OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical > Setup & Installation
ecs2.2 beta refresh
kreso:
Sorry for late reply. I will try to make it clear. TP l540 came with Win 7 pre-installed. Configuration is standard except that LSS SSD. I suppose that image tu upgrade to win 8 was on that disk. All other components are standard for this kind of machine: i5CPU, 4 GB memory, Intel graphic, DVD, 1TB HD (new, installed by me. same behaviour with smaller HD).
SSD is second disk.
1TB was partitioned with DFSEE. So there is no reason for OS2LVM.DMD to complain.
So here are the steps:
1.Booted from installation CD OK
2. Pre-installation menus present and adjusted according my wishes OK
3. F10 ->save changes->reboot OK
4. Start installer-> hard hang on OS2LVM.dmd->only power off worked to reboot laptop
That is the place where it stops the installation. Installation did not continue to graphical installation desktop so no installation volume/partition
visible.
My understanding is that that is still config.sys loading before switching to normal installation desktop.
Installation was attempted with all possible BIOS settings as well with default setting from installer on two different HD's (500 GB & 1TB) with
same outcome->hard hang on OS2LVM.DMD file.
I am out of ideas what can be wrong and how to continue. And yes CD was burned several times just to make sure that is burned OK(very low
speed->x2)
Any ideas??
Thanks
Joseph M. Kempf:
Finally, I found an opportunity to complete a new mid-tower build with a MSi FM2-A75MA-P33 motherboard with an AMD A10 6800K CPU. My first attempt to install eCS v2.1 crashed with a TRAP error, so then I tried the eCS 2.2 beta refresh. The beta v2.2 installed lickity-split to a Kingston SSD and booted up so very fast! Beta v2.2's version of the Realtek 8169 NIC drive is working with the on-board Realtek RTL8111E. I couldn't be posting this comment otherwise. So far there is no hint of audio from the on-board Realtek ALC887. We'll see about that. So far so good. Now I'll begin installing software. Wish me luck.
Greggory Shaw:
--- Quote from: Joseph M. Kempf on March 22, 2014, 10:56:05 pm ---... So far there is no hint of audio from the on-board Realtek ALC887. We'll see about that. So far so good. Now I'll begin installing software. Wish me luck.
--- End quote ---
My board has a ALC887 and works with the stock uniaud driver from eCom 2.1 - try those !
Pete:
Hi Joseph
You may want to check what the output of unimix -list > mixer.txt shows (unimix.exe is a command line mixer which you should find in \MMOS2).
You may find that Volume is set to 0; my laptop, Acer Travelmate 5320, needs to have a cmd file run at startup to (re)set the volume at every boot as it seems the hardware sets Volume to 0 on power off.
To change a setting you need to use the correct unimix command. Here is an explanation from an old unimix readme file that does not seem to get included with eCS:-
What is UNIMIX?
===============
UNIMIX is command line mixer, wich works with UNIAUD.
The goal of this mixer is allow user to control all of UNIAUD features for
given audio card/mixer.
The controls set for given card depends from audio hardware/features, so
common mixer cannot handle all of them. UNIMIX gives such possibilities to
user.
Currently UNIMIX is only command line mixer. PM version is under development
Usage
=====
With UNIMIX you can get list of controls (IDs, names, bound and current values)
To change value of control you have to know it's ID.
To determine full list of all controls you have to run:
unimix.exe -list
then you will got list of all controls. Each control looks like that:
Control ID: 1
Interface: virtual mixer device
Device(client): 0, subdevice (substream) 0
Name: [Wave Playback Volume]
Index: 0
Element type: integer type
Count of values: 2
Value:
Bounds: min: 0, max: 100, step: 0
value 1: 100
value 2: 100
What we have?
Our control ID is 1
this control has 2 values from 0 to 100 and carrent values are 100
to set new value (to 50 for ex.) you have to run:
unimix.exe -id1 -cnt1 -val50
unimix.exe -id1 -cnt2 -val50
now, control will looks like:
Control ID: 1
Interface: virtual mixer device
Device(client): 0, subdevice (substream) 0
Name: [Wave Playback Volume]
Index: 0
Element type: integer type
Count of values: 2
Value:
Bounds: min: 0, max: 100, step: 0
value 1: 50
value 2: 50
Hope the above helps.
Pete
Joseph M. Kempf:
Thanks Pete and Greg:
I'll try both of your suggestions later this coming week. This past week has been busy. Much of my little free time has been dedicated to updating my Win XP installs in advance of the 4/8/14 end of service date for XP. I run a critical application in XP inside OS/2-eCS hosted virtual machines. I must say that this application works very well host by eCS v2.2 beta on up-to-date equipment. I expected that this application would be unstable running in SMP mode on four cores of a CPU in this beta. For that matter I'm enthusiastic about this eCS beta so far. I have had what would be an unexpected number of crashes accessing a SATA DVDRM and a USB floppy drive though.
Joe
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