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It does work on real hardware.

Its just extreamly picky. Had a pent 75 running it.

I have it working fine on VMware (mustn't be broken anymore). not exactly stable and still has most of its bugs but I can see some improvements and I'm sure there are lots I can't see.

Z98 wrote:Asked around on IRC and there may be hidden bugs related to removing debugging symbols. This may or may not apply to ROS_LEAN_AND_MEAN, but it would explain problems booting.

thanks for the info. I figured it was some problem with the debugging stuff that gets turned off in ROS_LEAN_AND_MEAN, so I compiled it using default settings (while turning off all debugging in config.rbuild by setting "KDBG", "DBG" and "GDB" to '0') and added -fomit-frame-pointer to the optimizations and it failed just as with ROS_LEAN_AND_MEAN so I guess there's some problem with omitting the frame pointer even though all debugging should be disabled?

Z98 wrote: Preview of 0.3.1:

.. If you do test this build, feel free to mention what programs don't install/run here. ..

Well, fine.

But as mentioned in
http://www.reactos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3517
I miss a fullfeatured way to send feedback.

Cheers, Peter.

Prerelease of ReactOS 0.3.1
is available at
http://svn.reactos.org/prereleases/
ReactOS-0.3.1-REL-iso.zip 02-Mar-2007 23:49 18.8M
ReactOS-0.3.1-REL-live.zip 02-Mar-2007 23:54 18.2M
ReactOS-0.3.1-REL-vmware.zip 03-Mar-2007 00:13 17.9M

Just reporting ...

Rettung wrote:Prerelease of ReactOS 0.3.1
ReactOS-0.3.1-REL-iso.zip 02-Mar-2007 23:49 18.8M

... does successfully install on Dell GX 260 (Pentium 4)

On the 3. stage ReactOS tries to identify and install drivers - on this system ReactOS does find NOTHING matching the drivers' hardware ..

On Dell GX 260 the ReactOS Explorer does not see Floppy or CDROM.

Rettung wrote:Prerelease of ReactOS 0.3.1
ReactOS-0.3.1-REL-live.zip 02-Mar-2007 23:54 18.2M

On Dell GX 260 0.3.1 prerelease LiveCD rel does not work.

Probably because VESA driver is in use under LiveCD ?
=> on installation with BootCD I have to select VGA-driver, VESA driver does not work

Is there a possibility to deactivate VESA driver on LiveCD rel ?

On Dell GX 260 0.3.1 prerelease LiveCD rel does not work.

you graphice card is
Graphics processor: Intel 845G/GL (integrated)



I am reading at http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/CS-004672.htm
"The Intel® Extreme Graphics controllers support VBE 1.2, 2.0 and 3.0. Both linear and banked framebuffer modes are supported"

It mean it does not support real framebuffer it need todo a bankswitch
after each 32kb or 64kb or 128kb depns how u mainboard bios are config

and at http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/CS-004045.htm

I reading the chip does not support framebufer only banked switch and
that is voltations agains 2.0 spec and higher.

Then we start looking at there compatible list for games
http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/i ... 020666.htm

as we can see allot games does not working with this chip as well.

I will never use a intel graphice chip as long I live in my own computer.
they are so bad.

GreatLord wrote:

On Dell GX 260 0.3.1 prerelease LiveCD rel does not work.

you graphice card is
Graphics processor: Intel 845G/GL (integrated)
...
I will never use a intel graphice chip as long I live in my own computer. they are so bad.

No question - this graphic chip is not for gamers.

But Your personal opinion to badly designed hardware doesn't help me - my main usage of PCs is running music software (Cubase, Emagic Logic, Samplitude, Wavelab, VST Plugins, ...), OpenOffice and Borland Delphi. I don't need fast gaming graphics cards. I much more need at least 2 (slow) video screens parallel !

So again, how can I run ReactOS LiveCD with VGA driver instead of miniport vbemp.sys VESA driver ?
Why does ReactOS make no use of hardware detection in 1st stage and preselect VGA if stuff like Intel 845G/GL is detected ?

Thanks, Peter.

The problem is we do not detect what type of graphice card.
we do not use pnp for our own graphice card we doing a force install of it.
But does it exists a inf file of a driver with pnp on we are using it instead.
like we do with vmware own driver.

if u which I can guide u how to make vga drv for livecd if u known how to compile reactos it self.

GreatLord wrote:The problem is we do not detect what type of graphice card.

Please see my PM or Email to You.

I will never use a intel graphice chip as long I live in my own computer.
they are so bad.

how long u alrealy live in your computer? *jokingly*

GreatLord wrote:if u which I can guide u how to make vga drv for livecd if u known how to compile reactos it self.

I can compile the sources.

Yes, please tell me how to make VGA driver work on LiveCD.

Just reporting ...

PeterK wrote:Prerelease II of ReactOS 0.3.1
ReactOS 0.3.1 Branch (r25955) - Installation ISO file

... does successfully install on Dell GX 260 (Pentium 4)

- No more "3 Minutes waittime 'til surface comes up"
- but serial Debug Output shows "ààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààà"
instead of senseful output (why that?)

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EDIT: I found out that ReactOS (r25955 PreRelease) serial output speed is 19200 bps instead of the usual 115200 bps !!!
115200 is recommended on: http://www.reactos.org/wiki/index.php/P ... rial_Cable


(The only) Text output is:

Used memory 391620Kb

The latest trunk works well on my machine (with Intel 845GE graphics processor) using VESA driver (with a small hack).