[MacDV] 8500 audio trouble.

[Mark M. Florida]

Having just recently hacked up an old 8500 of mine with a G4 upgrade 
and installing OS X via XPostFacto, I think there is something in the 
XPostFacto documentation about audio issues.  There should be a Read Me 
file with the XPostFacto software, so you might want to check that out.

I kind of hate to say this, but if you *REALLY* want to use Mac OS X, 
you probably ought to get a machine that is actually supported for 
this.  Even an older G4/400 will run circles around the trusty old 8500 
(even with a G4 upgrade) -- and you can burn DVDs with iDVD using an 
aftermarket Pioneer DVD-R drive (works like a charm in my G4/500 at 
work).  So it may be time to just bite it and part ways with the old 
8500 to move on to newer and sexier hardware... (check ebay for good 
deals, ya know?)

or...

If you can't stand to part with your 8500 (I know how you feel, mines 
been a great machine), then just use Mac OS 9.  The benefits of 
sticking with 9 and actually having a computer that works (to me) would 
far outweigh the benefits of running the newest slow, buggy OS X apps 
designed for the latest hardware (which an 8500 definitely is not).  
After wrestling with my own 8500/G4 over the past weekend to get Mac OS 
X to work (it's barely usable), I've decided to just stick with Mac OS 
9 and have a machine that can do the same things, just in a different 
way.  (well, except run iPhoto, which is what I *really* wanted to be 
able to do so my wife could keep our digital family photo album 
organized, but I'll just us an OS 9 app instead)

2 cents.

- Mark

On Monday, February 3, 2003, at 09:00  AM, R.A. Cantrell wrote:

> Listers,
>             I'm building up (via swap) an 8500 for  making analog video
> Quicktime movies  with a  Sharp  video cam. I have it set up (so far) 
> thus:
> 4 hd's; 2 x 4.3 gig scsi SCA's with adapters installed in the bays( 
> thanks
> Jerry B.), and  a 27 gig and 40 IDE (thanks  Jamie  P.) running off a
> tweaked ATA 66 card (thanks Jeff W.). The machine has OS X.1.3running  
> on
> one  of the 4.3's (loaded via XPost Facto) and OS 9.1 on the other 4.3 
> and
> the 27). OS X does not see the ATA card, so X is (for the moment) a
> curiosity only. On the 27 gig I have Quicktime Pro 5 and Strata 
> videoshop
> 4.5. I have a  LitOn 40x10x48 cd-rw in the machine( thanks Jamie P.) 
> The
> machine  has 768 mgs ram (thanks Bruce G and John McG.) I need  
> suggestions
> for proceeding and I have a problem. The  problem  is that the  audio 
> volume
> is very low. It was  low  out of the 8x cd-rom that  the LiteOn cd-rw
> replaced too. I have the main volume and the  Apple CD Audio Player 
> volume
> turned up. How do I problem shoot for a software problem? And how do I
> problem shoot  for a hardware problem? (other than swap out the MoBo, 
> which
> I trying to make  a last resort).
> -- 
> All the best,
> R.A. Cantrell
>
> <racan at flash.net>
>