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Alpha 1 installed on Pentium III Compaq Deskpro EN SFF

Forum thread started by Tadéusz Zafón on Tue, 2009-09-15 21:24

Hello,
I just installed Haiku Alpha 1 and I'm positively impressed. Compared to Linux distros it setup the display to 1680x1050 16bits! I did not even know that the old on-board ATI Rage Pro Turbo was able to do that.
Is there a place where new users can dump their hardware configuration so you can see what works or not?

Dell Latitude D400 hardware support

Forum thread started by JapyDooge on Tue, 2009-09-15 21:13

Because i don´t want to break my existing Windows 7 setup if Haiku is not going to run, i want to ask how ´big´ is the change that Haiku runs well on this hardware:

Dell Latitude D400
Pentium M 755 (2.0GHz)
1x512MB DDR-266 SO-DIMM
1x1GB DDR-266 SO-DIMM
FUJITSU MHT2060AH ATA 60GB 5400RPM
Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG (i know that's not working yet)
Broadcom 570x Gigabit Ethernet
Intel 82852/82855 GM/GME Graphics Controller
SigmaTel C-Major Audio
Intel 8280 1DB/DBM USB Controller
Texas Instruments PCI-7510 CardBus Controller (PCMCIA)
Conexant D480 MDC V.92 Modem
SMSC Fast Infrared
Texas Instruments IEEE 1394 Compliant Host Controller (Firewire 400)
Intel 82801DBM Ultra ATA Storage Controller

I'd like to use it for a while as a desktop OS as much as possible.
I wonder if there is a VirtualBox build (or another emu where i can run Windows XP and/or Ubuntu in) for Haiku?
Also i'd like to know is there is an RDP (like mstsc) and SSH (like PuTTy) client so i can connect to my servers.

Thanks in advance :) oh and if you guys need betatesters, i want to if needed :) i have lots of different hardware (old hardware also, but also recent systems, dual xeon workstations, lots of dell laptops, etc) around here.

Edit: added more specs

Cannot see partition

Forum thread started by Feldagast on Tue, 2009-09-15 17:18

I think my problem is that my hard drives are on a highpoint raid controller. The drives are not set up as a raid but I've noticed other things not being able to see the drives, such as Spinrite, or Everest, or its older version Aida32, when looking for the SMART info. I have a Abit kt7a raid motherboard with a amd athlon 1.3 mhz cpu. The chipset is the Via VT8363a Apollo KT133/a/e the southbridge is the VT82c686b.
Booting with the Haiku alpha1 cd if i use the disable dma from safe mode choices it will boot all the way to installation choices but when i go to install on hard drive none of the hard disks show up. only shows the 2 dvd drives with the cd showing, and an external seagate 500g usb drive.
Is there anyway to get Haiku to see my drives on the highpoint controller?
Also my mouse freezes after a period of time. It is a logitech usb wheel mouse.

MacBook Experiences

Forum thread started by TigerClaw on Tue, 2009-09-15 09:54

Hi All,

I would like to start this thread to collect all the experiences in running Haiku on MacBooks.

Useful resources:

http://www.appleserialnumberinfo.com/ To see which model you have

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook

My Experience:

I tried yesterday night to boot HAIKU Alpha 1 on my White MacBook Mid 2007 (Intel GMA 950) with 3 Gb of RAM.

Results:

Ok:
It boots!
Screen resolution
Ethernet

Fail:
Keyboard
Track Pad
Sound

Problems:
When I open the Haiku menu some entries "flicker" like when you select a low refresh rate on a CRT monitor.

Sadly I couldn't check more than that because I don't have an external keyboard right now.

Alpha1 - is it a hybrid build?

Forum thread started by tangobravo on Tue, 2009-09-15 09:19

Hello everyone

I've got Alpha 1 and am enjoying using it, seems to be working pretty well for me so far. However I haven't been able to run any gcc4 compiled programs (such as BeZilla-Mail from OptionalPackages). I had assumed the alpha was a hybrid build (it has a system/lib/gcc4 directory after all). Is there anything special I need to do to get it working, or is it simply the case that the alpha is not a hybrid? I thought Ingo had made some changes to the runtime loader so that it automatically used the right set of libraries without any user involvement required?

Cheers, and congratulations on the alpha!

Simon

help needed with anti bsd ethernet card

Forum thread started by chris_c on Tue, 2009-09-15 04:35

Its good to see Haiku going from strength to strength, alas I have a bit of a show stopper!

I have the following network card :

lspci -s2:0 -Q -nn
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Attansic Technology Corp. L1 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter [1969:1048] (rev b0)

Which I think is different to the attansic in my eeepc (but you have to wonder if they are similar enough ;) )

anyhow any suggestions as to what I can do to get it working

I notice there does now-a-days seem to be some bsd support and I have read the network drivers are similar
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=age&arch=i386&sektion=4

given just the software the cd installed in the haiku can bsd driver source be compiled into something that will
work?

Thanks in advance!

BeZilla included with Alpha 1

Forum thread started by fthetm on Tue, 2009-09-15 01:53

I'm having some difficulty getting the BeZilla that's included with Alpha 1 working. Alpha one works, and connects to the internet fine (terminal runs fine, able to ping). But BeZilla just sits and says no open windows. I'm using it in Live CD mode. Is this a known issue? Is anyone else experiencing this?

I redownloaded the ISO and tried on different machines and different CDR media with the same result.

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