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Dave Yeo

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Re: HOBLink and ArcaOS
« Reply #30 on: January 03, 2023, 04:59:51 am »
Done some more experimenting, seems the installer that Doug posted is the one from eCS. If you unzip it,
and replace XWPDLLID.DLL (45916 bytes) with the one from the trial version, (36412 bytes), https://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/system/x11/HOBLinkX11_3-5.zip it installs fine with no sign of a timeout.
 

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Re: HOBLink and ArcaOS
« Reply #31 on: January 03, 2023, 07:28:10 am »
This package should install fine if anyone wants to test.

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Re: HOBLink and ArcaOS
« Reply #32 on: January 08, 2023, 05:29:21 pm »
Successfully uninstalled previous AND successfully installed HOBLink ! I did not have a nagging screen and I have a minimized XSession running. It looks very promising!

Thank you Dave !

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Re: HOBLink and ArcaOS
« Reply #33 on: January 09, 2023, 01:20:59 am »
If anyone is able to use a modern browser via an OS/2 Xserver please post your config.   I have tried both Chrome and Falkon and ran into issues with modern Xserver extensions not being supported in PMX and HOBLink servers (e.g., MIT screen saver and shared memory extensions).   

I have tried to disable the extensions in xorg.conf without success.   For example, for the MIT-SHM shared memory extension, I added the following to xorg.conf which should have disabled the extension but the browsers still choked when starting:

  Section "Extensions"
      Option "MIT-SHM" "disable"
  EndSection

I wanted to try Exceed for OS/2, but unfortunately my floppies have been sitting too long and disk-2 and disk-5 have read errors preventing an installation without corruption.  Tried recovering the two disks with ddrescue without success.   Exceed for OS/2 is also very old and wouldn't resolve the issues with newer extensions.

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Re: HOBLink and ArcaOS
« Reply #34 on: January 09, 2023, 02:42:16 am »
Not too surprised by needing MIT-SHM and Hoblink not supporting it, even XFree86/X.org needs a device driver to implement it. Am surprised about the screensaver requirement. Our Firefox has a fallback if there is no screensaver installed though I guess the screensaver extension has been around for so long (copyright 1994 here) it makes sense that it is expected.
Wonder if real XFree on OS/2 is capable of displaying a modern browser?
I could try if I could remember how to set things up, both here and on my sons Linux box. No xdm on OS/2 either.