See also: Emacs Notes

10.8 (Mountain Lion)

• "How To Fix Slow Wake Up Time On MacBook Pro With Retina" -- Note: Since a recent update (~December 2012) this affects other machines also.

  Change standby delay to twelve hours with:

      sudo pmset -a standbydelay 43200
  

  (Note: If you copy and paste make sure it's a hyphen before the a.)

  (Update: This doesn't appear to have made any difference.)

  • 2013-02-03: Trying sudo pmset -c autopoweroffdelay 43200 (via). (Sets the undocumented power off delay to 12 hours, instead of the default 4, when on a charger.)

  • 2013-02-05: Well, changing the autopoweroffdelay value seems to work--I've not actually confirmed it entirely but from looking at the logs the hibernation happens 12 hours after the sleep. I've changed it to 24 hours with sudo pmset -c autopoweroffdelay 86400 because apparently sometimes there's more than 12 hours between wake and sleep when I use my computer. :D

• PS3 controller see: https://github.com/walchko/osx_joystick & http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=15836317&postcount=9

USB Prober

This utility is no longer shipped with OS X.

An (somewhat) alternative is to view the USB section of the System Information tool.

Or, run this in a terminal (via "lsusb on OS X"):

    system_profiler SPUSBDataType

(Also see: "Is there an equivalent of lsusb for OS X")

Updated Nvidia GPU Drivers (on not officially supported machines)

• Modifications required (using pkgutil --expand & editing Distribution file):

  • "Updated - nVidia 10.9.3 & 10.9.4 web driver modded to skip system check."
  • "How to Install OSX Drivers on Unsupported Systems"
  • "Terrible framerates for games on OS X" re: 650M
  • "Significantly Faster nVidia Video Drivers for OSX 10.10.4" re: 650M
  • "Using a Thunderbolt Video Card with a MacBook Pro"

• Driver versions:

  • NVIDIA DRIVERS Quadro & GeForce Mac OS X Driver Release 346.02.02
    • "Graphics driver updated for Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.4 (14E46)"
    • "BETA support is for iMac 14,2 / 14,3 (2013), iMac 13,1 / 13,2 (2012) and MacBook Pro 11,3 (2013), MacBook Pro 10,1 (2012), and MacBook Pro 9,1 (2012) users. "

  • Quadro & GeForce Mac OS X Driver Release 313.01.03

    • "Mac OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5 (12F45)"

  • see also: http://www.macvidcards.com/drivers.html & http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/video.html#cards

Sony Bridge for Mac OS (for older versions)

• "Sony Bridge for Mac OS | Download Direct Link"
• "sony bridge for mac 10.5.8"

Other tools

• Monolingual -- "program for removing unnecessary language resources"

7 November 2017¶

• Notes on getting LLVM/Clang 5.0 running on Mac OS X 10.8.5 (in order to get Address Sanitiser support):

  1. Downloaded pre-built binaries (http://releases.llvm.org/5.0.0/clang+llvm-5.0.0-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.xz) from http://releases.llvm.org/download.html#5.0.0 (Note that while there are Release Notes, they don't include the release date--but the web site news lists release dates.)

23 December 2017¶

• Related to trying to get the Canon LBP 6000 printer working reliably:

  "Canon LBP6000/LBP6018"

14 January 2018¶

• One of the many errors you can get if you're trying to compile with C++11 on an older version of Mac OS X (e.g. 10.8.5):

      error: no template named 'forward' in namespace 'std'; did you mean simply 'forward'?
  

  Which means that you need to add (in addition to -std=c++11 which is probably already there) -stdlib=libc++ to your CXX_FLAGS or similar.

  e.g. in CMakeLists.txt modify a line like:

      set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "... -stdlib=libc++")
  

  Related links:

  • "Compilation fails with some compiler configurations #3"