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Any questions for Warpstock 2016 ??
David McKenna:
@Lars: does the USBAUDIO.SYS support USB microphones? My USB webcam has one built in - would be a step closer to having some kind of streaming video/sound capability using USB devices.
Pete:
Hi All
Sorry, my previous post was a little misleading.
While some Epson and HP printers require a "plugin" some of the Canon source files need to be linked against some Canon pre-compiled libraries during compilation.
Checking the main.c file for the tocanonij application - possibly used to convert something to a format Canon inkjet printers understand - I see the following in the comments at the top of the file:-
* NOTE:
* - As a special exception, this program is permissible to link with the
* libraries released as the binary modules.
The required library is defined in the code:-
#define CN_CNCL_LIBNAME "libcnbpcnclapicom2.so"
The other required pre-compiled library file is libcnnet2.so.1.2.3 - without hunting through many source code files I have no idea what it actually does although the name is suggestive of being related to network connectivity.
Having "sweet talked" Paul into porting the Canon driver package I can tell you that they definitely do not work without the necessary pre-compiled libraries being available :-(
While Daves idea of using an ELF loader for loading linux "plugins" may work it would not help with Canon printer drivers.
Regards
Pete
Lars:
--- Quote from: David McKenna on October 22, 2016, 02:32:49 pm --- @Lars: does the USBAUDIO.SYS support USB microphones? My USB webcam has one built in - would be a step closer to having some kind of streaming video/sound capability using USB devices.
--- End quote ---
Let me put it this way: it should already. If it does not for your case then there is room for improvement. It depends on the sample rate. USB devices only have have a reduced number of sample rates they support. Normally they are smart enough to support 44.1 kHz (CD-ROM sample rate) and/or 48 kHz (the sample rate for professional equipment). Everything else would need to be supported by sample rate conversion in SW.
Martin Iturbide:
Hi Joop.
I didn't understood what do you mean with "Full USB implementation for add ons".
Can you please explain me a little bit the question.
Regards
Martin Iturbide:
Hi.
Here it is the consolidation of questions by session:
Session 4: Arca Noae News
1) Is there any roadmap for ArcaOS to support more hardware components.
2) There is a need to have current laptops supported with OS/2, since some users have it running on old Thinkpad laptops. Is there going to be some specific Wifi, USB , Video chipsets that are going to be listed as ArcaOS compliant?
Session 5: Arca Noae Device Drivers: Recent Progress and Future Plans
1) Plug and play with sticks regardless size without special OS/2 treatment. In other words use a stick with windows settings and plug it in an OS/2 machine without LVM treatment.
2) USB 3 (for speeding up backup)
3) Is there any play to support exFAT format?"
4) More support for modern motherboards
5) Support 4Gb mem pro kernel, not 4Gb total
6) A perfectly working RPM, still too many misses.
7) There was a project to make it easy to port BSD drivers to OS/2, was there any progress about it?
8) What is the progress of the video driver? Is there any interesting news about it?
Session 11: Blue Lion demonstration
1) A user is interested in "uncrippled" odbc (dbase) drivers that will work with both VX-Rexx and VisPro Rexx. He had been using DBExpert but needs something more current since its GUI controls are heavily outdated.
2) Is ArcaOS going to ship with modern Intel Wifi drivers ?
3) CUPS: Will Arca Noae be approaching Printer manufacturers CUPS "plugins". For example the Canon MG7550 printer is not supported by CUPS for OS/2 and there special functions of the printer that does not work on CUPS for OS/2. The Canon CUPS drivers source code is freely available, but there is no OS/2 version. (this is what I understood as a quick summary of the question)
4) When is there going to be more information about ArcaOS (Blue Lion) available like release dates, price, Software componts included, etc.
5) Is there any chance to re-release old OS/2 software and get agreements to get that software for a price. For example StarDock software.
Session 12: Yuri Dario, TBA
1) Any plans to update Recoll?
Session 14: BitWise: company profile, products and progress
1) Is there any plan for Java 8?
2) What are they going to do with the office package? This is because OpenOffice loose a lot of momentum and there was (theoretical) discussion inside the community about the steps to archive the project. LibreOffice seems to continue developing the open source office suite.
3) Is there any plan for Qt 5 to be ported?
I'm guessing that some of this question may also be answered on the presentations.
Regards
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