@Lio

Failing that, do a fresh install of IBrowse in a new location and test that. If it works its likely a configuration problem, if it doesn't something on the site(s) has probably changed.

@Jack

Quote:It should work, but USB 1.1 is way to slow, it would take about an hour, or even longer, to burn a DVD. Transfering the ISO image with ethernet to another computer and burning it there is much faster.

@Raziel

Is this only when using a theme? Have you tried it with the GUI defaults?

/me runs after Raziel screaming...:)

Simon

Hi,

I don't post very often, so I'm not too sure if this is the right forum. I suspect it could become a "hot" subject, if the moderators disagree, please place it in the right forum.

This post came about in regards to the 20 questions by McElwen. Would you believe it, the 20 questions actually came up on the "Team Amiga Mailing List", a list that hardly ever discusses the Amiga anymore.

This has gotten me to doing a lot of thinking. 2 very active members of that List are Dave Haynie and Skal Loret (I'm sure all the old-timers remember them), and the list was hosted by Gery Peake for many years. I'm sure you all remember his death some months ago.

What many of you may not know is that Dave, Skal, and Gary (also Fred, but can't recall last name) all were owed a good deal of money by Amiga Inc (W). They, like Bolton Peck (and others) got nothing. They were left holding the empty bag, and in all instances it has been quite harmful to their futures. They have all expressed their unhappiness in no uncertain terms.

So what has this got to do with my subject, "Request to AOS4 Developers"? It has everything to do with it. As a result of these 20 questions/answers and the TAML discussion, I have decided that if either AI or Hyperion releases AOS4 plus hardware, I am going to ask (on this website) the AOS4 developers a simple question. I am going to ask them if this is the release that they are in favor of and that they will get paid for. I am really going to want a straightforward answer from all of you.

It is our developers who have done all the work to produce this great AOS4 that I am typing this on. It is they who should get paid for the work. The 2 businesses (AI and Hyperion) have done very little, other than sit back and watch the developers work.

As much as I would like to, I will "NOT" buy a hardware plus AOS4 that does not include the developers approval! I don't care who owns the IP. If the developers aren't satisfied that they are being treated fairly, this is an immoral and unethical release. I couldn't live with myself, if a release was made against the interests of the developers.

Regards,
Don Feldbruegge

@Snuffy

Or more simply, the A1(XE|SE) reads and writes PC format floppies unless you install a catweasel card which will let you read amiga floppies.

@Chip

No, sorry. I have no news about a rootless server

@Lio

Seems about right, you could check url prefs and see if something you've added is catching the sites you're having problems with.

@SZAMAN

The default theme for Enlightenment will be of course your OS4 theme
Also the GTK2 theme will be an OS4 theme.

Thanks for your work!

CygnusEd

@acefnq

Dont worry I have been able to log onto the net at work and read the odd occasional news. Tbh, I dont care much about the platform anymore amiga.inc is just bollocks, hyperion are acting like school kids (OoO oh look our shiny new toy you cant have it mwahahahaa its all ours , ours we tell you!!) we have hardware which is bloody pointless and to expensive. Need I say anymore?

@acefnq

Quote:

On which kind of partition did you install Cygnix? It is very important for the performance of Cygnix to install it on your fastest HD.

Example:

I've installed two test versions of Cygnix:
The first one on a HD connected to the onboard controller formatted with FFS without caching.
The second one on a HD connected to a SIL0680 controller with enabled DMA and formatted with SFS.

Then I started AbiWord on both systems. On the first system it needs 13 seconds, on the second system it only needed 5 seconds!

You see, that the perfomance of Cygnix depends much on the HD speed. Not only the startup is faster, also working with a program is faster too.


BTW: I figured out, that Cygnix does not work on a partition formatted without support for long filenames!!!
If someone has problems with Cygnix, please check this!

