General Haiku Discussion

Will Haiku work on my hardware?

Forum thread started by Linuxgamer94 on Thu, 2013-09-12 01:17

As I mentioned I want to try Haiku how ever I have no idea if it will suport all of my devices. I know that it does not suport the 360 controler witch is a shame as it puts emmlators out of the question. I don't know how to do this so I will just ring it and if possible post it on Haikuware if they work.
I have a two computers that I want to run Haiku on:
desktop:
Memory:867.7 MiB
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor LE-1640
Grahics card:Gallium 0.4 on NV4C
Keyboard: Emachines kb0511
Mouse: grey PS/2 HP mo42kob optical mouse with track whell.
description: Motherboard
product: MCP61PM-GM
vendor: eMachines
physical id: 0
version: 2.2
serial: OEM
*-firmware
description: BIOS
vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
physical id: 0
version: 6.00 PG
I checked on the haikuware site and none of my hardware is on there, but do you guys think that Haiku will work on it anyway. Thank you for your time.
date: 10/29/2008
size: 128KiB
capacity: 960KiB

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Opt key

Forum thread started by Linuxgamer94 on Thu, 2013-09-12 00:28

General Haiku Discussion

Yeah I just came from the Haiku documentation and it keept going on about the opt key. WHAT? Is this an error of some sort as I checked and none of my keyboards have an opt key. Is it part of a speical Haiku only keyboard or some thing or is it just a renameing of a certain key and if it is why not explain it in the bloody manual.

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Making the ultimate creative content OS from bits of Windows, Mac, and Linux

Forum thread started by Akuji on Mon, 2013-09-09 05:58

General Haiku Discussion

Interesting article appeared on ArsTechnica today: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/09/making-the-ultimat... Maybe some features requested from pro-users could end up in R2?

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Ivy Bridge HD4000 - HDMI Output doesn't work!?

Forum thread started by Dmitriy87 on Wed, 2013-09-04 09:51

General Haiku Discussion

Hi!
When i booting from USB (HAIKU Anyboot hrev46016) all loading is OK!
But i get black screen monitor and flickering power button immediately after loading HAIKU.

Mini system:
Processor: i5 3570K 3.4GHz
Motherboard: ASUS MAXIMUS IV GENE-Z
RAM: 2x2GB Kit Kingstone HyperX DDR3-1600
Graphics card: built-in HD4000
Hard Drive: Seagate ST3750528AS Barracuda 7200SATA 3Gb / s 750GB
Power supply: XIGMATEC NRP 600W

PS: I tried VMDK Anyboot hrev46016 OS on a virtual machine. HAIKU - Neat & lightweight yet powerful multithreaded OS with a great future! I'm loving it! =)

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Current state of USB audio

Forum thread started by lethargy on Wed, 2013-08-21 14:20

General Haiku Discussion

I noticed quite a few commits lately related to USB audio, and I was wondering what the current state is with its functionality.

I tried hrev45975 last night on my Thinkpad E420, but my USB DAC/amp wasn't functional. It shows up with listusb, but there's nothing in media preferences other than HDA audio, which doesn't work on this laptop. Is there anything in particular I need to do to get USB audio working?

Cheers, and thanks to all the developers for the ongoing hard work.

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If you go multi-user will you asked for suggestions?

Forum thread started by jest on Thu, 2013-08-15 13:23

General Haiku Discussion

If you go multi-user wll you asked for suggestions like you kind of did for package management.

I am not really fond of how the other Os's do multi-user. I like a lot more how some forum and web content delivery software have user, moderator and administrator. An administrator could be only for system maintenance and updates. A moderator can install packages/software (not system updates) and a user can't install packages. Currently to install some software I have to drop to root. I don't understand why I need to run in a mode where I could change the read only attribute on any system file just to try out some software to see if I like it. I feel the gap between user and administrator is to large on some systems. I am not sure if others would like user, moderator and administor. I hope I am not stepping on anybodies toes in suggestion a possible disscussion.