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Q about the built-in Vesa modes.

Forum thread started by amanita on Tue, 2011-11-08 15:37

I want to use the native max resolution (1024x768) with my trustworthy old AMW 15' TFT monitor. Interesting things going on. If I switch to 1024x768x16 or x32 I got a blank screen and the monitor saying "signal over range". It is obvious that the refresh rate is too high, or at least higher than 75 hz. However if I switch to 1024x768x8 (8 bit color depth) it works well, obviously the 8 bit mode has <75 hz refresh rate so my monitor can display the desktop.

I am wondering why different refresh rates exists for different color depths and/or resolutions. Is it the vesa standard or whatnot? Also for me 800x600 or lower works well with the same monitor. Hm...

So my Q is, will be any change in the future for vesa mode refresh rates? A constant setting like say 75 hz for ALL resolutions/color depths would be nice.

Regards.

r43192 consumes more Ram than r42822

Forum thread started by ddavid123 on Sun, 2011-11-06 15:41

Yesterday I upgraded Haiku to r43192 from r42822 via anyboot image! I burn the anyboot image to CD then install it to usb stick with the older version of Haiku still installed on the stick. I have been doing this since I installed Haiku Alpa 3 on the stick!

Yesterday I noticed that after the upgrade to r43192, Haiku used much more RAM than other revisions! Usually, it will consume 120 megs after starting and then goes slowly down to 80 megs when idle with virtual memory enabled. Now it consumes 160-180 megs and stays there when idle with virtual memory enabled! Same amount of virtual memory allotted in both revisions on the same computer with the same hardware specs.! The only thing that has changed is the upgrade to r43192!

I am not at the same computer, so I can not submit any syslogs or anything! Is this a known issue? Could it be due to having Haiku previously installed on the stick and did not permit a clean install? Thanks!

USB wireless adapter for Haiku

Forum thread started by Giova84 on Thu, 2011-11-03 20:22

Hi,

Someone know if this USB wireless adapter is compatible with Haiku?

http://www.kraun.com/pages/products/datasheet.shtml?product_code=KR.5N&l...

In description page, they no reveal the used chipset (broadcom? atheros?).
In computer shops of my town this wireless adapter is one of most available and cheap USB wireless adapters.

Or someone can suggest me an usb wireless adapter Haiku-compatible that i can buy online?

Thanks in advance.

installing to a usb memory drive

Forum thread started by larryrl on Thu, 2011-11-03 17:52

Well I had been having problems with the install not finishing, guess it was a faulty removable usb hard drive, so I installed to a 4 gig usb flash drive. Problem is, that I cannot boot from it, and when I click to go to the live cd, it shows home, as it is on the bood cd, and not as it is on the usb flash drive.

How, do I get the Haiku boot live cd to recognize my flash drive, that it has the system on it, and use that file system instead of the home on the cd? Even when I have the bios set to boot from the cd and usb type drives before the hard drive, if I only have the flash drive in, and no cd, it boots to the hard drive, and windows.

Larry

Boot Problem on Celeron PC (Solved)

Forum thread started by torukojin on Thu, 2011-11-03 14:28

Hello all.

I just decided to try Haiku and also revive my old PC again. So i've downloaded R1 Alpha 3 and had to install it three times.

First one: I've formatted my HDD for BeOS filesystem, didn't selected mount option. But it stucked at 21536 or something.

Second: I've formatted HDD as first time, didn't selected mount option. Installation was successful but when Haiku bootscreen appeared and reached the rocket (launch) icon, that stopped. I've tried some combinations, resetted; closed and rebooted; waited more than one hour its boot process but that boot process stuck at same icon every single time.

Then i've tried to boot as Live-CD. That booted so fast and worked fluent. Then i've decided to select mount option.

Third: I've formatted HDD again (BeOS file format) and selected mount. My HDD marked as Haiku1. Installed successfully. But now there is a boot selector and that doesn't working at all. When i select "Haiku1" in boot selection and hit "continue booting" that resetting my selection. Safe mode doesn't working.


What can i do for this?

System:

  • Pentium Celeron 400MHz
  • 8MB VGA Graphics Processor
  • 128MB (actually BIOS says 119MB) SDRAM
  • 6,99 GB PATA HDD

SOLUTION:
I've changed file allocation size to 8192 bytes and disabled queries while formatting HDD as BeFile System. Now its booting properly.

I have another problems with this OS but... whatever.

Lowering Brightness?

Forum thread started by nitt on Wed, 2011-11-02 03:15

It's like defaultly on full brightness and hurts my eyes like crazy. Is there any way to turn down the brightness?

Trouble downloading software with WebPositive

Forum thread started by williamHerrick on Tue, 2011-11-01 21:37

Hi,

I'm running Haiku alphaR3 on VMWare player and I am having trouble downloading any software with WebPositive. I download from Haikuware, osdrawer.net, BeBits and Zetagames. The downloads usually start, but then only get 1/5 of the way downloaded and then stall. Otherwise WebPositive seems to work fine. Any ideas? Thanks,

Bill

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