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eComStation - What's Happening?

Started by mobybrick, 2009.06.28, 15:31:36

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mobybrick

Him

I was wondering if anyone had any information regarding the current state of eComStation development. It'd be good to know if..

a. Has, or will there, be any significant progress on fixing ACPI? e.g. The hang at the eCS boot logo (or shortly after) on a huge number of most chipsets, even common ones, still remains with the latest betas.

b. Has, or will there be any fixing of the 512Gb boot volume limitation fix for eCS?

c. Is there a timetable to release of the GA of v2.0?

Whilst we all, myself included, greatly appreciate the huge amount of work that must go into preparing an OS, and of the work of the various developers and managers (Bob, Roderick and Joachim et al) sometimes it appears that nothing seems to be happening. In the absence of information, users will make up their own horror storries or nightmares. We need re-assurance. Even a publicly viewable developers blog would be great :)

Regards,
Moby

Pete

Hi Moby

Some thoughts in answer to your questions:

a: I'm sure that lots of work is being done on acpi but, sadly, builds later than 3.14 are not any use with my mainboard (nForce430/MCP61 chipset). Still, I'll keep posting the reports and logs in the hope that 1 day...  :-)

I'm not sure why your system is hanging but suspect that is USBEHCD.SYS related. To overcome that problem you may need to experiment with the PSD=... line in config.sys. What works with acpi3.14 and my system is: PSD=ACPI.PSD /SMP /CD /TMR /APIC /!NOD


b: I saw a post about this having been resolved somewhere...  Check this thread http://www.os2world.com/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,63/topic,1406.msg9916/topicseen,1/#new


c: Probably - and it is also probably a bit overdue  :-)
I suspect we are waiting for a more useable acpi package.


Regards

Pete

warpcafe

Hi there,

I agree that Mensys could perhaps try to collect status informations from various sources (Netlabs, ecoSoft, their own dev threads...) and provide a better, more transparent "what's going on". The thing is that with ACPI, there is only 1 core developer behind it as far as I know... and there's a whole lotta stuff to do.
(And reporting progress takes time that then is missing in development bandwidth, if there's only 1 person...)

Not sure if that helps, but I recently discovered this one here:
http://twitter.com/eComStation

Regards,
Thomas
"It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority.
By definition, there are already enough people to do that"
- G.H. Hardy

cytan

Hi all,
   Just saw this on ecomstation.org:

http://www.ecomstation.org/news/read.php?record=2647


   What really worries me is the status of ACPI, there seems to be bugs in 3.16 which still needs to be resolved and the timetable for an August release looks optimistic. However, I certainly hope that 2.0 will be great out of the box!

cytan

Saijin_Naib

I just want to see good support for CPU frequency scaling on VIA CPUs as I intend to use eCS on a VIA powered PC.

Sigurd

Hi,

ACPI 3.15 and 3.16 for me have unfortunately been steps backwards. (I would like to stress FOR ME because I know from at least one person who reported to have benefit from version 3.16).

I got back to 3.14 because the new versions did not allow to power off my Netbook while 3.14 did. :-(

Cheers

Saijin_Naib

What platform did they give you a regression on?

CPU, chipset, etc.

Do you have a BIOS update you could apply that may help compatibility?

Sigurd

Hi,

Hardware: ASUS EEE1008HA, Details here:

http://en.ecomstation.ru/hardware.php?action=item&id=1726

I already flashed the latest BIOS availiable 0801.


Saijin_Naib

Very interesting. Do you think it is a regression with the Intel 950 chipset and ACPI or something else?