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OS4User:
Starting from SVN5686 OS/4 organizes RM info in a bit different way.
One can see a real PCI bus(es) structure of his equipment (see  PCI_Bus_0 node and its tree).
It is something similar  to output of PCI.exe.

If any driver provides PCI info to RM  -  it is also reflected in Hardware Explorer.
So far this PCI info is provided by Lars's USB drivers only.


--- Quote from: Dave Yeo on January 25, 2020, 06:14:22 pm ---Only thing missing here is more video info beyond VGA.

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VGA info is provided by screen03.sys on OS/4 and resource.sys on OS/2.
These drivers are not very smart so cannot give more info.
At the same time HardWare Explorer showed the name of my graphic card  correctly.

Dave, I will try to add LFB mapping in screen03.sys. What info would you like to see ?

Digi:

--- Quote from: Dariusz Piatkowski on January 25, 2020, 06:07:30 pm ---2) HW Explorer
- when executing the same navigation path as above nothins shows up, it is empty, however once I right-click and allow it to open up in it's separate window from that point onwards it's always pre-populated

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The contents of the Hardware Explorer are filled during the initialization of the WPS object and when you go to it through the menu, the folder should already be filled.
I did not meet the described problem on my systems. It would be interesting to learn about this point from other testers.

Pete:
Hi Digi

I see the same as Dariusz: Hardware Explorer shows "(No objects)".

I tried several times to double check.

I then typed this message but before clicking the "Post" button I tested again.

Result: It worked this time - No idea why it did not on the previous 4 or 5 attempts...


Regards

Pete

Dave Yeo:
Hi Digi, ideally would be the info shown in the screen object. I'm currently using SNAP and it shows monitor, chipset, and memory. I guess that info can be queried with the SNAP SDK (pm.lib) with the functions,

--- Code: --- GA_configInfo

Declaration

typedef struct {
    N_uint32        dwSize;
    char            ManufacturerName[80];
    char            ChipsetName[80];
    char            DACName[80];
    char            ClockName[80];
    char            VersionInfo[80];
    char            BuildDate[80];
    char            Certified;
    char            CertifiedDate[20];
    N_uint16        CertifyVersion;
    } GA_configInfo

--- End code ---
prototyped in snap/graphics.h
There's also GetMonitorInfo().

Hopefully there's a similar way to query Panorama.
BTW, here the Hardware Monitor is always populated, using the stock kernel.

Dariusz Piatkowski:
Hi Digi,


--- Quote from: Digi on January 26, 2020, 12:06:54 pm ---The contents of the Hardware Explorer are filled during the initialization of the WPS object and when you go to it through the menu, the folder should already be filled.
I did not meet the described problem on my systems. It would be interesting to learn about this point from other testers.

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...tell me what you need to debug further and I'd be happy to track this down!

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