We previously noted (solved by manually turning off the device in the Sound pane System Preferences), as well as a problem where plugging in headphones does not allow full sound transfer, instead. PowerPoint Symbol Insert William F. Cain reports problems using the 'Insert Symbol' function in PowerPoint v.X since updating to Mac OS X 10.2.2.
In Device Manager, expand DVD/CD-ROM drives, right-click the CD and DVD devices, and then select Uninstall. When you are prompted to confirm that you want to remove the device, select OK. Restart the computer. After the computer restarts, the drivers will be automatically installed. If your problem is not solved, try the next method.
'I have been having problems with inserting symbols in Powerpoint (v.X, SR1) since upgrading to Mac OS X 10.2.2. After selecting a font (usually Symbol, but same problem with all available) the table of characters becomes a set of blocky smears.' Turning off Quartz text smoothing generally alleviates this problem. Print Center Stalls Bryce Bolling reports 'I have a HP 6MP that I use through Appletalk via an ethernet print server. When I upgraded to Mac OS X 10.2, Print Center would never complete a print job. I had to manually delete every print job I sent otherwise print center would stop the queue. Mac OS X 10.2.2 has fixed this problem' Text Rendering Ills Cured?
David Oshel says that the longstanding text dropping and mal-rendering issues in Internet Explorer 5.2 may be solved with Mac OS X 10.2.2: 'I haven't seen any of the text dropout bugs that plague web browsers, especially MS IE 5.2.2 and Chimera 0.6.0, since installing this morning's OS X 10.2.2 update.' Feedback on one of these issues? Drop us a line at. Yesterday we noted, which delivers a journalling filesystem and other fairly significant enhancements. While most users experienced a smooth upgrade and immediately began enjoying some performance boosts and bug eradication, others ran into trouble. 'Unreadable Disk' message We have confirmed reports of users receiving multiple error messages stating that disks are unreadable after restarting a system with Mac OS X 10.2.2 freshly installed.
Joseph Hough's problem mirror other reports: 'Right after the Mac OS X splash screen, I get multiple cascading windows saying 'You have inserted a disk that is unreadable by Mac OS X,' even though no disks other than the main volume are mounted. There are two button choices: Ignore or Eject.
Either one closes the window, but multiple new identical windows then appear.' Third-Party Quartz Extreme Disabling MacFixIt reader Jason reports that the Mac OS X 10.2.2 update turned off a third party enabler's Quartz Extreme rendering on his upgraded Beige Power Macintosh G3: 'After updating my beige G3 (upgraded to G4/500) to 10.2.2, iMovie would crash whenever I tried importing video via Firewire.After basic troubleshooting, I found the cause.
I have a Radeon 7000 and have used utility to enable Quartz Extreme. The 10.2.2 update disabled the Quartz Extreme. Once I re-ran the PCI Extreme installer, I had no problems with iMovie.' Holdover bugs There are a number of bugs held over from Mac OS X 10.2.1 that users hoped would be resolved in Mac OS X 10.2.2. Among them is a problem with UDF file reading that causes incompatibility with some Panasonic DVD-R drives. Frank Bry writes: 'Just updated to OS X 10.2.2 from 10.2.1 on my PB G4/800 DVI and My DVD-Rs made with a Panasonic DMR-E20 DVD-R recorder still do not play.
The disc appears on the desktop as 'DVD VideoRecorder.' The finder shows zero data and no visible files. The DVD data is unrecognized by either the DVD Player or other apps such as VideoLanClient.'
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