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SaleenS351

macrumors 6502
Original poster
Dec 2, 2004
287
0
California
Hey all I just got my new mac with tiger installed and I can't get my powermate to work correctly. I can't seem to get it to work in safari or itunes. Is anyone else having this problem? It was woring fine on my ibook with panther.
 

SaleenS351

macrumors 6502
Original poster
Dec 2, 2004
287
0
California
thanks for replying, the powermate is a pretty cool little device. But for some reason i still can't get it to work. I know how to set it up but it won't do any of the commands I tell it to do. Could this be a tiger bug, or should tiger no even effect it?

Edit:I just wrote them an e-mail asking them if it was a problem related to Tiger.
 

Coheebuzz

macrumors 6502a
Oct 10, 2005
511
148
Nicosia, Cyprus
Old thread, but since it already excists i didn't want to make a new one.
So to my question, has anyone been experiencing problems with the PowerMate/Tiger? I think its been giving me kernel panics since i bought it, and it seems that the name 'powermate' appears in every crash log.

I may be wrong but here is a sample of my most recent crash:

Thu Sep 22 20:10:43 2005


Unresolved kernel trap(cpu 0): 0x700 - Program DAR=0x00000000EFFFEBC0 PC=0x0000000002A48DC0
Latest crash info for cpu 0:
Exception state (sv=0x3BEC2500)
PC=0x02A48DC0; MSR=0x00089030; DAR=0xEFFFEBC0; DSISR=0x02200000; LR=0x3AB8B674; R1=0x22343CF0; XCP=0x0000001C (0x700 - Program)
Backtrace:
0x3AB8B570 0x002E7A98 0x0008C858 0x000291C0 0x000233AC 0x000ABE2C
0x02D00600
backtrace terminated - frame not mapped or invalid: 0xF0101BF0

Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.griffintechnology.iokit.PowerMate(1.6.0)@0x3ab89000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily(2.2.0)@0x433000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily(1.4)@0x468000
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x3BEC2500)
previously dumped as "Latest" state. skipping...
Exception state (sv=0x323F6A00)
PC=0x9000A778; MSR=0x0000F030; DAR=0x003013F4; DSISR=0x0A000000; LR=0x9000A6BC; R1=0xF0101BF0; XCP=0x00000030 (0xC00 - System call)

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.2.0: Fri Jun 24 17:46:54 PDT 2005; root:xnu-792.2.4.obj~3/RELEASE_PPC
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xFFFF0007): 0x700 - Program
Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0:
Backtrace:
0x00095544 0x00095A5C 0x0002683C 0x000A819C 0x000ABB00
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x3BEC2500)
PC=0x02A48DC0; MSR=0x00089030; DAR=0xEFFFEBC0; DSISR=0x02200000; LR=0x3AB8B674; R1=0x22343CF0; XCP=0x0000001C (0x700 - Program)
Backtrace:
0x3AB8B570 0x002E7A98 0x0008C858 0x000291C0 0x000233AC 0x000ABE2C
0x02D00600
backtrace terminated - frame not mapped or invalid: 0xF0101BF0

Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.griffintechnology.iokit.PowerMate(1.6.0)@0x3ab89000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily(2.2.0)@0x433000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily(1.4)@0x468000
Exception state (sv=0x323F6A00)
PC=0x9000A778; MSR=0x0000F030; DAR=0x003013F4; DSISR=0x0A000000; LR=0x9000A6BC; R1=0xF0101BF0; XCP=0x00000030 (0xC00 - System call)

So i just wanted to know if anyone else is having similar problems before i start bitchin at Griffin because it may just be a conflict wih some other peripheral/extension.
 

stevep

macrumors 6502a
Oct 13, 2004
876
4
UK
My PowerMate seems to be fine with 10.4.2, although it doesn't work quite the same as it did with 10.3.9, for instance, with iTunes it will act as a volume control, but the iTunes volume slider doesn't move up and down in unison as it were. The driver I'm using is v1.6.0.
 
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