CygnusEd

@Jack

Quote:
ftpd worked very well here also. And very easy to configure. Never got samba working in my A1 so ftpd was the solution for file transfer with my pcs.

After setting up again my A1 will try AmiDVD. Thanks for sharing your experience with it.

@cygnusEd

Really great job ! I tested the previous version and it was a good surprise, now it can bring us many missing apps.

Quote:

@acefnq
Thank you again I have now better results on PointRider (image and text rendering) and the next release will be much nicer.

@quenthal

Welcome. Jack has already answered your questions. However, I thought I'd just add that you should make sure that the CPU cooler is firmly attached. It shouldn't be loose. It would be a shame if your machine died because of a loose heat-sync.

I'm actually planning on replacing the heat-sync/fan on mine with this one. The temperature probe I have says that it gets up to 50 degrees (at the heat-sync, so it's actually hotter), and I'd prefer it to be a bit lower. Hopefully I'll be able to put the clock speed back to 933 MHz, where it should be.

I use a SIL card and external USB hub, and have no problems.

Hans

@quenthal

Welcome

Quote:
Imho yes. I would comment out a1ide.device.kmod from the kickstart/kicklayout just to e on he safe side.

Quote:
Chipset cooler. I got one with the module from ACube, can't remeber the name. And get a descent thermal grease...

Quote:
os4depot:
http://os4depot.net/share/audio/misc/mixer.lha

Quote:

Batteries

If you have sigmatel chip I would throw out the SBlive!
There are threads on aw.net with pics of its whereabouts

Jack

I just got my first OS4 capable system:
A1XE, G4@800MHz, SIL(?) PCI-card, SB and Radeon

DMA and USB are not fixed according to seller. I've few questions here, which I'm in the process here to find out by reading older topics, but I put them here too, if someone could point me to right directions...

1) DMA and USB: Is this SIL card and USB-hub enough to avoid those hw/dma-problems? What about ethernet usage? If DMA-problem can cause errors with ethernet, should I use PCI-NIC? What about PCI USB? Are DMA-modes possible/recommended with SIL?

2) I'm not sure if this is because I haven't done clean install yet (it would seem that this is clean install, I just installed July-update and nothing else is here), but when I try to open 'USB' from Prefs, I get Guru Mediation/Grim Reaper. No USB devices are connected. This probably is not normal?

3) CPU & cooling: There is (probably original) heatsink and fan on the CPU, which seems little "wiggly" when I accidentally touched it. Is it normal that it's not nowhere near as tightly attached to CPU as it is with C2D/Athlon CPUs? What do you recommend if I wanted quieter and more efficient cooler?

4) Where I can locate mixer?

5) Other recommendations or possible pitfalls when fiddling with OS4 and A1 hardware?

Hopefully you guys have some time to give me some pointers!

I'm really enjoying my OS4 experience so far!!

@Snuffy

Quote:Do you have a Catweazle controller?

Quote:If you use CrossDOSFilesystem on the A1 (PC0:) you can read it on the A1200 by mounting PC0:, if you use FFS (FD0:) you have to create a mountlist on the A1200 for 720 KB PC format floppies using FFS (make a copy of PC0 and change FileSystem to L:FastFileSystem and DOSType to 0x444F5300).

@joerg

Quote:
edit:
The one I have is an external, usb interface, usb stack doesn't support this one (yet?)

Quote:
Yup, for some reason the limit of 2GB was stuck in my head... Next backup it'll be true

Jack

@Severin

my settings :

remember passwords for authorizations

cookies : accept and save
cookies temp : accept all
save cookies when exiting


javascript ON
dont execute slow script
move/resize javascript



what should be the settings to avoid this problem ?

Hi @cygnusEd

Sorry for the long silence. I think you're right, it's time for some news

Wow, that's "some" news Edgar!

The reason for the silence is, that I have recompiled the Cygnix package completely...

I'm looking forward the new programs! Thanks...

@magic

What's your name again ?

Jerry