HaikuPorts

For the last couple of months I've been busy working on ports for Haiku. There's a website setup to help coordinate porting efforts, currently setup at assembla.com, soon to move over to haiku-files.org. The site has the popular project management tool trac, along with a subversion repository to store patches. We are making steady progress on a bunch of different ports. If you have ever worked on porting things over to BeOS or Zeta, or would just like to try lending a hand, why not stop on by and sign up and join in the fun?

Haiku on an eMachines M6805 laptop

Ok, so here's how my testing on my eMachines M6805 laptop with fresh Haiku builds is going so far. I will also be testing it soon with a Gateway MX7118, but not until SATA is working in Haiku, check back for those results soon.

Processor Mobile AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 1800MHz 1MB L2 - Detected and works
Northbridge Via K8T800, Southbridge Via VT8235 - Detected and works
Memory: 1GB+256Mb SODIMMS work fine.

Hard Drive Hitachi TravelStar 5K80 60GB 5400RPM (Mine is upgraded to a TravelStar 100GB 7200RPM) - Detected and works fine
DVD Drive Lite-On DVD/CD+RW (untested for DVDs, and CD Burning)

Card Reader Neodio ND3260 8in1 Reader (untested but doubtful on this until USB mass storage is done)

Video ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 Series - ATI RV350 NP - Detected and works (accelerated too)
Display Samsung LTN154X1 15.4" WXGA - just works

Ethernet Via Rhine II - Detected and works
Wireless Broadcom BCM94306 802.11g (no wireless in Haiku that I can see so far)
Modem Smart Link v.92 56K winmodem (untested, no need for modem with broadband...)

Audio Realtek ALC250 - Tested and works
Cardbus ENE CB1410 (untested)
Firewire Via VT6306 (Firewire is being worked on still)
Touchpad Synaptics - Tested and just works

So it's already better supported than it ever was on BeOS. The firewire did work on BeOS so I suspect that when they get firewire working in Haiku that will work on this model as well.

Haiku Testing

Lately I've been testing the nightly builds of Haiku again. It's getting there. My old laptop (eMachines M6805 upgraded with 1GB memory and 100GB 7200rpm HDD) which didn't work right with BeOS due to driver issues is already mostly supported. Video, wired network, USB mouse all didn't work in BeOS but worked on first boot in Haiku. I finally managed to get BeOS Max installed on the old laptop and then used BeOS to put a bootable Haiku partition on it as well. Ran bootman to allow for booting into whichever OS I picked and it just worked. Ok not perfect yet. There's still work being done on Haiku, and if you try hard enough you can find lots of things that don't work yet in Haiku. But what they are looking for is bug reports for things that "haven't" already been reported. Checking the bug report list you'll see many bugs are being fixed daily now. And with the 8 Google Summer of Code students also hacking away we should see some more things working real soon now. Also in the works is SATA support which will then allow me to do testing on my newer laptop (A Gateway 7118MX). I am using it for testing as well but in vmware inside Ubunutu.

TrackMania Nations Rain On The Brain

Here's my latest TrackMania Nations Video, this time a short track with 100+ cars on it.
Here's a direct link: http://home.comcast.net/~scottmccreary/RainOnTheBrain100.avi

TM-Exchange Nations is down

While TM-Exchange Nations is down you can download my Nations tracks here.