10.6.2 - sound now broken
Ian McCall
except the startup chime that is.
A quick suggests finds that 10.6.2 installations mess up your sound
preferences:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10551930&tstart=0
...but I've tried switching back to Internal Speakers in the sound
preference pane and still having the same problem. This is Not Good(tm).
Cheers,
Ian
Ian McCall
> A quick suggests finds that 10.6.2 installations mess up your sound
> preferences:
> http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10551930&tstart=0
...and by the Law Of Usenet, the moment I post up the problem up it
goes away. I did have to reset the sound preference to internal only,
but for some strange reason it still didn't work. A couple (yes,
couple) of reboots later and it does.
Strange, but gone.
Cheers,
Ian
John Hill
I had this problem with a Leopard update, and unlike yours it didn't go
away. But I found others had also had the problem, and the solution was
to reboot with one of the magic key combinations, something like (but
not identical to ) the one to zap the PRAM.
I thought I had saved the recepie, but cannot now find it :-(
But if one of you power users could list the combinations and what they
did, I would probably remember which it was...
I hope I never get it again, it was very worrying.
John.
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Ben Shimmin
On the same theme of 10.6.2 weirdness, I found my fans were continually
running rather higher than previously after I'd upgraded. The culprit turned
out to be something called VCStatus; a little investigation showed that
the `VC' here refer to Version Cue (some sort of horrible versioning
software included as part of the Adobe Creativity Suite). Since I never
use this, I found that a simple solution to the problem was simply to
delete (or move, perhaps) the `server' folder in
/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Version Cue CS4
All is now happy. Google suggests no one else in the world has had
this problem, but I thought I should share my experiences nonetheless.
b.
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Jaimie Vandenbergh
wrote:
>Ian McCall <i...@eruvia.org> wrote:
>
>> I'm no longer getting any sound since installing 10.6.2. Well, no sound
>> except the startup chime that is.
>>
>> A quick suggests finds that 10.6.2 installations mess up your sound
>> preferences:
>> http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10551930&tstart=0
>>
>> ...but I've tried switching back to Internal Speakers in the sound
>> preference pane and still having the same problem. This is Not Good(tm).
>
>away. But I found others had also had the problem, and the solution was
>to reboot with one of the magic key combinations, something like (but
>not identical to ) the one to zap the PRAM.
>
>I thought I had saved the recepie, but cannot now find it :-(
>
>But if one of you power users could list the combinations and what they
>did, I would probably remember which it was...
With Intel Macs, the only interesting ones are zap PRAM (cmd-alt-p-r
while booting) and reset the SMC (depends on your machine, follow
links at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1894).
Everything else is just "what/how shall I boot?" options.
http://face.centosprime.com/macosxw/startup-keys-boot-options/
has a bunch of things that might trigger a memory.
Cheers - Jaimie
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Marlon
Yep, had that one on my iMac too - was very confused when iTunes was
playing stuff but without sound - the SWMBO thought it an improvement
though.
In the end, went to the Sound Preference Pane, and indeed found the
output device had been changed from internal to, in my case, something
like 'USB device'.
Reading the various threads about this, it looks like only people with
more than one offering in the output device list has had something other
than 'internal' reslected for them.
In my case, I'm currently playing with Audacity & my USB-connected
turntable as I'm transcribing Vinyl to MP3 for some valued stuff, and
hence I have that device as a selectable option in the output device
list.
Still a bit weird though, and took me a few minutes to calm down from
headless-chickeness before I decided where to look.....
Cheers,
Marlon
James Dore
> Ian McCall <i...@eruvia.org> wrote:
>
>> I'm no longer getting any sound since installing 10.6.2. Well, no sound
>> except the startup chime that is.
>>
>> A quick suggests finds that 10.6.2 installations mess up your sound
>> preferences:
>> http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10551930&tstart=0
>>
>> ...but I've tried switching back to Internal Speakers in the sound
>> preference pane and still having the same problem. This is Not Good(tm).
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ian
>
> I had this problem with a Leopard update, and unlike yours it didn't go
> away. But I found others had also had the problem, and the solution was
> to reboot with one of the magic key combinations, something like (but
> not identical to ) the one to zap the PRAM.
>
> I thought I had saved the recepie, but cannot now find it :-(
>
> But if one of you power users could list the combinations and what they
> did, I would probably remember which it was...
>
Apple Support is your friend:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1533?viewlocale=en_US
Cheers,
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James Dore
New College IT Officer
james.dore@new / it-support@new
John Hill
I'll have t watch that! I'm proposing to update to Snow Leopard in the
next few days, and have exactly the same set-up...
Thanks for that tip.
John Hill
Thanks, James and Jamie - some useful information there! I've made sure
it's saved this time. But I don't think the key combination I used was
there...
Odd. But I could have fallen foul of the combination Marion reported :-(
Ian McCall
> In the end, went to the Sound Preference Pane, and indeed found the
> output device had been changed from internal to, in my case, something
> like 'USB device'.
For me it had been set to use Soundflower. I have Soundflower installed
to support the screen recording software I use (iShowU), and things had
been switched to use that instead of the laptop's speakers.
Cheers,
Ian
zoara
> In my case, I'm currently playing with Audacity & my USB-connected
> turntable as I'm transcribing Vinyl to MP3 for some valued stuff, and
> hence I have that device as a selectable option in the output device
> list.
You can output to vinyl? Kickin' it old skool...
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Chris Ridd
> Marlon <no....@please.we.re.british> wrote:
>> In my case, I'm currently playing with Audacity & my USB-connected
>> turntable as I'm transcribing Vinyl to MP3 for some valued stuff, and
>> hence I have that device as a selectable option in the output device
>> list.
>
> You can output to vinyl? Kickin' it old skool...
(Puts baseball cap on backwards) Do you get a DJ "scratch" type option?
--
Chris
Marlon
> Marlon <no....@please.we.re.british> wrote:
>
>>In my case, I'm currently playing with Audacity & my USB-connected
>>turntable as I'm transcribing Vinyl to MP3 for some valued stuff, and
>>hence I have that device as a selectable option in the output device
>>list.
>
>
> You can output to vinyl? Kickin' it old skool...
:)
It's claiming to output to USB, not to vinyl, you mad crazy fool :)
Cheers,
Marlon