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Haiku on ultrabook

Forum thread started by dsjonny on Thu, 2013-01-31 16:01

Hi!

Did anybody tried Haiku on an ultrabook?
For example: Samsung NP530u3c-A03? It has Intel i3-3217U CPU, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD + 24GB SSD, Intel HM76 chipset, Intel® HD Graphics 4000, 13,3" (1366x768), Intel® Centrino® Advanced-N 6235 WLAN.
I think these are working, maybe except the wifi, but I think updating the iprowifi4965 driver may help.
Or Sony SVT1311M1E? It has Intel i3-2367M CPU, 4GB RAM, 320GB HDD + 32GB SSD, Intel HM77 chipset, Intel® HD Graphics 3000, 13,3" (1366x768), WLAN.
Or Dell Inspiron 5423 Ultrabook? It has Intel i5-3317U CPU, 8GB RAM, 500GB HDD + 32GB SSD, Intel HM77 chipset, Intel® HD Graphics 4000, 14" (1366x768), Intel® Centrino® Wireless-N 2230 WLAN.

I ask this question, because I heard that Samsung ultrabook has a problem (NVRAM) with Linux. I hope Haiku is working fine.

Unfortunatelly I cannot try these before buy, but maybe somebody has exprerience.

Thanks!

[IDEA] integrate GPU so-called "softmods"

Forum thread started by forart.it on Thu, 2013-01-31 12:12

PREAMBLE: if i'm saying something wrong or already implemented, please consider that I'm not a developer...

As many of you already knows, GPU manufacturers have unique production lines for PRO and CONSUMER chips.

This means that consumer chips can be exploited a little more than the official specifications.

For example i've got an IBM ThinkPad T42 (that runs Haiku quite well) with an ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 card; since it shares the same core (RV200 / M7) with FireGL 7800, according to this guide i could enable OpenGL drivers with interesting results:

BEFORE

AFTER

Wikipedia confirm this too @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATI_FireGL#Soft-mods

Quote:

Because of the similarities between FireGL and Radeon cards, some users soft-mod their Radeon cards by using third-party software or automated scripts accompanied with a modified FireGL driver patch, to enable FireGL capabilities for their hardware, effectively getting a cheaper, equivalent, FireGL cards, often with better OpenGL capabilities, but usually half of the amount of video memory. Some variants can also be soft-modded to a FireStream stream processor.

Performance comparison videos:
- http://www.youtube.com/user/Arvydazas/videos?view=0&flow=grid

Other:
- http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=227800
- http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=313065

I honestly don't know if Haiku already implement this in his ATI driverset, but it could be very interesting IMHO.

Hope that help or at least inspires !

Marco Ravich

Trouble Loading Haiku from a USB drive with Windows 8 and UEFI

Forum thread started by ElectricRider on Fri, 2013-01-25 20:06

I just found out I have the UEFI problem. Secure boot is enabled. I want to run the live version through a USB to test out Haiku. My main problem so far is i cant get my USB drive to show up in the boot options menu at startup. This led me to research and find out about the new UEFI i have apparently. I have previously followed the steps to setting up Haiku on a USB stick from here: https://www.haiku-os.org/guides/installing/making_haiku_usb_stick

I have seen this thread but dont know how much of this applies to me: https://www.haiku-os.org/node/5068

I have 3 major questions as outlined below.

My Bios does give me the option to disable Secure Boot and it also tells me that I will not be able to load windows. Is it safe to disable secure boot, run the live Haiku from USB ( provided i can see it as a boot option) then go back to windows 8 by re-enabling the secure boot option? I want to be sure this wont screw up my MBR or whatever UEFI is using before I try it.

Also, if i wanted to install the os to a partition on my hard drive for extended testing, how would the UEFI stuff interfere with the procedure to install Haiku as stated here: https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/applications/bootmanager.html Or here: https://www.haiku-os.org/get-haiku/installation-guide ?

Would something like This EFI Bootloader help any but made for Haiku: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/41738/booting-linux-from-usb-usi...

Thank you, I look forward to your answers.

GAG can boot HAIKU

Forum thread started by monsee on Tue, 2013-01-22 21:27

Hi, people!
I am new to Haiku (I install it just today), but i see that GAG (the Grafical Boot Manager) that easily manage a lot of installed Systems, can manage (and boot... even if GAG is not yet installed and without any MBR or disk modification) and booting easily an Haiku installed System also. I have tested it on my installations and all work good.
GAG can be used from floppy-disk or liveCD (there are some well-know Linux LiveCD that have in GAG too and allow to manage GAG [and to boot an installed System]: e.g. the "Ultimate BootCD" and others LiveCD).
The GAG web page (on Sourceforge) is: http://gag.sourceforge.net/

This to help you to offer a way (to all Haiku Users) to boot their own Haiku easy-going.

Thank you, people. Your Haiku is a great project, in my opinion.

Monter lecteur réseaux ?

Forum thread started by BlueNetIT on Mon, 2013-01-21 18:49

Bonjour,

Je souhaiterai monter mon lecteur réseaux (NAS) sous Haïku. Comment faire ? merci :-)

Network Inopperative

Forum thread started by bjaustin on Mon, 2013-01-21 01:21

I recently installed Haiku and I am having issues with network access. I have tried using the offline method to install WiFi, but it failed. I then tried connecting with the wired connection, but the connection was never detected. I am using an HP Pavilion dv5000, and I am aware that WiFi is not supported for quite a few HP Laptops; is there any plan to support HP Laptops WiFi, and why does the wired connection not work?

Capabilities of Haiku

Forum thread started by minaalashokvijaya on Sun, 2013-01-20 18:14

Hello Friends,
I needed some education on the capabilities of Haiku. Response would be really appreciated.
1. Programming+IDE Language Support?
2. Database Support - Esp Document Oriented ones.., CouchDB, MongoDB etc..
3. Browser Support for HTML5? Read FireFox was listed. How about an inhouse browser?
4. Scalability?
5. Deployment on Netbooks/Mobiles?
6. ARM/x86/x64

Thank you.

Regards,
Ash

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