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Applications / Re: DBEXPERT crash with thunderbird open and firefox
« on: November 13, 2017, 10:01:55 am »
Use the attached himem.exe,
himem --help
for usage. You can always unmark them if unstable.

Only mark the code segments to load high, not the data segments of Firefox/Thunderbird. Do not apply himem on system DLL's!

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Applications / Re: DBEXPERT crash with thunderbird open and firefox
« on: November 13, 2017, 10:00:44 am »
Thanks Dave,
I have not tested the himem.exe yet
But I have been doing tests with different memory configurations, and finally with the best results I have obtained with the default options of the system, and those are the ones I have left.
However, REM in the config.sys file usbaudio.sys, has improved a lot, I can use thunderbird38 and firefox 38 without problems. But if I start firefox 45, the dbexpert fails.
I will try testing with himem.exe to see how it influences the dbexpert.
Saludos

Its quite small the chance that the a driver will cause an application to crash. Unless it plays systems sounds but then an applications should not crash.

Roderick

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Setup & Installation / Re: Can't install ArcaOS.
« on: November 08, 2017, 08:59:40 am »
If you have tried it with ArcaOS 5.0, use 5.0.1. Several drivers were fixed in between.

Otherwise try the /VW option for ACPI.PSD. For me with my AMD hardware, it was required for 5.0, but not anymore for 5.0.1. Also the AHCI driver was updated.

Be carefull advising using the the /VW switch with ACPI on modern systems it can also result in peripherals in the system not working since they are no longer wired up on the mainboard correctly.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Can't install ArcaOS.
« on: November 07, 2017, 11:01:10 pm »
See if you can run a chkdsk on the volume via the installer GUI of ArcaOS. That is the only thing I can think of that causing this.

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Article Discussions / Re: Sponsorship needed for new OS/2 web browser
« on: November 06, 2017, 09:40:37 am »
Here is what I said (at least tried todo so).

The rust port seems to be the least likely to occur, because of:
1. Getting RUST on OS/2 seems to be a lot of work.
2. As Sandra confirmed Firefox is big construction pit that is never ending.  These two items make it the least likely candidate.

Going with Pale Moan (a Mozilla split off at browser 24) is very likely to have the issue in the near future that Pale Moan could port code from the Mozilla foundation. And then we are stuck back to square one.

Having a QT browser we depend on QT and webkit. We have multiple browsers that depend on QT and webkit. Having multiple options.

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What is the error in graphics.log ?

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Mail-News / Re: PMMail 3.22 and SMTP authentication...can it do that?
« on: October 13, 2017, 01:03:01 am »
Hey Doug!

...Paid? For what? You paid for version 2.x, which was owned by somebody else. VOICE bought the rights, so they have the right to charge a fee for their work on version 3.x. PMMail is actually a bonus for being a member of VOICE, nothing more...

Oh, I'm afraid you missunderstood what I wrote.

I do not have a problem paying for a product...no sir, happy to pay for my 3.x PMMail upgrade. What I do not understand is this requirement to purchase a VOICE membership and then pay once again for the product. If I have no desire to be a VOICE member then why am I being forced to pay for it?

It really is THAT simple...nothing more to it...let me pay for the product I purchase, that's all I'm asking.

I also think the above was done for fiscal/legal reasons. If we would sell PMMAIL as product  that might work out differently for the Dutch IRS.  Then again I discussed this with a public notary the product we sell does not really compete with anybody in the market space. Nobody offers a commercial mail client for OS/2...

Best regards,

Roderick Klein
President OS/2 VOICE

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Mail-News / Re: PMMail 3.22 and SMTP authentication...can it do that?
« on: October 13, 2017, 01:00:11 am »


Paid? For what? You paid for version 2.x, which was owned by somebody else. VOICE bought the rights, so they have the right to charge a fee for their work on version 3.x. PMMail is actually a bonus for being a member of VOICE, nothing more. The proceeds are used to support OS/2, in many ways, and VOICE is a non profit organization that very much deserves support. BTW, ALL work done to PMMail is done by volunteers.

