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A few questions about Haiku...

Forum thread started by Dilbert on Sun, 2010-02-28 12:06

Hi!
I am very impressed with Haiku. I have installed it to my Acer Aspire One, from which I am typing this now.
Haiku plays mp3 and DivX, which surprised me a lot.
Having tried ReactOS, AROS and Syllable, Haiku is in my opinion the closest Non-Linux project to being usable.

A few questions:

I installed the latest build because it supports Atheros WiFi.
Unfortunately, it did not come with a browser. So i downloaded one.
It is FireFox 2.0.0.18.
Isn't there a newer version available? It hates when I open many tabs, and punishes me by being slow.

Haiku chose to connect to my neighbor's wlan instead of mine, which is better.
How do I make it connect to my own network? (both are un-encrypted)

How can I make the browser play YouTube-videos? There was a Macromedia Flash pkg-file which I installed, but I think it's too old to play modern animations.

Is all the software for Haiku this old?
Which browser is the latest and most bug-free?

This is a really nice OS, and I will keep using it, I think.
But an OS without YouTube-support is not a Windows-killer.
So any help to make my Haiku-laptop better is very appreciated.

No Mouse,,,

Forum thread started by xoomer on Mon, 2010-02-22 07:58

No Mouse on boot, Can't figure it out, I tried a standard PS/2 Mouse, and a USB mouse, Any Suggestions? I'm hoping to Replace my Slack Partition with this. if I can Make the mouse work.

Thanks for your help.

Adding keyboard layouts to Haiku?

Forum thread started by RetroHacker on Thu, 2010-02-18 01:57

I've been using Haiku lately, and I've noticed that some programs that use some of the keys (arrow keys, the "delete" key, etc) don't like my keyboard. I'm using an old IBM 84 key AT keyboard. It doesn't have the "inverted T" arrow pad, nor does it have the cluster of six keys above it. I've got F1-F10, a full numeric pad, and of course all the regular typewriter keys. Under Linux, I can use my numeric keypad as arrow keys with the numlock off, and it registers the delete key on the numeric pad properly. Haiku doesn't. Pressing Ctrl Alt Del doesn't bring up the task manager, likely because the "delete" key on the numeric pad isn't getting picked up.

I've played with the keymap settings, and I'm wondering if it's possible to create a new layout for my keyboard - not just move the keys around on an existing layout.

-Ian

Can't access 'Network' panel

Forum thread started by habeopsy on Wed, 2010-02-17 22:20

I have Haiku running in VMware using Iso but I'm unable to connect to the net as it's impossible to write anything in the 'network' panel (Adapter = 'device') which I can't alter. I've tried /boot/home/config/settings/network without any luck.

I've tried both cable and wireless/bridged, nat and host-only. VMware connects to net OK.

I'm using a laptop with Windows XP Home/Intel Core Duo CPU/PCMCIA-and Flash/Broadcom Netlink/Atheros Wireless/D-Link.

Any suggestions ?

r35274

Forum thread started by stellarpower on Tue, 2010-02-16 22:37

Hi, I just wanted to make sure, is r35274 (Walter apparently) relatively stable, or are there any big issues with it?

Attansic L1 driver for r1-alpha1

Forum thread started by vijay on Tue, 2010-02-16 17:54

I have got alpha1 installed successfully on my hardware few days back.But unfortunately alpha 1 image does not have attansic L1 driver.Can someone provide a binary of this driver for alpha1? .I went for alpha1 image since it has all the dev tools.Does nightlies have all the required tools for a haiku dev environment?.If nightly has all tools i will go for it instead of hunting for this driver for alpha1 image. i hope recent nightly comes with the attansic l1 driver.

Update Haiku

Forum thread started by jfu on Sun, 2010-02-14 20:09

Hi!

I'm just wondering. How do I go about getting updates for Haiku after installing the ALPHA image? Is this even possible or is my only chance to checkout the latest version from the repository, build, and manually copy it to a USB-stick every time?

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