I installed Haiku 64bit to a Fujitsu ESPRIMO FH/R3 FMVFR3 all-in-one desktop PC.
Considering that this is a low spec home PC launched in 2010, and originally pre-installed with Windows 7 Home Premium, Haiku works pretty well and has given this PC a new lease of life!
One thing I noticed was that although Haiku performs better on my Thinkpad X230, the 20 inch 1600 x 600 pixel screen of the desktop makes the Haiku experience much better than on the 12.5 inch 1366 x 768 pixel screen of the laptop, which I suppose is to be expected!
Hrev on which was tested: hrev57937+129 System Type: 64 bit. Running from: Internal 500G 7,200rpm Serial ATA/300 HDD Model: Fujitsu FMV Rakuraku Pasocom3 ESPRIMO FH/R3 FMVFR3 Manufacturer: Fujitsu Rating: Pretty good. This home PC from fifteen years ago worked well with Haiku. Ethernet, wifi, keyboard and mouse work, and it was possible to play mp3 files in Audacious, YouTube videos ran smoothly in full screen mode in QMPlay2, and although booting up from the 7,200rpm HDD took a while, performance was acceptably reliable once Haiku was up and running. Having said this, neither the webcam or microphone would work, and I could not get music CDs or DVD video discs to play back satisfactorily. Processor/Cores: Celeron T3300 2GHz Dual-core Memory: 4 GB Graphic cards/count: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD/Onboard Vesa needed?: No. Graphic card status: Watched the trailer for Brad Pitt’s F1 movie full screen, from YouTube using QPlay. There was some breakup with closeup shots with quick side to side movements such as on the driver’s head in the racing car cockpit, but overall both sound and video was watchable. Sound cards: ? Soundcard status: No success with enabling sound. Networking cards: Broadcom 570x Gigabit Integrated Controller Driver Network card status: Worked. Linkspeed 1 GBit, 1000BASE-T. Wireless Networking cards: Qualcomm Atheros Wireless Network card status: Connected successfully to the internet. Link speed 802.11n(g). Did seem to have some issues keeping a stable connection with the home router, cutting out and reconnecting regularly but since the ethernet connection was rock solid, I think I can ignore the flaky wifi quality for the time being. USB types/count: 2 USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A Ports, 2 USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-C Ports. USB cards status: Ports are supported. Work with both flash drives and mice. SD cards: n/a SD cards status: n/a Integrated Webcams: Webcam built into hardware. Haiku cannot find a video source. Did you have to blacklist hardware?: Did not attempt. Was not necessary to get running. Additional notes: Had to install Haiku BootManager and also re-format the HDD several times to get Haiku to actually boot.
for playing music CDson Haikuonly SMPlayer is recommended !
Drag and Drop the music CD icon from Desktop to SMPlayer window - this is the one recommended way to open music CDs in SMPlayer. Browsing/selecting from SMPlayer is useless.
For DVD playback – use VLC !!!
Also Drag and Drop the DVD icon from Desktop to VLC window - this is the one recommended way to DVDs in VLC. Browsing/selecting from VLC is useless.
VLC is not altered during port to be accomodated to Haiku device structure – /dev/dvd is a numb option to open a DVD here.
If you copy the tracks from the audio CD (with internet connection, of course) with tracker, not only should the metadata be fetched from the internet, but you can play the files with any programs.
However - I do not want to register yet another website to report application issues.
I understand Github is capable to report issues too - however I am not a developer, so for me a Github account is not a necessity. Besides - then should I create an account for Codeberg also ? Moreover on sourceforge.net ???
This inevitably logic is nonsense for me.
I would be happy to use a ticketing system like one exists for Haiku, the OS itself – due to more reasons.
Most apps are coming from Github, however some apps comes with Haiku, so those can be reported there. Moreover there are developers who are store/share their stuff from Codeberg or Sourceforge.
I would use a ticketing system for apps - not a site .. or more sites. I don’t wanna search where to report.
The best would be a webapp, where ‘the where to’ would be added behind and I could use on a one uniform interface. This way the developer also could add his actual issue page.
The problem here is that Haikuports simply is an independant project that isn’t Haiku itself, Haiku doesnt handle issues for Haikuports… It’s not nice that it is on github, but not much we can do about that if they don’t want to change that.
Wow! I had been thinking that the music file attributes would need to be populated manually in Haiku! Had no idea that the attributes would be pulled from some cloud database simply by copying the files over from an audio CD. Is this cool or what!?
One thing which puzzles me is why this only works when copying the music files off of a CD. I found that none of the music files that I copied into Haiku from my fileserver had the attributes automatically populated.
This specific tool identiifes the CD itself and uses that to find the corresponding names.
If you have already existing music files with ID3 tags, you can use ArmyKnife to convert those tags into filesystem attributes. That’s currently not shipped by default with Haiku, but you can install it from the depot.
Thanks for letting me know about ArmyKnife being able to populate the music files’ attributes from’ the files ID3 tags! I didn’t expect ArmyKnife as something which would allow me to do something like this, thinking mistakenly that it was there simply to allow attributes to be filled in laboriously by hand…
Now I’m wondering though whether there are any Haiku native music players which leverage these file attributes. Or perhaps there is a way to use Tracker to act like a playlist of sorts by saving queries there?
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