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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Helgis75 on August 19, 2003, 05:58:40 PM
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Yep, that's right! I managed to become an A1-Linux member through the Yahoo homepage!
At anytime soon, the latest UBoot will be downloaded by my IT-friend, and he should then pick up mye machine, flash the latest UBoot into the FlashROM and off i go!!! :-) :-D :-D :-D :-D 8-)
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it's easy to get the latest uBoot:
http://u-boot.sf.net
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I thought you were coming for the game? :-?
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I just got paid yesterday red! I was going to call tomorrow to set it up for the weekend.
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Helgis75 wrote:
At anytime soon, the latest UBoot will be downloaded by my IT-friend, and he should then pick up mye machine, flash the latest UBoot into the FlashROM and off i go!!! :-) :-D :-D :-D :-D 8-)
For God's sake Helgis,
[color=990033]DON'T[/color][/b].
The u-Boot you download from the Net is very generic. Hyperion have done a lot of work that hasn't yet been sent back up the source tree. Stick with the u-Boot you have (it'll work fine) and ask your dealer for info on updating it. If necessary, which I doubt.
Get used to your board before you try harebrained schemes like that. Look at how much it cost you, and ask yourself if you shouldn't spend a lot of time getting to know your AOne before taking wild risks with it.
Rule of thumb: if you don't know exactly what you're doing, don't do it.
Rose
AmigaOne dealer, with more experience of the damn board than most.
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Are you determined to break that A1? Overclocking and reflashing... maybe you should try using a sledgehammer. It'll work faster.
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Are you determined to break that A1? Overclocking and reflashing... maybe you should try using a sledgehammer. It'll work faster.
Its ok if his dies i know not to do the same thing to mine. :-D
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lol
Me Too !! :-o
Apparently I need an updated something ? Coz I've got a Radeon 8500 card for my A1.
Guess I'm gonna have to get used to being a (http://www.amdzone.com/forums/i/authorsicons/cool_tux.gif) Newbie, till Aos 4 is released.
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Ive got a hercules radeon 8500 LE 128mb in mine its working but screenmode needs changing colors are not quite right . :-)
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@anarchic_teapot
Are you saying that Hyperion has broken the GPL by not sending their changes back to the main tree?
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Ah, common Downix, that's not what she is saying. The important word here is "yet"..
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Mines only a 64mb
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Did anyone tried to flash an "AmigaOne" with a Pegasos OF ?
:-o
Someone may even find a flash bios switcher like we had to either start with 1.3 ROM and 2.0/3.1.
Of course that would require to own the original platform.
What about Genesi selling a bios switcher + Pegasos OF bios + MorphOS ? :-P
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Are you saying that Hyperion has broken the GPL by not sending their changes back to the main tree?
AFAIK the GPL only states that the source must be availble to the public, not how it should be available. If someone requests the source then they must give it to them - that's all it is.
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Mines only a 64mb
doubt it will make any difrence anyway mine was meant to be a 64mb card but for some reason the overclocking store sent a 128mb version although they have now gone bankrupt. :-D
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I maintain computers every day in my job.
One of the things I dislike are such amateurs. Sometimes I get PC's with wrong or
faulty reflashed BIOS.. Try to tell such a Person
that isn't under warranty ! :-x
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Ive been ok with flashing my pc hardware had to do it on this asus motherboard to get the athlon 2400xp cpu recognized properly. :-)
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Seer: many opensource projects do have CVS access and nightly builds..
apparently this ain't one of them :-)
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@amigamad
So you had reason to reflash it !
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My Amiga dealer tell me that the latest Uboot version resolves some USB and floppy problems in the A1.
I have one of the very first A1 and my flash rom is write protected so i have to wait until my dealer sends me a new flash rom directly from eyetech and replace it.
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@ Downix
Just a correction.
The following is from the Preamble of the GNU GPL (Version 2, June 1991): (Bold emphasis is mine)
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"When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for this service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs; and that you know you can do these things"
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Section 2 of the licence reads:
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"You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion of it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and distribute such modifications or work under the terms of Section 1 above, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:
a) You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating that you changed the files and the date of any change.
b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License.
c) If the modified program normally reads commands interactively when run, you must cause it, when started running for such interactive use in the most ordinary way, to print or display an announcement including an appropriate copyright notice and a notice that there is no warranty (or else, saying that you provide a warranty) and that users may redistribute the program under these conditions, and telling the user how to view a copy of this License. (Exception: if the Program itself is interactive but does not normally print such an announcement, your work based on the Program is not required to print an announcement.) "
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Nowhere in the licence do I find reference to a requirement of uploading to a CVS repository.
I neither find references to any timing requirements to make public any changes.
As long as the changed code is made available upon request under the same license there is no breach of the GPL.
As a matter of interest you might like to know that the whole concept of GPL is about to be challenged in court by SCO.
Read more about it HERE (http://www.pcmag.co.uk/News/1143022).