efika and morphOS

[Fingers]

A 5 second (5000) timeout will prove to be a lot longer wait than you think. I suggest 2 seconds (2000), as you still have enough time to kill auto-boot if you want, but don't have to wait ages for it to start up.

PZ.

[pyrre]

I felt 3 secs was to short...
maybe change that later.

I have some questions:
1: is all the amount of ram supposed to show up on sam disk?
Mine is only showing 69(now) and it is changing between 50, 60 and 71 mb...

2: when i do something, like resizing windows. The efika makes a strange noise. difficult to explain... But everything i do makes that noise...

3: in openfirmware is there a way of rebooting the computer?

4: The clock battery is dead, at least it is not holding the clock settings when powered of and on again.
Does that affect anything else than the clock?

[Britelite]

pyrre wrote:
2: when i do something, like resizing windows. The efika makes a strange noise. difficult to explain... But everything i do makes that noise...

Is it a kind of buzzing noise when something is happening on the screen? If that's the case, I've had the same problem and it was actually the PSU making the noise. After I changed the PSU the problem was gone.

[Fingers]

pyrre wrote:
I felt 3 secs was to short...
maybe change that later.

I have some questions:
1: is all the amount of ram supposed to show up on sam disk?
Mine is only showing 69(now) and it is changing between 50, 60 and 71 mb...

2: when i do something, like resizing windows. The efika makes a strange noise. difficult to explain... But everything i do makes that noise...

3: in openfirmware is there a way of rebooting the computer?

4: The clock battery is dead, at least it is not holding the clock settings when powered of and on again.
Does that affect anything else than the clock?

1: It fluctuates as you do things that require the use of memory...you are seeing free memory, not total memory.

2: No idea, probably what Britelite said.

3: In Open Firmware, or in Ambient? In Open Firmware, maybe just try hitting your reset button. In Ambient, right-click on an empty part of the screen & there'll be drop-down menus at the top...choose the one left-most, as restart & shutdown are there.

4: No idea, but it's just a button cell, which I'd be changing if I were you.

PZ.

[zylesea]

pyrre wrote:

My "bios" battery is dead. it is not able to hold the time settings. will that affect anything other than time settings?

Yes it has an impact f you want to register MorphOS. W/o battery the MAC adress of the NIC changes often to aribrary values.
Get a new battery, boot te Efika up, type ifconfig into a shell and compare if the MAC address is equal to the oe prited on the label attached o the NIC/usb port.
If it is equal insert the new battery carefully into the battery holder (while the Efika is running!!! Be caereful!!!). If the MAC doesn't have the desired value, power the Efikadown (unplug the PSU!) and restart again. Fro my experience the cahnce to get the origial MAC is 1:8 (or a bit less). So, statistically you need 8 attempts. If you don't want to register MorphOS and don't use a network configuration where identification is done by the MAC you don't need to bother.  

EDIT:
and another question:
Why do i only have 73mb ram?
I thought the efika had 128mb

There is 128 MB o the board, but the OS requires some RA itself. You can lower the ammount if you chose a simpler MUI theme (Mehalanxi or how it is called is fine) and reduce coor deepth to 16 bit. Don't open too many screens. Unfortunately RAM is a quite limited resource on the Efika.

[Britelite]

zylesea wrote:

Fro my experience the cahnce to get the origial MAC is 1:8 (or a bit less). So, statistically you need 8 attempts. If you don't want to register MorphOS and don't use a network configuration where identification is done by the MAC you don't need to bother.  

From my experience it takes an enormous amount of reboots to get the MAC-address right, because I still haven't managed to do that. So, I'm stuck with an unregistered version of an OS I've paid for, which sucks...

[zylesea]

@ Britelite

In my case it toggeld to the right MAC every now and then. But I haven't managed to discover the underlying mechanism - the 1:8 was a raw guess. Don't forget to not only reboot, but disconnect the Efika from power, so that capacitors all get discharged.
But I agree it sucks (why on earth the batteries used for teh Efeika run so fast out of voltage and, 2nd, why on freaking earth does teh NIC loses its MAC then (given teh idea that the MAC should be a *constant*)?!).
If setting the MAC manually doesn't help, maybe you can just insert the new battery and get a new constant MAC and ask some team member on #morphos if a new reg key can be issued for your new, then constant (as long as the battery lives!) MAC.

Edit: Britelite, note the pm I sent you.

[pyrre]

that is strange...
I strongly believed mac addresses were permanent...
luckily  i have not registered MorphOS yet.

But changing the hdd and installing linux, inserting a new battery and setting the mac address to its proper value.
And swap back to morphos hdd.
would that work?

@ britelite

Is it a kind of buzzing noise when something is happening on the screen? If that's the case, I've had the same problem and it was actually the PSU making the noise. After I changed the PSU the problem was gone.

Yes its a buzzing sound.

[yakumo9275]

EFIKA appears to eat the batteries for breakfast, or they all shipped from the factory with close to failing power levels.

I'm guessing the first one but I dont know for sure. I feel the urge to replace mine now :/

if your hearing noise when you do screen ops, it could just be the video card whine.