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#46
Hardware / Re: Asus EEE PC 701 and eCS
2007.11.25, 01:11:00
QuoteThe manual that comes with it shows how to install WinXP from an USB drive. If one can install eCS using an USB drive, it should be able to install eCS onto it.

I don't think installing eCS this way will be as easy as installing Windows. See, you cannot write the *raw* contents of a CD (i.e. a boot CD used to install an operating system) to an USB stick because CDs have special filesystems. As far as I know, creating an USB stick with a Windows Installer involves creating a FAT or NTFS partition at the stick, making it bootable and then copying all the files from a Windows CD to the stick. What exactly does your manual say about that?
As I said, it should be possible to install it that way but it's not very straight forward and it may be tricky.
A method - however - which will almost certainly work (as the OS X installing article pointed out) is to use an external USB CD/DVD drive, changing your boot sequence so "USB" is at the top and then simply booting your eCS CD. That should be pretty easy. I think for that purpose I'm going to buy a cheap CD/DVD drive mobile rack and attach one of my old drives to it - I won't really need a real portable CD/DVD drive for that computer. Too bad I cannot use the PCMCIA/PCCARD CD drive I've already got

greetings,
Robin
#47
Hardware / Re: Asus EEE PC 701 and eCS
2007.11.23, 07:16:36
http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/11/12654/

this guy installed Mac OS X on his eeePC. He simply attached an USB DVD drive and set the BIOS to boot from USB. So that's supported. It should be quite easy to install eCS the same way (once you've got such a DVD/CD drive)
@BigWarpGuy: If you get it to work, maybe you could tell us whether you can actually use all the hardware. Is the graphics chipset supported by SNAP (not running in VESA mode)? (If not - I think - Panorama VESA would be preferable.) Is the WLAN chipset supported by genmac? etc... The sound chipset is AC97 so that won't be a problem.

greetings,
Robin
#48
Hardware / Re: Asus EEE PC 701 and eCS
2007.11.22, 08:31:29
Cool,
I found out about this subnotebook some days ago and already planned to buy it when it's released in Germany this December (the first affordable subnotebook...).
I think the main method to install a new operating system is to use a bootable USB stick - I didn't read anything about the possibility to boot from an attached CD/DVD drive, so we would have to transfer the eCS boot floppies to a bootable USB stick and include USB CD/DVD drivers. If that's possible then why not transfer the entire eCS boot CD to USB flash? Unfortunately as far as I know, you cannot just "copy" an arbitrary bootable CD ISO.
I think that resource might be interesting: http://os4you.org/wiki-usb-boot-en.html
It's a bit risky. Maybe it won't work that way.

greetings,
Robin
#49
Quote from: Saijin_Naib on 2007.10.22, 11:56:10
Could cairo (which is GPU neutral) produce the same results as WOOV for transparency, but with greater compatibility across the diverse systems that people use with eCS?
As far as I know: no - except you rewrite the PM in Cairo which is similar to the goal the Voyager people have.
My idea was based on the assumption that it's possible to create an overlay image at all pixels of the screen with a certain color. You'd have to set the context menu color to a color seldomly seen in a desktop. A program or driver then - somehow - waits for the user to open any context menu, takes a screenshot before it is displayed, applies some filters or effects to the shot (sure we could get that milk glass...) and uses it as an overlay buffer. If the menu is finally displayed, its background would be the processed background instead of the special color.
It has - of course - a lot of downsides. One of them would be that you cannot watch a movie with WarpOverlay at the same time. Maybe, if you you can find out how big the menu is going to be before it is displayed, you could restrict the overlay size to the size of the menu and replace any color, let's say, a standard grey. So there would be definitely no "transparency" where it is not supposed to be.
Everything's speculation of course. I just observed the effect by trying to use the "Out to desktop" feature of WarpVision. I don't even know if an arbitrary color can be used as "overlay color" or only black . But even then, you could set the menu background to black and restrict the overlay size to the menu's size.... Mhh but what if you open a sub-menu - the restricted overlay size would make it difficult...

greetings,
Robin
#50
Unfortunately, it's only pseudotransparency (Candyfolder) - you cannot see it because they are directly on top of the desktop :-). WPS-Wizard adds a kind of (pseudo) real transparency to tooltips if you stay on an object with the mouse for some seconds. That's possible because it doesn't move, therefore the background isn't updated if something moves beneath the tooltip. Looks pretty cool anyway since a situation where you could actually see this is very rare. I was thinking about the possibility to use WarpOverlay to do a very dirty hack which would add that kind of transparency to all OS/2 popups and context menus, but since WO doesn't work with my current video hardware I cannot verify it.
Styler seems tempting - it can also restrict the size of maximized windows, a very useful feature if you are running a two monitor system like I do. I remember trying it once but it didn't work for some reason, maybe I try to install it again.
#51
Oh, in a related matter: I wonder if there's an WPS enhancement which adds the possibility to switch off system titlebars of WPS folders. I think a titlebar-less folder with big PNG icons, pseudo-transparency and drop shadows (NPSWPS would be handy yet alone to be able to move the folder without switching the titlebar on and off or using the XPager) would look incredibly cool...
Even if such an WPS class does not exist it should be quite easy to write. But I don't think I can find the time to do it (I would have to learn some basic things about WPS programming first) - I cannot even manage to improve or rewrite my existing projects...
#52
Hi,
to put this question in a simple manner: Does anyone know how to use the Cairo widget class with WPS-Wizard 0.6b3 (the Rexx script is broken)? Maybe I should just wait for the next major release.

btw. I assembled a new Icon theme from several existing KDE icon themes which is quite suitable if used with an overall more OS-X/Aqua-like look and feel (but actually it's not an OS-X Icon theme).
Here's a screenshot: http://www.antrophos.de/shai/aqua_icons.jpg
It still needs a lot of work, though.

btw2: WPS-Wizard is really a fine piece of work. I admit I'm only using it because of the Icon addon - but - honestly - the OS/2 desktop could really use some more eye candy...

greetings,
Robin
#53
Hi,
cool; I'd be interested, I used to do a lot of BASIC in my childhood (who didn't?) and it's perfect for writing small tools. Sadly I could never find a good compiler running under OS/2 (VisualAge Basic is not an option). I would give it a try.
I'm located in Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany but I would prefer a floppy image anyway if it's legal. Is the manual also available as a file on the floppy? You may destroy the actual floppy afterwards or whatever. I don't think I'd take it otherwise, yet alone the shipping fees....
contact via robin dot haberkorn at googlemail dot com

greetings,
Robin