Re: New G4 user - many questions

2011-01-02 Thread Geke
Hi Greg, I also think 10.4.11 is the best OS to use on this Mac, as long as you don’t need stuff included in Leopard of course. It’s certainly the fastest. RAM: it seems to have 512+128. I really recommend buying at least one more 512. But be careful: many modules offered are so-called high-

iChat and YouTube on a G4 Cube

2011-01-02 Thread John Carmonne
I seem to have run into a bottle neck on my Cube 1.2GHz 1.5 GB RAM in that I can't get a YouTube to play smooth and iChat is out of sync on the sound along with very jumpy video. My G4 MDD 1.25 is 100 % better than the Cube. Can this be a Bus speed issue the Cube is 100 and the MDD is 167.

Re: New G4 user - many questions

2011-01-02 Thread Greg Kennedy
After some more time of thinking about it, I'm considering going with a really crazy solution and using 9.2.3 on the machine + Logic 6.4.3 + Pro Tools Free (if I can find it) + Finale 2003. Way outdated software but it's more than enough for our needs, and won't require any more hardware to be

PPC kext repository?

2011-01-02 Thread turn
There seems to be a lot of Intel kext development going on in the hackintosh community. Does anyone know of *any* open source or other public domain or publicly available kext PPC development? If drive source code is available how difficult it PPC kext development? I am mostly thinking about

Re: iChat and YouTube on a G4 Cube

2011-01-02 Thread Dan
At 11:24 AM -0800 1/2/2011, John Carmonne wrote: I seem to have run into a bottle neck on my Cube 1.2GHz 1.5 GB RAM in that I can't get a YouTube to play smooth and iChat is out of sync on the sound along with very jumpy video. My G4 MDD 1.25 is 100 % better than the Cube. Can this be a Bus

Couple of G4 dig. Audio Issues

2011-01-02 Thread DLC
Greetings all, I hope these are a couple of easy issues. I gave a G4 Dig. Audio to a mac newbie, and he has been having a couple of questions. Here is a quote from his latest response: Hey, Thanks for the reply and happy new year as well. I looked into the locking issue. I found that if you press

Re: New G4 user - many questions

2011-01-02 Thread John Carmonne
On Jan 2, 2011, at 12:54 PM, Greg Kennedy wrote: After some more time of thinking about it, I'm considering going with a really crazy solution and using 9.2.3 on the machine + Logic 6.4.3 + Pro Tools Free (if I can find it) + Finale 2003. Way outdated software but it's more than enough

Re: iChat and YouTube on a G4 Cube

2011-01-02 Thread John Carmonne
On Jan 2, 2011, at 1:10 PM, Dan wrote: At 11:24 AM -0800 1/2/2011, John Carmonne wrote: I seem to have run into a bottle neck on my Cube 1.2GHz 1.5 GB RAM in that I can't get a YouTube to play smooth and iChat is out of sync on the sound along with very jumpy video. My G4 MDD 1.25 is 100

No Valid Packages Error ???

2011-01-02 Thread Cliff Rediger
My father-in-law, George (94 years young), has this PPCG4 tower I guess you call it, running 10.4.11. It's quite slow (to my sensibility) and he regularly has things fail to open or other troublesome stuff that is frequently solved by re- booting, which of course he forgets to do. Anyway, I'm

Re: No Valid Packages Error ???

2011-01-02 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 2, 2011, at 7:47 PM, Cliff Rediger wrote: I get an error message informing me that First Aid Failed! Disk Utility stopped repairing permissions on HD because the following error: No Valid Packages I told George that he had no valid packages, and he agreed, but we'd still like to have his

G4 dual boot flat screen iMac won't boot into OS 9

2011-01-02 Thread Jane, (Portland, OR)
I have a G4 flat screen iMac (the kind with the half ball on the bottom) that is supposed to boot into OS 9 and X. I am running 10.4.11. I tried booting into 9 and it won't do it. Classic will run OK, though. Somehow it is screwed up somewhere. I need to boot up in 9 to retrieve some stuff off of

Re: G4 dual boot flat screen iMac won't boot into OS 9

2011-01-02 Thread Daggett Ken
On 2 Jan 2011, at 21:01:51 PST, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: I have a G4 flat screen iMac (the kind with the half ball on the bottom) that is supposed to boot into OS 9 and X. I am running 10.4.11. I tried booting into 9 and it won't do it. Classic will run OK, though. Somehow it is screwed up

Re: G4 dual boot flat screen iMac won't boot into OS 9

2011-01-02 Thread John Carmonne
On Jan 2, 2011, at 9:01 PM, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: I have a G4 flat screen iMac (the kind with the half ball on the bottom) that is supposed to boot into OS 9 and X. I am running 10.4.11. I tried booting into 9 and it won't do it. Classic will run OK, though. Somehow it is screwed up

Re: G4 dual boot flat screen iMac won't boot into OS 9

2011-01-02 Thread John Carmonne
On Jan 2, 2011, at 9:01 PM, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: I have a G4 flat screen iMac (the kind with the half ball on the bottom) that is supposed to boot into OS 9 and X. I am running 10.4.11. I tried booting into 9 and it won't do it. Classic will run OK, though. Somehow it is screwed up

Re: G4 dual boot flat screen iMac won't boot into OS 9

2011-01-02 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 2, 2011, at 11:01 PM, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: I need to boot up in 9 to retrieve some stuff off of a floppy disk. This makes no sense. There is no floppy disc drive in any G4 iMac, and any external USB floppy disc drive works in OS X, not OS 9. This means you don't need to boot