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Setup & Installation / Re: ThinkPad X220
« on: June 23, 2017, 03:55:29 pm »
Hi John

That may be a problem if there is also a Windows boot partition on the same disk - but only for Windows. Usually there is no problem installing OS/2 to a hard drive in a pc then swapping that hard drive to another pc.


Regards

Pete

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Setup & Installation / Re: Realtek ALC892
« on: June 22, 2017, 01:35:29 am »
Hi Remy

It might be an idea to see what the state of the mixer is. Open a command window in \mmos2 and enter

     unimix -list > mixer.txt

Also use this command to generate a list of unimix options and use

     unimix > unihlp.txt

Open mixer.txt in an editor and have a look at the Controls and current values, adjust as necessary referring to unihlp.txt.

I have a laptop that turns off the volume at shutdown but does not turn the volume back on at boot so I use a cmd file that runs at startup to enable and set volume.


Regards

Pete


The command

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Setup & Installation / Re: Lenovo ThinkCentre M93 Tiny
« on: June 21, 2017, 03:09:12 am »
Hi John

Is this an OS/2 or ArcaOS install?

Is disk access mode EIDE or AHCI?

At what point does the crash happen?


Regards

Pete

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Setup & Installation / Re: ArcaOS: Impossible to install!
« on: June 20, 2017, 04:13:12 pm »
Hi Remy

Is the "fix" an updated os2ahci.add driver?


Regards

Pete

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Setup & Installation / Re: Lenovo ThinkCentre M93 Tiny
« on: June 20, 2017, 04:11:33 pm »
Hi John

Did you set the UEFI BIOS to "Compatibility" mode?


Regards

Pete

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Setup & Installation / Re: USB support in original CP2 CD
« on: June 16, 2017, 10:37:46 pm »
Hi John

No, never having had a copy of cp2 - went the eCS route instead. I would be surprised if there is not some sort of removable drive monitor included, maybe usbmon.exe is hidden in a zip/self executing package.

I suggest following Ians advice to update usb drivers as it is a worthwhile update for most systems and usbmon.exe seems to be included in the usbmsd update usbs10162 - you should find usb10162 and usbs10162 here http://www.os2site.com/sw/drivers/usb/index.html


Regards

Pete

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Setup & Installation / Re: USB support in original CP2 CD
« on: June 16, 2017, 12:44:21 am »
Hi John

Do you have the usb device monitor running? - I think this is \os2\boot\usbmon.exe on a cp2 system

This is the bit that "notices" when a usb drive gets attached and pops up a message.


Regards

Pete

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Setup & Installation / Re: USB support in original CP2 CD
« on: June 15, 2017, 03:11:28 am »
Hi John

Can I suggest the use of USBcfg, a visual USB configuration tool with help files including preparing usb drives for use with OS/2 available in zip and warpin packages http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-search.php?key=usbcfg&pushbutton=Search


Regards

Pete

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Setup & Installation / Re: Laptop advice please
« on: June 13, 2017, 07:30:40 pm »
Hi Eduardo

I think Flash checks that it is working on an eCS system. I am not sure what it checks but you could try creating the [Boot]:\ecs directory and then copying the file ECS_INST.FLG from an eCS installed system.


Regards

Pete

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Applications / Re: ArcaOS - Dell Inspiron 1300
« on: June 06, 2017, 06:53:38 pm »
Hi

Uniaud sometimes needs a little "fiddling" - I have an old Acer laptop that has to run a setmixer.cmd at startup to actually turn on audio output and set volume levels.

Before trying to write such a cmd file though it is a good idea to check state of audio.
Run \mmos2\unimix > unimix_options.txt  in a command window for a list of options.
Run unimix -list > unimix_set.txt to get the current settings.
Open unimix_options.txt in the text editor to see what the unimix options are
Open unimix_options.txt to see if various options are set correctly.

By doing this I discovered that the Acer needed audio output turned on every boot as it seems that the audio card gets switched off automatically at shutdown.

Here is my simple cmd file as an example:-

REM setmixer.cmd                   
REM                                     
REM Purpose: setup audio mixer values
REM  id1 = Volume Control for both
REM  speakers, cnt0 & cnt1: set both
REM  to a value of 50

unimix -id1 -cnt0 -val50
unimix -id1 -cnt1 -val50
Exit

I discovered that the above cmd works best when it is called startup.cmd and left in the root of the boot drive.

Hope the above is of help.


Regards

Pete


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Hardware / Re: Need a PC to run OS/2 v1 or v2 on?
« on: June 06, 2017, 05:03:22 pm »
Hi

At that price I'm stunned as well - currently trying to sell a really nice Meridian G01 pre amp myself and had no bids at all!

Maybe the purchasers are collectors with more money than anything else  :-)


Regards

Pete

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Setup & Installation / Re: ArcaOS keeps rebooting
« on: June 06, 2017, 04:06:45 pm »
Hi

I am not using the cutdown version of xwp that ArcaOS installs so cannot test this myself but the full xwp has a Panic mode.

Try pressing the Shift key during Desktop startup (press just as the screen changes from black to colour) and run xfix from the displayed menu. Hopefully that will resolve the problem.


Regards

Pete
 

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Setup & Installation / Re: ArcaOS - new install (and a few questions)
« on: June 05, 2017, 08:18:13 pm »
Hi Andi

Yes, worth checking "turn off to save power" or whatever is not Enabled although that was not the case here.

I suspect Win7 glitched during shutdown although I would also guess that something went wrong with nic driver loading during the ArcaOS boot. Either way booting Win7 seems to have been the resolution.

No views on the lantran.logs shown? - Does the top log indicate a useable wired nic?


Regards

Pete

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Setup & Installation / Re: ArcaOS: Impossible to install!
« on: June 05, 2017, 02:48:16 am »
Hi All

I spoke too soon about not having Realtek nic problems as I had no connectivity earlier today. The problem got resolved and my experience was added to an ongoing Realtek discussion http://www.os2world.com/forum/index.php?topic=1392.msg13614#msg13614


Regards

Pete

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Hi Wes

The problem seems to be "the device MMRE.OS2 was not installed." so the question is: Why not? - Is it the correct driver for the nic? - Is the nic Enabled in the BIOS?

I have just resolved a sudden connectivity problem with a Realtek nic that uses the mmre.os2 driver and posted my experience to the discussion mentioned by roberto. The main point that you will be interested in reading is that booting to Win7 seems to have reset/initialised the nic and my OS/2 installations on the system now have connectivity restored.

Regards

Pete

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