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Re: What to set up after compilation [by frakswe]

Tue, 04 Sep 2018 20:02:41 -0500

Help::What to set up after compilation
okidokey, many thanks for clarifying.

Re: Getting AROS hosted running on Raspberry Pi [by origami]

Tue, 28 Aug 2018 21:58:21 -0500

Help::Getting AROS hosted running on Raspberry Pi
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hth313 wrote:
The RPi is a 3B+ with RetroPie which is currently not using any X11 ...

I unpacked (20180820) and looked around, then tried ./Arch/linux/AROSBootstrap which resulted in some output, followed by "Display driver(s) failed to initialize. Entering emergency shell."

I suspect it depends on some packages that are not installed, and I wonder what I should install?

By default AROS linux hosted uses X11 for displaying graphics, so yes you would have to install X11 in that case.

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Using ldd to show dependencies did not help so much, strangely enough. It wants linux-vdso.so.1 which I have not been able to locate.

That dependency is a so called vDSO and is dynamically 'generated' by the linux kernel (if the kernel was compiled that way when instructed to do so).

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But yes, I only have a root shell, so I installed lxde and xinit, then invoked xinit to get X11 up. After that I could open AROS!

An alternative to that is to remove all AROS drivers related to X11 and use linuxfb.hidd (video) and linuxinput.hidd (mouse/keyboard) listed inside AROSBootstrap config instead.

I'm too unfamiliar with linux too have a solution to stop AROS input from entering the host terminal or drawing on each terminal window (after all it is a framebuffer) but perhaps if you run straight from boot without virtual terminals things work better (i still have to try that myself one day).

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Is there a way to change the font in AmigaShell? It looks kind of thin.

Yes, of course. Just like you would do on a 'classic' Amiga workbench.

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I tried ping, but it wants bsdsocket.library version 3, and I could find no such thing in libs:.

That is a dynamically in memory generated library and is generated when the network stack is successfully initialized (as then it would make sense to expose the features to actually be able to use the stack).

Just like a vDSO sort of speak.

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Is there a way to invoke linux programs from inside the AmigaShell?

afaik not by default, but there is enough API available to make that happen. Broadway (commercial version) has the lx command and Icaros has the rabbit hole scripts. refer to their distributions if you would want to check them out.

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I looked around and found in a faq in the source tree that "export AROS_X11_FULLSCREEN=1" before launching should put it in full screen

It depends on your windows manager. So many of those and even so many solutions. The default Raspbian Jessie desktop uses F11 key (icw shift, alt or ctrl sorry as i can't recall) to make a X11 window go full-screen. There is 3th party software that would perhaps be able to generalize some things for X11. Just google for it (i would have to do so as well)

On a more personal note: for some reason i seem unable to get sound working. AHI improved from crashing in 2016 to showing an empty (unit) list in 2018 (quite an improvement ) audio device is listed as pointing to devs:AHI\.audio if i recall correctly (which seems wierd/buggy to me).

Ah well, seems that native is on its way.... keeping my fingers crossed it will be 64 bit besides the endian swap (hi Dr. Schultz)

edit: typo's

Re: FAT drive seen as NDOS [by ncafferkey]

Mon, 27 Aug 2018 00:17:31 -0500

Help::FAT drive seen as NDOS
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salass00 wrote:
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AFAIR Paolo replaced the fat-handler FS with a FUSE-based alternative in recent Icaros releases.

If you are referring to exfat-handler then you are mistaken. It is only for extended FAT file system.

For legacy FAT file systems another handler is needed. There is at least one FUSE implementation available but I haven't looked into porting any of them because both AmigaOS and AROS already have native implementations.

My Icaros 2.2 ISO specifies exfat-handler for FAT\0 in L:automount-config, so it looks like I was right that fat-handler had been replaced, just not with an appropriate handler

Re: Refresh rates [by nikolaos]

Tue, 14 Aug 2018 09:25:32 -0500

Help::Refresh rates
Talked with Neil yesterday.

He had a simple solution to this.

From Grub it is possible to edit VESA mode with higher refresh. Like this.

VESA=1024x768@100

This will give you 100hz display if your monitor supports it.
Here it is of cause possible to experiment with different resolutions and refresh rates. At least it works :)

edit: This does as I asumed solve the issue with Janus-UAE. Now it is very smooth. As you know 50hz * 2 = 100hz

Re: aros.org down [by nikolaos]

Tue, 24 Jul 2018 20:37:08 -0500

Help::aros.org down
Building again now :)

Re: Catalogs directory [by paolone]

Tue, 24 Jul 2018 11:26:20 -0500

Help::Catalogs directory
Quote:

Pasquale wrote:
Very often packages include a catalogs directory, my question is simple:

could i copy it into SYS:Locale? Or should it remain inside the package directory?

Thanks.

In Icaros Desktop I centralized all locale files into sys:Locale, so you can do the same without any issue. Just remember to update catalogs too, when a new software release comes.

Re: Trident restore [by mcguire]

Sun, 15 Jul 2018 11:22:04 -0500

Help::Trident restore
That works. Thanks a lot.

Re: AROS Vision Download [by OlafS3]

Fri, 13 Jul 2018 12:37:57 -0500

Help::AROS Vision Download
Yes I will do ;)

Re: Let`s learn how to code in C! [by trekiej]

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 13:52:18 -0500

Help::Let`s learn how to code in C!
To make a list:
We have C, Zune GUI, OpenGL, Library, and Driver.
The last 3 could be learned, I guess, in any order.

Re: Anyway thank you kalamatee for all you have done! [by MartinW]

Tue, 19 Jun 2018 10:53:28 -0500

Help::Anyway thank you kalamatee for all you have done!
This forum badly needs a moderator that can lock this thread and any others that pop up on the subject. I don't know if such a role is currently filled but it's painfully obvious this will roll on and on and on without it.

And the damage is done. Kalamatee has not been back in some days, and if I were him, I wouldn't bother either.

[EDIT] I should say, 'has not responded in some days'.