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eCS 2.2 clone for X200t and X230t - Questions and observations
Jan-Erik Lärka:
Hello Sigurd,
1. Genmac used to work well with a sorted config.sys on my main machine (eCS 2.0). Can't tell now as I have the new native Realtek driver with this Sony Vaio laptop, but no wireless access there since there's no support for that by the current driver.
2. As mentioned, but you can also rename a dll to turn off sunny icons. I prefer a good looking desktop, especially if it will include all desktop objects, something that is lacking with standard icons since Warp 4. We do however need a suitable drawing application.
3. The fonts in textmode DosBox seem a bit jagged. Panorama and ATI graphics card have problems with WinOS2 sessions.
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5. I found out that my machine have a sound chip from Conexant. They wrote code for ALSA 1.0.23 that is included and available as a beta at netlabs, but only the OS/2 Volume control can adjust the volume. It seems like you have a Conexant chip as well.
6. USB seem resonably fast with eCS v2.2 and the 2TB Seagate external disk I bought.
7. Mine beep at startup when eCenter load and then again if it doesn't/can't power off at shutdown.
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//Jan-Erik
Sigurd Fastenrath:
--- Quote from: Doug Bissett on August 19, 2013, 11:46:01 pm ---
2. I have decided that the Sunny Icons feature causes too many problems, so I simply don't install it (I will try again, with the GA version). There is a selection in the desktop properties to turn that off (Display-> turn off Default, and select Normal). It doesn't seem to prevent other annoyances that I have seen with that feature.
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Thanks, I found it :
Desktop/Properties/view/Page2of4/
Disable Default
change "Icon Display" from "Big Size" to "Normal Size"
Doug Bissett:
Sigurd:
1, What, exactly, is the device? If there is a Multimac driver for it, use that.
5. Great!
6. It appears that the USB 3.0 port (on my L530) is, by default, attached to one of the EHCI controllers. It also seems that the machine was shipped with the Win7 (Pro 64) driver disabled, so I had to turn it on to get USB 3.0 support (I suspect that they aren't too sure that USB 3.0 support is really working). I don't, yet, have a USB 3.0 device, so all I can do is assume that it works in windows. I can still use the port in eCS, it seems to detect that the device is not USB 3.0, and connects the port to the EHCI controller. I have no idea what it might do if I had a USB 3.0 device. It should use it as a USB 2.0 device, but the dead USB 3.0 controller might mess that up. It should work okay when it is connected to a USB 2.0 controller.
8. It may work, until ACPI gets loaded (still under BIOS control). Then ACPI would take control, and there is no interface to ACPI for those functions. There is a Linux thing for ThinkPads (I don't remember the name), to add those functions, that may be possible to port to OS/2.
9. I tried the OS4loader (haven't tried the latest), but didn't find a way to work around the hole. I also tried the QSloader, which supplied the information that it is a 4K hole, at the 512 meg mark. I couldn't get it to work either. Apparently, somebody is working on the OS2loader, but that is all that I have heard. I suspect that it won't be in eCS 2.2 GA.
Jan-Erik:
5. The sound in my L530 seems to be some sort of hybrid between an Intel device, and a Realtek device (at least that is what windows indicates, in the device manager). The mentioned UniAud does make sound, but each sound seems to be echoed about 20 times, before it stops playing it. Any new sound starts it's own echo, which very quickly becomes a "noise", that eventually tapers off to no sound.
7. A beep at eCenter load is probably caused by one of the widgets. The "fixed" USB widget beeps when it starts, and when it stops (most annoying, but that is supposed to go away for the GA version).
Sigurd Fastenrath:
Hi Doug, Jan, Pete etc,
it is great to have such a quick and rich in content discussion!
1. Hm, I do have a patched BIOS for the X200t that diables the WLAN Blacklist. So I installed the Intel WLAN 4965 mini PCI Express card. Ecs 2.2 detected it right at the initial installation process, but it started to work as I wrote once I changed Helperw.exe to the top of the config.sys. But - unfortunately there is still some weird behaviour here - a problem you have a couple of times about, IIRC, I can scan and see all the routers here, but it failed to connect using WPA2. Using WPA instead worked, but only for some times, mostly not. I am still not able to figure out what does prevent it to do so. Mostly the "TCPIP Interface" option of xwlan is greyed out, and I can not ping to the router, please do see attached pictures. Id did work two years ago with my first X200t, I guess I have to take a closer look at the BIOS Energy options.
Please see pictures WLAN and WLAN3
EDIT: Once I changed in BIOS to "Balanced" as energy scheme in BIOS it did work - at least for some moments... -> see picture WLAN3, but I am to tired to test more for today, more tomorrow
6. I will look into the BIOS of the X230t AFAIR there are some options for the USB 3.0 behaviour...
EDIT: Please see picture X230tBIOS2 -> with that BIOS option "Disabled" I can use the 3.0 USB Devices as USB Devices 2.0 with eCS! Before I had the setting: "Auto". I do like USB 3.0 very much, especially with USB Sticks under Windows 8 -> so fast!
That you adressed to Jan:
5. Yes, the same constallation here, Intel Display Audio and Realtek -> the same as with the Samsung Serie 7 Slate. I have to wait what Paul might offer on ideas.
7. At least the "Shutdown beep" went away once I disabled USB widget (that caused some very serious boot hangs and hard hangs while using in the past).
Doug Bissett:
Hi Sigurd.
1. I found that I needed to turn off all power control for the wireless NIC, in windows, on my T43, or it would run for a while, then quit. It seems that what windows sets, gets remembered in eCS. I found a setting in the NIC settings to do that so it was set separately from the windows system power controls. I don't have access to the T43 any more (my brother has it). It also has the problem where it would not work with WPA2, but did work with WPA (WPA2 worked in winXP, of course). I think there is a problem in the GENMAC interface between the windows driver, and XWLAN, which means that it will not get fixed. WPA seems to be reasonably secure. Hopefully, Multimac, for wireless devices, will sho up sooner, rather than later.
6. USB 3.0 will, finally, make USB useful for large media storage. USB 2.0 is usable, but far too slow when you start doing gigabyte data transfers. A better interface is eSATA. I have one hard disk enclosure with that feature. It only runs at SATA I speeds, but that is pretty acceptable. Unfortunately, it seems that eSATA has not gained much support, and I don't see it on newer systems, for some reason. I am able to leave the USB 3.0 BIOS setting at AUTO on the L530, and it seems to work okay.
7. I think the USB widget will work okay, once they finish fixing it. The interim version, that I have, seems to be okay, so far (a couple of weeks now).
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