KolibriOS VIA AC97 driver

[Asper]

Good!
Now I have a question. Do you have ATA hard drives on that computer(s), that are detected by KolibriOS native driver as hd or you have only SATA hard drives that are detected as bd disks only?

If you have ATA hard drive I'll try to make realization of DEV_GET_POS call in the VIA AC97 driver.
To test DEV_GET_POS call I need you to open a video file with a new FPlay.
I'll place here everything you need with detailed instructions.

I enabled PS/2 emulation for the mouse (in the bios) so I could use the mouse

For those mobo that have no such an option you can use mousemul mouse emulator (like in Windows). Mouse emulation automatically starts when you press Alt+Shift+NumLock hotkey combination. When NumLock is on mousemul is active and you can move mouse pointer by Numpad keys 4,8,6,2 and to "click" by pressing key 5 on Numpad. To disable mousemul you have to switch off NumLock.
Also you can use USB mouse if you have UHCI controller with this driver.

usb.zip

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Copy usb.drv to /rd/1/drivers and start usb application.
It is better to disable EHCI in the BIOS.

[Asper]

Also you can use this application to make sound louder.

MIXER.txt

Audio mixer

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Rename it to mixer or mixer.kex.

P.S.

The extension 7z is not allowed.

[Combuster]

The extension 7z is not allowed.

Obviously to prevent people from uploading poorly supported formats. This isn't a windows-only forum and not everybody is using 7-zip as the archiving utility of choice.

[Owen]

Since when was 7-zip windows only? For a start, 7-Zip support has been integrated into many Linux archive utilities for years...

[Asper]

Since when was 7-zip windows only? For a start, 7-Zip support has been integrated into many Linux archive utilities for years...

And 7-zip and zip archives can read kfar in KolibriOS.

[Brynet-Inc]

There is an open source command-line version of 7z, but it's probably less heard of and an unnecessary dependency.. use a common format.

[Combuster]

Since when was 7-zip windows only? For a start, 7-Zip support has been integrated into many Linux archive utilities for years...

That does not make it a de-facto used standard. Zip has native support for windows, gzip is a default install on all unices. I am forced to use nagware and lousy user interfaces to deal with 7-zip.

[Brynet-Inc]

There is an open source command-line version of 7z, but it's probably less heard of and an unnecessary dependency.. use a common format.

Like, for example, .xz *grin*

I've only recently see that used, but it's not all that common.. some Linux package managers use it, not much else.

[Brynet-Inc]

Try it. Compresses better than bzip2. Open source. Tools for all platforms. Just gaining traction.

I don't care.

[Yargh]

I cannot seem to find FPlay, after looking around for a while, and does the video player support .mpg?

[Asper]

I cannot seem to find FPlay, after looking around for a while, and does the video player support .mpg?

1. You can download FPlay here: http://code.google.com/p/kolibri-pe/dow ... name=fplay.
Theme about FPlay on KolibriOS forum is here: http://board.kolibrios.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1277.
FPlay supports most known video formats (avi, flv, mov, mpg, mp4, wmv etc), because it uses ffmpeg libraries.
2. After you download fplay place it somewhere on your hard disk (i.e. place it to /hd0/3/kolibrios/FPlay). This hard disk have to be seen as hd disk in KolibriOS, so it must be ATA disk, not SATA.

3. Make associations with video files extensions into your favorite FileManager's ini file. You have to provide full path to FPlay to every extension.
For example if you use kfar add such strings into kfar.ini [Associations] section:

Code: Select all

avi=/hd0/3/kolibrios/fplay
flv=/hd0/3/kolibrios/fplay
mov=/hd0/3/kolibrios/fplay
mp4=/hd0/3/kolibrios/fplay
mpg=/hd0/3/kolibrios/fplay
mpeg=/hd0/3/kolibrios/fplay
mpeg4=/hd0/3/kolibrios/fplay
wmv=/hd0/3/kolibrios/fplay

KFAR_INI.zip

Exaple kfar.ini file with video files extensions associations

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You also need new versions of Infinity driver and sound driver for VIA chipsets.

new_audio_drivers.zip

New versions of Infinity sound system HAL driver and VIA AC97 sound driver

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Place these two drivers into /rd/1/drivers directory as ever.

P.S. The extensions of archieves were 7z, but I've changed it to zip.
As for 7zip, who knows better compression algorithm then LZMA?