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#1
Utilities / Re: Scrolling with Mouse wheel
2011.05.16, 17:34:43
If you have XCenter running and the AMouse widget installed, then pressing the central mouse button will change the scrolling direction (vertical/horizontal).  I wonder if you accidentally incurred in this situation.

Regards
#3
Storage / Re: Memory stick
2010.09.10, 02:34:32
Have you tried assigning a drive letter to it (via LVM)?  If the stick has no LVM info, then you can't read it.
Afterwards, you need to know which file system the media is formatted (assuming it has one partition only).  If it's FAT32 or NTFS, then you'll need to load the corresponding IFS driver in config.sys in order to be able to access it.  So, basically you need LVM info for OS/2 to recognize your media, and the IFS driver to let OS/2 read and write to it (without forgetting USB drivers, too...).
Sorry if I said something obvious to you, but you didn't give us so much details about your case...

Best luck!
#4
Events / Re: Roadmap of eComstation ahead
2010.09.01, 13:33:22
Something can be found on this 'official' page:
http://www.ecomstation.com/ecomstation20.phtml

Regards
#5
Sorry, I hadn't time to post this earlier.
If you're trying to install Warp 4 from the original installation disks, the installation is probably hanging due to your HD being too large for the original IBM drivers.  The original IBMS506.ADD supported hard disk drives up to 4.3 GB.  Support for up to 8.4 GB was introduced with FP6.
Now, you write you did upgrade the original IBMS506.ADD and even tried DANIS506.ADD driver.  So I wonder whether you did put the SET COPYFROMFLOPPY=1 line in your config.sys.  Moreover, you might want to try upgrading IBMIDECD.FLT/IBMATAPI.FLT too (though I don't think it's related to your specific issue).

From the readme.txt file found in the IDEDASD package (the one to be found in http://www.os2site.com/sw/drivers/ide/idedasd.exe for example, which seems to be the latest free one):

[...]
If you are attempting to install Warp 3 or Warp 4 for the first time on a
  fixed hard drive greater than 4.3GB, then:

  1.  Follow the instruction on "Updating the Installation Diskettes" in this
      README and use the new diskettes to install Warp.

  2.  Install FP35 for Warp 3 or FP6 for Warp 4.

  3.  Follow the instructions in this README to install this package.



  2.0  INSTALLATION
  _________________

  2.1  UPDATING THE INSTALLATION DISKETTES
  ________________________________________

  If you are attempting to install Warp on a hard drive greater than
  4.3GB, or your are attempting to install Warp Server for e-business on
  a hard drive greater than 30GB, then the Installation diskettes must
  be updated.

  1.  Make a backup copy of your Diskette 1 (D1).

  2.  Copy the new versions of IBM1S506.ADD, and IBMIDECD.FLT
      device driver files onto your D1 diskette.

  3.  If the installation diskettes are for Warp Server for e-business,
      Warp Server for e-business Convenience Pak, or Warp 4 Convenience Pak,
      copy the DASD32.DMD file to your D1 diskette and rename it to
      OS2DASD.DMD.  Otherwise copy the DASD16.DMD file to your D1
      diskette and rename it to OS2DASD.DMD.

  4.  Add the statement SET COPYFROMFLOPPY=1 to the CONFIG.SYS on D1.

  5.  Save the changes.

  6.  Start the installation with the Installation Diskette.

  7.  When you are prompted for Diskette 1, use the diskette you modified.

  8.  Proceed with the installation.

  9.  If during the installation process or when restarting your system, you
      lose connection to your hard disk or CDROM, make sure that the device
      driver statements are in the CONFIG.SYS file and the new versions of the
      IBM1S506.ADD, IBMIDECD.FLT and OS2DASD.DMD device drivers have been
      copied to the \OS2\BOOT directory.  Use the date of the files to distin-
      guish the newer versions.
[...]


