From: snuhwolf5150@hotmail.com
On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 17:55:25 +0000
Edmund wrote:
> In message <20060225091037.7569eafc@vector>, §nuhw¤Lf wrote:
> > Heres an update on my experience with BeOS5 PE on a toshiba laptop
> > 490CDT...233Mhz PII ....the vesa driver from bebits got the monitor to
> > support color but there must be some problems with how BeOS handles memory
> > allocation to apps. NetPositve could crash & reboot it as well as simply
> > changing a background for a solitaire game. Both newsreaders locked it up
> > and caused a "kernel panic". I understood that 64MB of ram was sufficent to
> > run BeOS. I get the feeling that BeOS was optimised for the PPC
> > archetecture and not Intel machines.
>
> What version are you using?
5.0 Personal Edition
I have an very old slow (200MHz)
> toshiba which runs fine with BeOS R5.03 Pro.
> I use the most beautiful newsreader there is, ( Newsreader )
> unfortunately this newsreader has a bug which causes it to crash
> on a some messages but this rarely happens.
> It only crashes newsreader and not the whole system.
Both BeInformed and Bnews crashed. BeInformed crashed the system completely.
> Pineapple runs perfect but it is a bid strange in getting messages,
> it start with the oldest first, which makes it necessarily to get
> thousands of messages for nothing and it hasn't nearly as much
> options as Newsreader has.
> Net+ is not crashing here, I don't know about solitaire, I never use that.
> Could be you have an "supported" video card that doesn't behave like it
> should. Try to find a newer driver for it.
The card is a S3 Virge-MX 260
chip ID is 86C260
The S3 driver from bebits didnt work so I tried both of the Vesa drivers and
settled on the last one listed.
> BTW BeOS runs a lot better with more memory although mine has only 32 MB.
>
Hmmm...I'll have to give it another try then.
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