[Ham-Mac] Does Anybody Have Audio Input on a Beige G3 Running 10.2.8?

[Chris Smolinski]

>I have a G3 All-in-One, same motherboard as the Beige G3, that will not
>recognize external inputs in OS 10.2.8. It sees the audio inputs fine in
>OS9.2.1. It won't see them in Classic though.

Sound input barely worked under classic with older OSX versions 
(actually it didn't work at all with the very early versions, hence 
my quick work to get MultiMode OSX out the door). I don't remember 
what the status of sound input under 10.2.8 was in classic.

>I recently installed a 400 MHz G3 ZIF upgrade prior to installing OSX 10.2
>and then the upgrade to OSX 10.2.8. I did a clean install of OSX, erasing
>the disk first.
>
>WHen I select the sound preferences, there are no choices for audio inputs.
>The internal microphone works, though. It is apparently only the only audio
>input that the machine sees.

Try running an actual application that uses sound input and see what 
it shows. I know earlier versions of OSX didn't always show all the 
possible input devices/sources in the system sound preferences, I 
thought this was fixed by 10.2.8 but maybe not. FWIW, I found 10.2.8 
to be an extremely unstable OSX version an an older iMac of mine.

Also, on some Mac models selecting internal or external sources makes 
no difference, they're wired in parallel so both are always active.

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Chris Smolinski
Black Cat Systems
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