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Eclipse and Intel Macs - apply QuickTime 7.1.1 update
At 6:47 PM on May 31, 2006, Alex Blewitt
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It's quite likely that this is a driver issue with Mac OS X on Intel that was causing some of these problems, and Apple's released QuickTime 7.1.1 that claims to fix some issues with startup items for Intel macs. In any case, bug 142892 has been tracking it, and it looks like applying this fix solves whatever the graphics card issue is, and Eclipse is running again.
If only I had an Intel Mac to try it out on
I guess Roman's disappointed; no sooner had I posted my blog entry suggesting this might be an opportune time to try and convince people to run NetBeans than the reports of the QuickTime update fixing the problem started flooding in.
Needless to say, if you've got an Intel Mac, you might be well advised to apply the 7.1.1 update.
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Re: Eclipse and Intel Macs - apply QuickTime 7.1.1 update
Weird, is it just opening the browser locks it up, or opening the browser then using some quicktime functionality?Thanks for posting the tip though, I wouldn't have thunk it.
Re: Eclipse and Intel Macs - apply QuickTime 7.1.1 update
It looked like some kind of graphic was corrupting the state on the graphics card, with the result that the entire system freezes and has to be rebooted. Even reinstalls didn't seem to help, so it's possible there was weird stuff happening (that might have been solvable by some kind of NVRam reset) but applying the QuickTime patch (which often has low-level acceleration for the graphics card) resets the graphics card back to a good state, and the problem doesn't seem to reappear.QuickTime goes down deep into the kernel and graphics architecture; it's not just a video playing application on the Mac. Also, a lot of the Eclipse/SWT controls hook into the carbon UI methods, which are often the same ones that are used by QuickTime.
Alex.
Re: Eclipse and Intel Macs - apply QuickTime 7.1.1 update
Low level issues like this can affect everyone, including AWT/Swing.Steve
Re: Eclipse and Intel Macs - apply QuickTime 7.1.1 update
> I guess Roman's disappointed; no sooner had I posted> my > href="http://alblue.blogspot.com/2006/05/eclipsemac-ec
> lipse-on-macintel-minor.html">blog entry
> suggesting this might be an opportune time to try and
> convince people to run NetBeans than the reports of
> the QuickTime update fixing the problem started
> flooding in.
No, I'm not disappointed... I don't need to convince everyone to move to NetBeans at any price... I'm not such a fanatic