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#1
Applications / PyQT4
2012.04.02, 15:38:11
Hi All,

Needed to post this: http://smedley.id.au/eric4.png

PyQt4/2 is starting to work :)

Will try get a binary out for Easter.

Cheers,

Paul
#2
Hi,

In order to help hplip-os2 development, I need some test results from hp-mkuri from usb connected HP printers or MFPs.

Please download http://smedley.id.au/hp-mkuri.zip and execute:
hp-mkuri.exe -o

Send me the screen output (if any) and also libusb.log

My HP MFP gives no screen output, and libusb.log shows 'unable to send control message - rc= 280'

Thanks,

Paul
#3
A couple of weeks ago, I bought a new Intel Core i7-2600 processor, and a Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD3R-B3 motherboard, and 4gb of DDR3 ram to go with it, hoping to use it to continue to run eComStation 2.0.

Whilst the system does run eCS, and all 4 cores are recognised by acpi.psd, some other aspects leave a lot to be desired:
- SATA controller is recognised only in generic mode
- Panorama is unable to set MTRRs, so video speed sucks.

The above led me to explore running Ubuntu - something I've dabbled with in the past on my Thinkpad.  Over the last week since I had knee surgery, I've dabbled with Ubuntu some more on the Thinkpad due to intermittent wireless problems with eCS on the Thinkpad, and have grown to like it as a desktop OS - especially once I found I could run PMView for Windows using WINE directly from the desktop.

I've now installed Ubuntu 10.10 on my new hardware, and yesterday installed eCS under Virtualbox 4.0.4 as an experiment to see how quickly things compiled.

The results are as follows (not sure how cleanly this will display) (All times in minutes)

App                Intel Q9400 Native    Intel i7-2600 Native         Intel i7-2600 Virtual**

Bind 9.8.0               3:17                            4:04                                  1:47
Quassel 0.7.2        15:51                          15:00                                  8:45
Ghostscript 9.02      5:42                            5:18                                  2:43
MySQL 5.1.56        28:55                          22:22                                12:16

**Intel i7-2600 Virtual represents eCS 2.0 running under Virtualbox 4.0.4 under a 64-bit build of Ubuntu 10.10

As can be seem, the Intel i7-2600 Virtualised is nearly twice as fast as either of the native systems.

I'm continuing to work to get the SATA controller and system MTRR problems addressed for the i7-2600 using eCS - but at this stage it's looking like I'll be switching to Ubuntu for my main desktop OS real soon now.

Note that I do intend to continue to support my ports of OS/2 and eCS software at http://os2ports.smedley.info - porting software is something that I continue to enjoy to do!
#4
Hi All,

Per the subject - I'm looking to upgrade my hardware to a new system running an Asus P8P67.

One thing that concerns me is that the Asus site brags about the use of an EFI bios.

IIRC - these boards won't work with OS/2?

Maybe I should go for a socket 1366 or 1156 board that still has a traditional BIOS?

Any tips appreciated.

Thanks,

Paul
#5
Subject says it all
#6
http://www.os2world.com/content/view/18832/2/
QuotePosted by Martin Iturbide - Tuesday, 24 March 2009


This is th. .. .

Correction - whilst the focus is HDA hardware - feedback is welcome from ALL users - the aim is to support all devices that are supported by Uniaud 1.1.4 and improve HDA support.
#7
Hi Gang,

I'm wondering how hard it would be to come up with a REXX replacement for the unix shell script pstoraster that is used by CUPS?

My REXX is a bit rusty, so I thought I'd ask here if someone could take a look - a sample of the shell script is at http://smedley.info/pstoraster

The use of a unix shell is a PITA and (I think) the cause of several users having problems with CUPS.

Thanks in advance,

Paul.
#8
Article Discussions / Uniaud32 v1.9.3
2008.04.07, 12:53:42
FWIW - it appears that 1.9.3 introduced a few regressions for HDA hardware compared with 1.9.2 - ie with 1.9.2 the hang after second sound was gone, with 1.9.3 it's back.

I think I understand why this has happened, and have a couple of ideas on how to fix the problem.

Please grab http://download.smedley.info/uniaud32-1.9.3-testfixes.zip and try each fix inside the zip file (contained within test1 and test2 directories) - and let me know which (if either) works best.

Thanks!
#9
http://www.os2world.com/content/view/14886/1/
QuotePosted by Kim Haverblad - Friday, 31 August 2007


The PHP deve. .. .
I'll have an OS/2 binary of this in a few days.....
#10
http://www.os2world.com/content/view/14608/2/
QuotePosted by Martin Iturbide - Tuesday, 12 June 2007




Hi All,

Unfortunately a packaging problem crept into the release....

A fix is now available at http://http://svn.netlabs.org/ecups/wiki/CupsPort

An updated zip including the zip is currently uploading and will be available from the above URL soon.

Sorry for the hassle....

Without the fix, an error about invalid device-url will occur when trying lpadmin.

Thanks to Ed and Pete for taking the time to report the problem.

Cheers,

Paul.