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Messages - Olafur Gunnlaugsson

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Can anyone point me to a "audio standard 2.0" device ? The very cheap devices usually implement "audio standard 1.0" but I need "audio standard 2.0" in order to test. Hopefully, I can find something that is not overly expensive.

Here is how you can find out about what you have:
1) get lsusb.exe. This tool allows you to list the complete descriptor contents of a USB device
2) run "lsusb.exe". It will list all attached devices with their vendorid:productid. You will have to guess what is what by attaching and detaching USB devices.
3) run "lsusb.exe -v -d vendorid:productid where "vendorid" and "productid" are the numbers from step 2.Pipe the tool output into a file.
4) in that file, search for something like this:
      AudioControl Interface Descriptor:
        bLength                 9
        bDescriptorType        36
        bDescriptorSubtype      1 (HEADER)
        bcdADC               1.00
        wTotalLength           38
        bInCollection           1
        baInterfaceNr( 0)       1

If "bcdADC" says 1.00 then you have an audio standard 1.0 device. If it says 2.00, then you have an audio standard 2.0 device.

The problem is that if I search in Amazon or elsewhere, they never give that level of detail in their stupid product descriptions.

Anything that advertises Linux compatibility? The Linux kernel has not had usba1 compiled in as standard for at the least 6 years although some distributions like Ubuntu do supply kernels with usba1 enabled. As I am still on Firewire mostly I cannot help you as the only USB devices that I am certain of have usba2 are Micromega MyDAC and Arcam rPAC, both have switchable class compatibility but are relatively expensive, although the rPAC is frequently going cheap on eBay these days because it switches back to usba1 on every restart, which means incompatibility with modern Linux and Windows if you do not, or are not aware of how to switch it back.

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Applications / Re: PMMail Where to buy
« on: February 10, 2021, 02:00:24 am »
Hi there once again,

which is the best email address to contact voice concerning my payment and the license for pmmail. THe mails I sent are all returned?

Holger

Try the head honcho himself: roderickkleinDESPAM@DESPAMxs4all.nl

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General Discussion / Re: YT video with download link
« on: December 13, 2020, 09:52:04 pm »
MEGA has removed it, YT has not

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Setup & Installation / Re: Odd problem with USB 3 driver
« on: November 24, 2020, 06:41:13 am »
I use RealVNC. I'm on iOS, but I think they have Android, too. Is running VNC on the main server a security risk?

Not if you configure it correctly, i.e. only one port open and a strong password.

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Programming / Re: Liberty Basic for OS/2
« on: November 15, 2020, 10:08:26 pm »
Carl Gundel, the author of LB was on this site a year or two ago asking for help with a Warp setup so he could finish sorting out old bugs. You should also try True Basic, demo is on Hobbes, still available commercially although with limited or no support for USD 25, actually quite good in some respects.

http://www.truebasic.com/OS2

BTW Liberty Basic is a tad slow, its interpreter was developed in Smalltalk, which is not the ideal environment for such.

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Hardware / Re: AMD Ryzen 2nd generation processors
« on: October 26, 2020, 07:43:58 pm »

This board has real USB2, just not the actual connectors on the back plate

Connect a USB1/2 slot plate connectors or case connectors to the USB_3_4 or USB_5_6 headers on the motherboard, and you will have a working USB 2 slots that are hooked up to the AMD USB 2 implementation on the SOC, not the ASMedia USB 3.2 built into the B450. These are connectors 19 and 20 on the motherboard drawing, between the COM port header and the clear CMOS jumper.

Are you sure of that?  At the moment I have those headers connected to USB 2 ports on the case and a backplain strip and they require the XHCI USB 3 driver to work - I have not found a combination of USB 1.1 and 2 drivers that load and see them.

Disabled by default in the UEFI configuration I believe, it is a subfolder under the AMD CBS tab

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Hardware / Re: AMD Ryzen 2nd generation processors
« on: October 26, 2020, 07:38:05 am »
P.S. These are useful to have connected under any OS, Realtek based USB 3 Wi-Fi sticks and a number of USB audio solutions for instance, are prone to dropouts under USB3.

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Hardware / Re: AMD Ryzen 2nd generation processors
« on: October 26, 2020, 07:34:03 am »
The fact that the motherboard doesn't have any real USB 2 ports (those it does have are a subset of the USB 3 CPU/chipset) did make things a little 'sensitive' to start with - the trackball kept on locking up if I tried to click on something while waiting for something else to happen.

