![]() Here’s hoping this helps someone out in the wild. This caused my machine not to boot correctly, and I had to repair it using another machine. One warning: do not install the Leopard FireWire (not FireWireAudio) drivers from the 24 SDK. I don’t know why installing the latest SDK FW base drivers and the FireWireAudio 2.4 drivers first was required before the 2.0.1 drivers would correctly fire up, but it was. Go to the System Preferences > Sound panel and try sound output to the Onyx Firewire 0838. ![]() Look for AppleFWAudio, and make sure it is version 2.0.1. Select Software > Extensions on the left-hand browser.From the Apple menu, select About this Mac, then click the More Info button to start System Profiler.From /Developer/FireWireSDK24/FireWireComponents, install the FireWireAudio 2.0.1 drivers.Look for AppleFWAudio, and make sure it is version 2.4.0. From /Developer/FireWireSDK26/FireWireComponents, install the FireWireAudio 2.4 drivers.From /Developer/FireWireSDK26/FireWireComponents, install the Leopard Final drivers.This will create directories under /Developer on your system drive. Mount both image files and install the package files from both (FireWireSDK26.pkg and the confusingly-named FireWireSDK23.pkg).Download both the FireWire SDK 26 for Mac OSX and the FireWire SDK 24 for Mac OSX.It’s free, and required to download the software you need. Sign up for an Apple Developer Connection account.Here’s how I managed to finally get everything working correctly under Apple OSX 10.5.5: Mackie lists this audio driver rollback (PDF) on their website, but the first try at it didn’t work. (Power cycling the Onyx allowed the Force Quit to work.) Actually running my DAW made things worse the application would hang, and Force Quit didn’t help. When playing audio from the Mac to the Onyx (just from the System Preferences Sound panel, selecting the Onyx FireWire 0838 output for system sounds and clicking the Purr sound – no DAW software), I’d get the spinning beachball for ~10s, then stuttering, clicking, popping sound would come out. After upgrading Waynemanor Studio’s Intel-based Mac to OSX 10.5 (10.5.5), I was unable to get the Mackie Onyx 1640 FireWire interface to stream audio successfully to/from the Mac.
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