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Final Request for Help for the Final Warp 4 Image Clone

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Sigurd Fastenrath:
I would like to ask for help to solve the last problems I do have before I would like to freeze my DFSEE Installation Image of the tailored OS/2 Warp 4. Wim Brul is so kind to help me once again to recreate the Finger/Touch Support for the Samsung Serie 7 Slate as it was broken because of a BIOS Update some time ago. I am able to use this Image and install it with DFSEE in about 5 minutes on each and every PC i have, but I am customizing as well one special edition for my Slate.
I already have most things done (Warp 4.52 with FP5, all the free zip things like: Cups, Java, ODIN, QT 473, Samba and so on, a very few parts of eCS like ACPI, AHCI, and Panorama; some more free drivers USB (183),Stylus,WINOS2,; some more programs Injoy+InjoyFirewall,HPFS386, Air Boot Manager 1.08,Freetype, Warpsans, SMPlayer, PM123 and and and) and the Image is now at 1.5GB. This image can be copied to a Partition that could range from 4 to 64 GB as DFSEE is able to "Sync the file to the partition size", and 64GB is the limit for HPFS.

And - very important to me - I do not have one file from ecomstation.ru running, no ecoruntime or usbwidget or or.. - and that makes the installations to become much more stable, especially compared with eCS 2.2 beta. I did not include YUM/RPM as well es it was at least not necessary till now, I was able to install everything with the ZIP files.

In addition I added all the files IBM or Mensys cut off - like Warpguides, OS/2 Warp Tutorial and so on. I extracted the OS2 Warp Logo from the Warp Center and integrated it in xcenter of xworkplace.

At least I would say "my" Warp Clone is up to date with the software and hardwaresupport. And this Image/Clone file is working great in combination with DFSEE. I reinstalled it serveral times.

In some case I would like to say I followed the Path Doug Bisset describes for Beta testing of ecomstation 2.2. I added something new to the clone, if it works I build a new image, if not I just replaced it with the image before and started again. As it takes only a few minutes to image/restore I was able to build the clone in my free time starting from an OS/2 Warp 4 scratch to what I have now in almost three weeks.

And here are the things I would like to fix at least and ask for your help - Thank you very much in advance!

- PEN for OS/2 - does someone know how to change the keyboard layout from US to German? The keyboard is really great, no need for me to use the "Virtualkeyboard" of ecs.ru

- ACPI - I have to use the /VW switch on the Samsung Slate, otherwise the boot process stops with "Can not load OS2AHCI.ADD because IRQ 19 allready claimed" -> so obvious for me tha the handling of hig IRQ is not working as it should as eCS 2.1 with ACPI 3.21.07 does not have this problem (but some more I do not have with Warp 4). I only have the ACPI32107.wpi file installed, no more ACPI related files. Do I need something else to handle the high IRQ in the right way?

- Atheros WLAN - I still try to figure out to run the Atheros WLAN 9285 chipset. I already opened the Slate and could change the MiniPCIE Option GM67 card, and put an Intel inside, but I would loose Bluetooth or 3G,a s there is no Intel chipset Mini PCIE card around with Bluetooth, Wlan and 3G - I do use and need all three for windows. And I am not sure if the WLAN Multimac for Intel will see the light of the day (hopefully it will). Someone posted to me a mail with some hints for this card (I already got the driver loading in UNSUPPORTED mode but the boot process stops - I guess because of netbind.exe or an IRQ conflict) - but unfortunately I lost this mail. May be thsi person is reading here and can send it to me once again?

- Sound - is working with latest UNIAUD with Warp 4 much better then with eCS 2.2 (do not know why exactly, but I have less boots without sound than before) - and strange - I can adjust loudness with the usual thing, the uniaudmixer and with SMPlayer -b ut not with PM123  :o . I am using a startscript in startup.cmd to enable sound at all.

- Memory management - the Installation "only" sees 512MB of the internal 4GB of RAM - according to the xworkplace program "OS/2 kernel" - as it is an Intel Core i5 second generation cpu the same problems occur with eCS 2.2 beta. Is there a program that can show me the amount of space OS/2 "really" uses or sees?

Thanks in Advance and Bye!

Sigurd

Eugene Gorbunoff:
Hello eComStation users

The user continues make damage to eComStation (and eComStation.RU)

Here is the description of the conflict:
http://ecomstation.ru/temp/201301/201301-attack.html

Sigurd Fastenrath:

--- Quote from: Eugene Gorbunoff on April 05, 2013, 12:35:27 pm ---Hello eComStation users

The user continues make damage to eComStation (and eComStation.RU)

Here is the description of the conflict:
http://ecomstation.ru/temp/201301/201301-attack.html

--- End quote ---

Hihi,

the truth is sometimes hard to stand, even in your world. For more information just wait for the next - and final video at youtube  8)

 ;) :'(

walking_x:
Using of +512Mb memory on modern chipsets requires a large patching of OS2LDR - or alternative loader ;).
Now you can get this memory only with non-IBM OS2LDR loader and /VW key in new ACPIs (or with ACPIs 3.1x).
The problem is simple - IBM (eCS) OS2LDR gets only 1st block of memory from system, but EFI BIOS split memory on 2-3 huge blocks...

Roderick Klein:

--- Quote from: walking_x on April 05, 2013, 03:20:52 pm ---Using of +512Mb memory on modern chipsets requires a large patching of OS2LDR - or alternative loader ;).
Now you can get this memory only with non-IBM OS2LDR loader and /VW key in new ACPIs (or with ACPIs 3.1x).
The problem is simple - IBM (eCS) OS2LDR gets only 1st block of memory from system, but EFI BIOS split memory on 2-3 huge blocks...

--- End quote ---

I have somebody who opened a ticket. He had the same problem. But when a installed a new video card the memory hole went away!
It seems it is ot related to EFI but rather how some onboard video chipsets map video memory.
There is an eCS 2.x ticket in the eCS bugtracker that describes.

Because if this would be an EFI issue and you insert a different video card and the memory hole then goes away!?

Roderick Klein
Mensys B.V.

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