Re: AlBook & Wacom Graphire @ startup ???

2004-11-27 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Friday, November 26, 2004, at 07:17 AM, John McGibney wrote: I have a USB 2 mini hard drive that needs 2 USB connections to work on my TiBook, yet works with ony one on my G4 tower. It has a special cable just for this. So THAT'S what that weird cable is for with my USB drive enclosure! Pinky,

Re: AlBook & Wacom Graphire @ startup ???

2004-11-26 Thread Larry le Mac
From: David Lesher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OSX seems better; at least when my KB vanishes, I unplug, one-potato, two-potato, restore, and it rediscovers. It is with OS X.3 I haven't tried unpluggung, but I don't think unplugging something regularly for the sake of resetting something does a lot for t

Re: AlBook & Wacom Graphire @ startup ???

2004-11-26 Thread Larry le Mac
From: John McGibney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In general USB ports on powerbooks are underpowered. It may not put out enough power to power the tablet. Thus on waking it doesn't always give it enough juice to ID the tablet. When you restart, USB items are checked later in the process (after drive spinu

Re: AlBook & Wacom Graphire @ startup ???

2004-11-26 Thread John McGibney
> -Original Message- > From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David > Lesher > Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 09:39 > To: G-Books > Subject: Re: AlBook & Wacom Graphire @ startup ??? > > I'm hardpressed to believe this, as the USB driver

Re: AlBook & Wacom Graphire @ startup ???

2004-11-26 Thread John C. Swanson
-Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Lesher Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 09:39 To: G-Books Subject: Re: AlBook & Wacom Graphire @ startup ??? I'm hardpressed to believe this, as the USB driver chip controls the current, and Apple h

Re: AlBook & Wacom Graphire @ startup ???

2004-11-26 Thread David Lesher
John McGibney wrote: In general USB ports on powerbooks are underpowered. It may not put out enough power to power the tablet. Thus on waking it doesn't always give it enough juice to ID the tablet. When you restart, USB items are checked later in the process (after drive spinup) so more power is a

Re: AlBook & Wacom Graphire @ startup ???

2004-11-26 Thread John McGibney
In general USB ports on powerbooks are underpowered. It may not put out enough power to power the tablet. Thus on waking it doesn't always give it enough juice to ID the tablet. When you restart, USB items are checked later in the process (after drive spinup) so more power is available to USB items

AlBook & Wacom Graphire @ startup ???

2004-11-25 Thread Larry le Mac
I have an AlBook (1GHz) with a Wacom Graphire II here at work and some days when I come in and switch it on the graphics tablet doesn't work forcing me to restart. How come it sometimes works and sometimes doesn't even though everything is left plugged in and unchanged ??? It's a USB device plugge