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Hardware / Re: Restoring T450S backup to M93P Tiny - USB HID woes
« on: December 24, 2020, 01:13:57 pm »
So upon a quick comparison between the two config.sys files' USB sections, I saw that the installation with the working mouse/keyboard has two back-to-back references to:
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BASEDEV=USBEHCD.SYS

The section from which this was obtained is as follows:
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BASEDEV=USBD.SYS
BASEDEV=USBEHCD.SYS
BASEDEV=USBEHCD.SYS
BASEDEV=USBXHCD.SYS
BASEDEV=USBHID.SYS
BASEDEV=USBCDROM.ADD /CDS:1
BASEDEV=USBMSD.ADD /REMOVABLES:8 /FLOPPIES:0

Whereas the restored backup from my T450S only has one. After adding that extra line into my config.sys file, it would seem the problem has totally gone away and that I am able to use a mouse and keyboard properly once again. I'm a little bit perplexed as to why referring to the same BASEDEV twice in config.sys would have this effect, but I am honestly relieved the solution was this straightforward.

The repeating keystroke problem is still here, but it's nowhere near as often as it was before. Everything seems to be working alright now.

I've attached a copy of the PCI report in case you're still interested  ;D

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Hardware / Re: Restoring T450S backup to M93P Tiny - USB HID woes
« on: December 24, 2020, 11:00:19 am »
OHCI vs ECHI drivers? Post the USB parts of the config.sys. Ideally would be to have the config.sys of the failed install. Output of PCI would be nice too.

I'll do a stock install on a different hard drive and report back with the output of PCI as well as the usb sections of config.sys from the T450S image. As for the drivers currently being used, I believe they're EHCI.

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Hardware / Restoring T450S backup to M93P Tiny - USB HID woes
« on: December 24, 2020, 09:00:10 am »
Hi all.

As the title summarizes, I recently got my hands on a Lenovo Thinkcentre M93P Tiny - mainly to have something a bit more practical to run at my desk rather than my T450S. I initially ran a fresh install of ArcaOS 5.0.6 which mainly worked... save for the keyboard input which was repeating keystrokes if you typed at any reasonable speed.

After running into this roadblock, I figured restoring a backup of my Thinkpad T450S to the computer (using the setup USB and DFSEE) might yield better results but I'm now in the situation where I'm no longer able to use any USB mouse or keyboard post-boot. The computer will still recognize my USB disks but no HID devices. The USB stack I'm currently using is the Arca Noae 12.07 driver package.

I'd much rather work from this state rather than a fresh install as the environment is already perfectly configured and ready to go (save for the USB HID situation).

Does anyone have any advice or pointers on where to go from here?

Thanks in advance  :)

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Internet / Re: Do little QT donations matter?
« on: December 13, 2020, 08:24:53 pm »
All donated money is good money.

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Solved! Downgrading to libicu 56.1-2 was all that was needed in the end :)

Thank you so much Silvan and everyone, I was genuinely worried I'd be stuck with Lotus SmartSuite for a while longer ;D

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this sounds a bit strange. But all is possible with exp rpm. The non-recoverable issue might put some message to popuplog.os2

For the AOO ssue i'm pretty sure you updated ICU. This is known to not work with AOO. A new AOO wich then works is about to be released soon.


Thank you for the pointer! I checked out popuplog.os2 and by the looks of it, it almost certainly seems to be ICU.
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11-21-2020  15:22:29  SYS2070  PID 009b  TID 0001  Slot 0087
C:\PROGRAMS\APACHEOPENOFFICE.4\PROGRAM\SOFFICE.BIN
I18NPOOL->ICUUC.__ZN3icu22RuleBasedBreakIterator5resetEv
127

I'll try my luck with downgrading ICU once I am back at my desk and report in with results.

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Hi all.

After installing a fresh copy of OpenOffice (version 417), I'm no longer able to get past the splash screen, it pretty much flashes and exits straight away without any kind of error or .TRP output. Even the older version (416) which used to work is now also presenting the same crash.

PMDLL shows that all required DLLs are available, I've tried the "Enable High Mem code loading" script, resetting the user folder and everything else in my environment (i.e, Virtualbox, VLC, Firefox, Java, etc) is running perfectly fine; it only seems to be OpenOffice which is suddenly presenting this issue.

I wish I had more details than that but I'm totally baffled. Is there any advice that I could possibly follow on how to approach this?

Thanks in advance  ;D

EDIT: I'm not sure how relevant this might be, but I just realized this may have started after updating to the latest version of CUPS, npth, poppler and libassuan. I'm unable to add new printers (log says: A non-recoverable error has occurred, very informative :P) but the printers I already had installed are working fine. There's probably no correlation but due to the closeness of both incidents I felt like it might be worth including just in case.

