Zero out of Five Installs, not good

I’m not having much luck at all installing QNX.

So far I’ve tried to install QNX 6.0.1 on the five machines:

  1. Home generic
  • Couldn’t see the CD (Linux and Windows can).
    OK so the CD was a Slave without a Master,
    but I had to dismantle the PC to get QNX running.
  1. Dell
  • Mouse doesn’t work at all. Neither do most of
    the “keyboard shortcuts” when you need them.
  1. Gateway
  • Mouse moves at about 10mm/MINUTE maximum.
  1. Another Generic
  • QNX freezes completely on some screen operations,
    like the “Introduction” window and the “Help
    Update” window and just moving windows around.
    This is an S3 card running the SVGA drivers.
  1. Another Generic
  • Telnet and Rlogin don’t work (TCP Checksum errors).

I’m sure it’s not a bad OS if it would just condescend
to install and run on something…

OK, so I’ve given the Gateway a decent mouse and it
is now running, except that the pkg-installer core-dumps
whenever I try to install packages from developer.qnx.com.

Tom Evans

For mouse try to download driver from developers.qnx.com (devi-hitun).
“Tom Evans” <tom@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
news:3BF0BC6D.7994@nospam.invalid

I’m not having much luck at all installing QNX.

So far I’ve tried to install QNX 6.0.1 on the five machines:

  1. Home generic
  • Couldn’t see the CD (Linux and Windows can).
    OK so the CD was a Slave without a Master,
    but I had to dismantle the PC to get QNX running.
  1. Dell
  • Mouse doesn’t work at all. Neither do most of
    the “keyboard shortcuts” when you need them.
  1. Gateway
  • Mouse moves at about 10mm/MINUTE maximum.
  1. Another Generic
  • QNX freezes completely on some screen operations,
    like the “Introduction” window and the “Help
    Update” window and just moving windows around.
    This is an S3 card running the SVGA drivers.
  1. Another Generic
  • Telnet and Rlogin don’t work (TCP Checksum errors).

I’m sure it’s not a bad OS if it would just condescend
to install and run on something…

OK, so I’ve given the Gateway a decent mouse and it
is now running, except that the pkg-installer core-dumps
whenever I try to install packages from developer.qnx.com.

Tom Evans

Tom Evans <tom@nospam.invalid> wrote:

I’m not having much luck at all installing QNX.

So far I’ve tried to install QNX 6.0.1 on the five machines:

  1. Home generic
  • Couldn’t see the CD (Linux and Windows can).
    OK so the CD was a Slave without a Master,
    but I had to dismantle the PC to get QNX running.

This is an illegal configuration, which we don’t support. If you
move the slave to master things should work fine.

  1. Dell
  • Mouse doesn’t work at all. Neither do most of
    the “keyboard shortcuts” when you need them.

Check developers.qnx.com for an updated input driver, this may
help solve the problems.

  1. Gateway
  • Mouse moves at about 10mm/MINUTE maximum.

Ummm this is a … feature, yeah. Check developers.qnx.com
again for this. The updated devi-hirun driver should repair
this issue.

  1. Another Generic
  • QNX freezes completely on some screen operations,
    like the “Introduction” window and the “Help
    Update” window and just moving windows around.
    This is an S3 card running the SVGA drivers.

Other details about the system would be great, also
could you please download the graphics information grabbing
script from:

http://www.geocities.com/erickmuis/files/hardware_scripts/nto/

DO NOT START PHOTON.

Then extract the scripts and login as the root user. Once you
are logged in as the root user, please run the script:

…/grafxscript.rtp

Once the script has run, please send us the output.


  1. Another Generic
  • Telnet and Rlogin don’t work (TCP Checksum errors).

No idea about this one, the tools guys will have to comment
on that.

I’m sure it’s not a bad OS if it would just condescend
to install and run on something…

OK, so I’ve given the Gateway a decent mouse and it
is now running, except that the pkg-installer core-dumps
whenever I try to install packages from developer.qnx.com.

