Vision

1

Hey all,

I am having trouble getting Vision to work on my Haiku box. I cannot get it to connect to Freenode. Is there anything special that I have to do, or am I missing something?

2

Go into Vision preferences, and make sure your encoding is set to Western (Windows) - Unicode or other encoding won’t work on Freenode!

3

I set it as that and restarted the app but it still won’t work. Any more ideas?

I have one more question. In order to connect to freenod, I have to tell it to connect to irc.freenode.net, right?

4

You might just need to revert back to a previous revision if you’re building from source or wait a little while. IIRC Axel’s networking stack work in the last day or two has spawned a regression or two. FWIW I’m not having any problems with using r37778.

5

I am just using the one that came with my Haiku install when I installed it a few weeks back, and I don’t know the version number. How would I go about downgrading?

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Vision from the optional package should contain some default settings for freenode. If you enter the “Network Setup…” and choose “Freenode” from the pop-up menu at the top, you can change the default nick “HaikuUser” and e.g. add a “/join #haiku” in the Autoexec.

Regards,
Humdinger

7

When I go to the Terminal and do:

installoptionalpackage vision

It either returns an error or takes forever and just keeps loading and loading.

Then the one time it works, I go to my apps folder and run it, and it comes up with my old Vision settings. But it does appear to be an earlier version, though.

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Well, if you can browse the Web and/or use e-mail, then it’s more likely that you’re having settings problems like Humdinger suggested. If they’re affected, too, then it’s more likely the problem isn’t your fault. If it really isn’t a settings issue, then check your version by clicking on About Haiku in the Leaf menu and look under the Version heading on the left.

How you downgrade depends on how you install. If you built from source, run the Terminal command “svn update -r XXXXX” in the folder where configure is. XXXXX is the number of the revision that you want to use. 37778 is also a nice, relatively stable revision. If you installed from USB or CD, I think it would be just a matter of grabbing a newer version from www.haiku-files.org and re-running the installer. HTH

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Well, occasionally (but not lately) I have been noticing that on a wired connect Web+ will sometimes freeze up and not load the page, and I have never known if this was the browser or my internet connection. I have been having problems with Vision since I first tried to run it. I just downloaded the version from the haiku-os.org download link. I have Haiku revision 36769.

Is there any way that I can get a working version of Vision without reinstalling the OS?

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Since the installoptionalpackage script also fails, I rather expect some sort of network problem on your machine. Maybe check the bugtracker if it’s a known issue with your hardware. FWIW, Vision always worked for me regardsless of the revision I was running.
I’m afraid you’ll have to update the OS after all. Get the revision DarkWyrm suggested, if that one is stable. Since there is some low-level work going on, I currently use r37437. You’ll find hybrid-anyboot images to burn to CD or dd to USB at http://www.haiku-files.org/.

Regards,
Humdinger

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Thanks for all the help, everyone!