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Troubleshooting sound

Forum thread started by civ247 on Thu, 2009-09-24 19:01

Hi,

I just installed Haiku on my Vostro 1500.

According to here:

http://www.haikuware.com/details/vostro-1500?Itemid=0

everything except the touchpad works.

My Hardware appears to be identical to what the person above has, however there is no sound.

Is there any way to troubleshoot this? I found no configuration app for sound. Is there a working driver for my soundcard?

Soundcard spec from linux:

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0228
Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 21
Memory at febfc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]

From listdev:

device Multimedia controller (Audio device) [4|3|0]
vendor 8086: Intel Corporation
device 284b: 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller

I can post the entire listdev if required.

Cannot boot on Dell Dimension 4700

Forum thread started by robdaemon on Wed, 2009-09-23 16:13

I would like to perform a bare metal installation of Haiku on my Dell Dimension 4700.

During the boot (via CD or USB thumb drive), when it starts looking for a boot filesystem, it scans all targets on my SATA and PATA controllers before giving up and not finding a boot device. I see errors about timeouts in the on-screen debug log.

System is a Dell Dimension 4700
P4 3.0ghz
4 gb RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 9800GT (I know this will only work in VESA - that's okay)
Intel 915G chipset

Anyone else had any luck? Haiku works decently in VMware, but I prefer bare metal :)

Alpha1 booting from USB but not from hard drive

Forum thread started by jerome on Wed, 2009-09-23 13:52

Hi

Haiku works very fine when booted from a USB key.

so i decided to wipeout the disk (erase all partitions) and run the installer to make a hard disk install.

all went fine.

then i used bootman to create the boot manager.

when i reboot i can see the the Haiku boot loader (with the Haiku entry since this is the only OS installed at the moment).
when i hit enter the screen goes black with a blinking cursor, then the blinking cursor disappear and then nothing, the screen stays black... :(

the second problem is that i can't manage to have the safe mode pressing the spacebar at boot ...
(i tried zillions of time , to this it not a timing issue when pressing the spacebar)

if i press the spacebar when booting from the hard disk then i just end up the normal Haiku boot manager.

if i press the spacebar when booting from the USB key then the screen stays black and after several minutes (around 15 minutes) i end up in the safe mode boot screen !

when i go to the select boot volume option , i can only see one volume named "Haiku" , not sure if is it the USB volume or the hard disk one though ...

since i can boot from the USB , i checked if there was some logs , but the /Var directory is empty , no syslog file .

then i went to the kernel settings file and disabled SMP , same result.

my hardware is :

Netbook Packard Bell DOT.M (a perfect clone of the Acer 751h)
Atom Poulsbo chipset.
SATA drive

QUESTIONS :

So how can i troubleshoot this further ?

is there any command i could put in the kernel settings file to force the boot in safe mode ?

i don't have a serial port on the netbook , so no kernel debugging either.

thanks in advance

jerome

Booting off SATA

Forum thread started by pullmoll on Wed, 2009-09-23 10:08

Hi all,
I played with the Haiku r1 alpha 1 in qemu and now wanted to install it on my physical machine. I did this using qemu with -hda /dev/physicaldrive and everything worked fine so far. Now, when I try to boot the installed system, I get the first three icons lighting up and then nothing more happens. Is the meaning of the icons explained somewhere or can I see otherwise what the problem is?

System: Asus M3N78-EM mainboard; AMD Phenom 4x core @ 2.3GHz; 8GB RAM; HitachiHDT721010SLA360 1TB SATA drive (AHCI mode); 48GB BeOS filesystem on first partition table entry; Asus EAH3450 gfx (Radeon RV620 chipset); + Adaptec 29xx SCSI adapter in PCI slot.

Edit: I now booted with debug output enabled. The last line before the booting process hangs reads:

usb ehci -1: claiming ownership of the host controller

The lines before did the same for the ohci controller. The board has 4 usb controllers, 2 ohci and 2 ehci. It looks like I'm running into a bug with ehci?!

Staccato audio

Forum thread started by mounty on Tue, 2009-09-22 01:42

HP Omnibook 500. A fairly low-spec. laptop with a Pentium III and 256 MiB RAM.

Audio 'pulses' at the rate of about 3 Hz. Surely even this low-spec. machine ought to be able to handle a simple .wav file ?

[Resolved] Can we get a Haiku Alpha 1 image larger than 600MB?

Forum thread started by paulfxh on Mon, 2009-09-21 23:06

I've used Haiku for some time on a EeePC 901 (part of multiboot) and was looking forward to the Alpha.
However, as the EeePC 901 has no optical drive (and I don't have a usb CD drive), I used Unetbooting to create a LiveUSB from the Haiku Alpha 1 iso
While Unetbootin seemed to successfully create the LiveUSB (BTW, this took 2.5 hours because of the huge number of files in the iso), when I tried to boot to the usb-key, I got a message "Invalid or corrupt kernel image" probably because the syslinux bootloader that is used by Unetbootin doesn't get on with Haiku.
So, I had no option but to download the raw image and dd it to my Haiku partition. This worked fine (after making the partition bootable),
However, the 600MB leaves only 63MB free space which doesn't leave much room for exploring the Alpha.
Any chance of a 1GB being made available?
Alternatively, does anybody know how to increase the size of a raw image?

External monitor support?

Forum thread started by Seephor on Mon, 2009-09-21 21:53

Hi, I can't get Haiku (running from a USB flash drive into an Asus EEE 701 netbook) to display on my external monitor.

The only resolution available (from both booting without VGA connected, and with VGA connected) is 800x480 - the size of my laptop screen. Various versions of linux have had no problem displaying this resolution on my monitor, so I was wondering if there is a file I could edit within Haiku which would provide compatibility with my LCD. Something akin to Xorg.conf?

The LCD panel is can go up to 1680x1050 and I have tried 60Hz and 75Hz. Through each permutation of VGA plugged in on boot up, frequency change, and screen switching, the only results I get are "Out of range" or a garbled display of 800x480 (like the screen has been 'slashed' horizontally).

The netbook uses an Intel 910/915 chipset, and I am using the R1 alpha release.

Any help appreciated, thanks.

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