[haiku-development] Re: R1 Status Update Request

  • From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:14:54 +0200 CEST

> 2008/6/26 François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>:
> >> On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:49:50 +0000, Salvatore Benedetto wrote
> >> > Has anyone been able to fully build haiku from haiku?
> >>
> >> I did so last night and I am doing it right now while I'm writing
> >> this. I've
> >> more or less switched fully to Haiku when on the go. I get
> > > internet
> >> through
> >> usb_ecm and my mobile phone (Firefox runs extremely well for me by
> >> now), get
> >> sound out of HDA through OSS and since the stability has become
> >> fairly good
> >
> > Yeah it seems Stephan made something useable from the mess I wrote,
> > thanks :)
>
> By the way, is OSS going to be installed by default? Or will the user
> require
> to do it manually?

I'd rather avoid it until either there is a way to resolve driver
conflicts, or I get a list of OSS drivers I should disable by default
(the core module checks for it before loading them).

> >>  (I get KDL pretty rarely, most of the time with continuable
> > > errors),
> >
> > Yeah I still need to update OSS itself.
> > they moved to mercurial for development, I have hg running under
> > Zeta
> > (wasn't too hard, it's python mostly) and the sources checked out,
> > just
> > need to apply the patch.
>
> Have you plan on when to do it? :)

ASAP in between m68k port, looking at arm and other stuff... :)

> >> I'm not
> >> really looking back at my BeOS R5 on this machine. Due to file
> >> caching
> >> actually not only caching as few as on R5 the performance of svn
> > > and
> >> jam is
> >> absolutely reasonable, better than on R5, but of course with the
> > > to
> >> be
> >> expected issues through the lack of an IO scheduler and proper pre
> > > -
> >> fetching.
> >> But in general Haiku has become everyday usable for me in the last
> >> few weeks.
> >
> > I've yet to make the switch here but hopefully this summer...
> > I need to get XEmacs (I heard the BFS issue might have been fixed,
> > will
> > see).
>
> As I said, I followed your step and got not no crash but the
> exacutable of xemacs,
> which did not run due to missing fonts. (BTW: I'm still waiting for

As I said I think it expects Courier 10BT to be available, hopefully
it'll be more relaxed later.

> you to sending me
> the other zip with the linking problem :-) ).

Yeah I'll zip NetSurf up.

François.

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