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The "Not Quite Amiga but still computer related category" => Alternative Operating Systems => Topic started by: Helgis75 on May 03, 2003, 03:17:35 PM
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Yep, it's true! The brilliant SciTech SNAP is soon available for Linux, so for any of you running Linux on AmigaOne should definitely check this out and think about getting this one when it becomes available! It would help you a lot with your graphic systems!!! You won't regret it...Check this site:
www.scitechsoft.com (http://www.scitechsoft.com)
Have fun! :-)
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And hopefully it will be ready for AmigaOS 4.0 :-D
Here (http://www.scitechsoft.com/chiplist/snap_linux_chiplist.html) is the "Certified Chip List" for Linux :pint:
And here (http://www.scitechsoft.com/chiplist/snap_os2_chiplist.html) is the list for OS2 8-)
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I really don't see how this is useful for Linux users. No 3D acceleration is pretty pointless.
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It's definitely included in AmigaOS 4, so don't worry about that! To some of you wondering about SNAP, the point with it is to save a lot of time and space updating graphic drivers. Snap has a function that automatically update your system..It's looking very good, indeed...and i like the whole idea with it:-)
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>No 3D acceleration is pretty pointless
probably useless for game freaks :-D
I think most people do serious work, and then its
good to be able to just throw in whatever gfx
card you have laying around, instead of buying
a fancy 3d card, just because it exists drivers
for it.
I dont care about games, so with these drivers
I have probably 5 working gfx cards for A1/OS4 laying around on my loft.
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probably useless for game freaks
I think most people do serious work,
Coding isn't serious? ;-)
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No 3D acceleration is pretty pointless.
As far as I understood it the deal with Hyperion was that Hyperion do the 3D part in the future.
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As far as I understood it the deal with Hyperion was that Hyperion do the 3D part in the future.
I knew that, I was talking about the Linux version specifically. Can't really see a use for it.
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@mdma
Why ? Because Linux allready has drivers for most GFX-cards ?
Linux also has drivers for most printers, but IrseeSoft is
still trying to sell TurboPrint for Linux.
Both should be possible if those drivers are better than the
free ones. This is the case with TurboPrint and this might also
be the case with some of the GFX-drivers as some manufactors are
only supplying closed-source and x86-only drivers for Linux.
(nVidia for example).
Also ontopic:
http://www.amigafuture.de/heft/af42_20.php (http://www.amigafuture.de/heft/af42_20.php)
Sorry only german, but the article reports that the OS4-SNAP will
ported by Hyperion, based on the Linux-SNAP ported by SciTech
from their OS/2-version.
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GFX-drivers as some manufactors are
only supplying closed-source
SNAP is closed too, and I can't see them being as fast as NVidia's drivers. And as I said before, where is the 3D support?
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mdma wrote:
SNAP is closed too, and I can't see them being as fast as NVidia's drivers. And as I said before, where is the 3D support?
Yeap, but where are nVidia's divers for PPC ? ;-)
AFAIK Hyperion are supposed to do the 3D-support for all
"SNAPped" platforms.
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AFAIK Hyperion are supposed to do the 3D-support for all
"SNAPped" platforms.
Well, if that'strue, then it would be good, but who is gonna buy an A1 and just run Linux on it? Oooops........ ;-)
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NVidia-drivers shouldn't be too complicated to port to the new OS4-system. Just give it time.. :-)
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You can recompile drivers for NVidia cards! Or does that only work with the x86 platform?
I always recompile the NVidia drivers for Linux myself.
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You can recompile drivers for NVidia cards! Or does that only work with the x86 platform?
Part of the NVidia driver for linux is a binary object. This is because of code not owned by NVidia being used and they can't GPL it.
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AFAIK Hyperion are supposed to do the 3D-support for all
"SNAPped" platforms.
That's what I meant.
AFAIK the deal was also that making SNAP run on PPC was done by the company itself so Hyperion can just add it in and start work on 3D.
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I haven't really looked at what they're offering, but I'm assuming it's available as an XFree86 driver, from what you guys are rolling on about.
The best use for SciTech's products have, previous to this new embeddable gig, been in the corporate realm. There's little point for them with XFree86 on your personal machine (presuming your personal machine already works properly), but imagine being in charge of an office environment with heterogenous hardware- or even worse, hardware that's homogenous with a poorly-supported chipset?
mdma: XFCE? :ranting:
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mdma: XFCE?
Whats wrong with XFCE4?
It's very much like the specs for AOS4's Workbench with Dockies.
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mdma wrote:
Whats wrong with XFCE4?
It's very much like the specs for AOS4's Workbench with Dockies.
Heh. Didn't mean to take this thread OT as well; should've used the sillier 'crazy' emoticon. I just found it CDE-like and not particularly groundbreaking. I was also thinking of 3, so yes, nevermind, 4 is a totally different beast. (http://members.home.nl/jbhuijsmans/xfce4-cvs.html#shots)
Now if I only had the skill and time to turn DFM (http://www.kaisersite.de/dfm/) into something reasonable..
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Now if I only had the skill and time to turn DFM into something reasonable..
The ROX Filer is quite a good fie manager. Better than nautilus and the horrible konqueror.
ROX Filer (http://rox.sourceforge.net/rox_filer.php3)
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to install on debian:
add these lines to /etc/apt/source.list
deb http://www.hrw.one.pl/apt/ sid/
deb http://www.hrw.one.pl/apt/ sarge/
deb-src http://www.hrw.one.pl/apt/ src/
download this file
http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/shared-mime-info/shared-mime-info_0.9-1_i386.deb (http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/shared-mime-info/shared-mime-info_0.9-1_i386.deb)
then do
dpkg -i shared-mime-info_0.9-1_i386.deb
apt-get update
apt-get install rox-filer-hrw
type rox to run the filemanager