Hey John. Looks like you had a hell of a day.

Thanks for the kewl report as well ... Anyone take any Stills ?

AND you got your A1 {finally}.

Excellent stuff.....


Wait for the Debian questions Peeps

Apt-get is your friend ..But buggered if I can get any info out of peeps on how EXACTLY to get my radeon 8500 displaying colours correctly.

I think your've got a Radeon 7000 in yours, so you shouldn't have those problems.

Way to go, Digger.

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Yep thanks for the feedback from both participants. I really wanna get me hands on one of those mini-ITX boards . Would be excellent to see some pics of the show as The_Editor has already alluded.

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Yowie .... Big words, Bodie.. "Alluded"

Ok peeps ... Word of the day..

All together now ..

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Alluded

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*SPAM* ;)

/Björn, doubles the spam.

Colours and Radeon 8500:

Which version (build) of UBoot, Linux and XFree do you use?

UBoot: displayed on boot
Linux: uname -a in a console
X: X -version (as root)

I'm pretty certain your problem is covered by the faq, though...

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Using "voltage" instead of "potential", which leads to inventing new words like "amperage" instead of "current" (I, measured in A) or possible "charge" (amperehours, Ah or Coulomb, C). Sometimes I don't even know what people mean.

Thanks for info , Olegil ..Will check it out ...

The revisions are as the MoBo was delivered... Apart from Xfree (possibly) cos I did an apt-get on that.

BBS .. Daughters birthday, gotta take her horse riding as a pressie.

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LOL editor re: "allude" . I always try not to employ so-called "big words", for sometimes they can denegrate into a profligate exercise.

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ok .. Got 5 mins before the off" so punched in your commands.


Uboot ..to damn fast to see version

Linux 2.4.19

X - version ... WARNING Process set to nice value 0 instead of -10 as requested.

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I always try not to employ so-called "big words", for sometimes they can denegrate into a profligate exercise.

One has to concur in essence to the sentiments you so articulately expressed.

Now imagine everyone around here started posting in such a manner....
....Aaaaaaargh!!

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Yes GadgetMaster, if all within this esteemed Portal were to post in such a manner, then the nay-sayers related to the political and media fields, would consider AmigaWorld.net, not a place of transience, but a place of education, a place of erudition and elucidation of all things Amiga.

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I would expect there to be a BIT more output from X -version (only one space)

You need to update Uboot, Linux and XFree (to september version, 2.4.21 and 4.3.0 respectively) to use that graphics card, and I believe it is covered by the FAQ. Which I presume you've still not read.

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Using "voltage" instead of "potential", which leads to inventing new words like "amperage" instead of "current" (I, measured in A) or possible "charge" (amperehours, Ah or Coulomb, C). Sometimes I don't even know what people mean.

There seems to be some confusion still about the CPU in the A1 Lite. It's the same CPU cards used in the A1 XE, so there's no reason why you can't get it with a dual 1.3GHz G4. But a card like that is only REALLY cute when it has a fanless CPU, which means a G3 clocked somewhere around 400-600MHz. Which puts it at about the same speed as a 600-1000MHz Via C3 (due to large cache, better FPU and generally being a bit better The C3 gets beaten clock for clock by a Celeron, and the 750FX should be a bit faster than that, so it's in that ballpark anyway)

I'm actually REALLY looking forward to this board

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Using "voltage" instead of "potential", which leads to inventing new words like "amperage" instead of "current" (I, measured in A) or possible "charge" (amperehours, Ah or Coulomb, C). Sometimes I don't even know what people mean.

@ olegil

Fanless CPU's... mmmmm, sleep makers (cos they're quiet, not for any ulterior reaons) .

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Yep. My setup is pretty quiet, with the loudest component being the case (PSU) fan. I should really investigate swapping that soon.


HD: 26dBA (this is SERIOUSLY quiet, barely audible from a meter away)
PSU fan: slightly more than that.
slow rotating GPU and CPU fans: below hearing treshold (not kidding).

I got some comments from an old Amiga friend this weekend (he was staying at my place while in town playing chess) about lack of noise from it. Which I take as a good sign.
He didn't get to see a single hang or crash either, but we only used CPU and GFX bandwidth watching movies (I don't have a telly, but I have a movie collection ), nothing fancy. Hehe

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Using "voltage" instead of "potential", which leads to inventing new words like "amperage" instead of "current" (I, measured in A) or possible "charge" (amperehours, Ah or Coulomb, C). Sometimes I don't even know what people mean.

