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Messages - Olafur Gunnlaugsson

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Internet / Re: Kompozer and/or Nvu
« on: May 26, 2019, 01:15:04 am »
Please note that the dreamland site is occasionally unavailable

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Internet / Re: Kompozer and/or Nvu
« on: May 26, 2019, 01:06:52 am »
LIBC05.dll is the (15 year old) innotek version of GCC libc, they are usually supplied with the application and you may need to put the subfolder they are in in the LIBPATH

If they are not, you can find them here: http://www.dreamlandbbs.com/gfd/gnudev/gcc322b4.zip

This is the whole compiler but the dll's in there as well, the two dll's can be extracted from the archive and placed anywhere  in the LIBPATH or in the same directory as the program itself. As some old unix and Windows ports rely on these dll's as well, it makes sense to place them in x:\os2\dll so that you do not have to install them again for other old ports.

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Hardware / Re: M.2 Question
« on: May 25, 2019, 11:24:13 am »
M2 is just an PCIe bus in a different mechanical format, with the addition that it can also be accessed by the SATA controller and USB3 controller. This is different from the similar mSATA in that the latter is an SATA bus standard that uses PCIe like connectors.

i.e mSATA devices are always accessed via the on-board SATA controller and the MB firmware boots from them like it does any other SATA connected drive using SATA/IDE ot AHCI drivers after boot. M.2 cards *may* be accessed by the onboard SATA controller if you have an M.2 SATA SSD card. But note that while these M.2 SATA cards are usually just SATA drives they may also be PCIe devices that have onboard SATA controllers on them, these should be seen by the OS as normal SATA controllers

NVME drives are always seen as a part of the PCIe bus, so you need a driver for the controller on the drive, just like you do for the older PCIe NVME cards. If the BIOS can boot from PCIe (Not all can), it can boot from M.2 NVME, regardless of OS.

You can in fact get 2 different types of M.2 to SATA converters, one is passive and has just two SATA connectors on them and are accessed by the SATA controller, the other is active, has an onboard SATA chip and is accessed via the PCIe bus. (This is useful for Intel SoC's that only have 2 SATA controllers built in)

M.2 can also be accessed by USB3, but this is currently of limited use.

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Multimedia / Re: SYBA USB Stereo Sound Adapter: Good or bad?
« on: May 24, 2019, 06:54:16 pm »
It should work, it is the same chip as Behringer uses in all their low budget USB units, and I am fairly sure I managed to get one of their UCA-xxx going with the drivers from Lars.

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Hardware / Re: One Mix 3 and OS/2, eCS or AOS?
« on: May 10, 2019, 06:00:49 pm »
No chance without drivers for NVMe and USB3. As it applies for all "newer" systems, it's questionable how much RAM is recognized.

It has an additional M2 slot that is bootable and can take a sata m2

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Hardware / Re: Another odd request
« on: April 17, 2019, 12:56:32 am »
Hi Olafur

No idea how it compares with the Logitech "marble mouse" but it works fine on a monitor running at 1920 * 1080 - I know this for sure as otherwise my Mrs would tell me all about it  ;-)

Checking the mouse settings I see that Tracking is cranked up all the way - not the fastest pointer but very acceptable I think, compares well with the identical trackball on my 1280 * 1024 monitor.


Regards

Pete

Cheers, that was helpful

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Hardware / Re: Another odd request
« on: April 17, 2019, 12:53:24 am »
Have you (or anyone else) used an AM4 or other modern board with NVME M.2 hard drive installed alongside SATA drive? Does the CSM (Bios Emulator) see the NVME  drives?
I've read that we need an NVMe driver, analogous to the AHCI driver, for that.

I do not mean a driver for the OS, but rather that the UEFI BIOS emulator sees it after initial boot so that I can use airboot from the MBR on the SATA to choose the boot partition, rather than having to rely on the Microsoft UEFI OS Switcher, it works with OS/2 with some massaging, but does not hide partitions like airboot does.

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Hardware / Re: Another odd request
« on: April 16, 2019, 06:51:54 pm »
I could suggest the Logitech M570 which, if shopped for carefully, only costs about half an arm eg https://www.ebay.co.uk/p/Logitech-M570-910-002090-Wireless-Trackball/113893903

It costs more when buying direct from Logitech https://www.logitech.com/en-gb/product/wireless-trackball-m570

I have 2 of these and they are lovely to use *but* on checking the ball size it is not quite as large as you would like at approximately 35mm. Might be worth a look....

Great price for the ebay one, but do you know if it has any better resolution than the Logitech "marble mouse" trackball? On 1600 x 900 screens or higher the marble becomes hopelessly slow in OS/2 and jerky in Win as the software attempts to interpolate ....

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Hardware / Re: Another odd request
« on: April 16, 2019, 06:46:55 pm »
The SATA connectors are entirely separate from the M2 slots, (see attachment 1) and from what I have been able to find out you can have 2 sata disks and 2 M2 sticks all working together.

Have you (or anyone else) used an AM4 or other modern board with NVME M.2 hard drive installed alongside SATA drive? Does the CSM (Bios Emulator) see the NVME  drives?

