Installed BeOS again last night.

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24seven
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Installed BeOS again last night.

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I have recently got my BP6 back as a desktop machine, as it was being used as a file server before, I had a think for a while about which Os to use on it, and came to the conclusion I would give BeOS a spin.
Install went great, but when it booted in to the Os there was no colour. I think this is just due to the old graphics card I have in the machine not having drivers, its a Trident 9440 or something like that.
But other than that it worked, took me a while to work out where every thing was again.
I might try and get my Voodoo card back off my brother to use in it.
So tonight I will add a better graphics card and add a sound card and try using it for some real stuff.
Might even give it a bash on my main machine.

Ill keep you all posted on how it goes...

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Post by InactiveX »

Checking at the Frizbe Hardware Matrix, it seems Trident is poorly supported in BeOS. However, the Voodoo cards have much better support.

http://hardware.frizbe.net/
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