Discussion:
frustrated at BeOS distros
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Tupac Chopra
2004-08-03 18:36:39 UTC
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"james <at> hal-pc.org" <"james <at> hal-pc.org"> wrote in news:410fb087
BeOS "Developer's Edition"
BONE will cause kernel panics
USB patches break network connectivity
Zeta RC2
BONE works (kinda)
Video with i810 driver is seriously screwed up
Wireless doesn't seem to work and locks the "boneyard"
USB patches and Mass storage driver work fine
BeOS "Wind"
Besides coming with a slightly screwed up default config it's not
too
bad. manual editing of config files in order to produce the
"settings"
option in the "window" dropdown.
BONE works for the most part, but Wireless still locks the
"boneyard"
on occasion
USB patches seem to work but the mass storage driver creates an
endless list of scsi devices in the "drive setup" screen and will not
read my USB zip drive.
have my video but no wireless
have my zip drive but run at 800x600
/or/
have video AND BONE but no zip drive (or any umass for that matter).
does anyone know of any distros that actually work "as advertised"?
Welcome to BeOS!

; )
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"james hal-pc.org" <"james hal-pc.org">
2004-08-03 19:17:38 UTC
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Post by Tupac Chopra
Welcome to BeOS!
; )
hell.. i can live without the zip drive as long as "Wind" continues to
work as well as it has been. now... if only i can get LPR to play nice
with BONE :)
(and the saga continues)
Shice Beoney
2004-08-03 20:38:09 UTC
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Post by "james hal-pc.org" <"james hal-pc.org">
Post by Tupac Chopra
Welcome to BeOS!
; )
hell.. i can live without the zip drive as long as "Wind" continues to
work as well as it has been. now... if only i can get LPR to play nice
with BONE :)
(and the saga continues)
What is this "Wind" you speak of?

Happiness is a well-patched R5 pro install.
Tupac Chopra
2004-08-03 21:51:24 UTC
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Post by Shice Beoney
Post by "james hal-pc.org" <"james hal-pc.org">
Post by Tupac Chopra
Welcome to BeOS!
; )
hell.. i can live without the zip drive as long as "Wind" continues to
work as well as it has been. now... if only i can get LPR to play nice
with BONE :)
(and the saga continues)
What is this "Wind" you speak of?
Happiness is a well-patched R5 pro install.
BeOS Wind is another 'BeOS Max' sort of update of PE. It's on BeBits.
--
BeDoper - http://www.bedoper.com/
Meter Versus Yard - http://www.soundclick.com/bands/3/meterversusyard.htm
DJ Manticore - http://www.soundclick.com/bands/8/manticore.htm
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/9/monteau.htm
High-C - http://www.garageband.com/artist/jasongortician
http://www.soundclick.com/theoriginalhighc
Richard Steiner
2004-08-03 23:15:09 UTC
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Here in comp.sys.be.help,
Post by Tupac Chopra
BeOS Wind is another 'BeOS Max' sort of update of PE. It's on BeBits.
Is there a nice list of BeOS variants on the net somewhere?
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Tupac Chopra
2004-08-04 00:48:03 UTC
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Post by Richard Steiner
Here in comp.sys.be.help,
Post by Tupac Chopra
BeOS Wind is another 'BeOS Max' sort of update of PE. It's on BeBits.
Is there a nice list of BeOS variants on the net somewhere?
Beunited.org and BeDoper.com/bedoper have some of them. beosmax.org and
bebits.com have the rest.
--
BeDoper - http://www.bedoper.com/
Meter Versus Yard - http://www.soundclick.com/bands/3/meterversusyard.htm
DJ Manticore - http://www.soundclick.com/bands/8/manticore.htm
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/9/monteau.htm
High-C - http://www.garageband.com/artist/jasongortician
http://www.soundclick.com/theoriginalhighc
"james hal-pc.org" <"james hal-pc.org">
2004-08-03 23:10:29 UTC
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Post by Shice Beoney
Happiness is a well-patched R5 pro install.
may i provide a check list to see if it works. i don't mind dishing out
the cash for something, but not if it's going to crater as bad as Zeta did.
i need:
reliable i810 video support
ac97 audio (input and output)
usb mass storage support
lpr printer support
BeSANE would be nice too, however i haven't quite figured out how to
make it use the scanner that's detected.

is the Pro version /that/ much different from the freebies out there?
z***@sbcglobal.net
2004-08-03 23:28:33 UTC
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Post by "james hal-pc.org" <"james hal-pc.org">
Post by Shice Beoney
Happiness is a well-patched R5 pro install.
may i provide a check list to see if it works. i don't mind dishing out
the cash for something, but not if it's going to crater as bad as Zeta did.
reliable i810 video support
ac97 audio (input and output)
usb mass storage support
lpr printer support
BeSANE would be nice too, however i haven't quite figured out how to
make it use the scanner that's detected.
is the Pro version /that/ much different from the freebies out there?
It is /that/ much different for varying degrees of /that/, but for the
most part its not much different than PE

-Suppafly
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