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

[Richard Kriss]

Duffey KK6MC/5, 

Based on Chris' comments your problem may be with OSX 10.2 as installed on
your G3 All-in-One machine. Too bad you cannot find someone in your area
with a External Hard Drive that would let you boot in 10.3.  You could boot
from the external drive and see if Panther OSX can see your ports.

Short of that do a clean install of 10.2 and then run the updates. Maybe one
of the updates fixed the problem. Sorry I cannot help but I just don't
remember the 10.2 sound interface issues.

One way around the weird situation may be to use the USB port with an iMic.
Some Mac users with the Cube had to use the iMic for audio interface.  I
personally cannot recommend the iMic as it did not work with my setup on the
receive side.  I ran into a major impedance mismatch between the Kenwood
TS-570's digital output (4.7kohm) and the iMic (300 ohm).  Rather than an A
to D it acted like an attenuator.

Good luck!

Dick AA5VU

On 12/26/04 8:52 PM, "James R. Duffey" <JamesDuffey at comcast.net> wrote:

> There is an input and an output. I can see these in OS9, but not in OSX
> 10.2. I guess I will try a clean install. - Duffey


On 12/27/04 7:01 AM, "Chris Smolinski" <csmolinski at blackcatsystems.com>
wrote:

>> 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.