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eComStation 2.2 Beta Demo CD English first impressions
Martin Iturbide:
--- Quote from: CHEN, Biao on March 16, 2013, 09:55:21 am ---3, the desktop looks plain and can't attract new comers.
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I was told the same thing from someone that didn't use OS/2 and booted eCS CD for the first time. It is like the desktop looks like too old school. Since I'm used to it maybe I can not notice it, but I also think that a design update on the GUI is necessary. Plus I always liked the idea of the "navigator" that the other OSes has.
Roderick Klein:
A new demo CD has been uploaded last night that also has the latest Realtek 0.3.1. driver onboard
that should fix the problems with the Realtek driver. As reported previous news postings most issue's with OS2AHCI, danis506.add and USB stack should be resolved now. But we would like to know if it now works for everybody that reported bugs.
Roderick Klein
Mensys B.V.
Doug Bissett:
--- Quote from: Roderick Klein on May 18, 2013, 10:14:42 pm ---A new demo CD has been uploaded last night that also has the latest Realtek 0.3.1. driver onboard
that should fix the problems with the Realtek driver. As reported previous news postings most issue's with OS2AHCI, danis506.add and USB stack should be resolved now. But we would like to know if it now works for everybody that reported bugs.
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I have tried this on 5 machines. The results are pretty good. It boots on every one, and it will connect to the internet on all of them (including 3 that had troubles with the older Realtek driver). The USB problems seem to be fixed, as are the Danis driver problems. I did not see a problem with OS2AHCI, but the new one didn't break it.
I think the demo needs more variety in the sample programs. Perhaps a JAVA photo editor of some sort, and a simple word processor like FocusWriter.
--- Quote ---3, the desktop looks plain and can't attract new comers.
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Anybody who really cares about how it looks, is going to be disappointed. EComStation will probably never look like windows, but it is also unlikely to ever be under attack by viruses. I guess it depends on what the potential user is really looking for.
Pete:
Hi All
I'm not very impressed with the Demo CD myself.
When I boot from "Menu with own values" the system hangs on "Creating objects"
When I boot with the "Default values" my USB Trackball does not work - not sure about any other usb devices as I could not be bothered to try and keyboard my way around the Desktop testing things.
At least I now know there has been no improvement of USB mouse related drivers since the release of eCS2.2 Beta...
Ah, well. Guess we can look forward to the next Live CD and hope it is much improved.
Regards
Pete
Roderick Klein:
--- Quote from: Pete on May 19, 2013, 10:05:20 pm ---Hi All
I'm not very impressed with the Demo CD myself.
When I boot from "Menu with own values" the system hangs on "Creating objects"
When I boot with the "Default values" my USB Trackball does not work - not sure about any other usb devices as I could not be bothered to try and keyboard my way around the Desktop testing things.
At least I now know there has been no improvement of USB mouse related drivers since the release of eCS2.2 Beta...
Ah, well. Guess we can look forward to the next Live CD and hope it is much improved.
Regards
Pete
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You kind of send the same email to the supportteam address as requested. Thanks for that.
I wrote this reply:
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>Booting from \"Menu with own values\" results in system hang when \"Creating objects\"
Oke lets try and pin point the problem. You made any changes in the
preboot menu ?
What happens if you disable ACPI ? Did you have a ticket open on
svn.netlabs.org for ACPI and a Gateway system with ACPI or I'm mixing
you up with somebody else ?
>Booting with \"Default values\" results in USB Trackball not working when Desktop loaded.
>
>Overall, this needs a lot more work.
If you did not modify in the preboot menu (boot with own values) and
boot with default value's is the same (in effect). It could rather be
pointing at something else as in a random problem that is somehow
occurring.
What happens with the demo CD if you take out the USB mouse and reconnect it ?
It would help if you could open a ticket in the eComStation bugtracker so we can try and trace and solve this bug.
But having stuff discussed in forums and emails makes it hard to track for developers.
Regards,
Roderick Klein
Mensys B.V.
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