Thinkpad T42/T42P comes with one of radeon 7500, 9000 or 9600. Which one do you have?
The 9600 is actually a low end R300 card, the other two are older and quite different I believe. At least under Linux the mesa radeon driver does not work on the 9000/9200/7500 but will work with 9550 and 9600 etc. See https://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature/. May be some cause of driver incompatiblity?
I’ll try to find some time to install beos on my T42 (it has a 9600) and see if I can get graphics to work. At present it only has debian.
I guess BeOS install means burning an actual CD, it can’t be installed from USB? Haven’t done it in about 15-20 years, except on a VM, so can’t remember!
I have this file “.bash_history”. BeOS created it, and it’s a dot file, but it isn’t hidden. Is there a way to hide dot files? Some folders where I brought stuff onto the laptop also have a bunch of dot files that are a nuisance.
I had this issue come up. I feel like it will be obscure, but maybe someone can help me.
In BeOS, when I right-click, Open With, it used to show a list of apps. Now it shows the apps, but with a full path. It’s really obnoxious to use like that. I only have 1 drive mounted, in case that matters.
Alright weird issues cropping up. Now when I click on a menu, where it would drop down and show me things, if I don’t hold the mouse down it doesn’t stay. Like in classic MacOS, you hold down menu, move to menu option, then release mouse. I don’t know why it’s doing it.
Edit:
I moved these files from config->settings to a desktop folder. It works now. I don’t know I guess some setting must have gotten corrupted. I moved these files because they were modified today, and that’s when the problem started.
Ah. I found it. I found it before. “Click to Open”. It appeared to do nothing, it just requires a reboot. (Maybe I could’ve restarted input server.) Thanks.
Basically whats happening is I am making a real mess going through and sorting 1200 unsorted BeOS/Zeta/Haiku apps. A lot of them are compressed with 7z (extra steps for me) and a lot are poorly labeled/documented. In the case of diskprobe, I probably knew what I was installing when I installed it.
I’ve got that ‘collection’ downloaded; whoever used 7z for that was not particularly used to BeOS - not only because its not natively supported; but because only Zip supports BeOS attributes.
It’s 95% junk unfortunately; twenty versions of a library or (even more) ancient builds of Firefox etc.
Yeah. I’m happy for the install cds, fixes, and drivers. Duke Nukem seems great too. But most is junk, duplicates, and things that I wouldn’t use. Like email stuff.
There’s some interesting looking stuff in there, just so much to sort through.
I’ll check it out. Thank you. I’m sure I have a lot of that, and a lot of what PulkoMandy has, and a lot of what’s on be.wildman-productions. There is also another site that has pretty much only PPC. I kinda of want it all, because I’d hate to miss a few things and not be able to get them anywhere.
Sorry for the confusion.
