Non-universal binary drivers--risky?

I have a Lexmark x75 PrinTrio printer/scanner and since it was the handiest scanner I had when I needed to scan something on my Intel iMac, I downloaded the driver and installed it. Due to the absence of Print Center, the printer part (which I don't need anyway) didn't complete its configuration, but the scanner is working fine.
Depending on which page you visit on the Lexmark site, the driver either is or isn't Tiger compatible and it's PPC native, not a Universal Binary. There's nothing more up to date to run this scanner with, and nothing bad happened when I made the scan... is it safe to use such an old driver that isn't Intel native? If not, how should I best get rid of it (the Installer doesn't have an uninstall option and it didn't produce a log that I could find)?
Thanks,
Bill

As long as it's working properly, I wouldn't worry about it. I can't see any problems with running a scanner driver in Rosetta; it shouldn't affect anything else.

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Will non-universal-binary Logic+plugins run on an Intel Mac?

Hi,
this may sound like a dumb question, but I haven't found a straightforward answer on this question yet: will my Logic 7.1 (not Universal Binary) install on an Intel-Mac?? Our local Mac store expected that Rosatta will take care of everything, and that only performance will suffer a bit.
That would mean that all non-universal-binary plugins would run, too??!!
Just curious...
Thanks!
Regards,
Jaap
eMac Mac OS X (10.3.9) Logic Express

Hi Jaap,
In a word, nope!
It seems you're more informed than your local dealer, :o)
Rosetta will not handle the plug-ins & third party (AU) need the (U B) upgrades. You need the 7.2 (U. Binary) to run logic on the new Intel machines.
Best regards,
Jorge

No NON-Universal binary program will run

So after loading itunes 7.0.2 for my new shuffle, my non universal binary programs will run. not sure where to put this questions. When you go to run the program it will bounce once in the dock and won't open. Universal binary programs work fine.
Steps I have taken
1. reloaded a program so see if it would work
2. repaired disk
3. repaired permissions
4. created separate user and ran program under that user
5. Reset the PRAM
6. tried something called update pre-bindings, but this wouldn't work.
does anyone have any ideas

Archive and install installs a new System Folder next to your old System Folder, with your old User settings. For more details, please look at this KBase article: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301270
Afterwards, you should reinstall third party applications. In the installation dialogs, you can choose which languages you want to install.

Do older USB1 sound devices need Universal Binary drivers?

Or does UB not affect drivers?

UB affects everything! If the drivers are not built into the OS, then you require drivers.
jord

Office 2007 Universal Binary?

Hey everyone, I am going to buy an iMac soon, and will have to purchase Office soon. Does anyone know if it is planned(if at all) to have an Office 2004 UB or just release it as UB in Office 2007. If anyone on the intel core duo iMac with 1GB of memory or less uses the non universal binary version of Office, can you give me a report on how well it runs with Rosetta? Thanks
Max

As far as we know, Office should be a UB on the next release.
It runs, albeit slowly on the stock 512MB that I had in my BlackBook. The added RAM really does make a big difference. If you are running any apps through Rosetta a realistic minimum is 1GB for the RAM. Anything less and you will be choking the system.

Universal Binary scanner not showing in CS4

This works in CS3, but I cannot get several scanners o show up. They are all universal binary drivers and they work in CS3 running natively. Is there something different in CS4 in the way of scanning support? Does anyone have their scanner working through CS4 successfully? If so, what scanner? I'm using one of the newer Canon scanners.
Thanks.

The TWAIN.plugin is available in the downloads section on the adobe website.
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=39&platform=Macintosh
if you're on the mac. You need the file:
Adobe Photoshop CS4 Optional plug-ins and ReadMe
English, Spanish and French
Why is it inefficient? I hate the MP Navigator and scanning software included with the Canons that they make you use. I much prefer scanning from inside photoshop.

