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>How about trying freebe instead of the comercial one i know the
comercial
>one has a few things cut out that arent needed (the mp3 encoder for
one)
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As long as you do not run any applications requiering the Media Kit in
general and the MP3 codec in general, it won't be loaded, as it's a
so-called image (simply an executable).
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>and might wanna look into removing all drivers from your beos testing
>system other than the base video driver to remove detection conflicts
and i
>
True, didn't think about that. However, if plex86 does its VGA-emulation
correctly, BeOS won't find anything that's not VGA.
BeOS only detects plug-n-play PCI devices, meaning it [the driver]
checks for the Vendor/Product ID of the card it supports. If there's no
such device enumerated on the PCI bus, the driver isn't loaded... Simple
as that.
But well, I could indeed remove the unneeded drivers, just in case...
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>dont think beos is going to be to easily supported as beos from what i
>understand vmware can never support beos because beos requires too much
>system resources than a vm can provide.
>
This is because BeOS triggers interrupts more often than your avegare
operating system does. The Media Kit requires latencies of max 50us.
This calls for hardware being waked up all the time (and a reason why
BeOS runs hotter than e.g., Windows -- the HLT idle loop won't be
executed as much).
>Mikael Jansson wrote:
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>> >
>> >Thought I'd give BeOS a try as you managed to boot QNX up.
>> >It flashes the bootup icons after a while, however plex86 died in
the
>> >end.
>> >
>> Information left out:
>> As I do not know how to calculate the numbers of sectors/etc., I took
>> the numbers from the 126M Linux configuration file, created an empty
>> file (dd if=/dev/zero of=126M.beos count=126 bs=1M), initialized it
with
>> BFS and copied the BeOS system files to that file. Pointed C: to
>> 126M.beos and set boot to C.
>>
>> --
>> Mikael J @ http://hem.spray.se/tic_khr
>> Registered and Proud BeOS Developer
>>
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Registered and Proud BeOS Developer
