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Okay, I bought another Cube, this time with the speakers.
As was predictable they worked with the Cube, but not on later Macs. I did the usual searching and did a hardware mod to the speaker amplifier board as set out here:
http://www.cubeowner.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=13516&st=15
And after the mod (which had a couple of tricky soldering joints to do) the speakers will work on all my computers.
Only after having done the hardware mod though did I re-read some of the threads on here and see there is apparently a kext that will let them work on later Mac OS'es and non Cubes without having to do a hardware mod.
So, to my questions: 1. My amplifier board seems to me to get quite warm. Does the kext hacked version also get warm to the touch??? 2. (and this is probably the power issue) do the speakers get very flaky and difficult when not used from a powered hub and if so what symptoms do they show?
Thanks for your help!
As was predictable they worked with the Cube, but not on later Macs. I did the usual searching and did a hardware mod to the speaker amplifier board as set out here:
http://www.cubeowner.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=13516&st=15
And after the mod (which had a couple of tricky soldering joints to do) the speakers will work on all my computers.
Only after having done the hardware mod though did I re-read some of the threads on here and see there is apparently a kext that will let them work on later Mac OS'es and non Cubes without having to do a hardware mod.
So, to my questions: 1. My amplifier board seems to me to get quite warm. Does the kext hacked version also get warm to the touch??? 2. (and this is probably the power issue) do the speakers get very flaky and difficult when not used from a powered hub and if so what symptoms do they show?
Thanks for your help!