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Native resolution with intel extreme

Forum thread started by wesbluemarine on Sun, 2014-12-14 16:12

Hi, i've made a ticket years ago about a problem with setting my screen resolution with haiku.
https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/7419

I have the same problem, if i choose 1920x1080 (my screen resolution) i see lateral black borders and everything is narrowed.

Can you help me? I'm using a nightly xgcc2h image and i update with terminal.

USB install, "NTLDR is missing"

Forum thread started by donn on Wed, 2014-12-10 20:32

I was able to install a nightly via CD-ROM on my computer that had one, but now I'm having the same trouble on an ASUS laptop with no CD drive.

NTLDR is missing
Press any key to continue

Anyone have an idea what I might be doing wrong? A couple of different nightly releases, dd'd from different computers, have two USB sticks, nothing seems to be working.

Thanks!

Install nightly to partition

Forum thread started by donn on Fri, 2014-11-21 21:04

It has been a while, I last did this shortly after the last alpha, but the way I remember it,
1. download raw image and uncompress
2. mount raw image
3. copy files via Tracker

That works because the raw image file was an image of a system that one can boot, obviously.

But the "raw image" for r48353 is essentially a directory full of packages. Not sure what the point of that would be. Installer (from my older Haiku) dutifully copies this stuff into the new partition, but still just a directory of packages.

Is there a way to install one of these nightly images directly into the BFS filesystem on another partition? Or if it needs to format a new BFS filesystem, that's OK, but of course I don't want to just dd something into the partition and get 600Mb usable space out of 115Gb.

thanks!

Network Set-up ~ "workgroup"

Forum thread started by JackSprat on Thu, 2014-11-13 21:31

Hi,

New user with latest version, installed and working fine.
I can ping local pc's and external, Browse Internet etc..
I want to set the "workgroup" to my workgroup_name
Where can I configure workgroup settings.??

Many Thanks...

nightly builds not installing anymore since rev. 47853

Forum thread started by brunobastardi on Sat, 2014-11-08 18:31

Hello all,

Since one month or so... last working Haiku nightly version was 47853...
all newer ones not working anymore on my x86 Samsung Notebook:

Samsung X11 Laptop (T5500 2x1.66 GHz)
http://www.haikuware.com/details/samsung-x11-laptop-t5500-2x166-ghz

Haiku Release: Year 2014 (47853)

Audio Playback: Works
Audio Recording: Doesn't Work
Bluetooth: Doesn't Work
Card Reader: Doesn't Work
Ethernet: Works
Keyboard: Works
Power Management: Dont know
Touchpad/Mouse: Works
USB: Works
Video: Works
Video Out: Doesn't Work
Webcam: Doesn't Work
Wireless: Works

It hangs now at the 4th Icon at boot..
How to get a syslog from here?

What changed since (47853) then?

10 years from last login - where are we now?

Forum thread started by alzen on Sun, 2014-10-26 14:19

Hello, I has been using Haiku about 10 years ago, on my profile it says:

"Member for 10 years 9 weeks"

First of all, for all these years I was missing BeOS. My first contact was with BeOS R5 MAX, I've heard about Zeta(old days) but never used it - I believe OS should be free. I've heard about Haiku some time later and I was glad that this OS has one project to keep it alive. No more part-time BeOS R5 developement based on closed source, no more jokes like Zeta(the whole history of this distro and it's creator was one big joke for me).

There was Haiku, one hope for Be to get reborn.

But time has passed. My life changed, a lot :). I'm older now, working full time, talking with my family using VOIP protocol, I have responsibilities. I'm no longer crazy teenager who can just go day by day without access to advanced office suite or Skype.

Currently I'm on Linux, Ubuntu, after trying a lot of Linux flavours I choosed one that has big community and regular releases. Still, I like to have fun with my minimal Openbox configuration staying away from Unity as long as I can.

And why did I created this topic? To ask you, who didn't have 10 years vacation from BeOS, where're we now?

I know that we have PSI+ so IMs are covered(still no support for Gadu-Gadu protocol is a little problem for me - or maybe we have it in another program?). I'm more worried about office, are there any dates when we can expect to get Libre Office for Haiku? KOffice and Gobe don't satisfy me to be honest, so until I get LO I have no Office suite for Haiku. Also, what about VOIP that allow Video Calls between Haiku and Windows computers, any solution here? And last one, is there any way for Haiku to play my favourite mp3 file to wake me up? Currently I suspend my Ubuntu laptop and tell it to boot on certain time to play me my fav mp3 - possible?

One more thing, I have all me HDD partiotioned, is there any way to run haiku from USB drive? Don't really want to mess with my HDD at the moment but I miss being up to date with Haiku news and progress.

Waiting for your answers, really :).

First Time User - What are my best options for installation.

Forum thread started by rubaiyat on Mon, 2014-10-13 18:20

I am a Mac user from way back in 1984 and I remember seeing BeOS for the first time and thinking wow this is fantastic! Then it faded away, what a shame.

I wished that Apple would have bought it instead of NEXT, but I understand why they went with the more established solution.

I love what you are doing here, so I have chipped into the collection and now downloaded the Haiku anyboot.

Any advice on what to do with it?

I have some older PowerPC Macs, 2 PCs and several recent Macs.

I also have 4 spare 2 Gb Hard Drives that I was thinking of installing in the latest PC and making it a multi-boot computer.

Is there a way I can set up Haiku on one of the hard drives and selectively boot up on that from start-up?

Pardon the naïve question but I have never done this before.

I really would like to turn the PC into a testbed using each separate hard drives to run a different OS: Haiku, 2 flavors of Linux, Windows 7 and Windows 8.

It has Windows 7 on it already.

I am happy to set up a hard drive to run from one of my Macs as well but don't know how GRUB will work. Best I use VirtualBox? I don't like working Virtually as that is not the full experience of an OS.

This is a blank slate so any advice or experience is welcome. :)

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