 Please see http://pmmail.os2voice.org/index.php?title=PMMail_for_OS/2 for the details.

To clarify this, since VOICE is now a Dutch based 'stichting', it no longer has members, therefore PMMail is of course no longer exclusive for members. From the VOICE bylaws: "A PMMail/2 licence is free for those who have been at least two consecutive years a VOICE sponsor with one standard sponsor unit per year and for board members. Others can obtain a PMMail/2 licence by donating two standard sponsor units to VOICE."

As Doug mentioned, the income from sales of sponsorunits is mostly used for funding software development, some funds go to sponsoring Warpstock Europe. The board does NOT get any renumeration. In previous years, some board members got free admission to Warpstock, next year this will not be the case. We care about the platform and the users and dedicate all of the income of VOICE to promotion and support. The board pays for stamps when having to send snail mail out of their own pockets).

For anybody curious you can see the financial reports here:
http://www.os2voice.org/reports.html
The only overhead cost VOICE has is the cost of the bank account.  The board pays for all expenses and that is right any phone calls I make for OS/2 VOICE or letters I send I pay out of my own pocket.

Roderick Klein
President OS/2 VOICE

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Article Discussions / Re: Sponsorship needed for new OS/2 web browser
« on: October 12, 2017, 08:42:20 pm »
Hi

In reference to this article: http://articles.os2voice.org/

First of all, Qt has shown that it has a lot of interesting application and a lot of Qt apps has been ported to the OS/2 platform, that is why I think it is very important to have Qt 5.5 ported too. Bitwise has also demonstrated that they can deliver what they offer and have OS/2 skilled developers. I think we all need to help and donate to this fund raising started by OS2VOICE.

The other thing interesting about the OS2VOICE post is what it says "But having Q.T. will also make it easier to port the Chromium web browser to OS/2. " The important browsers on the wild are Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari. Dumping Firefox for smaller and experimental browser will not be nice, but dumping Firefox for Chromium makes a lot more sense. If having  Qt 5.5 will help the developers to have Chromium ported there is another reason why we need to support a Qt port.

What I think it needs more information is why it is so hard to port RUST to OS/2 and why "It is unlikely that RUST will ever be ported to OS/2." If someone can post more information about this subject, it will be great.

Regards

That last part about RUST I understood that from Dmitry from Bitwise Works. He did not explain any details. But I will take his word for it :-)  Also next to RUST do not forget the other point I mentioned in the article I have written.
Even if RUST could be ported to OS/2 we would still be stuck with the other issue that Firefox is already bloatware and according to Dmitry (and developer on other platforms), so hard to maintain.

At least we are starting on this journey early enough to have a new browser on time.

Roderick Klein
President OS/2 VOICE

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Applications / Re: Windowed win 16 session
« on: September 26, 2017, 09:22:41 pm »
This issue sounds extremely familiar. Its in eCS as well this issie with DOS and WIN/OS2 windowed sessions.  This is not an OS/2 version specific or video driver specific issue "GRADD, SNAP or Panorama".

Its a GRADD version specific issue.  All of these drivers I just mentioned are GRADD drivers.
As far as I can tell Panorama, SNAP and GRADD all ship with the same driver that provides all the video support for DOS and WIN/OS2 sessions. And this is vsvga.sys bldlevel version 14.105. Or have I got it wrong ?

What I see on more modern systems is that DOS and WIN/OS2 windowed sessions are also not working with the switch Rich Walsh mentioned you can put behind VSVGA.SYS.


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Applications / Re: How to fit ArcaOS 5.0.1 ISO into a CD
« on: September 22, 2017, 11:34:14 pm »
Lewis Rosenthal has stated that most of the legacy ISA and Microchannel bus support has been removed from ArcaOS.

Even eComstation was modified enough for more modern hardware that it doesn't work on many computers produced before the late 90's.   The ABIOS.SYS and .BIO
files for Microchannel bus as well as Microchannel SCSI and IDE drivers were removed from the installation.  Manually adding them gets the installation process farther
but still eventually results in a TRAP error on the kernel with eCs 1.1 or a complete system lockup with eCs 2.0.