I was wondering about this since I dual boot from two different drives, with the OS/2 drive being hidden by airboot when Windows runs and vice versa and was hoping I could do the same with Win on NVME and OS/2 on SATA.

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Hardware / Re: Another odd request
« on: April 15, 2019, 05:57:32 pm »
Sadly I have not had the opportunity. I did try out this lovely Mini-STX thing below about a week ago, had very limited time in its presence but it appeared to  run ECS 2.1 OK with the UEFI CSM enabled or at the least with only minor problems, sadly no PCIe slot so only VESA graphics ...

https://www.asrock.com/nettop/AMD/DeskMini%20A300%20Series/

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Applications / Re: nguest2.exe (netop) fails to start
« on: March 29, 2019, 05:34:13 pm »
Hi Alex

If there are no changes to helpmgr.dll what happened to cause the size of the files to be so different?

   2.19.4 has 17-08-05 11:44a 50,132 0 a--- HelpMgr.dll

   2.19.5 has 3-03-19 2:13p 47,937 0 a--- helpmgr.dll


Regards

Pete

Different versions of compilers create different outputs, even though the source stays the same.

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Hardware / Re: WiFiBlast
« on: March 06, 2019, 06:21:35 pm »
I found this piece of hardware.

https://buywifiblast.com/

It is cheap (approx $35) and has enabled me to use my wireless on my notebook. under ArcaOS.  Can be used as a network adaptor.   Wherever I plug my notebook in, i also plug in the WiFiBlast and then plug a short ethernet cord from it to my notebook,  instead of running 30 feet of ethernet cord.   I set it up under Windows.  It has been working great. 

Note:  the ethernet cable is only around a 1-1/2 foot long.  You may have to replace with a longer cable.  The wireless  initially has to be set up under windows.

The cheap Chinese ones you find on Ebay also work fine for the most part and a number of them allow you to configure them via a browser

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Programming / Re: Experience with decompilers with OS/2 programs
« on: January 12, 2019, 05:34:09 pm »
Regarding decompiler, I found this:

https://www.hex-rays.com/products/decompiler/

While it only exists as a Windows program, it is still possible that it can decompile an OS/2 executable. It all depends on which object formats it supports. However it is not for free and I cannot say anything about the readability of the generated C/C++ source code.

This used to be a native OS/2 program originally (IDA pro), and is available for the Mac and Linux in addition to Windows. It has excellent OS/2 support still (decompilation that is, it no longer runs on OS/2), but keeps getting more expensive by the year. The starter package is now just under 1000 USD. I had a license at one point but let it lapse due to cost reasons.

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Applications / Re: USB pendrive on OS2 4.52 VBox guest
« on: December 24, 2018, 02:22:01 am »
Ok, I applied all suggestions, I still cannot get the usb pendrive appearing/recognized/managed as a new volume, neither in WPS nor in FC/2.
The only evidence that OS2 detects this USB device is the Resources Manager in OS2 System calling it, among the other USB resource list, "USB device 1.1.2" (this icon disappear if the USB stick is unplugged). Not even DFsee detects it.
I've also bought a new 4 Gb USB pendrive and reduced its volume size to 1.86 Gb Fat32 to see if it was a matter of >2Gb size.

But I've widely appreciated that all of you have tried to help me for this in anyway, providing friendly and competent indications, and even though I could not complete this task, at least I've learned other things good to know and have introduced some utility software good to have in any case.
USB hardware connection was wished but not so strictly fundamental in my OS2 Warp 4.52 VBox guest system, I can manage files exchange through the shared folder or ISO burned volume, and print works whith my network printer driver successfully configured.
Then I take the chance to thank you and wish a Merry Christmas.

VirtualBox 6 just came out, it has support for shared folders for a OS/2 Guest, so you might not need the USB pass-through anymore depending your intended use.

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Applications / Re: USB pendrive on OS2 4.52 VBox guest
« on: December 11, 2018, 07:12:25 pm »


ah, you  ment the VBox extension pack, yes had it already installed and in use.
No he meant the OS/2 integration drivers included on the ISO, the extensions pack is another prerequisite that I added just to be sure. If you have both installed and are running Win 10 you should be OK.


OK, I misunderstood, but need further help if I can ask for it.
-If I go to x:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox I don't recognize anything usefull except for the folder ExtensionPacks whick contains directories with the name of other OS, none about OS2.
- if I go to the link https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch01.html#intro-installing I read references to the Extension Pack which, again, is same I already have.

So, I'm sure missing one or more step to get to the point.
Thank you

If you go to "Devices" in the VBox menu and choose "Optical Drive" and then "choose disk image" and point the folder to x:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox you will see an ISO file called "VBoxGuestAdditions.iso". The ISO contains a folder called OS/2 that includes drivers and a redme that explains (somewhat tersely) how to install them, it may be a misunderstanding and you may already have installed these, but they are not the same as the Extension pack, they are drivers that allow OS/2 (the Client) to interact better with VBox, while the Extension pack is something that allows VBox to interact better with Windows (the Host).

The Extension Pack is a prerequisite for USB pass-through, while the Guest Additions generally make using OS/2 on VBox smoother. If I understand you correctly you have the former installed but not the latter?

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