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Hardware / Re: Lenovo External Monitor
« on: May 18, 2018, 03:06:51 am »
Unfortunately I have no idea what the PCI id is, since I could not get the machine to boot. WikiDev lists a bunch for this class of card, and I can't tell what the specific id is for this card.

The label on the card says Intel 512an_hmw

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Hardware / Re: Lenovo External Monitor
« on: May 18, 2018, 01:54:10 am »
BIOS does not allow changing WiFi card - just enable or disable for WiFi.

It does however have a setting which converts the 2 USB 3.0 ports to USB 2.0. It comes with 4 USB ports, by default 2 are USB 3 and 2 are USB 2.

I had a patched BIOS for my Thinkpad T43p, but didn't think of that for this machine. I will look to see if someone has patched this one for unauthorized WiFi cards. This model has a sliding switch on the side for turning on and off WiFi - in addition to the usual Fn - key method, which only works in Windows. I thought I might have a fighting chance of getting some WiFi card to work with GenMac given the switch on the side.  Thanks for the suggestion.

Doug

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Hardware / Re: Lenovo External Monitor
« on: May 17, 2018, 06:06:32 pm »
Thanks Doug for the advice. I went back and tried ALL the options after your post.

In the BIOS on the Config -> Display  screen selecting Analog (VGA) as the "Boot Display Device" causes the VGA port to work on the laptop, but only if on the Config -> Display screen Discrete Graphics is selected as the "Graphics Device"; selecting either Integrated Graphics or NVIDIA Optimus will result in no output on the VGA port.

If the external monitor is plugged into the VGA port on the docking station, this combination of settings in the BIOS (and only this combination) will display on the external monitor when the laptop is plugged into the docking station.

When plugged into the docking station the laptop will boot without the lid open by pressing the power button on the docking station; you will bypass the option of entering BIOS and start at Airboot.

As Doug stated, simply unplugging the external monitor from the VGA port on the laptop will cause the display to revert to the laptop's LCD. However each time the display is changed (LCD to external or external to LCD) Panorama resets to VGA 1024x768. Selecting the desired resolution and rebooting fixes that.

Lastly: I tried replacing the WiFi card in the machine with an Intel WiFi Link 5100 because of some posting someone else had about that card possibly working. The laptop will not boot with that card in place; it complains about an unauthorized WiFi card.

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Applications / Re: VirtualBox v5.0.51 Testing
« on: May 15, 2018, 02:23:49 am »
I am using a ATI Radeon PCIe x600 card. Fantastic card, very cheap, quick.

I thought it was related to SNAP because the trap happens after the SNAP splash screen and before the screens turn blue and then the desktop appears. Which is what lead me to revert to VGA and reinstall SNAP.

ArcaNoae thinks it is a timing issue and not a SNAP issue, and my reverting to VGA is effecting the timing of something on startup. There are a number of other people who have gotten the same Trap at the same location.

The trap happens every morning when I first boot up, but sometimes also happens on reboot during the day. I will keep the SET LIBCX_HIGHMEM=2  REMed out for a day or two if I get no traps so I can report back to ArcaNoae.

I now don't THINK there is a conflict between SNAP and Vbox that cause the trap. But there are some memory considerations when using SNAP and vbox, which were talked about on this thread or the other VirtualBox thread. Basically: SNAP will consume lots of memory it apparently doesn't need, which can affect vbox starting and running. The solution is to limit the memory consumed by SNAP with the GAOPTION VIDMEM xx command. I am using 32 for the xx, which limits SNAP to 32MBs. This works ok with my SNAP dual monitor setup when using 64k colors.

If you decide to try the Radeon x600 PCIe there are two considerations to keep in mind. The card is a half height card and you probably want to make sure it comes with full height bracket. Otherwise you have to replace the bracket - which is easy if you have the full height bracket. The other consideration is the card has a weird connector on the back, a DMS59 connector, and you need the cable set to go with it: male DMS59 to 2 female VGA connectors, or male DMS59 to 2 female DVI, or male DMS59 to 1 VGA and 1 DVI. It appears any card will work with any cable set. The part number seems to indicate the bracket height, the memory on the card, and the cable set included with the card, but you can switch the cable sets around and they still work.

