Tabos Ocean Alpha0 released

Jeko · Post by **Jeko** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 5:55 am

With a real computer TabOS works properly? Or it is as slow as with virtualbox?

buzz · Post by **buzz** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 9:28 am

on real pc it works flawlessly, even on my old notebook with 266Mhz,... although there are still parts which can be done in a better way; and please remember, it is using the vesa driver so the mpeg videos might drive your cpu at high speed.

Brynet-Inc · Post by **Brynet-Inc** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 9:39 am

Hey, I noticed a problem when using QEMU 0.9.0... the Z and Y keys are interchanged.

Faulty keymap? or QEMU bug

EDIT: Seems like several other keys are out of place... very unusable..

Jeko · Post by **Jeko** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 9:41 am

buzz wrote:on real pc it works flawlessly, even on my old notebook with 266Mhz,... although there are still parts which can be done in a better way; and please remember, it is using the vesa driver so the mpeg videos might drive your cpu at high speed.

can't it use other graphics drivers than vesa driver?

inflater · Post by **inflater** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 9:52 am

Brynet-Inc wrote:the Z and Y keys are interchanged.

German, Slovak and Czech keyboards usually are QWERTZ.. (The main programmer of Tabos is from Germany or Austria..)

That key style dates back at least 30 years.. It was widely used on 1960-1980's typewriters..

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Regards
inflater

Brynet-Inc · Post by **Brynet-Inc** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 10:06 am

inflater(Before he edited his post..) wrote: Did you saw something similar?

Decoder: "Have you seen anything similar?"

The answer is no, I haven't seen a "QWERTZ" keyboard... or typewriter.

inflater · Post by **inflater** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 10:09 am

I edited that post some times, I didn't knew how should I "form" that sentence.

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And I wasn't refering for the typewriters with that question.

buzz · Post by **buzz** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 10:14 am

well, i'm from germany

in the next release i will switch to english as default and made a setup util to use different keyboard layouts.

there are some hardware accelerated drivers for nvidia/sis/cirrus/s3, but none of them will help you regarding the virtual pc problem. maybe someone can name the emulated graphic card in virtual pc...

Jeko · Post by **Jeko** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 10:25 am

buzz wrote:well, i'm from germany in the next release i will switch to english as default and made a setup util to use different keyboard layouts.

there are some hardware accelerated drivers for nvidia/sis/cirrus/s3, but none of them will help you regarding the virtual pc problem. maybe someone can name the emulated graphic card in virtual pc...

I don't use virtual pc, but virtualbox.

However virtual pc graphics mode doesn't work because MS Virtual PC use a crap graphics card (in fact also some linux distro can't work with it)

Jeko · Post by **Jeko** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 10:30 am

Taken from wikipedia:

VirtualBox: As a graphics adapter, by default, VirtualBox virtualizes a standard VESA card with 8 MB RAM, ...

MS Virtual PC: a standard SVGA VESA graphics card (S3 Trio 64 PCI with 4 MByte Video RAM, adjustable in later versions up to 16 MByte)

Brynet-Inc · Post by **Brynet-Inc** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 10:37 am

buzz wrote:well, i'm from germany in the next release i will switch to english as default and made a setup util to use different keyboard layouts.

That might help..

.. A lot of members are from Canada & The US.

Combuster · Post by **Combuster** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 11:40 am

MarkOS wrote:However virtual pc graphics mode doesn't work because MS Virtual PC use a crap graphics card (in fact also some linux distro can't work with it)

I have tested it and found that its video emulation is closer to the truth than that of either bochs or qemu...

Jeko · Post by **Jeko** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 8:16 am

I can't compile TabOS with gcc 4 in Ubuntu also by adding -fno-stack-protector to CFLAGS in rules.inc in the directory system.

Can you resolve my error?

buzz · Post by **buzz** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 9:12 am

did you follow the steps listed in README?

Jeko · Post by **Jeko** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 10:03 am

buzz wrote:did you follow the steps listed in README?

yes.
The problem is that my gcc use -stack-protector if I don't write -fno-stack-protector in CFLAGS.
Without -fno-stack-protector, there are errors in many functions, but if i add -fno-stack-protector in system/rules.inc I can compile almost everything but not everything.

Maybe there is another file in which I must write the option -fno-stack-protector ?