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USB Overdrive

Driver for usb mice, trackballs, joysticks, gamepads, keyboards.

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Conflicts with PowerMate in Mac OS X 10.5.4

Feedback Type: Troubleshooting Report

Contributed by: Greg Koster Thursday, August 07 2008 @ 10:14 AM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Over One Year

I recently upgraded to a new iMac with Leopard (10.5.4) and was dismayed to find that the PowerMate wasn't responding. Griffin tech support suggested uninstalling and reinstalling, and mentioned that USB Overdrive sometimes seems to conflict.

Everything had been working fine on the previous iMac with Tiger.

Bottom line: uninstalling both and reinstalling only PowerMate fixed the problem. Then installing USB Overdrive once again disabled the PowerMate. Disabling USB Overdrive didn't fix it, but uninstalling USB Overdrive got the PowereMate working again. So there's clearly a conflict between these two programs under Leopard.

Bummer to have to choose between two of my favorite add-ons, but for now the PowerMate wins out.