The card runs between $5 to $10 on ebay. If it doesn't include the cable you can get the cable for about $5 to $10 on Amazon or ebay.

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I don't understand your last question about reselecting logical partitions for reinstalling ArcaOS.

Purchased a used Lenovo T530 loaded with Win7 and installed ArcaOS on the same drive as Win7. Both WIn 7 and ArcaOS2 boot drives/partitions are C: You are right about making the ArcaOS partition(s) logical. [In my case the install was complicated by replacing the hard drive with an SSD.

The final process was:

1) Make DVDs from Win7 recovery partition on the hard drive. The hard drive for a Lenovo laptop comes with a partition at the end which contains the stuff to reinstall/recover the Win7 installation, along with a utility to copy that data to DVDs. It took 5 DVDs to store all the data.

2) Swap the spinning hard drive with the SSD drive.

3) Boot to 1st  recovery DVD and restore Win7 to the SSD.

4) Boot to Win7 and immediately shrink the partition to the smallest it will go and you want it to be. In my case that was 93 GB. Use the "Create and Format Hard Disk Partitions" tool in Win7 under Control Panel, Administrative Tools.

5) I wanted my Windows development tools in a separate partition so I created a new partition (10 GB) in Win7, which became the D: drive in Windows 7.

6)  I booted to the ArcaOS DVD, and on the first screen after the installer started I selected System Management and created  the partitions I wanted. Then exited back to the installer and completed the install.

What didn't work was trying to use a retail copy of Windows 7 to install on the new SSD drive while using the product ID I extracted from the existing Windows on the spinning hard drive.  It installed OK but would not activate using the product ID from the old Win7 installation. I was trying to avoid the process of creating the recovery DVDs, installing from those, and then shrinking the partition.

5)

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Setup & Installation / Re: Panorama v Snap Video
« on: May 15, 2018, 01:18:32 am »
My experience with Panorama is that the performance is pretty good at 64K colors if you "Enable shadow buffer" - the check box on the first page of the Screen object. I have also found that I need to check both "Enable Custom Resolutions" and "Use Native Resolution" on the "Custom Resolutions" page of the screen object or else I can't get above 1024-760 with the monitor complaining the settings are out of its range. With those check boxes selected if sets the resolution perfectly.

The other side is that WinOS2/Dos support is rather spoty. WinOS2/Dos work well on my AMD machines, (RS780) chip reported. The default install for ArcaOS loads C:\OS2\MDOS\VSVGA.SYS. With that driver I get the message "The system does not support this session's video mode in a window", and yet it actually does. If VVGA.SYS is swapped for VSVGA.SYS the message goes away.

However on my laptop (Lenovo T530) WinOS2 and DOS do not work; neither will display.

The other disadvantage of Panorama is it doesn't turn off the monitor when inactive.

The advantages of SNAP are: dual head output, WinOS2/DOS works perfectly, and it turns off the monitor(s) after a period of inactivity.

With dual head you get the same width as a 4K  monitor (3840) but at a much cheaper price. Here I  can get (from Microcenter)  2 Dell 27 inch monitors which look very good for $300 for the pair. Add in a ATI Radeon x600 PCIe video card for $5 including shipping (eBay) and you have a pretty sweet setup.  The Radeon will do either VGA/VGA, DVI/DVI, or VGA/DVI depending on which cable set you hook up. (The connector on the card is DMS-59 and the cables come as DMS-59 -> VGA/VGA, or DMS59 -> DVI/DVI or DMS59 -> VGA/DVI.)

I am running VGA/VGA because I am sharing the dual monitor setup between an ArcaOS,  Windows 7, and  Windows XP/eCS machines; VGA KVMs are much cheaper than DVI KVMs. The Windows 7 machine is using the video from the motherboard; I am connected to the VGA connecter on the motherboard and the DVI connector on the motherboard with a DVI to VGA active converter between the DVI and the KVM ($9 from amazon.) The KVMs outputs are connected to the VGA inputs on the monitors.

The disadvantages are: you have the bezels around the monitors so there is a black area  between the left and right monitors, and most of the inexpensive 27 inch monitors only run a maximum of 1080 vertical resolution.

