I recently upgraded my old Lombard G3/333 to a “Daystar” G4/433 (512 RAM).
I then did an easy install of 10.3 and used the combo updater to go to 10.3.4. All suggested updaters are also installed. DiskWarrior and TTP indicate no problems. And the system appears to operate as Steve divines, I'm just thrilled, it's really a pleasure…almost.
When I Repair Permissions, the display goes nuts and becomes unreadable; usually black with assorted and very heavy/spurious “noise” lines. The only way to stop this is via a hard restart, which is then normal.
I can sometimes Repair Permissions once, but never twice in succession. And when I am able to successfully Repair Permissions, I only get the standard/9660 one liner that is common with 10.3
In addition to DW and TTP, I have run Disk Repair, Zapped, FSCK’d, Safe Booted, trashed /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver.plist, and toggled both Resolution and Colors. Reverting to Thousands of colors (vice Millions of colors) was no help.
So I called Daystar and spoke with their expert. His only solution is to remove the top 256 chip, then Repair Permissions, and then replace the removed chip. This I did and all was dandy. But ain't that a cockamamie workaround? I know it's only a 10 minute task every few weeks, but had I known that, Daystar would not have my money. There oughta be a saying about living and learning.
All that said, does anyone know of any other fix/workaround? Can there be a script or some such that would disable the top chip when I repair Permissions?
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