Show Posts

This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.


Messages - Andi B.

Pages: 1 ... 29 30 [31] 32 33 ... 55
451
Storage / Re: PMSHELL
« on: July 30, 2018, 02:38:59 pm »
I would say no. Of course it's possible to monitor memory usage (above512 and others) and fragmentation (interpret Theseus memory information and calculate the gaps) but what is the value when you should be warned about to 'low' memory?

From the kernels POV memory is not to 'low' until an application request memory and the kernel can not fulfill this request. Not earlier. Moreover even if you think some memory is low (as above512 tells you) you do not know if there is some large block already freed by some application somewhere. The kernel knows this can be given to another application if requested  (interpret Theseus and you may know too). But it depends on the value of memory the application requests. You don't know beforehand how much memory f.i. a java script wants to allocate before this specific one runs and makes the request to the OS.

When it comes to defragmentation it's simply not possible AFAIK. The kernel would need to to tell some application to free some specific memory. But neither the kernel nor the applications have implemented such algorithm.

452
Internet / Re: Firefox - 45.9.0 for OS/2 GA1.1...anyone...anyone???
« on: July 27, 2018, 08:14:48 am »
Quote
.... not updated in a timely manner, tickets take a very long time to get worked on, or sometimes never at all. ..... and there realistically isn't much we can do about it
For this point of your post I've a slightly different POV. Luckily all BWW projects talked about in this thread are open software and freely available. In contrary to OS/2 components and some AN projects. BWW stuff is usually easy to build and sufficiently documented. You can fix bugs if you're skilled enough relatively easy. A big difference IMHO.

453
Internet / Re: Firefox - 45.9.0 for OS/2 GA1.1...anyone...anyone???
« on: July 22, 2018, 03:00:34 pm »
Why oh why don't those porting firefox and other programs supply a zip file containing ALL the various DLLs that they use to have it working?
This was discussed numerous times. Maybe the whole process is too complex to understand for simple minded users? I don't know.

Quote
That way there shouldn't be the dll hell we appear to have with versions of RPM files from odd experimental repositories or even those not in any repository yet.
The dll hell starts if you mix your different zipped dlls together and that's the reason why the full rpm way is the only one to go currently. And don't say YOU are keen enough to clean up all dlls which would come with all the different packages manually. 99.99% of the OS/2 users proofed they can not.

454
General Discussion / Re: Display issue !
« on: July 19, 2018, 09:26:17 am »
I think it's the known graphic problem which shows up on modern BIOSes sometimes. It looks like the well know issue which causes rock solid hangs when switching to full screen sessions sometimes. You can test this with opening cmd windows in full screen and switching back and forth. But the 'known' problem does not occur every time so you've to test often to reproduce the hang.

As CAD tries to open a full screen session this sounds to be the case with Remy. But there are other not so obvious reasons when OS/2 tries to switch to full screen. F.i. when OS/2 detects IP address conflicts or when it traps. The graphic system can not reliable switch to full screen on a lot of modern boards. Currently it's not clear if these are BIOS issues or Panorama problems or some problem in the OS/2 graphic system components.


455
Hardware / Re: Turn off PC by power button
« on: July 02, 2018, 08:52:35 pm »
In the ACPI toolkit there is a WaitButton sample. Maybe that can be used for some button input. There's also a poweroff sample.

I made something similar with an external micro controller. The controller reads the buttons and send the OS/2 system a message via the com port and the OS/2 daemon which receives the message shuts down the system. I've discussed part of it at comp.os.os2.programmers.misc a few months ago.

But I fear none of them is what you really want. I guess you want the same what the power button does on recent win boxes. Unfortunately TTBOMK we do not have it currently.

456
Setup & Installation / Re: USB 3.0 /3.1
« on: June 26, 2018, 08:14:50 am »
Quote
...and it usually don't have USB 3.x, but usually we have an wifi adapter...
Depends on the individual POV. For me wifi is not so important cause I work with real computers not toys with mini displays called notebooks ;) USB3 on the other hand would be very interesting when it comes to speed of making backups on external drives. And most important for me are graphic drivers. Both big displays and multi monitor I need desperately.

As you see, different individual needs. We will see how AN prioritize activities. Personal guess - USB3, audio, wifi and then graphics.


457
Networking / Re: Intel 2915, no networks
« on: June 21, 2018, 11:23:04 am »
With OS/2 and xwlan you've flexibility which you are probably not used to when you came from windoze f.i.

As you might have seen there are two inst*cmd (instwgt.cmd, instexe.cmd). Depending on how you've installed the previous version the program and it's corresponding files are in different places (directories). Moreover you can install the exe (wlanstat) in more than one place if you like. But you probably don't.

