Hi Haiku crew!
I have been using Haiku on an old 32 bit T43 Thinkpad and loving it. Last night finally got it running on an early 2011 MBP (Dual HT i7, 8Gb RAM, 500GB hdd, pre retina) after a bit of jiggery pokery (installation to main HDD / manual boot partition/loader setup and Intel video driver suppression). It’s as zippy as greased lightening, but it’s also as unstable as a drunk toddler - constant kernel panic tantrums. To the point that I had trouble running os/app package updates and installing larger programs through the package manager.
What works:
- Full res graphics (using Vesa Driver)
- 1GB Ethernet (Broadcom)
- Single-click trackpad (no Multitouch, no RMB zone, no tap-to-LMB)
Sadly Missed:
- Intel Gfx driver (Brigness controls!)
- Audio
- Wifi & Bluetooth
- Keyboard Backlight
Question to anyone with 64 bit Haiku experience - is this instability just the current state of 64 bit Haiku, is it a MBP thing, or should I I be problem solving My setup and machine? It seems the problem may be related to utilising the ethernet, but I am not sure about this yet. The longest the machine has stayed conscious is when I did not have it physically connected to ethernet.