Old school, has anyone here been able to install and run Logic Pro 9.1 on a dual 1.8 G5 PPC? I know LP9 is not officialy supported on non Intel CPUs, But 9.0.0 and 9. 02 are ok on the G5 PPC as it is universal Binary, while I hear 9.1 wont work

has anyone here been able to install and run Logic Pro 9.1 on a dual 1.8 G5 PPC? I know LP9 is not officialy supported on non Intel CPUs, But 9.0.0 and
9. 02 are ok on the G5 PPC as it is universal Binary, while I hear 9.1 wont work.

ok thanks, that's what I tought,looks like apple machines are only good for two - three years, the software developers are ahead of the hardware to a certain point, love macs but this is forcing us to buy new macs just to keep up with development. There was a time it was the opposite.
By the time we get up on new stuff it's time to change again. Gotta be rich to deal with macs ...LOL

10.4.4 Universal binary question...

Anyone knows if the fact that 10.4.4 is universal binary means that installation in a non Intel may be different than it is now? Will there be code installed in my machine that it won't need, or will it only install the PowerPC version? Will it have an impact on the new features announced? Is any software included with 10.4.4 only Intel ready? (widgets, new versions of software, printer drivers, etc.?)
Thanks,
Mauro.
PowerBook G4 Ti 1Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.3) 1Gb RAM

No. To everything. :o)

How to tell if an app is "Universal Binary" i.e. Intel-compatible?

I have various freeware and shareware apps on my new MacBook Pro which I "migrated" over from an old PowerBook G4 which I had been using until getting my new MBP last week. To whatever extent possible, I want to avoid using old PowerPC-chip designed apps, since they'd have to go through Rosetta translation in order to work, but using Rosetta extensively slows down Snow Leopard's snappy response time.
So, I want to make sure that each app is designed to be Intel-compatible. And if it isn't, I will try to track down a newer version, or if there aren't any, then find a replacement app that will do the same function.
However, I don't have documentation or "read me" files for most of these older share/freeware applications, so it's not easy to tell just from "looking at them" whether or not they were written in Universal Binary (or in some other Intel-compatible way). One could always look at the date the application was made, and if it's really really old, then one could assume that it's not Intel compatible; and if it's really really new, then one could assume that it is compatible. Unfortunately, most of the apps are from that exact transitional period when some apps were made for PowerPC, some for Intel, and some Universal Binary, etc. -- mostly they're from the 2006-2009 era.
So: Is there some method for "peering inside" applications to see if they're written in Universal Binary?
As an example:
I have a program called flvThing 1.0.1. If I control-click its icon, choose "Show package contents," then go flvThing>Contents>MacOS>flvThing, and do "Get Info" on the excutable file therein, it says "Unix Executable File (Universal)." Does that mean that it was written in Universal Binary?
If that's true, can I use this same method to peer inside most/any apps and see if they are a "Unix Executable File (Universal)"? Or is there some other method for finding this out?
Any suggestions would be most appreciated. Thanks.

Yow! That was easy! Thanks. Worked like a charm. "Solved."
Two follow-up questions:
1. I see five ancient apps listed as being "Classic." I presume that I might as well Trash those right now, since no Classic apps will ever run in the Post-Snow-Leopard world? None of these five Classic apps are important or necessary, so trashing them is not a problem.
2. Some of my Intel apps are listed as being 64-bit, and some as not 64-bit. Should this concern me? Does it matter? I presume that both 64-bit Intel apps and non-64-bit Intel apps will both work perfectly fine on my i5 MacBook Pro 15" -- right?

Can I download and use non-Universal Games like Bookworm and Word Whomp ?

Can I download and use non-Universal Games like Bookworm and Word Whomp on my Macbook Pro? If I can, will they interfere with the computer's functions in any way? What about non-Universal widgets? Thanks.

hi Chevaux - Welcome to apple discussions!
i dont know how resource-intensive those apps are but you can certainly run them. if they are not universal binary they'll operate through an emulation layer called Rosetta. there's a performance penalty there, but if the app is not intensive in the first place, and/or you've maxxed out the RAM, you might very well not notice the penalty at all...
i assume the same comments apply to non-UB widgets, but as i abhor Dashboard i don't use it at all.......
cheers

HELP!!!--- Canon Pixma MG5420 Mac OS X 10.5.8 PowerPC Universal Binary Print Driver...... ---

