Re: Keyboard no longer being recognized in game apps!

Question

This one is quite a baffling.  I finally upgraded from an iMac PPC G5 Light Sensor system running 10.5.9 to the new iMac Intel 3.1 GHz quad core i5 running 10.7.2 with 16 GB of RAM.  Great system, loving the 27" monitor but I did invest some extra cash in a 2 GB video card to make game play that much better.  That said, when I first got the system fully operational I tried playing The Force Unleashed using the wireless keyboard and track pad, it was a tricky set up but everything worked perfectly.
A couple days later I came back to play the game and surprise the keyboard was no longer recognized except when I use "command Q" to quit the game, weird.  I open a couple of other games and the same story though I am unable to quit out of those games, that was annoying.  I tried deleting all the bluetooth devices and re-adding them, no dice.  I tried using a usb keyboard, also no affect.  I went out and bought an xBox USB game controller and loaded the software to use it. The controller is seen and I was able to configure the xBox controller in the finder but once again it doesn't work in the game and The Force Unleashed even has an option for it.
I have gone over the system prefs panes for both the keyboard and the track pad, resetting them to factory defaults but still the same story.  This is baffling because the keybaord and track pad worked great for a few days and now I can't seem to get any interface device to work with the games I own.  I am now guessing it's one of two things, first when the bluetooth interface data was imported from my PPC iMac it got corrputed and is causing these problems.  I say this because the keyboard that came with the new system failed to work even after I delete the older bluetooth keyboard profile and recreated a new profile for the new keyboard (the newer keyboard magically started working after many hours of attempting to re-associating it with the new iMac).  Second, there could be some odd instability with Lion's interface drivers or the interface driver architecture as I have been a Mac engineer for many years and have never seen anything quite as baffling as this problem.
Any help is greatly appreciated!!  In the meantime I am building an external tech drive with plans to boot from it and run DiskWarrior 4.4 against the new system in the hope of repairing an corrupted files that might be causing this issue.  Cheers!

Answer 1

Vaio wouldn't know Mac file system from a hole in the wall unless it has Mediafour's Macdrive software.
It isn't so much updating 10.3, it is more updating your Disk Warrior to match your operating system. What version of Disk Warrior do you have?
P.S. note this is the 10.4 forums for Tiger. 10.3 is Panther. Future questions regarding 10.3 should be directed to the 10.3 and earlier forums. Though I'm happy to continue to try to solve your problem here.