New AROS distribution

[Colani1200]

Great work, this distribution is really awesome! I recommend everybody with a spare box to try it out.

I just installed it natively from the live CD on one of my machines and it really starts to feel like a new Amiga, especially running Dopus. :-o

It doesn't seem to like my graphics hardware though (NVIDIA TNT2). When I switch to a higher resolution, it crashes after a short time. Maybe I'll try another card...

[Colani1200]

OK, thanks for the hint. I'll give VESA a try tonight.

[Colani1200]

OK, just tried VESA and it seems to run far more stable. However, I wanted to modify the default option in the grub bootloader to suit my needs and both Janoeditor and VIM crash my box. Any chance to debug this? Are there any other text editors included?

EDIT: Typo fixed.

[Colani1200]

Ooops, typo. I meant Janoeditor of course.

OK, some more test results:

I swapped the graphics card for a different brand NVIDIA TNT2 card and it works fine with the NVIDIA driver. Even Quake and Doom work at good speed, and I am running this on a junk 500 MHz AMD K6-2 box! VICE works at 100% as well. What is most annoying at the moment (besides the lack of a working text editor) is that I don't have network. Although I built in a Realtek 8029, which "should work" according to the AROS wikibook I get errors like "message too long" when I try to ping something. No audio either, but the card I have seems to be unsupported anyway. Got to dive the basement again.  :-D
Ah, and another problem: floppy doesn't work either. During the boot process I get a message like "[floppy] disabled with bootloader argument".  This and the lack of network leaves me with little possibilities to transfer data to the box. Any ideas welcome.

[Colani1200]

OK, thanks for that. But in the long term, I'd rather get the components to work that are not functioning at the moment.

[Colani1200]

I already tried that. But "edit" isn't "good old edit". It's Janoeditor...

[Colani1200]

Have you modified the desktop theme to OS4's?

Hell yeah, of course I have done that. :-D

The VMware hosted version has the same problem, just check for yourself. I have selected a different theme and both Janoeditor and VIM work now.

RTL8029 is fully supported. Have you followed the PDF documentation?

Now that I have a working editor, I have configured the network settings manually, but still no luck. Could it be because I connected to BNC (I am forced to...) and that the media type is not discovered correctly?