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Applications / Re: AVxCAT (v2 into test)
« on: February 17, 2023, 05:28:04 am »
I found a problem in the voix that I built that is currently packaged with AVxCAT, I fixed and rebuilt it.

P.S.
Martin, I only just noticed the OS2World github of voix, I had made updates to it several years ago to be able to be used in AVxCAT, these are at:
https://github.com/abwillis/voix
if you are interested in pulling in the changes.

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Hi Andy,
Did you run the cleanppd.cmd first?  My biggest problem was getting both printers to appear in the printer list.
It has been so long that I do not recall and at this point, CUPS is working well and it was an easy setup on ArcaOS where CUPS was installed anyhow.

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Hardware / Re: USB wifi adapters
« on: February 15, 2023, 03:21:21 am »
Currently, something along these lines (I have one of these, works, gets quite hot):
https://www.iogear.com/product/GWU637/
I have not used the mango router on myself, but as Neil likes it, I would recommend it:
http://www.blondeguy.com/MangoCom.html
Currently, the only USB network devices are ethernet and not wifi.

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Programming / Re: Where to start for n00bs
« on: February 15, 2023, 03:09:28 am »
Hello and welcome ;)

Now I would like to make a mini-adventure in the GUI of each platform with buttons for directions, graphics, etc. OS/2 is a hard nut to crack.  I'd like to use Qt but there seems to be a learning curve with no version of QT Creator for OS/2.  I also installed Watcom C++ for OS/2 but I've seen comments that 2.0 has issues and that I should use 1.9.  Just using GCC in ArcaOS I've run into issues using CMAKE even though I have it installed.  I also have a copy of VisualAge C++ for OS/2 3.0 that I bought way back when and installed on ArcOS 5.0 that didn't run after install/reboot.

FWIW - I've built Qt-Creator 8.01 with Qt6, but it doesn't quite work yet. It is definitely the intent to get this working.

re: cmake and gcc - suggest using rpm if you're not already, and it should just work.

Cheers,

Paul.

There is qtcreator for QT5.  I just launched it to make sure it would as it is not installed where I expected it (I guess previously I launched designer, not really an IDE user).  If you are installing using ANPM or yum, then you can install qtcreator, I can't say anything about it other than I launched it successfully. 
What happens when you try the VAC 3.0?  I do not have the workframe registered with the WPS, and do not recall how to launch the IDE from the command line.  Same with VAC 3.6.  VAC 4.0, I can launch the IDE.  Both Open Watcom and Borland's IDEs launch.

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I have two Brother laser colour printers that work very well with the PSPRINT driver after I added the PPD for each to it.  You should be able to get the PPD from the Brother site under their Linux driver for that printer.

Mine are the DCP-9020cdw and HL-3170cdw
NOTE: you need to be careful when reading how to use PIN.exe to get the PPD into the PSPRINT.
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The pcl driver does mostly work with the 7365 but not always reliable for some jobs.  I never had any luck with the linux ppd files with psprint and did not find windows ones.

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Programming / Re: Qt6 Application Testing
« on: February 12, 2023, 11:26:21 pm »
Hey Paul,

  Thanks for adding H.264 support! Don't know if you noticed, but if you click on the description of a feature on the html5test result, you get a popup that shows the status (stable, experimental, etc.), point value, and 'compare' which in turn goes to a page that shows which browsers support the feature. There are several items that are supported by Chrome (with stable status), but not enabled in our Dooble.

  Here, I can reliably get a system hang going to https://www.youtube.com . Tried capturing stdout and stderr using your example and went to youtube (which immediately hung the system), but after a <ctrl><alt><num-lock><num-lock>, stdout and stderr were both 0 bytes (<ctrl><alt><del> doesn't work when Dooble hangs).

  I can provide a system dump from one of these hangs if you ever need one.