Hope this can contribute to shed a little more light to your problem.
Regards
#6
Another suggestion (just in case): maybe either the floppy disk drive or the floppy disks themselves are faulty?
#7
Applications / Re: OpenOffice
2010.06.30, 19:41:35
IIRC, OpenOffice.org 3.1 is bundled with eCS 2.0 GA, with no surcharge.
#8
Open Bounties / Re: VLC player Port
2010.06.28, 14:32:34
Quote from: Pete on 2010.06.24, 02:55:02

The output of unimix -list > ad1988.txt for uniaud32 1.9.2 shows Control ID3 for Headphone Playback Volume and Control ID4 for Headphone Playback Switch. All later uniaud32 builds have Headphone Playback Volume missing and show Control ID3 as Headphone Playback Switch - which means that every Control ID >2 is incorrect with the later builds.


I suspect that might be related to the recently added ability to adjust headphone volume (see http://svn.netlabs.org/uniaud/changeset/486 ).  If I understand correctly, the ID count was thus increased by one.
Have you tried manually setting your values for each ID?
#9
Found this piece of news (actually Aug. 2008) about a QT-based Mozilla port (basically developed for MAEMO):
http://browser.garage.maemo.org/news/10/

Maybe there's a newer version available today (I don't know).  It might be interesting to see a QT-based Mozilla app on OS/2, now that the QT 4.6.x port was done.  So I posted that.
#10
On hobbes you'll find several documents about installing eCS on the EEEPC:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-browse.php?dir=/pub/os2/doc

This one, in particular, is focused about the 701 model:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/doc/ecs-2-on-asus-eee-pc-internalssd-english-rev-1-1.zip

but, as it comes to LAN, it doesn't contain any relevant information.

This pdf by Nick Lysaght
(http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/doc//eeepc_native_ecs_setup_r08-pdf.zip)

contains a link to a forum with the info you was searching for, I think:
http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=5213&p=4

Go to the post by Sigurd dated 2008-05-08, 3:25:19 am, and you'll find instructions on how to proceed.

Bye!

http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=5213&p=4
#11
Utilities / Re: Zip Program
2010.06.16, 16:12:25
Another possibility is eZip by Frank Wochatz:

http://www.subsys.de/eZIP/

Very simple, but useful (Zip and RAR archives).
#12
craigm,
as to the /APIC parameter, I suggest you to read the readme.
Basically, APIC stands for "Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller", and it's an enhanced version of the old PIC.  One of the advantages of APIC over PIC is that APIC can handle more IRQs (I think a theoretical number of 255, but actually 224) than PIC (which is limited to 16), by using a routing table.

Anyway, if /APIC works for you, I think it's a better choice than PIC.

Bye!
#13
Hi!
You should add the /SMP switch to the PSD line:

PSD=ACPI.PSD /SMP

If all goes well and eCS sees both your CPUs (you can try running the command "cpu.exe" from a command line session, IIRC), you may also try adding the /APIC parameter:

PSD=ACPI.PSD /SMP /APIC.

Hope this helps.

Regards
#14
Hi!
When I first read this thread, I thought it was about Firecast, an Ices port by Andrey Vasilkin, but I didn't find any mention to it here, so I think you might be interested to know this app.
I never tried it myself, but I think it has the very features you guys were discussing above.  This is the URL:
http://digi.os2.snc.ru/eng/firecast

where you can download the app.

Regards
#15
Yes, Robert, I remembered reading perhaps the same thread as the one you mentioned, too.  I found this one:
"Can't install RC5 on big HD (> 500Gb)": http://www.os2world.com/forum/index.php/topic,1321.0.html


The last post is from Roderick Klein, who points to another thread started by him on the same subject.  This is the URL:
"Mensys needs feedback! (Installing eCS on discs +512 GB and next to Vista)": http://www.os2world.com/forum/index.php/topic,1406.0.html

There are several technical points in them (especially in the first thread), so I suggest (and even recommend...) reading them, 'cause one can find some useful information.

Bye!