Temperature Rises with audio

thanon wrote:

So, on a related matter, all the previous issues with SL and professional apps are solved now ?
Printer drivers , Photoshop crashes, color calibration trouble, FW, etc, all's been fixed or updated ?

IMHO, we are not even close to being able to make that conclusion. Snow Leopard is functional and many apps which worked fine in Leopard also work in Snow Leopard...with some caveats.

Some things are still "broken." 10.6.3 is due out soon, tho I do not have a date. 10.6.3 will bring fixes as any other maintenance release does.

I tried installing Photoshop Elements on Snow, and all seemed well until I launched it. I couldn't get past the "your software key is no good." Turns out people running Photoshop elements already had it installed in Leopard, then upgraded their install to Snow; if you install elements afterward, it won't work. It's little stuff like that here and there.

Great as Snow is, it is still undergoing evolution. For example, Bare Feats posted some graphics-heavy tests of Snow versus Leopard. Despite Snow's leaner, intel-only code and other improvements, Leopard spanked Snow in all but one test.

The author said words to the effect that in time, this will change.

but we are not there yet.

you may wish to visit this site to see if your particular toolset is in the works, doesn't work or works... but category:

http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/


HTH

ray

Message was edited by: RaySkater

Given my Mac Pro shipped with Leopard and ONLY plugging in my Apogee Duet FW audio interface triggers the reported increases in CPU temperature from ~50 to 80 celsius I would really appreciate a fix for Leopard. Current fix has been tried (installing the extensions only, see Mac Rumors audio temp thread) and does not work for Leopard.

Turns out people running Photoshop elements already had it installed in Leopard, then upgraded their install to Snow; if you install elements afterward, it won't work.

Au contraire. The problems happen when you try to restore from time machine or if you had a trial of PSE or some CS4 application and failed to properly uninstall (You can't just trash adobe stuff). In either case there are workarounds.

Barbara Brundage wrote:
Au contraire. The problems happen when you try to restore from time machine or if you had a trial of PSE or some CS4 application and failed to properly uninstall (You can't just trash adobe stuff). In either case there are workarounds.

uh huh...well, I wish that mine were one of those cases. I did a fresh install of Elements after upgrading my Leopard install to Snow Leopard, and all I get upon launch is this business about my key being invalid.

same app works great in Leopard. same app, same computer, same license key.

no time machine involved.


ray

Then uninstall (use the uninstaller in applications), and use this:

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/403/kb403995.html

although it says it's for CS4, it works for PSE 8 as well. Create a new admin user for the reinstall and repair permissions afterward.

If that doesn't do it, go to adobe's forum and post with a callout for Ankush Ved, who will arrange an online meeting to figure out where the problem lies.

Sure about the license key? What I like about Adobe keys is that you can just copy and paste the whole key in to the first box and it fills in all the rest. If you registered the app, Adobe should have your license key handy in an account you make with them on their site. I've had to go back and check mine from time to time. You can re-download the app again from there as well if you want to.

But I guess nothing beats what's written right on your case or wherever it is. Try writing it down in TextEdit, minus the dashes, then copy it all and see if you can paste it into the Adobe app. Good luck.

Might sound a bit OT, but 10.6.2 is still a very early version; if the usual pro apps have any issues left in SL, it seems odd to develop a 'fix' for the less mature OS first.

I wonder myself why the fix from Apple came out the way it did. With another OS about to be launched, why didn't they just wait to put it all together? They had been waiting for months and months before, why the urgency all of a sudden?
And why so odd? Contacting people in various forums and asking them to accept and sign NDA's...
Maybe there will be a two sentence paragraph on it all in a future Mac history textbook.
(maybe 2010's are sooner than later and an albatross was mucking things up)

This is actually not a terribly uncommon problem, but it's a PSE problem (this is the first version with activation) rather than a Snow Leopard problem. You're equally likely to run into it in 10.5 or 10.4.

I have a feeling (and a memory?), that you know a lot in this area, Barbara. I'd go with whatever you have to say.
Just strange coincidence that with a fairly cheap tablet last week I got a few apps of which that was one. I paid for 4 and 6 awhile ago before though. Funny to see it as a free ad-on. Good app.

So the update has reduced my CPU temperature with audio playback (Presonus Firebox Firewire audio interface) and that is great. Also haven't had any machine crashes (grey screens) recently which is also great.
The problem is that when the Firebox is plugged into the firewire port of the Mac Pro there is a constant high pitched whistle of slightly oscillating frequency. If I unplug it the whistle goes away in a few seconds. After prolonged use in a quiet room (the kind of room you need for audio recording / mixing work!) the noise is enough to drive me out of my mind.
I read a post on another forum with other people having the same problem. Can anyone comment here on seeing the same thing? Is there any known work around or fix for this?

Thanks

Samsara wrote:
Just strange coincidence that with a fairly cheap tablet last week I got a few apps of which that was one.

Samsara;

with that fairly cheap tablet, did you also get Painter Essentials? If so, have you installed and does it run properly in Snow?

ray

Went for the same OWC deal, aye? Yes, cheap but not too bad, kinda fun.
Yes, Corel Essentials works ok too. I didn't install the third other app. Weird thing is the tablet cost about 50 bucks with the software. The software, if I remember right, at least PSE, was around 60 bucks when I bought it..

One other piece of info on the firewire "squealing noise" - when the processor is under some load such as when exporting a song/video/slideshow etc. the noise stops but resumes when the load is gone.

this is my second cheap-ish tablet deal, but I went for the bamboo fun, bundled with elements and painter essentials. Installed but haven't yet used that color thing..

really a nice assortment of freebie software. I would have bought the tablet without them.

I'm going to wrangle with Barbara's tips tomorrow..be real nice to have those two apps up and running, tho I do have art rage... each one is good for different things...

r

I had a large Wacom SCSI tablet at one time, still do somewhere maybe. This looked to be a good price and had the Wacom name.. Turns out it's discontinued though, last years model maybe.

Do you have trouble with Corel as well?

Maybe this convo doesn't belong here. No, it doesn't.

Thanks to everyone who made this thread irrelevant enough to slip in a few TOT remarks... 🙂

Ray, I think Barbara may have written a book or two on PSE and perhaps more.