Leopard, Day Four
I haven’t posted a lot in the last few days about Leopard since I’ve had a rather busy weekend at home. Here’s a recap:
Windows
I used BootCamp to install Windows on a dedicated 120GB Maxtor hard drive. Installation went well, except that it takes a long time for my Mac Pro to think about what it needs to do when it boots into Windows. It just hangs there with a white screen for 30-45 seconds before booting into Windows itself. I don’t remember that from beta.
It wouldn’t install the drivers for my iSight. The iSight worked fine in beta so I don’t know what the problem is here. I tried installing the drivers several different ways, and each time Windows said it didn’t have any drivers for that hardware.
Other than that, Windows runs fine on my Mac Pro.
Back to my Mac
This morning I left my Mac on at home in hopes of accessing it from my Mac at work. After verifying that my Mac at home was set up correctly, I went to see if it showed up on my Leopard machine at work. It didn’t. I tried several different networking tricks by accessing my router at home, but nothing did the trick. My mistake was not running a VNC server on my Mac at home to change anything there, or to use of of the suggestions of logging out and back into .Mac on the machine so I’ll have to report back on this tomorrow.
Overall, other than the need to boot into Tiger to run the firmware update, I haven’t had any trouble with Leopard at all. Renata and I will be recording episode 51 tomorrow so I’ll report back on how well recording went with Leopard and the 10.4.10 audio drivers from M-Audio.
Update: I created this post using Safari on Leopard and I’m still having editing issues. Carriage returns in WordPress, which should be converted to <p /> , are being ignored. I’m going to have to deal with this somehow. For now I have to use Firefox.
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I definitely want to hear about your experience with the m-audio drivers under leopard. I have a firewire solo, and I really want to upgrade, but I suppose I’ll have to wait if Leopard isn’t compatible with it yet.