"invalid pixel format"

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"invalid pixel format"

Okay - this is going to be slow...

I had an emac running 10.3.9 - I went to install iLife06 and everthing was fine execept iWeb. I could not get it to run - kept getting "invalid pixel format" and other messages from the console. So, I said okay, I'll upgrade to 10.4 - made the purchase and have spent the past 4 hours trying to get the emac to come to life. Finally, we have life - totally reformating the drive (after a nice backup) - and reloading iLife06.

So, when I clicked on iWeb - I get the same "invalid pixel format" and software does not run. Since the iPod, I've love Apple, but this is bit too much.

Any help is greatly appriciated.

Thanks

eMac - 1 gig memory, Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Posted on May 12, 2006 2:32 PM

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Answer 1

Tom Gewecke

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May 12, 2006 5:37 PM in response to Tim Allen

It's a totally wild guess, but you might try a different screen resolution in System Prefs/Displays, if you haven't already.

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Tim Allen Author

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May 12, 2006 6:56 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

Thanks for the try.

I switched to all of the display options and still get the same message:

2006-05-12 21:51:34.906 iWeb[698] invalid pixel format
2006-05-12 21:51:34.908 iWeb[698] invalid context
2006-05-12 21:51:34.909 iWeb[698] Exception raised during posting of notification. Ignored. exception: * +[NSString stringWithCString:]: NULL cString

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Tim Allen Author

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May 13, 2006 1:06 PM in response to Tim Allen

Okay - this is what worked.

pressing the command, option, O, F keys during restart - I typed:
reset-nvram
set-defaults
reset-all

This seemed to work. iWeb is working as designed. This solution was posted for another issue I had during my upgrade from 10.3 to 10.4. Final Cut was not reinstalling. So one of the solutions was the above reboot.

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