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May 3 edition

What is this all about?

The BeOS support team is trying to get you the answers you need to operate the BeOS without the wait of sending an email or the expense of a long distance call. Breaking News is a perfect way you can find recent information on the BeOS issues we hear about most that aren't ready for the FAQs yet. This includes issues we're only hearing about and starting to track.

Don't forget to check out the normal support area for things that have graduated into full-fledged FAQs, because starting here in Breaking News is likely to leave you with no answers. If the item you're looking for has disappeared, it probably got put in the normal FAQ area.

Top 10

  1. My ATI card isn't working
  2. Problems with Bootman
  3. PPP isn't authenticating
  4. Will my laptop work
  5. I can't print
  6. I don't get any sound
  7. It freezes when it says "Booting BeOS Kernel..."
  8. It won't find the CD in the text screen
  9. My Demo CD doesn't work
  10. I get read errors on the floppy when I boot

Intel Specific

By Symptoms:

  1. It freezes when it says "Booting BeOS Kernel..."
  2. My Demo CD doesn't work
  3. My keyboard doesn't work
  4. Printing to an Epson printer freezes the OS
  5. Where do I get another boot floppy
  6. Moving a window makes the screen freeze
  7. My Matrox card won't go to higher refresh rates
  8. My Riva TNT card isn't working
  9. My modem doesn't work
  10. My mouse doesn't work
  11. My NE2000 compatible card doesn't work
  12. My 3c90x doesn't work
  13. I don't get any sound
  14. It won't find the CD in the text screen
  15. How do I change the boot menu
  16. What happened to the S3 Trio support
  17. It keeps rebooting

Issues with tentative resolutions:

  1. Keyboards and BIOS updates
  2. ATI Rage IIblah chipsets
  3. Matrox G200 cards and refresh rates
  4. Bootman configuration changes
  5. Audio cards on non-default IRQ/Port settings
  6. Serial configuration including internal modems
  7. Broken link to RAWRITE.EXE

BeOS Specific

By Symptoms:

  1. It won't dial automatically
  2. The replicant in the background is broken
  3. PPP isn't authenticating
  4. My modem hangs up after it connects
  5. My modem isn't listed
  6. IP forwarding isn't letting other computers on the net

Issues with tentative resolutions:

  1. NT dial up servers not authenticating
  2. Autodialing PPP
  3. Multiple ethernet cards
  4. ISDN and ADSL
  5. Cable modems
  6. What printers have drivers in the BeOS?
  7. Adding init strings
  8. BeMail won't leave mail on the server
  9. Replicant problems

 

Mac Specific

 

By Symptoms:

  1. Printing to an Epson printer freezes the OS
  2. I can't mount my HFS disk
  3. My monitor won't change resolutions
  4. I can't boot R4 on my Power Computing

Issues with tentative resolutions:

  1. iMacs
  2. Freezing at the boot screen
  3. Mac Network Cards
  4. Mac Mice

Non-technical

  1. Where's 4.1? What's Genki?
  2. PIOS
  3. Getting and making a boot floppy
  4. Java from Andromeda
  5. Y2K
  6. NOBODY WILL ANSWER ME!

BeBox Specific

  1. Video cards that used to work but don't now
  2. Upgrading from DR8 or earlier
  3. Where's the bootrom floppy

 

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