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eComStation 2.2 Beta Demo CD English first impressions
Holger Schuett:
Hi again,
tried the network on the edge e130.
It seems to work, but the system freezes starting firefox, might be an issue with flash.
USB works fine
Daniel Caetano:
I was able to boot Demo CD on a HP i5 box, but had to disablle USB (boot always hang on R0STUB when USB EHCI is turned on). On that computer UniAud does not recognize Realtek HD Audio, GenMac doesnot recognize Intel Gigabit Ethernet 82579LM (8086:1502) and when SMP is enabled thhe computer almost finish the boot proccess, but reset the computer when the desktop should be displayed. Boot succesfull if: disable USB and disable SMP, but no audio nor network access.
I will do some tests on my i7 box (Intel motherboard - DH67CL) and on my old ASUS motherboard (A78NX-E DeLuxe) + Atlhon XP (which is currently running eCS 2.0).
Doug Bissett:
I first tried the demo in a VBox running under eCS. No go.
Then, I tried in a more modern VBox under Win7 64 bit. Works pretty good, but no serious testing done.
Okay, so I made a real CD, and tried it in my old 800 mhz Athlon system. Not so good. The system has a SYM8XX SCSI card in it (for my scanner). I did not analyze every attempt, but it looks like ACPI is not set to use the /VW parameter. I just disabled ACPI, and it finally booted. That was as far as I went.
Then, i tried on my new Lenovo ThinkPad L530. Surprisingly, it went straight to the desktop, with no complaints, using the default setup. Unfortunately, the Realtek Multimac driver has a bug that causes major problems on this machine, so it hung hard (same as what the real eCS 2.1 does). So, I tried the preboot menu options. One of which is an alternate driver for Realtek 8169 (no other indications of what that might be). It turns out that it is the RTGNDA driver, which does work pretty good in eCS 2.1. Unfortunately, it seems that RTGNDA.NIF and RTGNDA.OS2 do not exist on the demo, so it doesn't load. Anyway, it gets to the, pretty good looking, desktop. At that point the stick mouse works fine. The touchpad also works (but I hate those things, and there is no way to turn it off). My USB wireless mouse goes crazy. In the preboot menu AMouse is selected, but AMouse is not used.
So far, not too bad, but there is still some serious work to be done.
melf:
Tested my Acer One also: Not able to boot. I have to use it with USB CD and make the necessary configuration in the preboot menu. I t halts at os2cdrom.dmd. If I also activate SMP (it's a dual core) it halts at resource.sys, i.e exactly where the earlier reported Dell Inspiron with Athlon x2 halts. So no luck.
Should be added that eCS 2.1 is installed on this computer and as far as I can remember this install was flawless.
Doug Bissett:
I tried my Asus M3A78-EM, with quad core AMD Phenom processor. The Realtek 8168 on the motherboard is dead, so i replaced it with a PCI card with a Realtek 8169 chip. It seems to work pretty good, but the mouse tracking is set way to high (it was at maximum). I was able to adjust that, and then it worked okay.
I also tried my IBM ThinkPad T43 (1871-W8M). It didn't do very well at setting up the NICS (both are well supported by GENMAC), otherwise, it looks okay (I didn't try the preboot menu).
Then, I tried my Lenovo ThinkPad T510. Works great, and looks great, using the default setup.No WiFi, of course.
My comment is, that the demo seems to work pretty well on modern hardware (as long as it is not too new), but has a few problems on older hardware. Pretty much the opposite of previous demos.
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