I have recently purchased a QNX Realtime Platform CD and have had an
assortment of difficulties on a variety of computers.
Inside Windows 98 on a 400 MHz Pentium II with ATI Rage video, Photon is
unstable:
a. If File Manager is opened and then maximized, it closes.
b. If File Manager is opened and used to copy the repository to the
hard drive, it randomly closes.
c. When a second application starts, the previous application
closes. I.E., if Terminal is open when File Manager is started, Terminal
closes.
d. Package Manager starts when clicked, appears to catalog the
available packages and then immediately closes.
e. Etc.
I would like to get this working since it has the proper video capabilities
and a lot of drive space.
Inside Windows 98 on a 66 MHz 486 with Cirrus-Logic video:
a. As above, except that vga mode is forced.
This was just a test to see what happens. I don’t need it but the
similarity of the results is interesting.
Inside Windows NT on a 166 MHz Pentium with Trident video, Photon seems
stable (but not usable with 640 x 480).
Another experiment.
Inside Windows NT on a 350 MHz AMD with SiS 6326 AGP video, same as 3.
Another experiment.
Most important, running in its own partition on a Texas Micro P5000HX2
Series Single Board Computer (Pentium, 100 MHz) inserted into a passive
backplane with an assortment of unsupported video boards, the install
proceeds in what appears to be a normal sequence until:
"resorting to VGA driver
"Optimizing dynamic font subsystem
"Unable to start fontsleuth
“Please confirm that Photon installed properly”
At this point, the system hangs. I can boot it into safe mode, but similar
things happen when I try ‘ph’ to start Photon. Any help with this would be
appreciated.
Also, is there a way to use the package manager, etc., to install packages
such as gcc without running Photon? I am really only interested in being
able to build and test a custom driver (or two) from the command line.
Thanks.
I have recently purchased a QNX Realtime Platform CD and have had an
assortment of difficulties on a variety of computers.
Inside Windows 98 on a 400 MHz Pentium II with ATI Rage video, Photon is
unstable:
a. If File Manager is opened and then maximized, it closes.
b. If File Manager is opened and used to copy the repository to the
hard drive, it randomly closes.
c. When a second application starts, the previous application
closes. I.E., if Terminal is open when File Manager is started, Terminal
closes.
d. Package Manager starts when clicked, appears to catalog the
available packages and then immediately closes.
e. Etc.
I would like to get this working since it has the proper video capabilities
and a lot of drive space.
Inside Windows 98 on a 66 MHz 486 with Cirrus-Logic video:
a. As above, except that vga mode is forced.
There isn’t an accelerated driver for Cirrus-Logic cards. There will
be an svga driver in an upcoming patch that may allow more resolutions
and color depths. (still unaccelerated)
This was just a test to see what happens. I don’t need it but the
similarity of the results is interesting.
Inside Windows NT on a 166 MHz Pentium with Trident video, Photon seems
stable (but not usable with 640 x 480).
Again, Trident video adapters are not supported.
Another experiment.
Inside Windows NT on a 350 MHz AMD with SiS 6326 AGP video, same as 3.
SiS video is currently not supported. However, it should work with the
devg-vesabios.so driver. Could you post the output of pci -v (run as root)
and contents of /etc/system/config/graphics-modes
Another experiment.
Most important, running in its own partition on a Texas Micro P5000HX2
Series Single Board Computer (Pentium, 100 MHz) inserted into a passive
backplane with an assortment of unsupported video boards, the install
proceeds in what appears to be a normal sequence until:
"resorting to VGA driver
"Optimizing dynamic font subsystem
"Unable to start fontsleuth
“Please confirm that Photon installed properly”
At this point, the system hangs. I can boot it into safe mode, but similar
things happen when I try ‘ph’ to start Photon. Any help with this would be
appreciated.
Also, is there a way to use the package manager, etc., to install packages
such as gcc without running Photon? I am really only interested in being
able to build and test a custom driver (or two) from the command line.
Thanks.