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From: Mike on 13 Jan 2010 22:20 I reloaded an iMac 27" with 10.5 and that's working fine except for the brightness control. I partitioned the hard drive and loaded 10.6 in the second partition. My two questions are how to adjust the brightness in 10.5 and how to fix the freezing issues in 10.6. Any suggestions for these issues are appreciated. Mike
From: Richard Maine on 13 Jan 2010 23:32 Mike <mikee(a)mikee.ath.cx> wrote: > I reloaded an iMac 27" with 10.5 and that's working fine except for > the brightness control. I partitioned the hard drive and loaded > 10.6 in the second partition. My two questions are how to adjust > the brightness in 10.5 and how to fix the freezing issues in 10.6. > > Any suggestions for these issues are appreciated. The 27" iMac is not supported at all in 10.5. For that matter, it isn't supported in 10.6 either. It requires 10.6.1. Since you don't mention what freezing issues you have in 10.6, it is hard to say how to fix them. I don't see any freezing issues with mine; nor have I heard of any particular tendency towards such. But then again, iI'm running a supported version of the OS (10.6.2 at the moment). -- Richard Maine | Good judgment comes from experience; email: last name at domain . net | experience comes from bad judgment. domain: summertriangle | -- Mark Twain
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kir=E1ly?= on 13 Jan 2010 23:59 Mike <mikee(a)mikee.ath.cx> wrote: > I reloaded an iMac 27" with 10.5 and that's working fine except for > the brightness control. You're going to have to live with it not working. 10.5 lacks the hardware drivers to run a 27" iMac properly. More info here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2186 > how to fix the freezing issues in 10.6. Post more info about the freezing problem. -- K. Lang may your lum reek.
From: Mr. Strat on 14 Jan 2010 09:57 In article <him2hu$qbb$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Mike <mikee(a)mikee.ath.cx> wrote: > I reloaded an iMac 27" with 10.5 and that's working fine except for > the brightness control. I partitioned the hard drive and loaded > 10.6 in the second partition. My two questions are how to adjust > the brightness in 10.5 and how to fix the freezing issues in 10.6. There's no way you're going to load 10.5 on a new 27" iMac. It will reject the DVD when you try to boot from it.
From: Davoud on 14 Jan 2010 12:32
Mr. Strat: > > I reloaded an iMac 27" with 10.5 and that's working fine except for > > the brightness control. I partitioned the hard drive and loaded > > 10.6 in the second partition. My two questions are how to adjust > > the brightness in 10.5 and how to fix the freezing issues in 10.6. Mike: > There's no way you're going to load 10.5 on a new 27" iMac. It will > reject the DVD when you try to boot from it. Someone please help me get a handle on this. Mr. Strat says that he did it and Mike says that he couldn't have done it. I don't think it can be both ways. I'm neutral -- though I would be curious to know why someone would buy the latest and greatest with an OS that was designed for it, one which (at least on my wife's new 27") works very well, and then partition the hard drive in order to downgrade to two OS's that are obsolete for that machine. My WAG is that it seemed like a good idea, or even a necessary thing, at the time. The following assumes, just for the moment, that Mr. Strat did what he says he did and that Mike is incorrect in his assertion. As for Mr. Strat's question, part 1: OS 10.5 is not fully functional with the latest generation of iMacs because it lacks the drivers to deal with the latest iMac hardware. Lack of the proper video driver is the reason you can't adjust the brightness. It may be that the only fix is for you to write new video drivers for 10.5 -- if that version of the OS can support the features that those drivers need. Part 2: Wipe the drive and reinstall the OS using the disks that came with the iMac. If using the proper OS does not solve the freezing issues, a trip to the Genius Bar is in order. Here's what has worked for me with Macs for more than a quarter of a century: start with Apple's recommended OS, then upgrade as recommended by Apple. I know that this works for the overwhelming majority of Mac users. If your Mac cannot do what you want with the Mac OS, perhaps you need to install Windows or another OS on the Mac, or get a different hardware set, or write your own OS, along with drivers and software to go with it. Davoud -- I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that you will say in your entire life. usenet *at* davidillig dawt cawm |