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General Discussion / Re: Desktop Icon Placement

« on: January 04, 2025, 06:54:56 am »

Hi

Sometimes these sorts of issues are resolved by running checkini from WPTools - http://hobbesarchive.com/Home/Download?path=/Hobbes/pub/os2/util/config/WPTools_3-3.zip - followed by running cleanini - http://www.ca-arnold.de/download/cleanini55.zip

Do read instructions *before* using the above tools.


Regards

Pete

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Applications / Re: QT4 problem

« on: December 31, 2024, 03:24:20 pm »

Hi Ivan

Possible config file problem? - presuming coolreader has some sort of ini or conf file lurking somewhere on your system.

I also seem to recall having problems with a qt4 app in the distant past which were resolved by deleting %HOME%\.config\trolltech.ini

Regards

Pete

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Setup & Installation / Re: Installing CUPS on MCP

« on: December 27, 2024, 07:03:48 pm »

Hi Neil

lpinfo -m
lpinfo: bad file number

Are you sure cupsd.exe is running? - the above result suggests it is not or possibly lpinfo cannot find a support file.
If you have PMdll installed it might be worth dropping lpinfo.exe onto the PMdll object to see if there are other problems.


Regards

Pete

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Hardware / Re: Epson L4150 Scanner - USB

« on: December 27, 2024, 07:53:04 am »

Hi Martin

If "SET_SANE_WORKAROUND" is not a typo it is incorrect and should be
   SET SANE_USB_WORKAROUND=1


Regards

Pete

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Applications / Re: PMInSANE :-P

« on: December 27, 2024, 07:33:13 am »

Hi Roderick

Seasons Greeting  :-)

No point in looking at using Tame/2 if you have a HP scanner using hpaio as tame/2 does not understand the necessary uri format required by hpaio.


Regards

Pete

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Setup & Installation / Re: Installing CUPS on MCP

« on: December 26, 2024, 05:40:40 am »

Hi Neil

Looks like the cups daemon - aka %UNIXROOT%:\usr\sbin\cupsd.exe - is not running.

Do you have the cups daemon in the Startup folder?


Regards

Pete

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Applications / Re: PMInSANE :-P

« on: December 22, 2024, 03:37:58 pm »

Hi Jan-Erik

The "Crop" problem Dariusz reports could be the result of the differences between an OS/2 screen and every other pc os screen - OS2/2 starts at Bottom Left as 0,0 whereas Windows, linux etc start at TOP Left as 0,0.


Regards

Pete

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Hardware / Re: Epson L4150 Scanner - USB

« on: December 21, 2024, 05:47:07 am »

Hi

Does the scanimage line need a -d parameter? eg

   scanimage -v -d epsons  1>output.pnm 2>debugoutput.txt


Regards

Pete

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Applications / Re: PMInSANE :-P

« on: December 17, 2024, 06:36:43 am »

Hi Dariusz

Maybe HPscan would be worth a try http://hobbesarchive.com/Home/Download?path=/Hobbes/pub/os2/apps/graphics/scan/HPscan_1-00.zip


Regards

Pete

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Hardware / Re: Monitor suggestions

« on: November 13, 2024, 08:14:06 pm »

Hi Per

A few years back I had a monitor that was failing. Sometimes at Power On I had a blank screen other times the screen was a "white out". This happened less often during reboots.

I initially thought the graphics card was failing but that tested OK in 2 other systems. I then swapped monitors and the problem moved to the system that I had swapped monitors with. Turned out to be a power supply intermittently failing in the monitor.

Could it be the monitor rather than the RX 580 graphics card 'showing signs of "giving up"'?


Regards

Pete

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Hardware / Re: Monitor suggestions

« on: November 13, 2024, 05:57:29 am »

Hi Per

I seem to recall reading somewhere that some recent/current graphics cards will only work properly with a UEFI bios. Cannot find where I read that though to double check...

If the above is right are you using the rx 7800xt with a UEFI system?

No, Sorry, cannot recommend any particular current graphics card.


Regards

Pete

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Hardware / Re: Monitor suggestions

« on: November 13, 2024, 02:49:10 am »

Hi Per

The issues with the rx 7800xt are more likely to be a graphics card failing than cheap/dodgy cables.

You could check that the graphics card is seated in slot correctly.


Regards

Pete

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Hardware / Re: Monitor suggestions

« on: November 12, 2024, 09:08:27 pm »

Hi Per

I am pleased with the Dell p2222h monitor I bought a few months back so am happy to suggest Dell as a brand - possibly this may be of interest  https://www.dell.com/en-uk/shop/dell-32-4k-uhd-gaming-monitor-g3223q/apd/210-bdxs/monitors-monitor-accessories


Regards

Pete

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Setup & Installation / Re: No mouse/keyboard after BIOS update

« on: November 12, 2024, 02:05:22 am »

Hi Per

I think "XHCI Hand-off" passes control of usb3 controllers to OS drivers when they load so should be Enabled.
But I guess the easy answer is Suck it and See  :-)


Regards

Pete

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Setup & Installation / Re: TCP/IP 4.3 patches

« on: November 11, 2024, 10:23:23 pm »

Hi Neil

You may find this site useful  http://web.archive.org/web/20060926004818/http://www.warpupdates.mynetcologne.de/english/site_contents.html  - especially the  link to here  http://web.archive.org/web/20060926010736/http://www.warpupdates.mynetcologne.de/english/tcpip.html


Regards

Pete