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eComStation 2.2 Beta Demo CD English first impressions
Pete:
Hi Roderick
--- Quote from: Roderick Klein on May 20, 2013, 12:31:58 am ---
You kind of send the same email to the supportteam address as requested. Thanks for that.
I wrote this reply:
>
>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.
--- End quote ---
I set the following in the preboot Menu:-
Language to en_UK
Keyboard to en_UK
Video to SNAP
Changed AHCI driver to Danis506
Removed USB Keyboard support
Set USB Floppy support to 0
ACPI should work... It is possible that I enabled multiple CPU support. I will have to retest with only 1 CPU active.
No, I don't have a Gateway system :-)
I had problems with the USB drivers supplied with eCS 2.2 Beta that look very similar to the problem with the LiveCD - ie the USB Trackball does not work with the supplied USB drivers but does work with the IBM 10.162 drivers.
I thought I had opened a ticket about the USB problem on the eCS Bugtracker but cannot find it... I do know that at the time I installed eCS 2.2 Beta I was using a *wired* USB Trackball. I seem to recall having a bit of a problem with the eCS Bugtracker around that time so maybe I did not report the USB problems. They do get briefly discussed in the eComStation 2.2 Beta First Impressions thread - on Page 6.
I'll have to do a little more testing and then file Bug reports about the USB problems.
Regards
Pete
ivan:
Hi Roderick,
Since you are reading this thread I will add a few comments regarding the live CD. These are from people that I have shown it to.
First, general comments.
1) You need to know a lot about the physical computer to be able to fill in the information. [this was from several people when the default values didn't work - French keyboard, monitor resolution etc.]
2) Detection of network card very poor. [it appears to find intel nics but that is about all - see 1, also it never found any wireless cards]
3) Does not pick up USB mouse or trackball. [these were all working with the operating system on the various computers]
Next, specific shortcomings, not exactly complaints but things that people think they need.
1) No File Explorer. [this I overcame by having File Freedom on a USB stick]
2) The open folders are 'clunky'. [for some reason all the folders are set to 'multiple columns' and 'maintain sort order' even if there are only a few items in the folder - this creates a redundant scroll bar at the bottom of the open folder - it would be better if they were set to 'gridded' or 'as placed']
When it works people are generally impressed - after finding the correct nic, setting folder defaults and providing a file explorer.
There is still a way to go but being a beta release I expect the final release will work with more systems on default settings.
warp:
I tried the May edition of eCS 2.2 beta Demo cd on the desktop pc with the ASUS Sabertooth 990 FX mainboard.
The boot process goes ahead for a while, then I got the messages:
Processors Initialized: 1
Integrated ACPI Support Driver for eComstation v 3.21.07
Copyright (c) 2005-2013 Mensys BV
WARNING: Some devices could not be assigned an interrupt
(out of range)
Insert eCcomStation Demo CD and press any key. If the CD is already inserted, try modifying the storage driver settings in the CD boot menu.
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