Griffin PowerMate

PowerMate seems to be useless in this OS. I find that the Preference pane does not act right.

Ditto! I talked to Griffin tech support & the person I spoke with didn't seem
to be aware yet of how Leopard has rendered PowerMate completely useless.
I wish they'd get on this & develop a sw update. I'll talk to them @ MacWorld.

PowerMate is one of the PreferencePanes that I deleted completely as a suspect behind corruption of my Finder today. I'm going to hold off on it until it is guaranteed compatible.

Hold the press! Look what I just found, right from the Apple Web site:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/drivers/powermate.html.
This is PowerMate 2.1 (the Griffin support page only has version 2.0),
and it works like a charm in Leopard. Woo hoo! Mac|Life without a
PowerMate (especially to control volume levels) is like having a USB
mouse w/o USB Overdrive. I like to have as much control as possible.

D'oh! I've got to recant what I just said in my last post.
The PowerMate did work, at least for a few seconds, now it's
completely unusable again. Oh well, back to the drawing board.

I got mine working again. Part of the problem seems to be a permissions issue. After doing some research it seems that the repair permissions function of Disk Utility in Leopard is buggy. When you run it after doing a Software Update upgrade to 10.5.1 you'll get SUID errors that can't be fixed. To fix this you need to download the full (often called the "combo" updater) 10.5.1 installer (110MB) from Apple's Download site.

Here's what I did:

Uninstalled PowerMate using the instructions on Griffin's website:


"Unplug the PowerMate
Open System Preferences
Right-click (or Control-click) on the PowerMate icon in System Preferences and select "remove"
Important! Delete the preference file from:Users/library/preferences (com.griffintechnology.powermate.plist)"


Ran repair permissions. It gives SUID errors that can't be cleared.
Ran the 10.5.1 Combo installer downloaded from Apple's site.
Rebooted.
Ran repair permissions again (this time reported no errors).
Ran the PowerMate 2.1 installer.
Plugged in PowerMate.

Everything is working now.

Well my Powermate works well, except the coolest feature to me is the throbbing when it sleeps. Sometimes it works great but usually not. It usually stays dark with the sleeping in Leopard. Im using 2.1 even though Griffin only lists 2.0 on their site

Well it does all except Throb for me. When the Mac sleeps it turns off MOST of the time. Once in a while it throbs quite nice with sleep Not usually. Oh well Griffin suggested I plug it in somewhere else
That did nothing fro me... same deal. Im plugged into a Griffin Music quality Hub. No deal on the sleep issue.