Just one scenario - if you've installed the widget (xwlan widget in xwp xcenter) then you most probably had run instwgt.cmd. If you simply run the instwgt.cmd which comes with 3.13 (3.12 or up) then all files should be updated. Locked files are unlocked while running instwgt. I've even packed into the unlock.exe which is needed for this.

Of course you can delete all files manually but as you saw some files (dlls) are locked. There are different versions of unlock.exe. The best ones are coming with xwlan ;) and rpm. But even eCS has one included which should work.

'Conflict between xwlans' - I can not imagine what you mean by that. If you're running f.i. wlanstat.exe you can not run xwlan widget at the same time. But this is clearly visible as xwlan code checks for that.

458
Networking / Re: Intel 2915, no networks
« on: June 21, 2018, 08:48:47 am »
Did you check step by step http://trac.netlabs.org/xwlan/browser/trunk/src/ship/readme.txt ?

The way I read your post I guess you stuck at #1


459
Networking / Re: NetDrive traps - since latest LIBCX drop...
« on: June 06, 2018, 04:33:15 pm »
Quote
Anyways, this is hard to explain, so I'm going to log a ticket at the Samba Netlabs.org project page.
For Pauls built? Guess Pauls mantis page would be more appropriate.

460
Networking / Re: Intel 2915ABG on a T41 with OS/2 (questions)
« on: June 01, 2018, 08:57:05 pm »
Sorry I mixed some things up. The problem was with my T42p and Intel 2200 [8086:4220]. WRND32$ V2.01 works but the newer one supplied with ArcaOS (being more precise it was a BlueLion test release) does not.

Code: [Select]
works        ---> 23.10.07   8.21         215.551      0   ___A_  genm32w.os2
does not work --> 11.02.08  20.00         215.768      0   ___A_  genm32w.os2.ori

461
Networking / Re: Intel 2915ABG on a T41 with OS/2 (questions)
« on: June 01, 2018, 07:29:51 pm »
I still do not see which card you have exactly. Here's the list of cards I've tested https://www.os2world.com/forum/index.php/topic,1202.msg12286.html#msg12286

IIRC the R52/Intel 2915  8086:4224 does have problems with WPA2 (not WPA).

Another note - I recently discovered that the Atheros     168C:1014 in my T60 does not work out of the box with ArcaOS. I reinstalled the older Genmac2.0 instead 2.2 which is shipped with AcraOS and now it works.

462
Cat5 is good enough for 100m and 100Base-TX and even more. But 100m is the standard and Cat5 is specified for that. For 1000Base-T Cat5e is specified and 100m have to work with it.

Though the 5 and 5e standard differ only in some additional measurement and most of the time the cable is/ was exactly the same. There is absolutely no reason to promote Cat6x or even higher if you do not use 10Gbit or more.

463
IIRC correctly you need a driver version 9.xx. Later versions did not work for me. And I think the NIC needs an IRQ < 16. This maybe route able in BIOS or is default with older hardware anyway.


464
Setup & Installation / Re: Panorama v Snap Video
« on: May 14, 2018, 09:02:13 am »
I am running a ATI Radion HD7800 at 2560  x 1600  16M colors  connected through dual link DVI
And before that i had another ATI - cannot remember the exact model - something wth "queen" in it also at 2560/1600 with displayport or DVI.
Good performance with panorama


Hope this info is usefull for someone

Peter
Quote
This is a misunderstanding, dual-links are cables with more pins, not two separate cables or interfaces, ...

Thank you Peter and Olafur. I stand corrected. It's the first time read that this is possible with OS/2. Sorry when my ignorance started to confuse others.

Peter, you stated your ATI Radion HD7800 can drive your monitor with 2560  x 1600 running Panorama. What other resolutions are possible more than 1920x1200? Which monitor do you use?

Olafur, do you know a working combination of graphic card and big monitor (more than 1920x1200) which works with Panorama (guess SNAP will not work, correct?)?

Especially I would be interested in a card/monitor/driver setup which allows WQUXGA (3,840 × 2,400) @ 30 Hz. Or the same resolution with 60Hz via Display Port.

465
Setup & Installation / Re: Panorama v Snap Video
« on: May 13, 2018, 11:49:49 am »
Quote
It seems that there are two types of DVI cables, one limited to 1920x1200, and the better ones (with additional wires) 2560x1600.
Not quite true. One DVI is limited to 1920x1200. Even that needs reduced blanking intervals but that's not the problem with TFTs.

You would need a second DVI interface which works together with the first one in dual link mode. We do not have any supported graphic card which can handle such thing. And TTBOMK no BIOS on this planet supports this. So no chance either with Panorama nor with current SNAP.

Edit - marked wrong statements. Even the rest does not make much sense anymore. See below.

Pages: 1 ... 29 30 [31] 32 33 ... 55