I have a mid 90's IBM PC Series 750 desktop that is PCI bus based with a Pentium 133MHz and I have had no luck getting eComstation to install on that as well.  OS/2
Warp 4.52 does install and work fine.

I'd be surprised if ArcaOS will install on a computer built before the early 2000s.

Providing support for ISA systems is not really an issue for eCS or ArcaOS. Having been involved with testing and discussing some of the issue's of the eCS installer at Mensys at the time, MCA systems are a whole different story.
The reason in eCS at least had MCA support was removed was to save space in the boot images used on the CD.
But also because some of the MCA support causes issue's on more modern systems. It would have been difficult to support MCA machines in the eCS installer. 

The question also becomes what the real benefit is of running ArcaOS or eCS on such old systems. Why ? Because the applications on the OS keep getting heavier and heavier (not OS/2 BTW).  Running Firefox 38 on a Pentium 133 ?

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Applications / Re: How to fit ArcaOS 5.0.1 ISO into a CD
« on: September 22, 2017, 09:01:17 pm »
Hi

I got this question by e-mail, and now I also want to try it for an old computer.
ArcaOS 5.0.1 ISO burns and works nice a DVD, but I want to try it on a 700MB CD and it is obvious it doe not fit.

Any ideas, tricks, or it just imposible? I'm want to install ArcaOS 5.0.1 on a old Aptiva (Only CD, no DVD) that I have here just for the fun of it.

Regards

It might be easier looking at the DVD to install on another system with Aptiva hard drive in the system and put back the hard disc. That might be easier then to see how you can strip 500 megabyte of the ISO.

But that is just my idea.

Roderick

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Utilities / Re: Battery charge
« on: June 05, 2017, 01:16:15 pm »
Hi there,
has there ever been a tool for os2/ecs/Arcaos with which one could control the charging of a laptop battery?
I would like to have a possibility to change the start and end level for battery charging, for example start charging when less than 35% battery left and stop at 85%.

Cheers
Holger

I also seem to remember that the charging in electronics in a laptop do not allow you to control the charging of a battery in that way. In other words the software can not control this.

Best regards,

Roderick Klein

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Setup & Installation / Re: ArcaOS keeps rebooting
« on: June 05, 2017, 01:02:41 pm »
I powered up my laptop this morning, got the usual boot menu and, for the first time. got a CHKDSK message:

CHKDSK Block size in bytes 4096
CHKDSK Phase 0 Replay Journal Log
      ...@....
CHKDSK File System is clean

IFX is checking your INI files

I don't get a message that my INI files are clean as happened on the previous occasions when I've booted up.

The desktop appears and then ArcaOS reboots and I get the messages outlined above. It diid this several times and finally I'm left with a black screen with a cursor blinking in the top left hand corner of my screen.

Any ideas what's wrong and how to fix it?

Thanks
Paul

This is most likely a driver that is causing an issue. My first thought would be UNIAUD audio driver. Its not clear from you exactly when it reboots.

When ArcaOS starts before the boot logo hit ALT F4 skip UNIAUD16 and UNIAUD32.SYS and see if that prevents the crash.

The fact it boots up and runs the complete installation procedure is a hint the OS is able to boot the first time from hard disc. However its booting.

Other things that come to mind.

Have you turned off hyperthreading in your BIOS. If the above still does not make a difference boot the system with the option /MAXCPU=1 behind ACPI.PSD.

Here are just things you could try.  But I do not think this is a hard disc issue.


Roderick Klein
President OS/2 VOICE


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Applications / Re: Arcaos install
« on: June 02, 2017, 10:02:34 pm »
Something is going wrong with the preboot code. The fact 3 machines it dies nit work hint a badly burned dvd.
The text you posted is from the os2 memoir code that is used to boot Arcaos from Dvd.
At that point Arcaos is not even loaded, it's all in real mode code.


Suggested you burn a new Dvd it clearly is a media error of some sort.

Roderick

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