Mac OS X 10.2.8 Update

[Stelliform]

Originally posted by shadowfax
dammit!

dammit dammit dammit!

... i have almost 40 days of uptime. i swear i am not applying this till i hit 40 tomorrow afternoon. sheesh!

That is what we like to see, a person with their priorities in order. 😛 😉

 

[Nermal]

My iBook still kernel panics when I try to connect (via Samba) to my brother's XP machine. You just can't trust XP 🙄

 

[optijaz]

Have installed 10.2.8 on a 600mhz/ 384MB RAM/ ibook with some points to note:

1. When installing did a "download to desktop" of the update which had an error however when retried continued downloading from where it stopped.

2. After rebooting desktop icons had changed to non default program although opened fine however, a second reboot fixed that.

3. Also as others have noted battery power seems to have shortened from 3:30 to 2:00 hr.

4. However a problem that I had of volume jumping around when adjusting it has now become very steady and stable.

5. Boot time is quicker.

The system feels generally more stable. Shame about the battery loss tho.

 

[pilotgi]

So far, so good on my 800Mhz iBook. My airport settings reverted back to "no network selected". Other than that, I haven't found any problems. Battery life appears to be unaffected, dock is still transparent.

 

[kallykalifornia]

12" iBook fan and update

I just installed the update and rebooted to find my fan spinning as if the machine had been sitting buried in my covers and in the direct sunlight for four hours.... I shut down and gave it a break.... but the fan was still going when I restarted. Finally I disconnected the power adaptor and the fan stopped. I just reconnected it and so far so good.

I saw someone else posted that their 12" iBook restarted with the fan on (and unlike mine in sleep mode refusing to wake up.)

Anyone else noticing this? Anyone have any ideas if this is an issue or just a temporary bug?

Kal

 

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by Stelliform
That is what we like to see, a person with their priorities in order. 😛 😉

yeah... i have 3 big tests this week, and i spent the afternoon playing with my aunt's dog... you can't really blame me though, when you see the little twerp...

 

[KLFloyd]

Originally posted by e-coli
It messed up my "Transparent Dock" hack.

I really can't stand that ridiculous white dock background. It's way too noisy. An element that definitely doesn't need to be there.

I'm using Unsanity's free "Clear Dock" and haven't had any trouble with the upate. So far so good.

 

[Alte22a]

Just installed the update on my dual G4, works really well with my Lacie DVD writer, just burnt a disc, very happy 😀

Is it me or is OSX 10.2.8 running quite smooth?

 

[reckless_0001]

The fan on my Dual 1.25 G4 PowerMac (FW800) seems to be alot quieter. Is it just me?

10.2.8 is running so smooth on my PowerMacs. The only one it seems to be slow on is my computer with the CPU upgrade.

 

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by Alte22a
Is it me or is OSX 10.2.8 running quite smooth?

speaking without experience, yet, it is only logical that there would be tasty improvements. i mean, after all, this is .0.2 changes up from our previous 10.2.6...

i would hope, after waiting so long for an update, that they got a lot more ironed out 🙂

 

[ARKHAM]

Re: Grrr....I knew I shoulda waited

I, too, installed 10.2.8 and found that my Revolution 7.1 PCI card is totally gone.

Any suggestion on how to get it back?

Originally posted by Trinity570
Now that I've installed 10.2.8, I'm realizing I should have read a few more posts and waited. My Revolution 7.1 PCI card doesn't work anymore and my second internal HD is hosed. "Invalid number of allocation blocks" is the error I get. Thanks to Micromat, I don't have TechTool Pro to address the problem!!! (But that's a whole other can o' worms). Drive 10 won't fix it and neither will Disk Utilities. I have 60 GB of video files for my church sitting on there that I can't get to. I don't know if the update did it or not, but all I know is that it worked before I installed the update and now it doesn't.

 

[alset]

Wrecked my icons. Files like .rtf and .asf are generic blank pages.

Haven't noticed anything else, yet.

Dan

edit: scrolling long lists of files seems to be smoother

 

[bokdol]

Originally posted by reckless_0001
10.2.8 is running so smooth on my PowerMacs. The only one it seems to be slow on is my computer with the CPU upgrade.

what upgrades did you have?

 

[greenstork]

Originally posted by Nermal
My iBook still kernel panics when I try to connect (via Samba) to my brother's XP machine. You just can't trust XP 🙄

It's probably some sort of firewall he has on XP. I had the same probelm with a friend's PC.

 

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by greenstork
It's probably some sort of firewall he has on XP. I had the same probelm with a friend's PC.

no, this samba thing is actually a jag issue... the server mounts aren't supposed to be so dependent on the stability of the server. i have actually frozen my tibook by cutting off the connection with another mac unexpectedly. this should not happen; i suspect they will fix it in panther.

 

[Alte22a]

the update is running smooth but talking about blan icons, mu M$ word icons have gone blank, but only my M$ icons on my desktop only...... Is apple saying something? 😀

 

[rog]

I for one don't believe this rumor for a second.

 

[mxpiazza]

Originally posted by rog
I for one don't believe this rumor for a second.

what are you talking about...

 

[EMKoper]

iSight is iStopped

After upgrade, PowerMac G4, DP won't recognize iSight. Anyone else with this problem?

 

[Alte22a]

just test my isightm works fine..😎

 

[Stelliform]

Originally posted by shadowfax
no, this samba thing is actually a jag issue... the server mounts aren't supposed to be so dependent on the stability of the server. i have actually frozen my tibook by cutting off the connection with another mac unexpectedly. this should not happen; i suspect they will fix it in panther.

I have had this problem a lot in Jag. When I go to offices I will connect and then forget to disconnect. When I wake my laptop up, without the last network connection, it will take the finder a good 10 minutes to recover.

And sometimes I have to do a hard reboot to regain control. Now the problem has gotten somewhat better as Jag evolved, but I wish it would go away!

 

[Blaaze]

I don't know if you noticed this, but under Keyboard & Mouse, we got some new tabs - Bluetooth and Keyboard Access. Keyboard access is pretty cool. I set up mine so that control + ~ will have it flipping through windows. I can feel the productivity increase 🙂.

Also trackpad has got a new checkbox that allows it to ignore accidental trackpad input. I'm not sure how that works, but it seems nifty.

Also I noticed that the tabs glow blue now 🙂. I don't think they did before??

I'm sorry if I just re-stated what everybody knew allready. hehe

 

[reckless_0001]

Originally posted by bokdol
what upgrades did you have?

In B&W Power Mac (originally 300mhz G3)

-Sonnet Encore/ZIF 500mhz G4
-Sonnet Tempo ATA/133 RAID Card (two 80GB ATA 133 HD's)
-ATI Radeon 7000 32mb (PCI) in 66mhz slot
-512mb RAM

 

[tomf87]

Installed on iMac 800 17". MySQL and Apache/PHP work just fine.

It seemed on 10.2.6 that my machine would hang around while doing any mundane task, like closing a window. Now it's okay. Hmm...

 

[Nermal]

Originally posted by Blaaze
Also trackpad has got a new checkbox that allows it to ignore accidental trackpad input. I'm not sure how that works, but it seems nifty.

There used to be an option "ignore trackpad input when typing" or something like that, are you talking about the same thing? It disappeared out of my preferences when I installed SideTrack.