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Applications / Re: Windows 95 in DOSBox/2
« on: November 09, 2020, 06:08:53 pm »
I was able to install and run Windows 95 under Dosbox in ArcaOS 5.0.1 some months ago, BUT it was really unusable. It usually crashed after a few seconds after the desktop was loaded.

With this bit of info in mind, could it be it that this whole situation is due to a regression which gradually grew more complicated? The ECSoft/2 page's screenshots show it running under Ecomstation, perhaps implying it's been a long time since it was totally stable?

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Internet / Re: The new browser / QT5
« on: October 26, 2020, 08:40:50 pm »
Today I loaded Falkon under windows 10 and found it ran youtube fine but would not display the videos on CBS or CNN. Does anyone know why? Will this be the same for OS/2?

Out of curiosity I tested it on my end and came up with the following error:
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Code: 4 | Message: Something went wrong during native playback.
Did the same error occur for you?

I'm going to off on a limb and assume it's because of some kind of API restriction and/or a lack of total support for Widevine, a nightmare of a DRM implementation for video playback in web browsers. I don't believe it's likely we'll get Widevine support in our version of Falkon simply because of the effort involved, at this stage it's probably not worth it and I doubt that many OS/2 users will be affected by it.

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Applications / Windows 95 in DOSBox/2
« on: October 20, 2020, 10:15:17 am »
Hi all, I hope we're doing well today  :)

Recently I've been trying to get Windows 95 running under DOSBox/2 upon seeing that it's been done before, if the screenshots in the eCSoft2 page are correct. I was hoping to find out if anyone here has actually managed it before and if so, any comments about how they got it up and running. I've only gotten as far as mounting the image and booting it with a generic "Error Loading Operating System" so far.

Cheers  ;D

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Internet / Re: The new browser / QT5
« on: September 28, 2020, 05:24:38 pm »
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as for Pale Moon it is buggy
;D What did you expect from furries?

Oh snap, that does explain how so much is wrong with Palemoon haha

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Comments, Suggestions & Questions / Re: The latest release of Fluidsynth
« on: September 07, 2020, 02:24:49 am »
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Once you get fluidsynth give KO Myung-Hun's KSoftSeq a try - it adds software MIDI playback from the WPS using soundfonts and works pretty well! Only editing is not supported (yet).

Just a heads up: KSoftSeq appears to be able to cause the corruption of some DLLs under \MMOS2\DLL and possibly files in \MMOS2\. What fixed it is restoring MMOS2 DLLs from the AOS install media, I'd work out the specific incriminating ones but I went for the blanket approach due to lacking the time to look into it.


It seems like a promising bit of software but perhaps it needs a bit more work done on the end of stability. I will sit this one out until then.

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Comments, Suggestions & Questions / Re: OS/2 Trademarks
« on: August 26, 2020, 04:14:18 pm »
It seems like a similar deal with Australia: https://search.ipaustralia.gov.au/trademarks/search/quick/result?q=OS%2F2#_649577
. As a matter of fact, the trademark for OS/2 Warp hasn't been renewed since 2004.

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If we register the OS/2 and OS/2 Warp trademarks, maybe we can make and sell our own T-shirts  ;D

A lot of people on Redbubble have been selling stuff with the OS/2 logo all over it, IBM hasn't really clapped down on those sellers so I doubt they would do a whole lot if someone where to start making T-shirts elsewhere.

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Hi Jim
Arca OS (as you call it, Arca Noae) is not a Linux distribution but for the sake simplicity a heavily updated/modernized Warp 4.52. As for daily use, once you've configured your environment to your preference and gotten over the slight learning curve - it's quite a breeze for the most part.

I'd have to say the biggest shortcoming is the lack of an up-to-date web browser (We're currently stuck on Firefox 45.9.0) but there is a new Chromium based browser by BitWiseWorks which might be ready in the near future.

From personal experience, if you want the easiest user experience as a daily driver without too many hiccups, it's seriously worth looking into using Arca OS rather than using OS/2 Warp.

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Applications / Re: OS/4 (technical details only)
« on: June 14, 2020, 03:48:47 am »
From what I've read, ACPI.PSD 3.23.01 should work with OS4 but before I make the effort of actually trying to retrieve a copy of it.

Yes, as far as I know, 3.23.01 is the latest ACPI.PSD which work with OS/4. It is very likely that you will get the battery widget and ACPI shutdown (I have neither notebook, nor a 3.23.01 to check this).

Duly noted, I currently plan on seeing how I do with ACPI4.BPD but if it ends up being more trouble than it's worth I'll need to hunt down 3.23.01.

I got around to giving it a shot (Many thanks to Lars Erdmann for sending me a copy!), it behaves like it's successfully installed but doesn't actually work.
The battery widget icon doesn't show the E4 error code, but doesn't give any data on the battery's remaining power and states that it failed to load if you double-click on it.
When shutting down, it stalls on a black screen rather than automatically turn off once the shutdown process is complete.

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