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KolibriOS allows some configures for user requirements. This file describes |
such settings. |
For this it is required to change files on ramdisk. If you boot from floppy, |
there is no problem - change files on floppy. If you use floppy image |
kolibri.img - either use program which can work with images (for example, |
WinImage or DiskExplorer) or make changes from Kolibri and do not forget to |
save ramdisk (with the application rdsave). |
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1. Desktop background. |
a) Replace in the file autorun.dat (it is text file) the parameter for |
the program kiv ("\S__background.jpg") the name of file to the full |
Kolibri-path to JPEG-, BMP-, GIF- or PNG-image which you like. It will be |
new background. background.jpg now can be deleted. |
b) Replace in the file autorun.dat "/RD/1/KIV \S__background.jpg" to |
"/rd/1/PIC4" (spaces are ignored by the loader program). You can delete |
BACKGROUND.JPG. New background will be nice texture. |
For programmers: you can change texture and color, for this in file |
pic4.asm from distributive sources change: |
* to change texture: value of variable usearray (string 585) |
from ptarray to any of ptarray2,ptarray3, ..., ptarray9. |
* to change color: in procedure check_parameters find string with |
the appropriate comment (string 127) and add to 0x40000 1 or 2. |
After changes recompile pic4, by request pack with kpack (in |
distributive is so), inject to ramdisk. |
c) Two previous points sets background for a long time (until next |
reinstall). It is possible also after Kolibri boot to set background |
until next reboot in programs kiv, iconedit, pic4, tinyfrac. |
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2. Configure system menu. |
Data for system menu are placed in text file menu.dat. It can be edited |
in any editor keeping format. If you use Kolibri TINYPAD, you |
must disable option "optimal fill on saving". |
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3. Configure autorun. |
The list of programs, loading when system boots, is read out from |
text file autorun.dat. It can be changed in any editor keeping format. |
For example, you can add as first item start of application startmus |
(delay 1, without arguments) to hear distinctive melody each time at |
booting. |
For programmers: you can change melody, for this edit file startmus.asm |
from distributive sources: there you can choose melody from three existing |
or add your own - format of melody is explained in documentation on |
subfunction 55 of function 55. |
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4. Icons list. |
The list of desktop icons is kept in text file icons.dat, but to |
change the list it is recommended to use icon manager icon (which can |
be run from desktop context menu). Images for icons are kept in file |
iconstrp.gif, which must be edited by external graphics editor. |
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5. Skin. |
The skin can be viewed and changed dynamically with the application |
desktop; after you choose most likely for you skin, you can make it |
permanent by replace file default.skn, from which system loads skin at |
booting. Standard skin is included to ramdisk, some alternative skins can |
be found in distributive in the folder Skins. You can also create your own |
skin, for detailed comments look at distributive sources. |
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6. Sound. |
Driver sound.obj, which is located on ramdisk by default, is intended for |
south bridges Intel ICH, ICH0, ICH2, ICH3, ICH4, ICH5, ICH6, ICH7 and |
NVidia NForce, NForce 2, NForce 3, NForce 4. If you have SB16-compatible |
sound card, remove sound.obj and rename sb16.obj from the folder 'drivers' |
to sound.obj. If you have controller sis7012, rename sis.obj from root |
folder in distributive to sound.obj and copy it to floppy or image to |
the folder 'drivers' (replacing old). The driver fm801.obj can be useful |
for ForceMedia FM801 controller, the driver vt8235.obj - for VIA chipsets, |
the driver emu10k1x.obj - for EMU10K1X audioprocessor, all are intended to |
similar with previous case use: copy it to the folder 'drivers' as |
'sound.obj', replacing the old file. |
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7. Bus Disconnect. |
The application KBD (Kolibri Bus Disconnect) allows to disconnect processor |
bus in order to decrease its temperature, a side effect is noise in AC97 |
codecs. The application can be loaded automatically at system boot, to do |
this add to autorun (file autorun.dat, see 3) a line of the form |
"/RD/1/KBD BOOT 20 # Enable Bus Disconnect for AMD K7 processors". |
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8. Network settings. |
Initial network configuration is read at boot from the ini file |
/rd/1/network/zeroconf.ini. You can set automatic detection with DHCP |
("type=zeroconf") or fixed IP addresses ("type=static"). |
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9. Configuration of videomode for ATI videocards. |
The driver for ATI can set required screen resolution with refresh rate |
at system startup, if they are supported. The list of supported modes |
can be obtained with the utility VMODE, it allows also manual mode setting. |
To set the mode at startup one must pass to the loader ATIKMS, described |
in AUTORUN.DAT, the argument -m<width>x<height>x<refresh>, e.g. |
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/RD/1/DRIVERS/ATIKMS -m1024x768x60 -1 |
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Pay attention that the format of autorun.dat does not allow spaces in |
command line, so there must be no other arguments. |
Also one can disable ability to change videomodes and all linked actions |
at startup by passing the argument -n. The driver will still support |
hardware cursor. To fully disable the driver, one can simply delete |
the line with ATIKMS from autorun.dat. |