[Jim Blokland]

Thanks Gary and David for the thoughts…

This is the older D10A convertor, not the D10AD — so it only has R/R-Y, G/Y, B/B-Y inputs and no (external) DIP switches. I forgot to mention that it also has a (worn) sticker on the bottom that says ‘BetaCa…’ and something else I can’t see. I suspect that David may be right in that it may only work with a BetaSP component signal. In any case, I just wanted to make sure that it wasn’t a Kona 2 SDI issue. Guess I’ll have to get a BetaSP deck and test it out to make sure.

Thanks again for responding to my query.

Best, JIM.

OSX.4.1
Dual 2.7 G5
3.5 GB RAM
Radeon X800 XT
Kona 2 / K-Box

[Jim Blokland]

Hello:

Another thing to consider…in my research on Xpress Pro with Mojo, I found a little-advertised tidbit — that uncompressed in AVID with the Mojo is limited to 8-bit. Something to keep in mind, especially if your work is graphics-heavy.

Best, JIM.

OSX.4.1
Dual 2.7 G5
3.5 GB RAM
Radeon X800 XT
Kona 2 / K-Box

[Jim Blokland]

Hey Walter:

You took out the original 256 sticks? Is this because of any known issues with Crucial and Apple RAM? I just put in 3 GB of Crucial RAM, but I left the original 512 in…mostly because Crucial advertises that their RAM is 100% compatible with Apple (that they actually supply RAM to Apple…).

Any comments welcome.

Best, JIM.

OSX.4.1
Dual 2.7 G5
3.5 GB RAM
Radeon X800 XT
Kona 2 / K-Box

[Jim Blokland]

Hi all:

Speaking of AJA support response, I got an e-mail from Rudy today, following up my ‘sleep’ issue — although it took a bit of time to get a response, it seems clear to me that AJA truly means to ‘support’ it’s users directly. And I appreciate that.

Also, the KONA 2 rocks. It blows my mind to see what my new setup is now capable of.

Best, JIM.

OSX.4.1
Dual 2.7 G5
3.5 GB RAM
Radeon X800 XT
Kona 2 / K-Box

[Jim Blokland]

Damn…

Just updated the ROM firmware to 109, reinstalled the ATI 4.5.1 display driver and repaired permissions — still the same thing. The screens go black, but no ‘sleeping breathing’ and the sound of a fan going on the CPU (not sure which fan…could be the CPU or the X800…

It’s getting to the point where I forget exactly what is supposed to happen with true ‘deep sleep’. Maybe I need to get some…

Best, JIM.

OSX.4.1
Dual 2.7 G5
3.5 GB RAM
Radeon X800 XT
Kona 2 / K-Box

[Jim Blokland]

Hey Harley:

Thanks for the info. That is probably the culprit. Makes sense. I thought I did download the latest drivers and install them — do you by chance have a link for the drivers you’re using, or the version number?

Thanks again. It will be nice to get my 2.7 sleeping tight again!

Best, JIM.

OSX.4.1
Dual 2.7 G5
3.5 GB RAM
Radeon X800 XT
Kona 2 / K-Box

[Jim Blokland]

Hi Jeremy:

I’ve just got two internal 250 GB SATAs for the time-being. I’ve also got the Radeon X800 XT video card. Other than that, no other PCI cards except for the Kona 2. As for Energy settings, I’ve got the ‘sleep drives whenever possible’ checked, and the Processor Performance set to ‘Highest’.

Any insights welcome.

Best, JIM.

OSX.4.1
Dual 2.7 G5
3.5 GB RAM
Radeon X800 XT
Kona 2 / K-Box

[Jim Blokland]

Hello AJA:

I already e-mailed this question to the support address a week ago and haven’t heard back yet. Just thought I’d post here for some ‘user’ advice/experience.

Hope to solve this soon.

Best, JIM.

[Jim Blokland]

Hi Gary:

In my case, I’m using the stock Apple Tiger BG on both screens. They come up first as usual, then the screens go blue for a few seconds.

I’m wondering if it has something to do with the Kona 2 as a ‘third’ screen for the desktop — some kind of formatting that’s going on…the reason I propose this, is that I have Safari and Mail set to open on startup, with Mail on the left screen and Safari on the right. Since I’ve upgraded to Tiger, when Sarafi opens, it doesn’t remember that I had the window set to the right screen — it shows up almost off the right of the right screen — as if it were trying to be on a ‘third’ screen. That being said, I don’t have the Kona 2 set to ‘Macintosh desktop’, so it could be something else…

Any answers/advice/experience welcome.

Best, JIM.

OSX.4.1
Dual 2.7 G5
3.5 GB RAM
Radeon X800 XT
Kona 2 / K-Box

[Jim Blokland]

Walter:

Thanks so much for the confirmation.

Best, JIM.

OSX.4.1
Dual 2.7 G5
3.5 GB RAM
Radeon X800 XT
Kona 2 / K-Box