Hi, i'm new here. just wonder if anyone can help me.
I run a 1.8 dual processor G5 powermac and have a PCI card that works perfectly in OSX10.3 but when I upgraded to 10.4 it suddenly stopped working.
[TC powercore element DSP audio production card]
I have tried lots of things (driver versions, re installs of osx etc etc) but to no avail.
I searched the manufacturer forums and the best everyone has come up with is the card is a computer itself and if it takes too long to boot up, the system has already scanned the PCI slots and moved on before the card is ready.
So what I want to do is stall the computer between when it initializes the PCI slots and when it checks them.
I have done a few searches here and found some good info (What is Mac OS X?) and tried the cmd+opt+O+F when starting up but no good.
It seems to be after the kernel loads that I need to pause things.
(I'm guessing around when the i/o toolkit loads)
I'm sure its possible and I found mention of cool developer/hacking tools that probably could help but I wouldn't have the foggiest idea how to use them and I don't want to hurt anything.
downloaded chud tools hoping they'd help but again couldn't really work them out without help.
Can anyone help?
Thanks
I run a 1.8 dual processor G5 powermac and have a PCI card that works perfectly in OSX10.3 but when I upgraded to 10.4 it suddenly stopped working.
[TC powercore element DSP audio production card]
I have tried lots of things (driver versions, re installs of osx etc etc) but to no avail.
I searched the manufacturer forums and the best everyone has come up with is the card is a computer itself and if it takes too long to boot up, the system has already scanned the PCI slots and moved on before the card is ready.
So what I want to do is stall the computer between when it initializes the PCI slots and when it checks them.
I have done a few searches here and found some good info (What is Mac OS X?) and tried the cmd+opt+O+F when starting up but no good.
It seems to be after the kernel loads that I need to pause things.
(I'm guessing around when the i/o toolkit loads)
I'm sure its possible and I found mention of cool developer/hacking tools that probably could help but I wouldn't have the foggiest idea how to use them and I don't want to hurt anything.
downloaded chud tools hoping they'd help but again couldn't really work them out without help.
Can anyone help?
Thanks