Greetings Everyone!
I am a bit miffed at the moment.
I purchased a Canon Pixma MG5420 Print-Copy-Scan machine with the intention of using it with my Power Mac G5, PowerPC, Mac OS X 10.5.8.
But alas. Apparently it is not to be. The box in which the printer came cleary displays the Mac Logo and the Universal Logo, the Universal Logo looking like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_binary
The Mac OS X system requirements also notate the OS X to be a minimum of 10.5.8!
The driver CD only contains drivers for Mac OS X Intel.
So Someone....ANYONE!....please tell me why Canon has stooped to this low level of "False Advertising"???
Let's FLAG this issue and find out WHY!
NEED HELP!
....and could use working drivers!

IT"S OFFICIAL!---> Canon has stopped porting any of their drivers to the Universal Binary format for MAC OS X which is a combo installer for PowerPC and Intel machines.
The MG5420 MFP that I have was released in December 2012 and they *said* that I was the first person to "complain" of this issue!....REALLY!?!?....wow...so there is no one else out there using the PowerPC platform??? I find the G5 (model M9592LL/A) to be quite adequate and useable for what I do! I guess the engineers couldn't be bothered to "port" it to the PowerPC platform! Listen Canon, if you don't think the PowerPC is still useable, go visit http://www.macofalltrades.com/ and watch the "trend" of what sells and what doesn't.....or maybe you should call another authority of Apple products http://www.macsales.com/ and ask what volume of PowerPC compatible parts they sell?!
And Canon, I know you offered to buy back this "mistake", but for the $99 I bought it at, (extra set of ink not included) I may just hold on to it and do the "workaround" of scanning to and printing from a Windows XP PC shared folder...No, Canon, I'm not completely stupid!....I set-up MFP's for my job, so I know a little bit about networking! ...enough to be dangerous, at least! ;-) Any way, I just got this G5 a year or so ago and it is new to me...I probably wait a little longer and then get an Intel Mac, and THEN it will work natively with this INTEL CANON!....LOL!
What do you think?!.....Thoughts?.....Ideas?
Oh, and Canon.....get your "engineering" team and your marketing "box makers/printers" in Thailand to get their "info" to correspond and be accurate....that way there will be no false advertising and misrepresentation of Apple's "Intellectual Property" and "breach of contract!.....You darn well know they have an "Image" to uphold!
https://developer.apple.com/softwarelicensing/agreements/maclogo.html
CHEERS!
PS--you better watch your back Canon on this little faux pas!....Epson might use this to their advertising advantage!....they still support Universal Binary!

Forcing Epson driver to update to 3.5 (Universal Binary)

I was having problems with an Epson Stylus Pro 7800. When printing from Photoshop CS3, all of the custom printer options such as "Print Settings" and "Paper Configuration" were unavailable (they were there, but crossed out with a strikethrough). If I selected one of them, I was told that the Epson PrintSetting version 2.7 wasn't compatible. Presumably because I was on an Intel iMac and the drivers weren't Universal. A FAQ on Epson's site confirmed this. Non-Universal programs could still use the custom options.
So I downloaded and installed the latest drivers (3.5). The installation went fine, but the problem never went away. I looked in the System Profiler, and the drivers were still listed as 2.75.
I looked through the Library folder and found the drivers. Sure enough, the old driver (2.7) was still in:
/Library/Printers/EPSON/SPro7800.plugin
I found the new driver (3.5), split into two parts here:
/Library/Printers/EPSON/InkjetPrinters/SPro7800.plugin
/Library/Printers/EPSON/InkjetPrinters/PrintingModule/SPro7800_Core.plugin
If you view the package contents, you'll see that the two new drivers together hold all the contents that were in the original one, so I made a new SPro7800.plugin that contained the combined contents. Especially important for this problem is the "PDEs" folder. To reflect the new location of these PDEs, I had to edit the PDEs.xml file found in the Resources directory.
Finally, I took out the old driver and replaced it with the new one I made. Upon restarting, System Profiler recognized the new version and Universal apps could now access the custom print options.
So anyway, that was kind of a pain, but I figured I'd post it here in case someone else has the same problem. But really, Epson needs to fix their updater.

