OK this post has almost nothing to do with my usual photography topics. But many portrait photographers use portable speakers and projectors for presenting images to their clients. And Logitech has been very bad at making these speakers compatible with the latest software releases. After an hour of searching and hacking, I’ve come up with a solution, and thought that I would post it so as to be helpful to others. This post will also work for getting other Logitech products such as keyboards working with Snow Leopard, until Logitech can bother to get around to supporting their devices on the latest OS releases.
Step 1: Download the Logitech Control Center: http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/494/3129&cl=us,en I needed to do this step order to get the Macbook Pro to ‘see’ the speakers. This step is possibly also helpful in getting the speakers to work on older OS-X versions such as 10.5.x Leopard.
Step 2: Snow Leopard won’t install the software, since it isn’t signed to support 10.6.x. So rather than directly opening the Logitech Control Center Installer, you first need to locate the downloaded file in the Finder, then right click, and select ‘Show Package Contents’. Navigate to Contents>Resources and double-click Logitech Control Center.mpkg. This will install the software.
Step 3: Go to System Preferences>Hardware>Sound>Output. Hopefully you see the Logitech USB Speaker listed as a possible output device.
That’s it!
by stevez
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