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Applications / Re: WPTools error message
« on: May 14, 2018, 09:27:29 pm »
I am sorry. The complete sequence would be:

1) boot to command line, e.g. boot blob -> pick F2

2) from the command prompt type TEDIT C:\CONFIG.SYS

3) press escape key, then scroll to the line containing SET RUNWORKPLACE=C:\OS2\PMSHELL.EXE and change that to SET RUNWORKPLACE=C:\OS2\CMD.EXE

4) Press F2 to save the file, then F3 to exit TEDIT.

5) Reboot

5) This will reboot a grey screen with a single window, the command prompt window. In that window run CHECKINI.EXE

6) After you are done running CHECKINI, edit CONFIG.SYS and change the line
SET RUNWORKPLACE back to
SET RUNWORKPLACE=C:\OS2\PMSHELL.EXE
You can use TEDIT.EXE again, or you should be able to use E.EXE as the editor.

7) Reboot again. Hopefully CHECKINI.EXE has fixed whatever Workplace shell problems existed.

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Applications / Re: WPTools error message
« on: May 14, 2018, 09:14:00 pm »
Lars is right. Checkini.exe requires PM in order to run.

It is a little late, but have your client edit his (or her) CONFIG.SYS file and change the line

SET RUNWORKPLACE=C:\OS2\PMSHELL.EXE 
to
SET RUNWORKPLACE=C:\OS2\CMD.EXE

That will boot up to PM with a command prompt window, without starting the desktop.

He (or she) can then run CHECK.INI from the command prompt window.

After than they can edit CONFIG.SYS back so that RUNWORKPLACE=C:\OS2\PMSHELL.EXE

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Applications / Re: VirtualBox v5.0.51 Testing
« on: May 14, 2018, 08:52:44 pm »
Mark,

I had the previous version of LIBCX. Vbox started with that version as long as, and only when,
SET LIBCX_HIGHMEM=2 was in my config.sys.

I have been having an OS2KRNL trap E every morning when I boot up my machine, and sometimes during the day when rebooting: ticket 1888 on ArcaNoae tracker.  My current method around the trap is to reset to VGA (blob -> F3), boot up,  and then reinstall SNAP. Then I am good most of the time until the next morning.  I have tried a number of other methods of booting past the trap: changing VIRTUALADDRESSLIMIT, rearranging the order of the LIBPATH, commenting out various devices, etc. But the reset to VGA is the only thing that has worked consistently.

This morning I tried REMing the line SET LIBCX_HIGHMEM=2, and it turns out that allowed me to boot past the trap. I am going to leave it REMed for a day or two to see if that stops the trap, but that means I can't use vBox for that period of time.

The reason I reported the "issue" is there seemed to be some debate on whether
SET LIBCX_HIGHMEM=2 was actually required or not to run vBox. On my machine vBox will NOT run unless SET LIBCX_HIGHMEM=2.

As for the =3 setting, I found this on Github
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It can also be controlled by the LIBCX_HIGHMEM environment variable as follows:

    LIBCX_HIGHMEM=0 forces the low memory area to be used for the regular C heap (for testing purposes).

    LIBCX_HIGHMEM=1 forces the high memory area to be used for the regular C heap (the default mode, the same as when this variable is absent).

    LIBCX_HIGHMEM=2 restores the original kLIBC voting process and disables any LIBCx intervention (for compatibility with old applications).

    LIBCX_HIGHMEM=3 is the same as LIBCX_HIGHMEM=1 but a check is made using the kLIBC voting process if there is any DLL that votes against high memory usage (i.e. it's built without -Zhigh-mem). If there is such a DLL, or if the EXE itself is built without -Zhigh-mem, then LIBC will terminate the process using abort() before entering main() with a respective message written to the standard output. This mode is intended for safety checking purposes.
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Applications / Re: VirtualBox v5.0.51 Testing
« on: May 14, 2018, 05:57:28 pm »
Vbox appears to require

SET LIBCX_HIGHMEM=2

In order to start. If  SET LIBCX_HIGHMEM=3, or the line is REM out in config.sys, then I get the error below

-----------------------------------------
Failed to create the VirtualBoxClient COM
The application will now terminate
Callee RC: NS_ERROR_ABORT (0x80004004)
-----------------------------

I am using libc 0.6.6-36, libc-devel 0.6.6.36

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Hardware / Re: Lenovo External Monitor
« on: May 14, 2018, 05:50:53 pm »
Thanks for the responses.

