OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical > Applications
Hardware Explorer
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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