This the apps guys realm. Best to ask in qnxrtp.applications
Glad to hear you have the system going though!

Erick.

Tom Evans

Hardware Support Account wrote:

Tom Evans <> tom@nospam.invalid> > wrote:
I’m not having much luck at all installing QNX.
2. Dell

  • Mouse doesn’t work at all. Neither do most of
    the “keyboard shortcuts” when you need them.

Check developers.qnx.com for an updated input driver, this may
help solve the problems.

Thanks for the quick response. WHERE do you want the graphics
file sent back to?

Downloaded devi-hirun using IE. Also downloaded it using
Netscape. Both downloads had different lengths, IE
insisted it was a TEXT file and Netscape insisted it
was HTML. Neither of them work - neither the
keyboard or mouse work at all with them in there
and Photon is always “waiting for input device”.
ThenuUsed Voyager to download it. That one is
identical to the IE-downloaded one and doesn’t
work either.

http://developers.qnx.com/Fixes/Software/telnetd_CERT/Readme

says:

Note: Some browsers may have trouble recognizing binary executables -
After downloading, please verify the ‘cksum’

This seems to be true. Checksums should be provided for ALL
files AND they should be available using FTP as well.

  1. Gateway
  • Mouse moves at about 10mm/MINUTE maximum.

Not bothering with this one after the Dell experience. OK,
I’ll try it … stuffs that machine up too. As far as I
know this may be a QNX4 driver - there’s nothing in
developers.qnx.com/Fixes/Software that says what these
fixes are FOR.

  1. Another Generic
  • QNX freezes completely on some screen operations,

Other details about the system would be great, also
could you please download the graphics information grabbing
script from:

Generic Pentium. The Video card is:

S3 Inc Tri 3D/2X Rev C, Hw 002, 8M RAM

Once the script has run, please send us the output.

Who’s “us”. Please EMAIL me an email address to send this
to. I don’t want to post the huge file back to the newsgroup.

Erick.

Thanks

Tom Evans
TEvans@tennyson.com.au

Hardware Support Account wrote:

OK so the CD was a Slave without a Master,

This is an illegal configuration, which we don’t support. If you
move the slave to master things should work fine.

Yes it did. But the obvious “competition and comparison”
OS’s (Linux and Windows) both support this without any
complaints at all. So it just increases the percentage
of PCs that QNX fails to work on.

But please fix Phindows, DDD, X-Windows, the HelpViewer
and Voyager first :slight_smile:.

Tom Evans
InitialSurnameAt
tennyson.com.au

Hi Tom,

I heard yesterday, that apparently we are going to allow for that
configuration again. I could be wrong, so don’t everyone start
moving their Master CDROMs to slave and leaving the master vacant.

Since I know all of you out there are just dying to do this :wink:

Erick.


Tom Evans <tom@nospam.invalid> wrote:

Hardware Support Account wrote:
OK so the CD was a Slave without a Master,

This is an illegal configuration, which we don’t support. If you
move the slave to master things should work fine.

Yes it did. But the obvious “competition and comparison”
OS’s (Linux and Windows) both support this without any
complaints at all. So it just increases the percentage
of PCs that QNX fails to work on.

But please fix Phindows, DDD, X-Windows, the HelpViewer
and Voyager first > :slight_smile:> .

Tom Evans
InitialSurnameAt
tennyson.com.au

Which type of mouse are you using (pleaese give manufacturer and model)?
Could you try to boot without mouse in order to see if keyboard works?


“Tom Evans” <tom@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
news:3BF211E2.240A@nospam.invalid

Hardware Support Account wrote:
OK so the CD was a Slave without a Master,

This is an illegal configuration, which we don’t support. If you
move the slave to master things should work fine.

Yes it did. But the obvious “competition and comparison”
OS’s (Linux and Windows) both support this without any
complaints at all. So it just increases the percentage
of PCs that QNX fails to work on.

But please fix Phindows, DDD, X-Windows, the HelpViewer
and Voyager first > :slight_smile:> .

Tom Evans
InitialSurnameAt
tennyson.com.au