mhz G3 Only?

The Lombard has an ATI RAGE PRO LT not supported on OSX. There are OS X drivers for this card which make almost nothing. --- Mikael Byström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alejandro, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > >Yes, but there's some help from the ATI Rage 128. > > There's more help than some. >

Re: DVDdecoding on Titanium 'books (was "Re: DVD Issue on Lombards")

Mikael, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >Dan, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > >>Pismo's (and 400 Lombard's) ATI display hardware _does_ include a >>built-in hardware DVD decoder. > >What about the Titanium Powerbooks? I found a clue: "The RAGE Mobility 128 provides remarkable multimedia functionality, all in

Re: DVD Issue on Lombards.

Alejandro, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >I didn't check Mplayer, because 99% of the comments >said "Non Working" (from Version Tracker). Most likely you checked the Mplayer 0.1 and not the Mplayer 2 betas. I only had great success with beta 4 and 7 (current is 8, but I haven't tried it yet). Mplayer 2

Re: DVD on 500mhz G3 Only?

Alejandro, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >Yes, but there's some help from the ATI Rage 128. There's more help than some. Now, guess what graphics card is in the iBook 366 (Blue & Lime)? The linked article is from the 27th of Sept 2000 and according to everymac the iBook 366 was released on the 13th of

classic problems in OSX

Powerbook G4/867 - 10.2.3 Suddenly, Acrobat Reader, Explorer, Netscape, ICQ, all unexpectedly quit. Other software appears to be ok, but I haven't tried everythig. Crash logs for each program start with EXC Bad Access - Kern invalid address. Things worked fine until I installed a music program c

Re: DVD Issue on Lombards.

"Well, the iBook 366 *CAN*." If you believe that only the G3 processor counts, do the following: Boot on OS 9 and from System/Libary/Extensions, move all the ATI files to another place. Boot on OS X and check "Full Screen" with any Application (mplayer, QuickTime or another). When placing the E

Re: DVD Issue on Lombards.

"Well, the iBook 366 *CAN*." Well, the ibook 366 has an ATI RAGE 128 wich IS SUPPORTED by OS X. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- G-Books is sponsored by

Re: DVD on 500mhz G3 Only?

--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Well, on OS 9 the Lombard can too, but using the > Video > > Card. > > On OS X and with the ATI card unsupported at all, > a G3 > > 400 can't do that. > > Absolutely untrue...Pismo 400's play DVD's fine > without hardware decoding in > 9 or X, as do last edit

Re: DVD on 500mhz G3 Only?

To clarify: the 333MHz Lombard (1999), like the WallStreets (1998), came with a CD-only drive, and requires a PC card to play DVDs, but its big brother, the 400MHz Lombard, has the video circuitry built-in on the motherboard, and comes with a DVD drive, as do both Pismo models (400 & 500MHz). T

Re: ...struck by lightning...

Hi All, this is all well and good, but when I get to the install phase, there is NO LOCATION to install, which means I must partition the drive and wipe out all of my files. I can boot to the system CD, but there is no hard drive available. Thanks, Jim. On Aug 8, 2004, at 12:28 PM, Dylan Moore

DVD on 500mhz G3 Only?

> Well, on OS 9 the Lombard can too, but using the Video > Card. > On OS X and with the ATI card unsupported at all, a G3 > 400 can't do that. Absolutely untrue...Pismo 400's play DVD's fine without hardware decoding in 9 or X, as do last editions of the clamshells (under 400), as do 400mhz and

Re: Lombard DVD drive won't stay shut

There aren't replace parts for that Drive. The only way is to buy a non working one (wich can't see discs at all, a normal problem) and replace the mechanism. An Apple service will replace the entire part and it will be really expensive. --- Andrew Main <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a Lom

Re: DVD Issue on Lombards.

>On OS X and with the ATI card unsupported at all, a G3 >400 can't do that. "Well, the iBook 366 *CAN*. I did it myself 2 years ago. Some frames may have to be dropped, but there was no jerky movement and looked quite good. I was using Mplayer 2 beta4 at the time I think. Mplayer is *much* faster

Re: wireless settings?

On 09/08/04 10:55, "Amy Kim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all: > > I recently added a Powerbook G4 1ghz with airport extreme to my > wireless network. the only computer on the network previously was an > IBM thinkpad, which i didn't need to alter any settings for at all--it > just worked from

wireless settings?

Hi all: I recently added a Powerbook G4 1ghz with airport extreme to my wireless network. the only computer on the network previously was an IBM thinkpad, which i didn't need to alter any settings for at all--it just worked from teh minute I plugged in the netgear router. however, the pow

Re: Adding printer to a Pismo 10.3.4

On 09/08/04 10:27, "Pauline Turtle-Bear Guillermo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> on 08/08/04 22:49, K at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> Greetings Lista's, >>> I am running 10.3.4 on a Pismo and am trying to add a PLW NTR >>> printer to the system via an Asante bridge that I just got...I have >

Re: Adding printer to a Pismo 10.3.4

on 08/08/04 22:49, K at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings Lista's, I am running 10.3.4 on a Pismo and am trying to add a PLW NTR printer to the system via an Asante bridge that I just got...I have the unit hooked up according to the directions but have absolutely no idea how to add the NTR as a

USB burner problem

Any ideas here: I'm trying to add a LaCie USB disc burner to my wife's original clamshell iBook running OS9.2. It shows up in System Profiler, but Toast 5 does not see it. I think I have turned off the right authoring extensions. It works fine with my TiBook running the same system. -- G-Bo

Lombard DVD drive won't stay shut

I have a Lombard DVD drive that won't close. It works okay if I hold it closed, but it won't stay closed on its own; whatever latching mechanism does this is not working. I've taken it apart, but can't figure out where the latching mechanism is / how it works. The label says Apple DVD-ROM, Mats

Re: DVD Issue on Lombards.

Andrew, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >You need to set the external screen to be the primary screen. Well, where can you see what is the primary screen? I see nothing in screen prefs nor in DVD player. The help for DVD player say *you can* watch movies on a TV, but gives no direct info on how to set th

Re: DVD Issue on Lombards.

Alejandro, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >On OS X and with the ATI card unsupported at all, a G3 >400 can't do that. Well, the iBook 366 *CAN*. I did it myself 2 years ago. Some frames may have to be dropped, but there was no jerky movement and looked quite good. I was using Mplayer 2 beta4 at the time

Re: DVD Issue on Lombards.

>Since the overlay effectively bypasses the video card, if you take the screenshot (or put it on desktop), you only end up with the pixels in the strange colour. But why would this be the case for PLAYING THE DVD on an external screen, likew a TV ( via S-Video)? That's a different issue. You nee