I have Debian up and running on SAM, however, at startup today I had a partition error which started fsck to automatically repair, however, fsck failed to repair the problem and asked me to input my root password to run fsck manually or hit ctrl-d to break the shell. Here lies the problem, the system will not recognise the keyboard at this stage, hence I cannot do anything to repair the partition.

Hopefully, I can get around this by running the install disk and formatting the offending partition but this is NOT good news if the system drive gets an error. Any ideas?

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@PEB
Yes, same action here.

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@Slayer

Hey, I got 2 (SAM Flex 800), one from ACube and one from Amigakit both delivered brilliantly packed. Being from OZ I paid duty on the whole machine delivered from ACube but not so from Amigakit but I did not order dvdrom nor HD.

Sorry to these guys but the stupidity of taxing dictates how we should buy

Cheers
ace
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@samo79
Oh you filthy copy-cat.

ace


You will be happy

@CountRaven

You sound like an old Admiral Nutter to me. welcome aboard.

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@ChrisH
Thanks Chris, i am about to try some other distros.

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All
Just to balance the ledger a little in regards to some problems on OS4.1/SAM with or without 1GB memory I thought I'd share my Linux experience with you.

My setup SAM Flex 800/1gb ram Radeon 9250/128mb

Firstly I followed Elwood's install instruction for Debian Lenny, all worked fine except I could not get Parthenope to recognise my FFS but it did work when I changed that to SFS.

I used the install disk available on the ACube site, I also downloaded 5 other instll CDs, this is not totally necessary but can speed up the actual install a little.

The install went fine, I was a bit surprised to find Gnome a bit sluggish, I did not expect Linux to fly on SAM HW but was surprised at how sluggish it seemed, (I have always been a KDE user and assumed KDE a heavier Desktop environment) so I installed Openbox and some other light weight desktops, window managers and panels to which I found a marked improvement.

Openbox and lxpanel work quite well with manpcFB file manager, somewhat faster than Gnome. My big surprise was loading KDE 3.5.10, it appears to be the fastest of them all with some bells and whistles. All in all it works pretty well, sound works without fiddling as does network and mounting USB devices. There are no graphical glitches at all but I cannot get DVDs to run full steam, however, this is not confined to SAM HW, apparently many distros on many platforms have this problem which appears to be a sata problem (I wonder if Amiga Sata drivers came from Linux originally).

Anyway, audio CDs play fine as do MP3s (and other formats) as well as Music clips like MPEG/FLV etc. Other fully functioning software include k3b, Openoffice, SMPlayer, Iceweasal, Icedove (Firefox and Thunderbird), Claws Mail, K9Copy, Gimp and XSane (scanning software). My printers were found automatically (HP 1210 PSC and canon ip4300). Most simple games work fine but BOSWARS runs slowly.

All in all a stable environment running serious excellent quality software at good speeds, obviously this HW will not break speed records but the ability to run Debian to undertake some tasks we can't do under AOS4x at this moment is a bonus.

Well done ACube and Cruxppc developers who made the 2.6.27.10 kernel run on SAM.

I may give some other distros a try soon.

ace

I have fired up my second SAM Flex 800 to run Debian and OS4 but I have hit a couple of interesting problems (unexplored opportunities-:))

For starters I use a 4 way USB KVM to run 2 x Flex and 1 x XP boxes, to date I only used the KVM to run 1 Flex and 1 x XP boxes one using DVI and the other using VGA inputs to my monitor, all worked extremely well, the Flex is 800/1GB memory, OS4.0 theme and has no graphical errors, everything very stable.

Tonight when hooking up the other Flex things change, the Netinstall of Debian seems to go very well but hangs (I think it is hanging, I have sat here for hours) at the actual install from the download mirrors (I have tried several and the HW network setup runs fine), I did try the install CD but I obviously have a corrupted download ISO and will try to download again tonight.

Nevermind the Linux side, I will work through those issues. The real interesting things happen on the OS4 side. Like I said normally I have no graphical glitches with my "normal" Flex, 1gb, with or without composting but having this other Flex added to the USB/KVM changes all that. I get a fair bit of graphical corruption AND one of the most stable programs ever, DVPlayer herniates, MPlayer playing the same clips seems ok. DvPlayer and Simplemail would simply not play together. I need to retry this tomorrow running AOS4 on both Flex machines and my poor old XP box and see what happens.

Just reporting this in case it helps track down the problem with graphical corruption which some folk report. Will advise how it all pans out.

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@BillE
I had to re-install MT to get it to work again but it works fine, even the menus. Try re-installing.

Cheers
ace

@BillE
Thanks, I actually have this already and yes it works ok BUT Lopan reminds me (probably due to the tiles sets etc) of Shanghai (which I know was available to many different platforms).

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G'day
Any chance of getting the latest version converted to OS4, this seriously reminds me of Shanghai on the classic.

Cheers and thanks to anyone taking up the request.


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@klesterjr

I installed using the installer in K4Install package but everytime I download the archive it tells me it is corrupt (netinterface.info is corrupt), howver the package still installs. Luv your work.

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@klesterjr

64 x 64 Ouch, will you still make your current style? I am trying to update my Flex with your style, I prefer them over Mason's style (no offence Mason), call me a purist but your icons are more Amiga representative. I know Mason's style is meant to herald a new era for AOS and it probably does but having the ability to choose is also very nce (maybe decadent for our little paltform).

cheers
ace

@MagicSN
Yes all I did was to delete the config file. Funny this never worked for me under OS4 but worked immediately under 4.1.

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@ChrisH
It is an open source implementation of Starcraft USING Starcraft data sets and the Startagus engine. I have Warcraft 2 installed via this engine and it works great, these guys are trying to bring us Starcraft. I have tested and it installs with no problems but I couldn't get anything to run BUT I have a new Sam flex and still feeling my way with this HW. Let's all get behind this and see how we can help, perhaps A1s will get further, who knows. At least the install is squared away.


Cheers

ace

@Slayer
Funny when I was having my problems it was OWB that was killing everything. No such problems now.

Thanks for the ide setting tip, my sata drives are now configured and have reduced ide cd and disk timeouts significantly.

ace

@cygnusEd

Thanks Ed, much appreciated.

ace

Anyone know where I can get this file to get Tubexx working? It used to be available in cynix-addon (old version) which is no longer available.

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@MagicSN
Just tried and works great even with Amigainput, although trying to configure x,y axis was a bit cumbersome.

Looking forward to your new version.

Cheers
ace

@all
Finally found one out of eight that works. Nevermind tis still progress.

ace