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Why does Mavs keep losing its bearings?
Every time I restart, or wake from sleep, Mac Pro tower loses it mouse settings, and I have to go into System Prefs and "bless" the mouse driver, after which the buttons behave as they're supposed to... until the next nap or restart.
Every time FaceTime starts up I have to reset the audio to "Logitech Camera" because it defaults to "Digital In". System Prefs has Sound Input set to Logitech Camera, which does not change. FaceTime audio survives sleep and multiple open/close during same session, but reverts to "Digital In" upon restart or shut down and fresh boot.
etc.
Mavericks is frustrating. Any ideas?
Thanks.
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I studied a bit earlier trying to figure out what I need to know to have a functioning Kensington Trackball and saw that someone with some version of something also was not able to get Trackballworks to stick as a startup item. Is that your problem driver too?
My startup mystery is why I have to close Manycam each time. It's not in startup items, and there's not even a camera installed currently (2012 Mini.)
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I use a Micro$oft Trackball, and have to open Micro$oft Mou$e prefs, and then click on something in the prefs pane and then close it up for the mouse stuff to work. Even after "blessing" the prefs, the trackball is not as responsive as it is in earlier OS's on the same machine... it's kinda weird, as Mavs is on super-fast SSD mounted PCIe card, and everything else happens at warp speed compared to other OS's on regular HDD's in tower. Webcam is old-ish Logitech QC Vision Pro for Mac, which has also worked OK with earlier OS's (no settings foul ups). Did I mention Mavs is frustrating?
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It probably has to do with the lack of "newness" to those peripherals. "Old" doesn't usually work perfectly with the most current Operating System unless the Old stuff has NEW drivers to support the new Operating System. .02ยข :peace:
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Buzz, you're describing 3rd party driver issues, not OS issues. Sorry.
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Probably true, but still not the OS maker's responsibility to ensure compatibility for software they don't author.
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deckeda wrote:
Probably true, but still not the OS maker's responsibility to ensure compatibility for software they don't author.
But good OS makers try not to break things with new versions, too.
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My impression is that non-Apple software developers were caught with their pants down on a lot of the things broken by Mavericks for some reason. Definitely the case with jbidwatcher per the developer. Has their been some reduction in the beta testing program?
