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Change video driver or did anyone used Matrox driver in past N years?

Forum thread started by dreadbit on Fri, 2013-08-30 09:57

Hi,
I have some Core2 motherboard with (as linux's lspci says)

01:07.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA 2064W [Millennium] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Flags: stepping, medium devsel, IRQ 11
        Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Memory at f3000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=8M]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at f3800000 [disabled] [size=64K]

plugged as video card.
It's known to work with linux and works fine.
For my surprise, A4.1 also boots on that computer but when it shows the blue desktop the screen is striped by vertical (also blue) lines (looks like if there is not enough memory for this mode? but on linux is does 1152x800? in lots of colors).

When I open Screen Prefs and click on "blue screen" icon it says that it's, yes, Matrox (not VESA)
I've tried to change video mode to 640x480x256 - no changes.
I've tried to boot with "Use fail-safe video mode" - it boots with blinking icons, but when it's time to show the desktop it blanks the monitor (but works, allowing me to ssh inside). This also happens when I renamed matrox and matrox.idonotrememberwhat files.

Questions are:
Is matrox driver still working? (I mean, haven't someone broke it?)
Is there any reason for VESA driver not to work?
Is there any way to force some drivers to be blacklisted or to manage them somehow?
Is there any settings for drivers (Matrox, especially)?

How to Get Source for Specific Revisions

Forum thread started by robertson on Mon, 2013-08-26 16:55

Hi all,

This is related to
https://www.haiku-os.org/community/forum/alpha_41_wont_boot_ibm_thinkpad... and
http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/9832 .

I need to download some older revisions that do not have nightly builds (ones between Alpha 3 and 4, but before the nightly builds that preceded Alpha 4) in order to build the images and try to boot them.

How do I download the source code for a specific revision in order to build the image for that specific revision? I am not very good with using git.

Thanks for your help.

James 'Robertson'

P.S. I am sorry I haven't followed up until now on that bug report.

ASUS K53TA AMD Llano Support?

Forum thread started by SKiDROW on Mon, 2013-08-19 22:43

Hello guys have a laptop based on amd llano fusion A6 and cannot get more than 1024x768 in vesa mode, wireless networking still doesnt work on latest nightly build hrev45973 and this build only boot on fail-safe video support, about the wireless is a atheros and happen the same doesnt work too. thank you the operating system looks very robust on intel side.

AMD® APU A6-3400M/A4-3300M Processor

AMD Radeon® HD 6650M with 1GB DDR3 VRAM Built-in A4-3300M
AMD Radeon® HD 6720G2 1GB DDR3 VRAM Built-in A6-3400M

http://www.asus.com/Notebooks_Ultrabooks/K53TA/#specifications

Cant boot from CD on P-II aged Toshiba Tecra 8000 and IBM 300GL

Forum thread started by dreadbit on Wed, 2013-08-14 16:47

Am I out of luck? Release notes says that sometimes boot loader doesn't work on some computers still, well.. Am I out of luck twice?

IBM desktop attempts to boot from Alpha4.1 and stops immidiatly with blinking cursor on left top corner. I've tried to disable both ACPI and APM. I've tried holding shift - no changes.

Tecra does not even recognised the CD as bootable (while it boots from all available linux liveCDs fine).

I've burn two CDs, CD and CDRW. Twice ;-)

Is there any other way to boot installer at least? loadlin, saying? I remember BeOS could work this way.

(Tecra 8000 is P-II book with 256M ram, IBM 300GL is P-II desktop with 384M, both boots linux fine and doesn't seem to be problemmatic in any /known/ way)

problem with compiling simple haiku program

Forum thread started by alkasel on Mon, 2013-08-12 10:02

Hi.
I've read Lessons 14 by DarkWyrm (http://darkwyrm.beemulated.net/downloads/pdf/Learning%20to%20Program%20W...)
and I tried to compile the program as he says (sorry for bad english xD).
I had a lot of problems, and I wrote them here:
https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/darkwyrm/2010-04-14_lesson_14_our_first_gu...

(I didn't want to double-post)

Thanks to anyone who wants to answer!

(again, sorry for bad english xD)

Haiku on Dell Inspiron 8000?

Forum thread started by mikemoreau on Thu, 2013-08-08 15:46

Ok guys, trying to get Haiku going on an old Inspiron 8000. It's a Pentium III 800mhz with 256mb of RAM, Cd-RW drive, ethernet port, 1600x1200 display.

I tried simply booting from the CD and got stuck after the third icon lit up. Restarted and went to the safe mode options. Not being sure I just ticked ALL of the safe mode options and continued to boot. Exact same issue, third icon then locks.

Anyone successfully installed on one of these machines before? If so what am I missing? The hardware should be pretty standard for the time that BeOS was around so I would have thought that Haiku (being so similar to BeOS) would work flawlessly on it.

Any ideas?

Removing Haiku bootloader from second drive

Forum thread started by pulka103 on Fri, 2013-08-02 09:46

Hello,
I have Windows 7 on SSD and I had Haiku on HDD.
I removed Haiku from HDD but bootloader is still available even when there's no partition with Haiku.
Tried to install Ubuntu on the HDD but GRUB doesn't work and only Haiku's bootloader showed. I wanted choose "uninstall bootloader" from Haiku DVD but only "install" is available :C
(I decided to use Haiku within VM because my GTX660 getting hotter in "real desktop")

Can you help me? : >

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