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3D games

Forum thread started by paulfxh on Wed, 2011-01-05 15:57

I was very pleased to see this recent thread on 3D games in Haiku.
So even though I am by no means a gamer, I wanted to try it out on my Dell E520 (gfx card nVidia GeForce 7300 LE) with Acer X223hq monitor (1920x1080).
The tests I did were all with Haiku r39962 gcc2hybrid.
Unfortunately, many of the 3D games I downloaded from Haikuware just didn't work for a variety of reasons (some because I didn't have the original data files -- well, I'm not a gamer).
Then I installed PrBoom from SPM and this worked perfectly and with full sound. I couldn't get the full 1920x1080 screen size but it still looked good at what appeared to be about 1650x1050.
Encouraged by this success, I tried Torcs from Haikuware.
On this the graphics appear even better than in PrBoom and I could get a 1920x1200 screen size.
However, the game is essentially unplayable as the fps is lamentably slow on my computer. I would guess I get something like one frame per three seconds.
But, I'm puzzled why the same nvidia driver that works so well in PrBoom does such a poor job in Torcs.
Incidentally, I also tried to run the Torcs game in Haiku r40074 gcc2hybrid on a netbook with an Intel 945GME gfx card just to see if the (possible) lack of a 3D nVidia driver was causing my problem on the Dell.
However, Torcs refused to run at all on this and crashed every time I tried apparently due to problems with the Mesa Software Renderer.
I'd welcome comments.

setwep: command not found

Forum thread started by nauska on Tue, 2011-01-04 10:11

I just installed r40074 (GCC 4 Hybrid) on my EeePC 701 and I want to connect to my wireless network. According to [1] I should just type 

setwep /dev/net/atheroswifi/0 haikuwifi 0x3456789abc

to connect (with my SSID and key ofcourse), but this gives me 

bash: setwep: command not found

How should I proceed from here to be able to connect to my wireless network?

[1] http://www.haiku-os.org/guides/daily-tasks/wireless

dma

Forum thread started by jackfrost on Mon, 2011-01-03 23:30

Does anyone know if it is possible to disable DMA in the Haiku boot script permanently. My system boots and runs fine with it disabled in the safe mode menu, but disabling it in the bios doesn't work. It would be really helpful to disable it permanently so I would have to boot through safe mode options every time.

Thanks,

RL

Failed USB boot, now unable to boot USB or Windows

Forum thread started by xamor on Tue, 2010-12-28 02:37

I downloaded the R1/Alpha2 Anyboot image and used Win32DiskImager.exe to make a USB stick. Got through that without any problems. I booted an existing Windows PC (HP Media Center m7470n) from the USB stick, intending to try a live session and not install to my hard drive. I got to the black Haiku screen and then a command line popped up at the top of the screen, displaying a kernel panic message. The system froze at that point. Was forced to power off the PC as the mouse and keyboard were unresponsive.

Tried powering up again and now I am stuck at the HP bios screen (which displays the options Esc=Boot Menu, F1=Setup, and F10=System Recovery). Can't get Haiku to boot at all. Can't get to the HP Boot Menu to boot Windows from the hard drive. Can't get to Windows safe mode, etc.

I notice that when I power up, the keyboard (PS2) flashes twice then goes dead. USB keyboard doesn't light up at all.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Haiku Task Manager as Top/Bottom Bar

Forum thread started by Luiji on Sun, 2010-12-26 16:44

Hello,

Is there a way to make the Task Manager look like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BeOS_Desktop.png? And if so, is there any way to move it to the bottom if I ever feel like pretending I am using an old version of Windows?

Thanks,
- Luiji Maryo <luiji@users.sourceforge.net>

Help installing Haiku on USB Thumb Drive

Forum thread started by macsociety on Fri, 2010-12-24 02:47

I downloaded the anyboot image and trying to install on a 520MB Thumb Drive. I get a message there is no file or directory. I have placed the file on the first level of my Mac OS X 10.6 hard drive. The file came over after download with a alpha in the name so I changed it to just the haiku-anyboot.image.
My USB Thumb Drive is dev/dev2 by the way. I typed the diskutil list to see that and then unmount it per instructions.

Here is my typing on the OS X Terminal App.

Thomas-Ferreiras-Mac-mini:/ macsociety$ diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2
Unmount of all volumes on disk2 was successful
Thomas-Ferreiras-Mac-mini:/ macsociety$ sudo dd if=path/to/haiku-anyboot.image of=/dev/disk2 bs=1m
dd: path/to/haiku-anyboot.image: No such file or directory
Thomas-Ferreiras-Mac-mini:/ macsociety$

Any tips would be great!

tj

Automatic DHCP causing problems

Forum thread started by Nix on Mon, 2010-12-20 04:22

Hi, I'm having a lot of fun using Haiku, but I cannot connect to the internet for more than 3 minutes. Basically, I configured the network preferences like this:

Adapter: /dev/net/atheroswifi/0
Mode: DHCP
IP address: 192.168.0.155
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.0.1
DNS #1: 192.168.0.1
DNS #2:
Domain: bla.bla.bla.bla.

Then used this command to connect to my router:

setwep /dev/net/atheroswifi/0 BJNC *******

And it worked perfectly! But after around 3 minutes or a couple network requests, the Domain is CHANGED from bla.bla.bla.bla. to hsd1.wa.comcast.net. This causes connections to time out. Now, I don't know much about networking, but my Windows laptop uses hsd1.wa.comcast.net as a connection-specific DNS suffix. So, how do I keep the Domain from constantly being changed to hsd1.wa.comcast.net or how do I get hsd1.wa.comcast.net to become the connection-specific DNS suffix?

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