hi.

i must say, this version is working *very* good this time. i can load
most (if not all) of my old documents and even resave them. the font
substitution finally does no longer crash (most of the time
knocking on wood).

the main problems i found:

- refreshing the window does still not work when moving the page
around (via mouse or scrollbars) - it does almost work well when
resizing the window - goes black sometimes but this is very seldom

- placing pictures (i know that jpeg and smth else does not work in general) does *not* work, when you've set pagestream to NOT to "place graphic in center".
placing it in center seems to work - if this is disabled pagestream freezes as soon as you place the graphic with the mouse. the graphic shows but then it locks.

- several gui quirks (label backgrounds, auto-resizing windows (missing groups/spaces?), non woking toolbox-multi-buttons...

all in all this is (for me) the first "working" version.

thanks a lot deron!

i see that some people have problems. i just did a test on a "clean" system.
i have a partition here which only contains the os4 pre4 installation. nothing else.
i boot from this partition, dearchive the pagestream 5ppc archive to ram and start it from there. i found no problem. it starts up fine, i can enter my registration data and there it goes.
have people tried this? or just booting from the os4 cd?

byebye...

--
Michael Merkel (MiMe@IRC)
Michael.Merkel@gmx.net
http://www.mirime.de/Michael

G'day Michael Merkel,

On 22/05/2006, on the subject of "[PageStreamAmigaBeta] pgs 5.0.3.2 os4",
you spoke thus:

> i see that some people have problems. i just did a test on a "clean"
> system. i have a partition here which only contains the os4 pre4
> installation. nothing else. i boot from this partition, dearchive the
> pagestream 5ppc archive to ram and start it from there. i found no
> problem. it starts up fine, i can enter my registration data and
> there it goes. have people tried this? or just booting from the os4
> cd?

This is really odd. I'm also booting from a clean Update4 partition and
PgS does not start here. The symptoms are similar for my main beta
partition too.

Do you have an XE? If so, does it have the USB/DMA mods? Have you
changed any UBoot vars from their default? Could you please post the
output of nvgetvar and I'll compare them to mine.

--
Steve Bowman - Sydney, Australia

It would be nice to say that the tiny frogs thought long and hard about
the new flower, about life in the old flower, about the need to explore,
about the possibility that the world was bigger than a pool with petals
around the edge.

In fact, what they thought was: "._._.mipmip._._.mipmip._._.mipmip".

-- (Terry Pratchett, Wings)

Steve,

SB> This is really odd. I'm also booting from a clean Update4
SB> partition and PgS does not start here. The symptoms are similar
SB> for my main beta partition too.

SB> Do you have an XE? If so, does it have the USB/DMA mods? Have
SB> you changed any UBoot vars from their default? Could you please
SB> post the output of nvgetvar and I'll compare them to mine.

I don't know about Michael's A1, but I have an XE with the original
800 MHz G$ and no MOBO mods (yet). But I am running DMA with a PATA
Sil card.

Paul

Michael,
MM> i see that some people have problems. i just did a test on a
MM> "clean" system. i have a partition here which only contains the
MM> os4 pre4 installation. nothing else. i boot from this partition,
MM> dearchive the pagestream 5ppc archive to ram and start it from
MM> there. i found no problem. it starts up fine, i can enter my
MM> registration data and there it goes. have people tried this? or
MM> just booting from the os4 cd?

I've done all three.("Normal OS partition boot, "clean OS4 update 4 HD
partition boot, and CD boot, all with and without JIT) I need to put
the texteditor classes in the mui on my "clean" OS4 install on a
separate partition to see if it makes a difference. But otherwise, I
followed the same procedure you did, and continue to get the same
lockiups I've had all along.

Paul

<stevebow@exemail.com.au> wrote at Tue, 23 May 2006 08:59:09 +1000
about <Re: [PageStreamAmigaBeta] pgs 5.0.3.2 os4>:

> G'day Michael Merkel,
>
> On 22/05/2006, on the subject of "[PageStreamAmigaBeta] pgs 5.0.3.2 os4",
> you spoke thus:
>
> > i see that some people have problems. i just did a test on a "clean"
> > system. i have a partition here which only contains the os4 pre4
> > installation. nothing else. i boot from this partition, dearchive the
> > pagestream 5ppc archive to ram and start it from there. i found no
> > problem. it starts up fine, i can enter my registration data and
> > there it goes. have people tried this? or just booting from the os4
> > cd?
>
> This is really odd. I'm also booting from a clean Update4 partition and
> PgS does not start here. The symptoms are similar for my main beta
> partition too.
>
> Do you have an XE?

yes.

> If so, does it have the USB/DMA mods?

no. using a sil card and an usb hub instead.

> Have you changed any UBoot vars from their default?

some. for sil and for booting.

> Could you please post the output of nvgetvar and I'll compare
> them to mine.

here they are:

bootcmd=menu; run menuboot_cmd
preboot=
stdout=vga
stdin=ps2kbd
ide_doreset=on
ide_cd_timeout=30
menucmd=menu
bootdelay=0
baudrate=115200
ethact=3Com 3c920c#0
ethaddr=00:092:11:02:A7
ipaddr=<unset>
serverip=<unset>
pci_irqa=9
pci_irqa_select=level
pci_irqb=10
pci_irqb_select=level
pci_irqc=11
pci_irqc_select=level
pci_irqd=7
pci_irqd_select=level
agp_enable=on
agp_sideband=on
agp_speed=2x
limit_memory=512
use_memory_limit=no
video_activate=agp
vga_fg_color=11
vga_bg_color=1
serial1_address=3f8
serial2_address=2f8
parallel_mode=2
parallel_address=378
usb0_enable=on
usb1_enable=on
usb_use_header=0
ide_maxbus=0
ide_swap=0
sii0680ide_xfer=FFCC
bootdevice=0:1
boot_command=diskboot
menuboot_cmd=boota; boota; boota
video_num=1
boot1=psii
boot2=
boot3=
boot_config=Default
boota_timeout=1
boot_method=boota
menuboot_delay=1
os4_commandline=debuglevel=0
bootargs=root=/dev/ram rw ramdisk=4096

byebye...

--
Michael Merkel (MiMe@IRC)
Michael.Merkel@gmx.net
http://www.mirime.de/Michael