Another AROS Update

[bloodline]

More bug fixes, updates and Graphics driver speedup

Georg  is working hard on AROS and it is certainly paying off.


http://www.ahsodit.com/aros/arosnews.html

[jdiffend]

How about putting a date in the archives so it's easy to tell when they are updated?
Something like the following with day month year info in the filename.
http://www.ahsodit.com/aros/AROS-ibmpc-bin03032003.zip

This would let me set up GetRight to grab any new updates when they appear.  :-D

[bloodline]

Good idea. I will do that in my next update. (I wasn't planning to update it so often, but AROS development happens in bursts!!!)

By the way, the "Bleeding Edge" untested version can be downloaded from the aros.org website. Though if a build fails that night you will be unable to download them. I will keep a working version on my site at all times.

I notice that the moderators have misspelled Georg's name... he has no E :-D

[jdiffend]

I really can't take credit... the NewOS archives are named like that (ok, year, month, day) and I've been grabbing updates of it that way for over a year.

It really helps silly people like me so we don't get confused at which archive is the new one.

Oh, and you can avoid updating the web page all the time if you just point the link to a directory with the latest files and have it set up for FTP.  Then set up scripts to do the file updates automatically when your ready to distribute a new version.

FWIW, never versions of GRUB support display of a splash screen image.  The version of AROS GRUB I looked at didn't appear to have it.   If you incorporate that you could bring up the AROS logo while it's booting.  Not because we need it... but just because it would look cool!

[bloodline]

Thinking about it, bursts is the wrong word for AROS development...
I think dribbles and spurts is a better description... :-D

[falemagn]

It really helps silly people like me so we don't get confused at which archive is the new one.

You can grab the daily snapshots from the website's snapshots page. They are named after the day they are built in.

[jdiffend]

I just tested the new CD image... there's good news and bad news...

Good news, the image on the screen isn't garbled.  You can actually see the AROS screen/windows.

Bad news, you can only see part of the AROS screen image.  Any image (if you don't end up with a totally blank screen)  appears at the top of the screen and is about an inch or two high.

The image looks like the top of the AROS sceen is actually above the top of the monitor and you can only see part of the image before it goes blank.  The last line clearly ends part way (around 2/3 left to right) across the screen.

640x480x16 is blank
1024x768x32 has the partial image

It varies between the two (blank or partial image) depending on what mode you chose.

[Siggy]

Good news! I'll have to check it out.

I only just downloaded and burned the last update - but had no joy. It went through it's initial setup over and over again. When it eventually jumped to the graphical first screen (boot options), it hung after selecting 'boot' and flashed the keyboard lights occasionally.
To make sure it wasn't hiccupping, I let it run overnight while I got some sleep, but in the morn - still no joy.

System was running:

Athilon 600mhz
198megs pc100 ram
3dlabs Voodoo 3
SB 64 AWE
and an archaic network card.

(This is my clunker machine I'm using for another Amiga related experiment).

Hope for better luck with this release - I'm really interested to see what you guys have put together.

Cheers.

Siggy.

[Georg]

Good news, the image on the screen isn't garbled. You can actually see the AROS screen/windows.

Hmm ... that snapshots cannot yet contain the 0x4000
(activate linear mode) bug fix, as I only commited it
a few hours ago. So did you boot manually with
"kernel ..., setvbe, boot" from GRUB console?

[Georg]

I would suggest waiting till tomorrow and download
tomorrow's snapshot, as this one should still fail
for those people for whom it failed last time.

OTOH if you cannot wait, and depending on when
exactly these snapshots were made, the following
might work:

ANN

[redrumloa]

I notice that the moderators have misspelled Georg's name... he has no E  

Fixed!

[Loki1]

Downloaded this version and it won't work on my laptop at all now:

1. All Resolutions except VGA 640 4-bit blank the screen.

2. Using VGA 640, gets into an endless loop sending commands to Floppy Disk (I don't have a floppy disk).
I do have external USB Floppy Drive, but not connected.

The previous version booted in VGA 640, but the USB mouse was not working.

Laptop:
Toshiba
P4m 1.7 ghz
GForce 4 440 32mg memory
40 gig HD
512 mg memory
DVD/CDRW drive

Loki :-?

[jdiffend]

It doesn't have the version of GRUB that lets me enter #0x4111, just screen resolution.

[jumpship]

seems to work on my PC now, can't use me USB mouse tho, have to try later with PS2 dongle :-)

[falemagn]

USB is not supported.