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Expose, Dock, USB, and EyeTV Weirdness
Today Expose stopped working. I also noticed that the Dock magnification didn’t work (I normally hide the Dock) and the submenus under the Apple in the top-left corner wouldn’t open.
First I restarted the Dock. No joy, so I restarted Finder. No joy, so I escalated to logging out. Still no joy, so I rebooted the computer. The problem is still there. My exocortex (Google) doesn’t seem to know anything.
Then doing something else, I unplugged the USB hub and viola the problem is solved. A little investigation shows that it’s my EyeTV Hybrid that’s causing the grief. When I unplug it, Expose works fine. When it’s plugged in, Expose will work once, then quit. I reinstalled the EyeTV software and the problem seems to have gone away.
What a weird interaction.
Posted by windley on February 10, 2007 11:19 PM
Comment from Joe Philipson at April 11, 2007 2:17 PM
Thanks a bunch man. I just had the same problem 30 seconds ago and it was really starting to get me angry. I discovered that one of my hard drives was not mounted but was plugged in. I ejected everything and now everything works again. Who woulda thought. Something so easy eh?
Comment from GoLinux at July 10, 2007 6:29 AM
On my old imac widescreen, I can no longer run other programs while running eyetv. It is neither a tv or computer, not both. A real bummer. But I no longer have the computer in a total freeze up. Hopefully I can still use vlc to stream eye programs to other computers, have not tried that yet. Has any one tried to run eyetv hardware on linux?
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