Macintosh Misery.
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ceagleOkay, I finally did it. :|
After putting it off and hoping for help and solutions that I knew were out there somewhere, I reluctantly listened to the nudges of "just reinstall the OS to fix it" , to get my system 9 driver problems fixed.
And so now... it has fixed nothing, ...but I have to face the additional drudgery of manually fixing all my settings to what they were. -_-
Thank goodness for backups. I've gone down the high-hopes road before with Mac.
Yes it broke my desktop.
It broke my printers.
It broke my internet connection.
And who knows what else... *huge weary sigh*
And *still* it didn't solve the problem of drivers that can recognize the fact that I have only one monitor, and that I would like to use graphics programs, and put the machine to sleep instead of turn it off. I can do none of these, and reinstalling the OS did not fix it.
Yes, I use system X. Yes I am a part of the converted crowd.
But after using something (pre-system X) for some 15 years *because* of its appeal, I don't understand the widespread urge to diss it altogether just because something new comes along. Can't they exist together? They do exist together, and I don't see anything wrong with liking my Classic programs.
Eudora Pro, ...fast and text-based, effectively stopping spam and junkmail images that are unwelcome.
Muddweller, ...clean and capable and fast.
And so many other programs.
So yes I use system X.
But it is so disheartening that hardly anyone really cares about system 9 ... and trying to get it to work right. Guess ya really can't blame 'em. Still, it'd be nice if the simple answers to fix it, were easy to find... :/
After putting it off and hoping for help and solutions that I knew were out there somewhere, I reluctantly listened to the nudges of "just reinstall the OS to fix it" , to get my system 9 driver problems fixed.
And so now... it has fixed nothing, ...but I have to face the additional drudgery of manually fixing all my settings to what they were. -_-
Thank goodness for backups. I've gone down the high-hopes road before with Mac.
Yes it broke my desktop.
It broke my printers.
It broke my internet connection.
And who knows what else... *huge weary sigh*
And *still* it didn't solve the problem of drivers that can recognize the fact that I have only one monitor, and that I would like to use graphics programs, and put the machine to sleep instead of turn it off. I can do none of these, and reinstalling the OS did not fix it.
Yes, I use system X. Yes I am a part of the converted crowd.
But after using something (pre-system X) for some 15 years *because* of its appeal, I don't understand the widespread urge to diss it altogether just because something new comes along. Can't they exist together? They do exist together, and I don't see anything wrong with liking my Classic programs.
Eudora Pro, ...fast and text-based, effectively stopping spam and junkmail images that are unwelcome.
Muddweller, ...clean and capable and fast.
And so many other programs.
So yes I use system X.
But it is so disheartening that hardly anyone really cares about system 9 ... and trying to get it to work right. Guess ya really can't blame 'em. Still, it'd be nice if the simple answers to fix it, were easy to find... :/
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that would be beautiful ^V^
Date: 2007-01-29 08:53 am (UTC)It probably needs to be from the classic system folder of someone who ran a startup version of classic on a Powerbook G4, 800mhz.
My previous machine was a 667mhz, and although it reputedly had the same or very similar ATI card in it, the screen is slightly larger (old screen I think was 1154x768 and new one is 1280x854), the drivers that were in the system folder extensions did not work properly, ...or maybe the version of "Monitors", or .. well, it seems like it would be the ATI drivers...
Who knows, maybe there is even a system 9 installer disk that can work, but the ones I was graciously given did not work, unfortunately... so that's why I'd like to try the individual components.
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Date: 2007-01-30 09:31 pm (UTC)Jus' so ya know, I installed the "RADEON-0210.hqx" one, so if it's that, it didn't help... but another one might.. I dunno... still getting a big "X" over the "ATI Graphics Accelerator" extension at startup, which is what's been happening all along, so there may be an extension conflict also, ...dunnos. :|