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   Message 207 of 1,512   
   Sinclair QL a.k.a. P.D to All   
   BeOS Max 3 & Shuttle SV24   
   08 Nov 03 15:14:33   
   
   From: do.not.bother.me@spammer.net   
      
   Hi all,   
   sorry for the ignorance but I haven't used BeOS in a long time... so bear   
   with me :-)   
   I bought BeOS 5 Pro when it came out but the then keyboard driver couldn't   
   support keyboard switching to Greek so I abandoned it.   
   A few years later, being now in the US, I have no need for such a keyboard   
   driver so I decided to give BeOS a go again. I got BeOS Max 3.0 and tried   
   to install it in my Shuttle SV24 Mini ITX Box (PIII/1 GHz, 256 Mb)   
   secondary machine. As I found out it refused to install. I went the usual   
   way (Shift upon boot up) and after tweaking with the advanced safe mode   
   settings (Selected everything except use Safe Mode) it finally installed.   
   (BTW: I remember that BeOS 5 Pro refused to install when the machine had   
   128 Megs or more but had no problem booting after installation with 64   
   Megs... but anyway).   
   Now in order to boot it I always have to go to safe mode and once there it   
   refuses to load the deskbar on boot (but loads it afterwards by hand). I   
   can't figure out what bothers it. Anyone had similar problems with BeOS   
   Max and SV24?   
   Apart from that (and just for historical reasons) anyone knows if it's   
   possible to use a dual keyboard driver (à la Windoze) ie. alt-shift or   
   some other combo to change layouts with BeOS?   
      
   Thanks,   
      
      
   Phoebus   
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