Hi,
Over the past couple of days I have been trying to get QNX installed somehow! Initially I encountered the problem with being unable
to boot from the hardfile on the windows drive, so I cleared enough space on my second IDE drive (hooked up as a slave on the first
IDE), and now I have the following problems:
-
I have the booting problem which several others appear to have encountered. I have the BeOS boot manager installed, and when I
try and boot from that I get the ‘Press Escape to boot another OS’ and one dot. By following the instructions given elsewhere, and
trying different values for the drive I can get it to do pages of dots, or pages of question marks instead. When I run fdisk against
the drive it comes up with the QNX drive (/dev/hd1t79) in slot 1, marked as bootable, and a BeOS partition (the only other thing on
the drive) in slot 4. I can boot fine from a floppy disk. This successfully finds the QNX partition.
-
QNX does not recognise my internal modem, and even when I add the serial driver with the COM, port and IRQ settings from BeOS,
confirmed in Windows, it still can’t find it. All I get is /dev/ser1 and /dev/ser2. According to the BIOS display on boot up the
machine has 3 serial ports, the first two being those which are set up as /dev/ser1 and /dev/ser2, the third being the port for the
modem. Incidentally the QNX demo disk never worked with this modem either as it would never let me select the IRQ onto which the
modem was connected (COM 3, port 3E8, IRQ 11). Is devc-ser8250 the correct driver to be using for an internal modem?
QNX has installed fine on a couple of machines at work, and was particularly impressive when comparing the speed of the browsers
under windows with the speed from Voyager. It’s just a pity that at the moment it is stumbling over the modem. The modem was bought
specifically for non-windows OS and works fine with Linux, and BeOS, just QNX that is throwing up problems.
Finally, is there any chance of supporting some more MPEG decoding boards. Having a browse around the media player I noticed that in
addition to the XING decoder there is support for the Sigma Designs NetStream. I’ve got a Creative Labs DXR3, which is much the same
as one of the earlier Sigma Designs boards. Is there any chance of support for these boards? (Probably not a tactful question, but
what’s the region encoding situation with regards to the DVD player? Currently I have a mix of Region 1 and Region 2 DVD’s, and am
running Remote Selector under Windows)
With thanks,
Richard
–
“God created the world in six days. On the seventh day he also decided to create England…
just to try out his Practical Joke Weather Machine.”
From what iv heard the DVD decoder is a licensing issue… The OS is free,
but that DVD decoder costs QNX, XING owns it, hence why its not in RTP at
the current time…
Id pay for a package with SSL/SSH/DVD/REAL/128bit voyager… 30-40$ worth
id guess…
Sorry for the bad news
-John
“Richard Peat” <Richard@calusari.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:8rhc33$lak$1@inn.qnx.com…
Hi,
Over the past couple of days I have been trying to get QNX installed
somehow! Initially I encountered the problem with being unable
to boot from the hardfile on the windows drive, so I cleared enough space
on my second IDE drive (hooked up as a slave on the first
IDE), and now I have the following problems:
-
I have the booting problem which several others appear to have
encountered. I have the BeOS boot manager installed, and when I
try and boot from that I get the ‘Press Escape to boot another OS’ and one
dot. By following the instructions given elsewhere, and
trying different values for the drive I can get it to do pages of dots, or
pages of question marks instead. When I run fdisk against
the drive it comes up with the QNX drive (/dev/hd1t79) in slot 1, marked
as bootable, and a BeOS partition (the only other thing on
the drive) in slot 4. I can boot fine from a floppy disk. This
successfully finds the QNX partition.
-
QNX does not recognise my internal modem, and even when I add the
serial driver with the COM, port and IRQ settings from BeOS,
confirmed in Windows, it still can’t find it. All I get is /dev/ser1 and
/dev/ser2. According to the BIOS display on boot up the
machine has 3 serial ports, the first two being those which are set up as
/dev/ser1 and /dev/ser2, the third being the port for the
modem. Incidentally the QNX demo disk never worked with this modem either
as it would never let me select the IRQ onto which the
modem was connected (COM 3, port 3E8, IRQ 11). Is devc-ser8250 the correct
driver to be using for an internal modem?
QNX has installed fine on a couple of machines at work, and was
particularly impressive when comparing the speed of the browsers
under windows with the speed from Voyager. It’s just a pity that at the
moment it is stumbling over the modem. The modem was bought
specifically for non-windows OS and works fine with Linux, and BeOS, just
QNX that is throwing up problems.
Finally, is there any chance of supporting some more MPEG decoding boards.
Having a browse around the media player I noticed that in
addition to the XING decoder there is support for the Sigma Designs
NetStream. I’ve got a Creative Labs DXR3, which is much the same
as one of the earlier Sigma Designs boards. Is there any chance of support
for these boards? (Probably not a tactful question, but
what’s the region encoding situation with regards to the DVD player?
Currently I have a mix of Region 1 and Region 2 DVD’s, and am
running Remote Selector under Windows)
With thanks,
Richard
–
“God created the world in six days. On the seventh day he also decided to
create England…
just to try out his Practical Joke Weather Machine.”
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