Fun with MorphOS

[Matt_H]

Just got it installed on my Peg today. Still need to do more to get a functional system up, but my first impressions are not so good :-(

I'm finding Ambient clunky and unintuitive and ModeEdit keeps locking up the system, so I can't get any screenmodes defined. Can't seem to get Miami online either.

More reports as I get more things operational...

[Matt_H]

Phew! Lots of stuff to respond to. :-)

@ motorollin

Yes, new Ambient and MUI4 are among my first plans when I get Miami working.

@ hooligan

Trying to adjust the parameters of a 320x240 mode (while testing) freezes the machine entirely. Had to do a hard reset.

@ itix

Heh, it's nice to be in a community where we can have an open discussion with developers :-). I see that Workbench-style icon arrangement is already planned, to which I say "Hooray!" I'd also like to see the contents of the context menus available from the titlebar menu.

@ others

Regarding Miami, it's a strange problem. It goes online and I can ping the other machine (my 4000T) on my little subnet, I can get DNS information resolved, but I can't access anything outside my university's domain name. I don't have this problem under Debian, but the same thing happened under MOLK and PegXMac. Hardware is a shiny new Peg2 and yes, I'm using the correct ethernet port. I was chalking it up to Linux weirdness, but the fact it's happening on the Amiga side too (and that my Miami install/settings are copied directly from the 4000) is beginning to bother me.

[Matt_H]

I just got Envoy working, so I'll be trying that momentarily.

[Matt_H]

So it turns out that my networking problem wasn't actually a problem.

Even though I couldn't ping anything outside my university network, web access works fine. I just double checked my A4000 and it can't ping anything either.

So I'll chalk this one up to "Campus I.T. Being Annoying" and start to get this system operational :-)

[Matt_H]

@ motorollin

Having a bit of trouble with newer Ambient. I think it's an MUI problem. Could you point me to the current MUI beta? I think the one I have is too old.

EDIT: Nevermind. Was using too old an Ambient snapshot. Everything's looking good now.

[Matt_H]

@Matt_H
What do you think of Ambient now you have updated it?

@ motorollin

I'm liking it more, now. :-)
The 9/24 CVS version was a little unstable (though that may have been due to some other changes I was working with), so I scaled back to the 9/14 version and it seems fine. A little buggy, but nothing fatally so.

@ others

Regarding debug, the 'ramdebug' boot flag is your friend! (Don't know if PowerUp versions have it though) MUI4 stuff is a lot faster with it set.

[Matt_H]

@ humppa

I've actually got the one from April. Could you point me to that one?

EDIT: Nevermind, found it.