An easier approach:
1. Delete the Epson folder and all of its contents. (All of the existing ones will be for non Intel Macs.)
2. Restart the computer
3. Install the OSX Intel Epson driver of your choice.

Will Snow Leopard run older PPC software, pre-universal binary stuff?

Hi there
I know this is probably the most stupid question in the world, and I know that Snow Leopard dropped support for PPC and is intel only.
Does this mean that I could no longer run my CS2, MS Office 2004 and Quark 6.5 (as none of these were universal binary apps, and are all written for PPC architecture)? Or is it just SL will only install on Intel macs?
Thanks in advance

PPC is supported, but there are some PPC applications that are too old for Snow Leopard. You should check all that you use for the latest info BEFORE updating. I think there are problems with CS2. It is not officially supported in Leopard, but may work there. CS3 is not officially supported, but does work.
Is there a 'best' way to upgrade? clean install and retrieve data from time machine backup? Complete rebuild? Install over the top of Leopard?
Any method should work if your applications are up to date, and your existing system has no problems. If your current system is old, though, it may have some forgotten applications or modifications that could cause upgrade problems.
The safest way (but more work) is to erase the drive, install Snow Leopard, update to 10.6.2, copy just user accounts and data from your Time Machine backup, and install the latest versions of applications.
If possible, make a bootable backup of your system drive before you start. That will protect you against any possible problems with the Time Machine backup.

HT1557 where do i find Universal Binary Component compatible with Intel-based Macintosh that allows quicktime to show video?

where do i find the link to the Universal Binary Component compatible with Intel-based Macintosh that allows quicktime to show video?

I think your question is too vague to get an answer.
You're asking for a 'Universal Binary component' for your 'Intel-based Macintosh'. Why universal binary?
universal binaries are designed to work on both PowerPC and Intel machines. If you're using an Intel machine why do you need PowerPC support?
Also, you want something that 'allows QuickTime to show video'. Well, not to be glib, but QuickTIme does video - that's it's raison d'etre. Therefore I think your question is more about how to get QuickTime to show a specific (non-standard?) video format. Without knowing what that format is, it's impossible to answer your question directly.
That said, maybe the place to start is Apple's QuickTime Components index.

Will my non-Universal AUs work on a Logic IntelMac

Everybody is talking about the switch to Intel and Logic being the first Pro app to ship in Universal Mode. Great, no you can run Logic on an IntelMac. But I haven't seen any discussion about the Plug-in issue.
Here is my thought:
* Let's assume that all third party AU plug-ins have to be in Universal to run in Logic on an IntelMac
* Lets's assume I get my Logic 7.2 upgrade (order confirmation from yesterday says : shipping on Feb-13)
* Let's assume I get an Intel iMac to run Logic.
* Conclusion: I would have spend $49 for a Logic Universal upgrade version which I can't use with any of my (20 or so non-Universal) AU plugins
By the time most of the Plug-ins are upgraded Logic Pro 8 would be out - for another upgrade fee. So what's the purpose of having a Universal Logc version if there is not a single third party plug-in available?
How about Rosetta. Can I run Logic in native Intel mode and all the non-Universal plug-ins switch to Rosetta emulation? That sounds like asking for a major instability-desastor.
Did anybody discuss that issue with Apple at NAMM or on the phone?

Applications which are running native on Intel Macs can't load any plugins that are non-native. This means that non-native AudioUnits won't be recognized by a native Application. However - for emergencies - it seems to be possible to run Logic Pro 7.2 under Rosetta with PowerPC AudioUnits. I have no idea, what the performance in general would be, but it might give you a chance to bounce a file, etc.
WARNING: It is not trivial, because you not only have to launch Logic Pro under Rosetta, but also the Logic AU Manager (hidden inside Logic Pro) and - to push it to the limit - the auval tool has to be stripped (don't forget a backup!) to remove the Intel code. Otherwise the PowerPC AudioUnits will not be recognized by the system and Logic Pro.
I seems that MIDI drivers and Audio drivers always have to be native to work on an Intel Mac. Makes sense, non-real time for them doesn't make sense at all!

Non-universal binary drivers--risky?

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