From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BKqXK-0005g4-Cb for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 03 May 2004 23:24:02 -0400 Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BKqWi-0004x2-0f for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 03 May 2004 23:23:57 -0400 Received: from [216.148.227.85] (helo=rwcrmhc12.comcast.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BKqWf-0004nn-Ib for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 03 May 2004 23:23:21 -0400 From: Jason Gress Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows 98 News Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 22:37:40 -0500 References: <4096D5EA.6020307@bellard.org> In-Reply-To: <4096D5EA.6020307@bellard.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200405032237.41131.jasong@ccgr.org> Reply-To: jasong@ccgr.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Monday 03 May 2004 06:29 pm, Fabrice Bellard wrote: > Hi, > > My latest patches should finally fix the hardware probe problems during > the Windows 98 installation. They also correct the timer issue I > mentionned in my previous posts. > > There is still a hang up while trying to initialize the floppy > controller just after the second reboot of the installation (it must be > disabled in hw/pc.c). The CD-ROM is still not recognized properly. > > If you except these two last problems, Windows 98 should work much > better. The subjective speed is also _much_ better (who said QEMU VGA > emulation was slow ?:-)). > > Fabrice. I just wanted to confirm the improvements here. Not only is the VGA faster (in Win2k and WinMe) but WinMe's hardware detection doesn't crash now, either. :) It also detects the sound card if SB16 emulation is on. You still have to do the network 'by hand', however. Regardless - noticeable improvement! I just wanted to confirm that WinMe is equally fixed up :) Also Knoppix definitely updates the screen more often. It's hard to tell if/how much it is faster otherwise. That's a pretty slow system overall, but it's still pretty neat! Frozen-Bubble starts, but the bubbles move a bit on the slow side. ;) I wonder how much speed difference the true color from Knoppix Vesa SVGA makes? Or is it something else linux specific, or perhaps the cdrom image reading code is slow? I run it from an iso image which qemu is told is the cdrom drive. There is no hda image. Thanks for your great work! Jason P.S. CVS ebuilds rock - I found this somewhere (on this list? - can't remember what google did for me) but if someone wants a perfectly working one let me know :)