Re: Progress on m68k images
On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> I think we're _really_ over. Look, it took Steve a day to build the
> images, and he scheduled another day for propagating the images across the
> net. Tomorrow at midnight is release ... doesn't really leave time for
> another Amiga floppies build, remake of the CD, etc., does it?
Yes, I know it took a long time... but yesterday Roman uploaded some stuff
for frozen, ie xlockmore-gl which was removed from the distribution since it
depended on mesa2g... we seem to have a working version now (though not yet
installed?).
> That's normal; if your emulator doesn't emulate a 68030 it's not supposed
> to boot (imagine booting Linux in a Mac emulator :-). AFAIK vmac doesn't
> support virtual memory yet.
Im not sure what it emulates, I allways thought Amigas were the only MACs
with a 68060 processor ;-)
> It attempted to start, that's good enough for me.
Yup :-)
> We can't hide them for Mac, the hybrid filesystem shows everything :-) If
> files are invisible for AmigaOS unless accompanied by a .info I'd say
> AmigaOS has a problem.
You can make all files visible quite easily, but then you get standard icons
for all files without an icon and no pretty penguin. And you cant arrange
the icons (on the CD) as seems fit. On the destop you can of course move
them at will, but you cant save it.
Can you fix the postition on the desktop somehow for MAC? I mean on CD?
> Is the module present? It's not supposed to be in lib/modules/2.0.36/ but
> rather in ../net/ anyway. Who built that modules, anyway?
I built the modules, I am pretty sure it is present (didnt look for it
explicitely) since I use the kernel image I built also for standard debian
usage, and there I have ariadne2 as module. Ok, the path looks strange, but
maybe I forgot to type net...
No, the problem looks to me that the bootfloppies are probing for apne
instead of ariadne2, some kind of typo in the bootfloppies package? I dont
know what they are doing, but when I try to insert other modules (hardware I
do not have) at least the right modules are probed for.
> No, /dev/mouse doesn't exist. The latest X startup will apparently use the
> proper mouse device (/dev/amigamouse in your case) directly. At least it
> did for me this weekend.
Aha, well, then I installed X the wrong way. Ah, no I installed xfree -8.1
from Chris' CDs, current is -10 or -11, so I should burn CD no 2 also :-)
> > To summarize, the CD is fully usable on Amiga, maybe we need an artist for
> > icons and stuff, only ariadne2 users are a little bitten since the module
> > isnt probed correctly (I know why I dont build that as module usually ;-)
>
> Seems good enough for me :-)
Yes, you dont use an amiga ;-)
Ok, next time we make it pretty, this time its ok if its functional, but the
modules thingy is a bug which should be fixed anyway, isn't it?
Ciao,
Christian.
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