So far I cannot get the external monitor to work using ArcaOS - no matter what the settings in BIOS, either directly connected to the laptop, or connected to the dock by either VGA or Displayport.

I will try going back a few versions on the BIOS and see if that helps.

It is a nice laptop - a little thick - but the keyboard is nice, I can put an SSD in WLAN slot, and switched the keyboard for an illuminated one. (Note: it appears you cannot boot off of a drive in the WLAN slot.) And it runs well with Panorama - well enough to play videos with VLC and the scrolling in PM is very good, as long as Shadow Buffer is switch on.

Downside is WinOS2 and DOS do not work.

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Hardware / Lenovo External Monitor
« on: May 09, 2018, 05:13:26 pm »
Anyone have an idea about how to get an external monitor to work with a T530?

For some reason I have a vague memory that I had that working some months ago, but I can't get it to work now. Even bought a docking station thinking that would help - but it doesn't for ArcaOS.

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Internet / Re: Firefox - 45.9.0 for OS/2 GA1.1...anyone...anyone???
« on: April 25, 2018, 06:43:31 pm »
Dave: thanks for the tip on PmUniMix.exe.  That fixed the low sound volume issue.

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Applications / Re: VirtualBox v5.0.51 Testing
« on: April 25, 2018, 03:58:03 pm »
Thanks OS4 for the mem-map. That explains a lot. And thanks Valery for the explanation.

It appears that VAL is the dividing line between kernel memory at the top, and high memory below that. The higher the VAL the less kernel memory and more high memory; the lower the VAL the more kernel memory and the less high memory.

So it looks like you are really trying to maximize the amount of high memory (by setting VAL to a higher number), while making sure the stuff that has to be allocated (or reside in) kernel memory can still fit. Stuff like the JFS cache and the structures for threads and processes.

If I am understanding this correctly when Vbox and Firefox will not run at the same time, the issue is not enough high memory and the solution is to set VAL higher.

If my system is unstable (without Firefox or Vbox running) the issue is not enough kernel memory, and the solution is to lower VAL or reduce the demand for kernel memory by adjusting JFS cache and processes/threads lower.

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Applications / Re: VirtualBox v5.0.51 Testing
« on: April 25, 2018, 05:35:07 am »
Valery: thanks for the explanation on Theseus. I am still confused on how a virutalAddressLimit=3072 = 1 GB kernel memory, but I will take your word for it.

Mark: I never could get WindowsXP to activate through the internet - it kept failing saying it couldn't reach the server or something like that. But I did get the copy activated through Microsoft's dial up number - which is completely automated. You enter a cell phone number, it sends a text link to that number, on that link/web page you input the product id, and if Microsoft is happy they send you the activation code.  Their system would not send an activation number for an install off of a Dell CD, but did send an activatation for an install off of a different CD.

I then installed Service pack 3. I have not installed any other Windows updates. The version of FrameMaker I installed (V 5.5) was released before XP was available, so the problems could be related to some update I should have installed for XP.  Or it could be that InstallShield sucks. The Adobe Postscript Driver was also an InstallShield and it also  was flakey. However the 16 bit programs I have run (Notepad and Acrobat Distiller 3)  run fine.

So what I have installed and running are: FrameMaker 5.5, Acrobat Reader v 7, Larsen Commander which are all 32 bit, and  Arcobat Distiller v 3, which is 16 bit.  When the USB passthrough gets working I will be able to sync my Palm TX to the desktop running in XP (I am probably the last person on the planet still using a palm pilot.)

All these run very well, although the mouse pointer is a little funky: it seems to lag slightly behind the movement of the mouse.

I could not get Virtual PC 5.1 to run on my machine so Vbox is the only alternative - well the only one I have tried. And it is a very good alternative

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