This board has real USB2, just not the actual connectors on the back plate

Connect a USB1/2 slot plate connectors or case connectors to the USB_3_4 or USB_5_6 headers on the motherboard, and you will have a working USB 2 slots that are hooked up to the AMD USB 2 implementation on the SOC, not the ASMedia USB 3.2 built into the B450. These are connectors 19 and 20 on the motherboard drawing, between the COM port header and the clear CMOS jumper.

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Internet / Re: The new browser / QT5
« on: September 25, 2020, 02:26:36 pm »
There's not many options besides the QT based browser. FF52 could still be ported and then the various forks such as PaleMoon could be ported. Really, now there is the Webkit browsers, Firefox and its forks.
Users of older PPC Mac hardware are truly blessed by Cameron Kaiser's work on TenFourFox. The Pale Moon/XUL project is also interesting as from it there has spawned independent forks for OS X Snow Leopard and even Windows XP!

I have an old PPC Mac and TFF is not exactly in great shape, as for Pale Moon it is buggy and the original author does not like forks, see: https://github.com/Feodor2/Mypal/releases

Apart from that Feodor2 has been doing a bang up job

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Applications / Re: Arca / proxmox
« on: September 17, 2020, 11:50:38 pm »
It is the first time I hear about proxmox, I may be getting behind in the infrastructure market :)


It's a fork of OpenVZ (Linux only container solution, basically Ububuntu + limited virtualisation, it is not a true hypervisor) with bits of LXC transplanted onto it to give it a more generic OS support, as it stands support for anything that is not Linux is rudimentary.

It is supposed to work like Solaris Containers, but lacks in many respects.

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General Discussion / Re: OS/2 on a Via C7 desktop?
« on: September 12, 2020, 02:49:40 pm »
Some of those older Wise Thin Clients are actually crippled terminal or Zero Client devices, sometimes in the BIOS, even is some cases will only allow Wise's own Linux version to run and nothing else. After the Dell takeover things got better and for the last decade Dell and Wise branded TC's have been just re-branded Clientron devices (Which in fairness have some BIOS limitations of their own).

For TC's of that vintage I have had much better results using HP's, TECO's and in particular IGEL hardware to run OS/2 derivatives on.

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General Discussion / Re: OS/2 on a Via C7 desktop?
« on: September 10, 2020, 03:32:35 am »
I recently rescued a MicroATX motherboard with a Via C7 CPU.  it is a 2005 release, and would have winxp normallly,  The board has IDE, SATA, and USB.  Does anyone have any idea if I could get OS/2 Warp running on this hardware?
I run a couple of C7 systems for testing mostly, SNAP handles the graphics of all VIA/S3 graphics released up to VX900 (Ca 2009, a couple of them need to run in SNAP "compatibility mode") and the Via chipsets and ethernet controllers of that era were well supported by DANIS etc since they were the same as used with Intel boards with Via chipsets, the C3 to C7 family uses a Intel 370 bus basically.

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Multimedia / Re: Removing commercials from recorded TV programs
« on: September 04, 2020, 03:37:56 pm »
Are those files on the ArcaOS install disk?  If so, how can I extract just the java sdk files so that I can build the jar?  Can that be done without installing the update?

Should be, if not then: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/java/openjdk6_b27_ga5/openjdk6_b27_sdk_os2_ga5-20130217.zip

or

ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/java/openjdk6_b27_ga5/

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Multimedia / Re: Audigy 2 ZS Notebook
« on: August 31, 2020, 08:15:50 pm »
This information is interesting Martin. I will check for more details. Until now I was checked only the old archived The Notebook/2 Site http://web.archive.org/web/20061019015429/http://www.os2ss.com/users/DrMartinus/nbdriver.htm#PCMCIA

Jonas Buys had an updated version of that site http://web.archive.org/web/20070224015317/http://www.os2warp.be:80/index2.php?name=nb2pcmcia

P.S. There was someone releasing updated versions of IBM's PCMCIA drivers and applications in the latter half of the noughties and distributing it from their homepage, but as I did not own a laptop at the time I did not have the presence of mind to download them and cannot remeber his name.

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Multimedia / Re: Audigy 2 ZS Notebook
« on: August 29, 2020, 02:32:40 pm »
Quote
(based in Ricoh RL5C746)

I may be wrong, but this device is more likely to be an SD card reader, with nothing to do with PCMCIA.


Ricoh RL5C746 is an old PCMCIA interface chip not an USB/mass media interface, it is sufficiently generic to work with some even older Ricoh PCMCIA drivers on Windows so there is a possibility it will do the same on OS/2.

BTW, the Audigy ZS Notebook is basically the same card as the later Soundblaster X-Fi Cardbus card except for the mechanical interface, I have one of those but no OS/2 based computer with a Cardbus interface to test it on.

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