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Posted by: macmidiguy Tue 24 May 2005, 03:57

Are you using a M-Audio USB MIDISport 8 x 8 midi interface in Mac's OS TIGER ?

I have a nagging problem with installing and then having to re-installing the driver for the midi interface in Mac's OS TIGER.

I've got M-Audio's currently available driver.

No problems in Panther just with TIGER.

I sure would like to hear from anyone using the above noted midi interface

Posted by: wafletch Fri 3 Jun 2005, 20:31

I am having this very same problem, and so am also interested in a solution. M-Audio says the driver's been OK'd for Tiger.

Posted by: macmidiguy Wed 8 Jun 2005, 22:13

Sure, the driver works in Tiger however what I still don't understand is why do I have to re-install it after a computer shut down?


Any who m-audio tech guy has this solution:

techsupt wrote:

I would recommend that you uninstall all your M-Audio driver software through the Terminal utility, reinstall with the latest version from our website, and then repair your disk permissions (see below). It sounds like you have some software problems going on.







It is sometimes necessary to completely remove a previous installation of the packages and files that are installed with your M-Audio interface. In OS X, especially 10.3.x, the only way to safely remove all of the components of an install is to log in as the root user, or to use the Terminal utility.



You may use the Terminal utility to remove the previous installation of the driver. This requires that you be careful however, and enter the commands exactly as stated. The OSX Terminal utility requires precision in its command line. Unless the command is entered correctly serious damage can be done to your OS. Commands are case sensitive.



First of all, do a search (Apple key + F) for m-audio and leave the results window open.



Next, open the Terminal utility (in your hard drive, look in Applications-->Utilities-->Terminal) and type:







sudo rm -R







Make sure that you type the space bar after the capital R, in other words:







sudo_rm_-R_







Now drag the file names into the Terminal window from the search results window and they will be correctly entered there. There must be a space between each filename.



Be careful not to move the files which are not related to M-Audio software, there may be some unrelated files which turn up as a result of your search.



After dragging all the files into the Terminal window so their names appear, hit Enter and you will prompted for your administrator password. Type your password and then hit Enter.



If at any point the Terminal asks you if you wish to override permissions, simply hit 'y' and Enter again.



After doing this, repeat the same search with the search terms 'maudio' and 'm audio' and erase them as well using the same procedure.



Please be aware that if you have more than one M-Audio interface, or have downloaded an M-Audio driver from our website that the search will show these results as well.







Then repair your disk permissions:



On your OS X system drive, go in the Applications>Utilities folder and double-click the Disk Utility. Select your system boot volume on the left (the named drive), and then click the First Aid tab on the right and click the button on that page that says Repair Disk Permissions.



This will take a few minutes, it is a general maintenance routine for the OS, very important to ensure the proper functioning of MIDI and audio.









Hope this helps, let us know if you need further assistance.



John von



John von Seggern

Email Support Supervisor




However, I'm brave enough to use the OS X "Terminal".

Posted by: camarao Mon 13 Jun 2005, 15:16

This is ridiculous !

Is this the simplicity of OSX ?!

Posted by: macmidiguy Tue 14 Jun 2005, 12:46

Exactly, M-Audio Tech support should have created an AppleScript to do all that. Why should I take a chance running the "Terminal" typing in all those commands. Make one typo and your system is fuzzed. That happened to me a long time ago. So now I never ever use the "terminal".