I want Front Row!

Mark:

Yes, you should replace the kext. It might be that you configured something wrong with the Editor. And yes, return after each item in quotes. It should ask for your admin password after the second command. There is a space. If you don't get an error all is good.

I'd replace the kext with your backup copy and reboot. Then either start over or follow David's advice and use the FrontRowPass.kext file (see his post on page 1).

David: Interesting! Have you dissected this to see what it is? I'm a slight bit wary of putting an unknown kernel extension into my machine.

I'm def not an expert here (I basically just followed the recipe and it worked). But, I don't think it'll nuke your HD. But you should surely backup the kext file that you editing however.

a brody: I think the hacks that break things are generally the ones that were accessing bezelservices which also interacts with the menu. I could be mistaken, but I don't think this hack touches anything accept for the mouse kext.

When 10.4.3 was released the Front Row hack users were moaning a lot! Then this tip was written:

http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/removefrontrowhack.html

Which solved it for many of them.
So you decide. Is the hack accessing more files than you think?

Hi,

I don't have the technical chops to know how to dissect or examine it but I did take precautions and there were references to it working as described.

I'm still keen to see if there is some other device that I've got that I can hang the properties off of though.

Ok. So, a couple thoughts:

Check your keyboard shortcuts under system prefs. If you scroll down is there anything that says Front Row? Does Command-esc do nothing? You might want to try to install the Front Row 1.3 update as discussed in that recipe:

"The only thing that I did install-wise a few days back was to use Andrew Escobar’s Front Row Enabler 1.3.5 for enabling the 1.3 upgrade, even though I know it would serve no real purpose."

Just make sure you only use Enabler to allow the upgrade to install. DO NOT use it to enable FR as you've done that by editing the kext.

Hope that works. Again, it seemed to work for me. Not sure why it wouldn't for you.

I'm def not an expert here (I basically just followed
the recipe and it worked). But, I don't think it'll
nuke your HD. But you should surely backup the kext
file that you editing however.

Yep same here. I followed the tutorial steps and it worked great.

Running 10.4.8 here and the only variation (actually an omission) from what the tut writer discribes was at the very end where he says to enter “sudo chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/AppleHIDMouse.kext” in the terminal. Some text is displayed after that which the tut doesn't mention. Very minor thing.

I think this alterations made in this tut are totally safe. It's just the device discription for your mouse afterall.

Well i did everything except run front row enabler because i tried it before and it freaked out my computer. Is there a way to do it without installing that? I managed to update front row using pacifist and the front row update.

Hey guys,

Again, don't enable FrontRow using the enabler. Just use the enabler to allow it to install the FrontRow 1.3 update (vs using it to enable FrontRow). If you've done this (yes, I think you can also do it using Pacifist) and it still isn't working then I'm not sure what to tell you.

/Josh

I am using MediaCentral on my Mac Pro and it works quite well. It all most as good as Front Row but since Front Row needs a IR remote it will not work. So MediaCentral dose work and I happy now and in away it dose more than front row as well.
Mike