AROS working hardware report and tips n trix

[paolone]

Lorraine wrote:
I don't understand why it needs a DVD though; I thought AROS was small.

AROS is small. VmwAROS is not. And it will grew even faster in the future.  ;-)

[cicero790]

@Lorraine
That was a nice little board. A saw prices around 170 euros. Almost twice the speed of the dino midi tower i preformed my test on. It would be very intresting to see if you could get it going with the new drivers. I also saw that there was a bios update for this board in 2008. You dont have a atx midi tower in the basement you can test it on also? Just to get more test data of working/not working cards?

Just saw that vmwaros 1.02 can be downloaded as a complete distro otherwise it could have been complicated if it was just an update and the non ata fixed 1.0 had to be installed first.

I hope you can get it going.


http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/motherboards.jsp?motherboard_id=473

http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/downloads.jsp?motherboard_id=473


@Paulone
It is me that have to thank you for your splendid work and thank the magician Schulz for the usb support and to all involved in AROS. I just emphasized the FFS becase in an erlier tests, it did not boot after install when I use the SFS for SYSTEM, but it worked with FFS. So I thought, others, may have tested with the wrong filesysten and gave up. But this was good I shall try a clean install with 1.02 and SFS for SYSTEM.

best regards

[paolone]

cicero790 wrote:
Just saw that vmwaros 1.02 can be downloaded as a complete distro otherwise it could have been complicated if it was just an update and the non ata fixed 1.0 had to be installed first.

It's one of the main motivations why I went for a double release. The others were reliability (VmwAROS DVD boots with USB enabled, too) and download speed (otherwise a new user had to DL VmwAROS 1 before, 246 MB, and then other 89 MB of update, for a grand totale of 335 MB. Naaah).

[Lorraine]

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[cicero790]

The VIA UniChrome Pro looks like it’s not only a combine 2d/3d but also a mpeg2 encoder. It does sound complicated, but with the right drivers it’s a good combination of features. If you did a test with the PCI radeon at some point and it works, it would be interesting if you dropped a line about it.

[dammy]

Looks like you can add to the hardware list shortly.

Dammy
Looking Forward To The End

[Lorraine]

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[cicero790]

Thanx for checking. I hope it's made to work later on. Or perhaps someone can make sense of the  error message and have an idea of what to do.

[paolone]

Lorraine wrote:

It always gets stuck in the same place when the ATA units are listed [ATA  01] etc.

One thing I noticed can't appear to fully disable integrated graphics in bios.

Anyhow, looks like my board just isn't supported yet.

Sorry for that, Lorraine, we're working hard on ata.device, but it is still far from perfect. Anyway, you sould be absolutely able to use VESA modes with your integrated graphics. VESA modes aren't weird as someone could expect: I can watch DVDs on them without issues. Have your tried booting with emeregency mode kernel? Have your tried disabling SATA in BIOS, to see if at least the DVD boots correctly? As proof of concept, try disabling USB totally too, if you can. Maybe this won't let you enjoy AROS for now, but at least it will help us finding issues.

[Lorraine]

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[paolone]

Lorraine wrote:
I even at one point almost disabled the PATA completely too, before I realised the folly of what I was about to do! :lol:

If it worked that way, I could merchandise VmwAROS as "the miracle-dispensing operating system"  :lol:

[Zorro]

@ paolone

The nvidia driver don't work for me...

As I try to boot the live dvd, the screen become corrupted on the first half and black on bottom half (I have a Geforce4 TI4200).

Do you know if there are works on this ?

Thanks.

[paolone]

Zorro wrote:
@ paolone

The nvidia driver don't work for me...

As I try to boot the live dvd, the screen become corrupted on the first half and black on bottom half (I have a Geforce4 TI4200).

Do you know if there are works on this ?

Thanks.

Yes. Take a newer one from today's nightly build (you have to replace the nvidia.hidd file) or use VESA mode for now.

[cicero790]

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