maschinsky
05-24-2004, 04:01 PM
Hi, all!
With the Release of LW8 there might be some new users who stuble across the same problem I did, when I tried to run 7.5 on my G5 togehter with AVID Xpress Pro. There are already 2 threads covering this, but I will post the solution again.
symptom: LW doesn't start and the LW icon keeps bouncinmg in the dock, but nothing happens.
The problem is a kernel extention for the AVID dongle named "com.rainbow.iokit.Sentinel"
Go to Utilities Netinfomanager and activate the Root User of OSX - choose a password - close Netinfomanager
Open Terminal
type
kextstat
there should be an extension listed as "com.rainbow.iokit.Sentinel" this is the AVID dongle driver
type
sudo kextunload -b com.rainbow.iokit.Sentinel
the system asks for the superuser password - type it - the driver gets kicked out of the ram.
now lightwave should be running with no problem, but AVID will not. To load the kernel extension for the AVID dongle back into memory and run AVIDtype the following in Terminal:
sudo kextload -b com.rainbow.iokit.Sentinel
Type the password again and voilá the driver is back in.
There has to be a similar kernel extension for the MIRAGE dongle, for the people who cannot run MIRAGE and LW3D on the same machine.
I have also written two clickable scripts to do the loading/unloading with a mouseclick. Please drop me an e-mail and I will gladly send it to you.
*** UNIX RULEZ ***
Florian "maschinsky" Gintenreiter
With the Release of LW8 there might be some new users who stuble across the same problem I did, when I tried to run 7.5 on my G5 togehter with AVID Xpress Pro. There are already 2 threads covering this, but I will post the solution again.
symptom: LW doesn't start and the LW icon keeps bouncinmg in the dock, but nothing happens.
The problem is a kernel extention for the AVID dongle named "com.rainbow.iokit.Sentinel"
Go to Utilities Netinfomanager and activate the Root User of OSX - choose a password - close Netinfomanager
Open Terminal
type
kextstat
there should be an extension listed as "com.rainbow.iokit.Sentinel" this is the AVID dongle driver
type
sudo kextunload -b com.rainbow.iokit.Sentinel
the system asks for the superuser password - type it - the driver gets kicked out of the ram.
now lightwave should be running with no problem, but AVID will not. To load the kernel extension for the AVID dongle back into memory and run AVIDtype the following in Terminal:
sudo kextload -b com.rainbow.iokit.Sentinel
Type the password again and voilá the driver is back in.
There has to be a similar kernel extension for the MIRAGE dongle, for the people who cannot run MIRAGE and LW3D on the same machine.
I have also written two clickable scripts to do the loading/unloading with a mouseclick. Please drop me an e-mail and I will gladly send it to you.
*** UNIX RULEZ ***
Florian "maschinsky" Gintenreiter