Regards,

I get frequent system hangs with both QT5 and QT6 Dooble.  I found marking dooble.exe and the QtWebEngineProcess.exe as mpunsafe largely alleviating them.  Neither the 14.203 kernel nor SET QTWEBENGINE_CHROMIUM_FLAGS=--single-process were effective for me for eliminating the hangs.

P.S.
Just tried youtube and hung system despite the mpunsafe. It is not immediate, has one processor at 100% for 30-45s before the hang and if I close dooble (before system hang) it leaves a hung process that I have to DosKillProcess. 

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I have an (now older) Brother 7365DN.  It requires CUPS to printer here, which is why I ended up building brlaser to work with Brother laser printers.
A list is available here:
https://github.com/abwillis/brlaser
HL printers seem to have more problems but appear to work overall.

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Programming / Re: Qt6
« on: January 15, 2023, 03:11:01 am »
Posting using the latest qt6 dooble and webengine.  I have to stop os2world from completely loading by hitting esc or it crashes.
lowes.com starts to load then crashes
homedepot.com crashes before rendering any of the page.
Nothing in the terminal window nor popuplog when they crash.
Nice progress though.

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Programming / Re: Qt6
« on: December 30, 2022, 05:59:11 pm »
Here, with a I5-2400, about 10% slower then yours, per core, it must have taken 12+ plus hours to compile Qt5, mostly the webengine, had to stop due to memory issues a few times. For comparison, Mozilla takes just over a 100 minutes.
Another thing that can slow things down, depending on video card, is drawing to the cmd window. You might try minimizing it or redirecting stdout to a file. Stderr will still show build breaks or watch the CPU meter.
I'll often use the mouse to mark some random spot in the command window, however, I found out I can't use that trick on Windows as it does not continue to run like it does on OS/2 (on Windows that trick pauses the program, rather than just hiding the output).

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Programming / Re: Qt6
« on: December 27, 2022, 09:17:15 pm »
2) about some convenience macros (to access arguments), I think our port of NASM is too old to provide/support these.

Nasm shoud just build if a newer one is needed.
It requires a newer autoconf (2.71) than I have (2.69).  I had been building it for awhile but it has been about 2 years since I did (they even moved the repository not long after my last pull it seems). 
Tried building with OpenWatcom (which used to work here) but they changed things enough that I am getting a build error in a perl script.  I don't know if that is a problem in my Perl install, our Perl in general, or something wrong in their build.

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Programming / Re: Samples for VDD Drivers
« on: December 20, 2022, 02:39:03 am »
Martin Kiewitz has his VDD drivers on sourceforge, no license is specifically specified for these:
http://svn.code.sf.net/p/air-boot/code/special/

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Programming / Re: New frontends for GCC 13...
« on: December 16, 2022, 02:04:26 am »
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Module-2-GCC-Merged
Reading that reminds me, have you had a chance to look any more at GO support?

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Utilities / Re: dmidecode and UEFI
« on: November 30, 2022, 02:32:56 am »
I've long ago ported v3.
https://github.com/abwillis/dmidecode
However, I have not yet gotten UEFI support worked out.

What are the obstacles? It looks to me like you need to have part running on the UEFI boot environment that leaves DMI data for the dmidecode to read (and decode).

I had been trying to work it in util.c... which may well be doable but looking at it again, I think that testcfg.sys may be the more appropriate place to update... though I am not sure how to do it at this point.

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Utilities / Re: dmidecode and UEFI
« on: November 30, 2022, 02:29:27 am »
Thanks Andy

Is it ok if I upload the attached file to hobbes? I added the man files and a basic readme.

Reagards

Sure, there is not a lot of difference for us from version 2 but certainly no reason I can think of to not do so.

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Utilities / Re: dmidecode and UEFI
« on: November 27, 2022, 11:13:32 pm »
I just found that dmidecode does work with UEFI with CSM enabled, but does not find the entry point without the CSM enabled.  Here is a 3.4 build for those interested in it.

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