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Applications / Re: 3d launch pad
« on: January 14, 2019, 01:09:33 am »
It did just crash for me, trp report sent. It is nice as long as using png icons, the native ones look like crap blown up.
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Thanks for that bit of information but how does one patch into the experimental repro with the anpm?
The attached trp file is what I get when trying to start your FF45.9.
OS: eComstation 2.1 ( last version from from XEU)
PC: Thinkpad T400 (Penryn/Centrino chipset)
xWorkplace: 1.0.x
I know it is an "RTFM" question, but I don't have an OS/2 manual to read (except for a few books on PC-DOS and the WordStar manual).
I have desktop shadows for MESA 2, WordStar 7A, WSEdit, WDSibyl and OpenWatcom C/C++ and OpenWatcom Tools programs. They take up the entire top row of my Workplace shell I would like to have a cleaner Workplace shell without a lot of shadow shortcuts.
Can I reduce desktop clutter by removing some of these unwanted shadows? Is it possible to delete a desktop shadow without deleting the program? Where does that program reside after deleting the shadow?
Thank you all for any suggestions. I can explain further if you need.
I use OS/4 on one partition. I uses their modified dive.dll. I use comet cursors here also. Need to see is FF is affected. Sadly, I have not paid attention.
Note the backwards pref I mentioned. DIVE should help with video playback but IIRC, doesn't work on Mozilla with Panorama.
firefox.exe 2>&1 | tee firefox.log
I use OS/4 on one partition. I uses their modified dive.dll. I use comet cursors here also. Need to see is FF is affected. Sadly, I have not paid attention.
Snap will only give lots of resolution choices if using a supported chipset whereas Panorama can patch some video BIOS's to add more resolutions. In short don't bother with Snap unless you have a supported chipset (see readme in the Snap directory).
You will probably get better performance with 64K colours, only half the amount of memory involved. I see this on real hardware playing videos in the browser.
VirtualAddressLimit really depends on your hardware as IBM never really added the logic to tell where system memory ends and hardware memory starts. I've successfully used 3072 on various systems, this one got funky until I lowered it to 2560. Generally 2048 should be fine but there is a bug in the kernel where if you load DLLs high, the shared memory doesn't get released, easy to see in Theseus, hard to get more then a few days of uptime if you're opening and closing things like the browser if they're set to load DLLs high. We do only have 512MBs minus system use, so about 300MB, of lower memory.
The hardware is a VM in this case. The 64K colors really does look worse than 16M for photos. Even the default ArcaOS logo looks worse. The gradients don't look good. But there is clearly a problem at 3840x2160x32bpp .
On bare metal, I have only nVidia video cards (many different models) and apparently Panorama cannot patch the BIOS on those either, so it is quite limited unfortunately, much more so than what I'm getting in a VM.
It still seems to me that SNAP should be able to use all the resolutions that the VESA VBE BIOS supports, which includes the custom ones for the Virtualbox VM. Somehow, Panorama can do this, and GENGRADD does this (at least on ECS), but SNAP seems to have a hardcoded set of resolutions, and nothing else works, even with GAMON / GACTRL . Anyway, I don't need 3 video drivers to work - just one is fine.
I don't think the amount of RAM is really in an issue for the OS/2 VM, whether it's 1GB or 3GB. This is a 32-bit OS that used to run just fine with <64MB of RAM. 1GB of RAM really is plenty. Maybe only browsers are pushing the envelope these days. I haven't checked how much Firefox consumes. Is there another lighter weight browser available ?
What I would really like to get to work is SMP in the guest. It seems some people have succeeded with VMWare. I won't be trying that today, though
Also, apparently there is a shared clipboard feature for Virtualbox.
It is referenced here :
https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php/EComStation_2.x_as_a_VirtualBox_5.x_Guest#Shared_Clipboard
Are they talking about the Virtualbox OS/2 guest additions ? If so, which driver ? I believe I have all the additions installed in my ArcaOS VM, but shared clipboard doesn't work.
Edit: yes, it's the guest additions, which I already have. But there is a checkbox in the VM setting also, which I wasn't aware of. It works now.
Or are they referencing something else that's for ECS only ? Either way, I have an ECS 2.0 license and key, and an ECS 2.0 VM too. I haven't tried the additions in that VM yet.
Yes the problems with the comet cursor and Mozilla seem to be gone.
Also tried in my ECS 2.0 VM with an ancient Firefox 4.0.1 . No issue with the comet cursor with GENGRADD at 3840x2160x16bpp in Virtualbox . I guess that's one problem I never saw.
Yes the problems with the comet cursor and Mozilla seem to be gone.
Also tried in my ECS 2.0 VM with an ancient Firefox 4.0.1 . No issue with the comet cursor with GENGRADD at 3840x2160x16bpp in Virtualbox . I guess that's one problem I never saw.
Hi Doug
Presumably "the built in AN Removable Media Monitor (REMM) widget" is something exclusive to ArcaOS?
Is this a widget for the xcenter?
I still think a native code benchmark would be preferable to one written in Python.
For testing LAN performance, there is iperf3 on other platforms, but I have not found an OS/2 port.
I have been following this thread, trying to figure out what the problem is. I can download PDF (and other) files , with no troubles.The Open H264 plugin doesn't work on OS/2 due to DLL naming problems. The reason for downloading the rest of it is licensing and it is actually for video chat
I am running ArcaOS 5.0.3, with Firefox 45.9.0. Firefox has ZERO add-ons (which is probably the key to success), and one plugin (Open H264...), that says it "will be installed shortly", but never does. It seems that it isn't needed anyway.
When I click on a PDF file, it opens for read, in a new window in Firefox. At the top of the window, there are buttons, and one of them is Download (sometimes, you need to expand the menu selections, with the far right button, to see the Download button). After it is downloaded, I use Lucide to read/print/edit (when it has edit fields) the PDF file.
You can also RMB on the download link, and select "Save Link As...", without opening it for read (normal download procedure).
Have I missed something? What else do you want to do?
Hi mauro
"USB stick is already connected when my system boots" - there is the problem. OS/2 systems do not expect usb drives to be attached at boot.