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Changing extension load order

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Syntho:
I upgraded my machine with a Sonnet CPU and the extension it installed is the very first one that's loaded. That's because they put a space in front of _Sonnet to get it to load first (replace the underscore with a space and you'll see what I mean). Extensions load in alphabetical order.

I also have a MOTU driver inside a folder called MOTU in the extensions folder. The driver itself is called "PCI - 324 Driver" with no space in front of it. However, even so, it loads in 1st place anyway. I don't see how this can be loading first because it starts with a P.

How can I get the PCI - 324 extension to load after the Sonnet extension? There's something forcing it to load first.

I think since the PCI MOTU driver is loading first that it's not getting that Sonnet CPU goodness and it's causing freezing.

Syntho:
I don't know much about programming but it's looking like I'm going to have to hack this driver, or the Sonnet driver manually. I was told that in the resource fork of the driver they used a non-printable character to get it to load first.

I don't know anything about hacking or programming but I've used ResEdit and Hex editors before. I think I'd rather edit the Sonnet extension and input non-printable characters on it to get that one to load first instead of messing with the PCI 324 driver.

Anyone know how to do this?

supernova777:
not i, but it sounds like u are movin in the right direction

Syntho:
If anyone is curious, here are the drivers. I don't know if you'll experience what I'm experiencing, but I get freezing as soon as both drivers are loaded, so be careful.

I think we've got a better chance of fooling with the Sonnet driver and adding something to that one to get it to load first rather than fooling with the PCI 324 driver.

Syntho:
Moving the MOTU driver to the System Folder, renaming it, and creating an alias and dropping that into the Extensions folder all don't work. Now that I think of it, the driver isn't even showing up in the Extensions Manager.

Don't tell me I've got to buy another CPU upgrade....

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