Just got back from Brissie after driving all day. Hate to think how many emails there are stacked up after four days away.

Anyway, the official counts for the two venues (entry fees paid) were Sydney 43, Brisbane 48.
I bet Melbourne will outdo them both

tony

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Hyperion Support Forum: http://forum.hyperion-entertainment.biz/index.php

We're both hoping so! As soon as all the details have pounded out, I have vowed to stick up the OS4 tour posters on bus stops, discotteques, pubs, major railway stations, uni's, hell, even in police cells because I can see that I'll be put away for illegal usage of advertising space. Even prisoners will be clamouring over the walls to get to the OS4 demo!

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Hey John. Looks like you had a hell of a day. AND you got your A1 {finally}

Funny thing, though, how THIS has mirrored my FIRST Linux experience, on a K6 machine that time!

I left it to Sunday to set it up and then had my first disapointment - the keyboard WASN'T what I'd been expecting! . Working out where the monitor, keyboard & mouse plugged in; I switched on the monitor and then the A1.

Then, I wanted to adjust the display and couldn't figure-out the new Samsung's screen adjustment controls -- I was left with its Highlight feature active. Firstoff, I popped the Samsung CD-ROM into the drive in the A1 and opened Konquerer(?). Got nowhere with that as I couldn't figureout how to open it as a Local File.

So, it was - Fire up the A2000 and open AWeb-II. Getting to the directions for the screen controls; I grasped how to streach - shift - and adjust trapazoid parameters. Finally I had removed the Highlight, and had the display dimentions to my liking.

Come evening, I thought about shifting the modem, and the phone-line extention to it.

First job - detach the phone-line from the modem, cover the plug with a piece of tape, and back the line down its existing hole in the floor. Then it was bring up the rechargeable drill and make a pilot hole at the floor-wall junction under Big Blue (the desk holding the A1). Room Then I straightened out a white tie left over from the cables, and pushed it down inside the hole.

Then off downstairs to shift the line before enlarging its NEW access hole.

First problem - couldn't see the white tie showing. Back upstairs with a tape measure to plot the distance of the new hole from the old. . . . . 10'
Downstairs, and the measure helps me to find that pesky hole-indicator inside the ceiling of an old room under the house, which I judged too difficult to run the phone line inside. So it was, measure the usable space along the inside-edge under the exterior wall. . . . 6'

Back upstairs to measure, then drill a second pilot hole and push the white tie into that. Downstairs to confirm it usable and then to re-route the line while hammering in nails to bend into cable-holders. My evening meal was sure to be a re-heat job now! Got the plug up the hole and shouted loud enough to attract the wife's attention for her to draw up the line.

Then it was time to pack-up the tools, close-up downstairs, get upstairs to wash-up and eat a microwaved, hot, but blackened-around-the-edges meal!

After the meal it was time to position the modem, draw the power and phone line into position, attach the serial lead from the A2000 (good thing these double-header wide/narrow D-connectors!!) into one of the A1's serial ports.

So, switch on the A1 once again and login as root, to configure the mail-client and??? WHERE THE HELL is KDE's equivalent to Miami? A Dialup Agent? I searched, and searched, and searched, and searched, and PASTED in "and searched," to no avail. I did find a entry to set ethernet & ASDL, but not 56k phone-modem!

So it is that I unplugged the serial lead, and returned the modem to the A2000 with the phone lead now alongside the wall. THAT is what I had to do LAST time that I experimented with Linux, which leaves me to wonder.. . . . If Linux is SO GREAT, and SO DEPENDANT, with Internet Services; WHY the difficulty in getting it connected to the ISP? Give me Miami anyday!

(( You should understand that I did consult: Three copies of Linux ForMat, the AMIGAONE Quickstart Guide Debian Linux-PPC v1.4, a copy of Dwarf's Guide to Debian GNU/Linux, and my copy of Red Hat Linux for Dummies, not to ignor my UNIX Secrets book. ))

I'd say the really BIG SECRET is actually connecting a machine running a Linux distrib to an ISP with DialUp for the very first time!?!

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A2000HD (from 1991) 060 64Mb PicassoII with OS3.5 . . . still working.

Linux + dialup? Nah, noone uses that anymore

KPPP?

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Using "voltage" instead of "potential", which leads to inventing new words like "amperage" instead of "current" (I, measured in A) or possible "charge" (amperehours, Ah or Coulomb, C). Sometimes I don't even know what people mean.

Has anyone tried how fast windows & x86 apps are on MOL + virtualPC?

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