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mouse pointer and/or desktop frozen during startup

Forum thread started by Ulys on Tue, 2010-11-02 19:21

Hello,

almost every time the first startup ends with a frozen system, sometimes with a complete desktop but frozen mousepointer, this little icon like a hand with stretched forefinger, sometimes with incompleted desktop and parts of dialogboxes without descriptions and so on (and frozen mousepointer, too).
The second startup after rebooting is more often than not successful even though rebooting is a little bit difficult from time to time.
ALT-CTRL-DEL may work but often does not work too.

I didn't try out whether or not the third startup would be like the first or how long the delay has to be to produce this behaviour.
It seems that nervous handling with the mouse during booting causes this problem very sure but even if I don't look at this nice mouse it may happen.

Just yesterday I changed an item in bios that controls the behaviour of input pointer, that means touchpad and/or mouse.
I changed from "Auto" to "Both" and Haiku did not boot! Not even the boot logo, these 5 or 6 pictures lighted up with the progress of booting did appear.
(I hope you understand my confused and helpless explanations)

Finally a short description:
HP Omnibook 6000, Pentium III, 850MHz, 384MB RAM, PS/2-Mouse, ATI Rage 128 or something like this,
20MB Harddisk, Ubuntu 10.10, Haiku and GRUB

Best regards
Manfred

Screenshot function of Haiku (print button)

Forum thread started by lelldorin on Wed, 2010-10-27 03:02

Is it possible to change the image format from png to bmp?

winxp on Qemu in haiku, help?

Forum thread started by khallebal on Tue, 2010-10-26 16:32

hi everyone
actualy i don't have a clue how an emulater works,as i never done this before,so what i need is a step by step howto,
that can help me use winxp on qemu in haiku,so won't need to reboot everytime (i use winxp only for skype or an encyclopedie) not so often.
thanks.

VNC connections to Haiku

Forum thread started by paulfxh on Thu, 2010-10-21 19:12

I've been playing around with VNCServer-4.0-Haiku-AGMS-1.21 which I downloaded from Haikuware. I'm using the gcc2 version although both the gcc4 version and the VNCServer-4.0-BeOS-AGMS-1.21 seem to work equally well for me.

Using the native Snow Leopard VNC client on my MacBook, I can easily connect to Haiku (nightly r39010 gcc2 hybrid) on my Dell E520 desktop through a LAN connection.. Although I can do stuff in Haiku from the Mac, such as launching and operating a terminal or browser or DeskCalc, there is an inconvenient delay between the new window opening in Haiku, which is immediate, and opening on the Mac. The delay is of the order of 2-5 seconds so any serious remote desktop activity is out of the question.
I've also tried remoting to Haiku from my iPad using the Mocha VNC Lite client.
Again, the connection is easily made but getting the iPad to control what happens on the Haiku computer was not possible for me.
Although tapping the iPad touch screen caused the Haiku mouse pointer to move to where I wanted it, I couldn't simulate a mouse click, to get things to open or launch, on the touch screen.
Nevertheless, holding down the control key on the Haiku computer keyboard and then tapping the touch screen, seemed to simulate a right mouse click as the Desktop context menu opens. However, this is not a viable remote desktop action.
Anybody got any more successful VNC experiences with Haiku, and particularly the iPad?

Do any bittorrent clients work in Haiku R1A2?

Forum thread started by paulfxh on Mon, 2010-10-18 16:46

I've tried a number of bittorrent clients from Haikuware but only Transmission shows any semblance of life.
However, although it starts when I open a torrent (and I've tried several) with Transmission, it goes to Pause after not more than one second.
When I hit Torrent>>Resume, it again runs for less than one second and again goes into pause.
This time, no Resume option is present under Torrent, only Pause which when hit, causes an error message.
However, from a comment on the Haikuware page for Transmission, it appears that it did at least work on earlier versions of Haiku.
I also see that another version of Transmission (Transmission 142) is available in Haikuware where it is stated that additional libraries are required to run Transmission. However, I'm unable to unzip these libraries for some reason.
Any advice?

went from Ubuntu to Haiku and think I may have messed up grub and being able to boot Haiku

Forum thread started by dave2081 on Mon, 2010-10-18 08:37

Hello,
I've been wanting to try a different OS and decided to try Haiku and see if maybe I would learn more about kernal design.

Anyway, I downloaded Haiku onto a USB stick. Booted into Haiku ran the installer and I selected the already existing linux partition. I left the swap partition. Installed Haiku which seemed to go well. Restarted the computer and it went to the GRUB rescue screen. After looking around and reading I decided to load from the USB stick and then press shift to get into the boot menu, selected the hard drive Haiku version (the menu actually says Haiku and under that it says Haiku again, I assume the second one is the Hard drive) and then it lights up all the icons underneath then stalls out. I tried safe mode and selected all the options. The output isn't really readable by me (in terms of technical knowledge) and the screen started to overlap and continue printing lines for about 1 minute then stopped.

I assume I messed up Grub. But does that, or should that effect booting from the boot menu off the USB stick?

Any help would be great. I can still boot into my USB stick. I'd really like to make this laptop run Haiku.

Thanks,
Dave

Bootman: Does not can add partitions from other harddisk as master

Forum thread started by lelldorin on Sun, 2010-10-17 08:03

Hello all,

i have add many times my partitions from my slave hardisk into the bootloader, but past alpha 1 does not get this running. Is there a plan to make this availabel in the future? I think it is not much funny to make all haiku partitions on my master harddisk, because there are other systems too who need this place.

Greetings lelldorin

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