On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 03:26:21PM -0700, Pete Goodeve wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 08:09:34PM -0700, Urias McCullough wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Pete Goodeve <pete.goodeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > wrote: > > > > Personally, I wouldn't imagine running A3 at this point - so many > > fixes and improvements have been implemented since then... > > Hmm. OK. I didn't realize there had been such significant recent > changes. I've made a new stick (hrev44242). Unfortunately the > changes are so significant that it won't boot on my current machine!! > (The boot icons appear, but none light up. Safe mode makes no > difference.) > Updating the saga, following Urias' suggestion to use AnyBoot, I got a working stick running r44242 and took it along to ZaReason to try. Unfortunately the results were just about exactly the same as with the alpha-3 one I used originally. Haiku itself runs fine, but the HDA is unusable. I'm not sure if I detailed the symptoms before, but what I heard was mostly crackle and hiss, with the music faintly audible underneath it. Notably there was a "pulsing" of the noise, at ~5 per sec, I think, that would continue after I closed the player. It would go silent the moment I clicked on the Deskbar or such. I tried changing the audio frame rate without noticeable effect. Seems these symptoms ought to mean something! (:-)) They were even kind enough to let me actually install Haiku on the laptop, but it made no difference. [Even more unfortunately, when I got r44242 running on my own desktop box, it turns out to be useless for me there, too! As soon as I start feeding the audio chain (auich) with anything, the screen starts to freeze! Adding a second mixer input locks the whole OS completely! I tried replacing libmedia.so, the mixer, and the auich driver with the ones from r42415 that I normally use: made no difference...] Until a few moments ago, I thought this would be the end of my research for now, but ZaReason have just emailed me to ask if I want to check out their new Ivy Bridge laptop coming out in a few weeks! Anybody know yet how compatible that is? I'll head over there Monday or so to try, anyway. -- Pete --