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Setup & Installation / Re: "Remote Desktop"
« on: June 07, 2013, 04:51:11 pm »
There have been a few solutions available to address multi-user (not concurrently but to logon to the system with their own desktop).  eCS ships with security/2 or something similar to that name and Multidesk/2 is another that comes to mind.

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Applications / Re: libusb-1.0 port to OS/2 - help needed
« on: May 12, 2013, 05:55:01 am »
I also need to work out why USB stuff isn't working for me anymore in Virtualbox - neither older builds of things that use libusb 0.1 or usbcalls, nor libusb-1.0 stuff.  I can see the devices, but I can't read/write to them - very frustrating :(
Are you using IBM drivers or Lar's drivers?  If Lar's, then which version?
Andy

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Games / Re: Running MGL Doom on Warp 4
« on: May 04, 2013, 03:43:23 am »
Hi Scott

What graphics card is involved? - it would have to be pretty ancient to not have double buffering capability but it looks like SNAP is not finding that capability on the graphics card.

I was thinking it was possible that his card was too new and therefore running in VBE mode but from the initial post:
"I can get MGL Doom to run on a demo eComStation CD (I currently do not have a full version yet)." Which I presume is running on the same machine says the video card must be supported.

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Setup & Installation / Re: WSEB & X3650 -- need help!
« on: April 21, 2013, 10:44:36 pm »
Another option I am planning on trying but haven't had the time is running VMWare ESXI  and putting eCS into a container in it.
Andy

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Setup & Installation / Re: WSEB & X3650 -- need help!
« on: April 21, 2013, 03:46:06 am »
A customer sent me a IBM X3650 (7979) Server and wants it configured with WSEB! Is this possible? As far as I can tell the Adaptec AIC-9580W storage controller is not supported by WSEB. Does anybody have any ideas how I can make this work for this customer? Any suggestions would really be appreciated, Thanks!
klipp
I have been unsuccessful thus far in getting eCS 2.1 to operate the storage controller.  I asked around a bit some time ago and there is the potential to port the driver from Linux but I do not know of any progress on that front.
Andy

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I am not sure when this was introduced but you could try one or both of these:
REM ! SET SDDFONTSIZE = [small | medium | large]
REM ! SET SDDFONTDPI = [96 | 120]

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Applications / Re: Gimp on OS/2
« on: April 03, 2013, 09:20:02 pm »
Hi Andy
Would the isomaster ISO library work with a gui developed in WDSibyl - http://wdsibyl.org/ - or does it need the gtk gui?
Regards
Pete
It should work with any GUI developed for it... the trick is developing the GUI.  The library itself is standalone so is not dependent on GTK, but if GTK is available it is just a matter of building it as opposed to having to build the whole thing from scratch.  I have considered trying to create a GUI for it in with dwindows but it is a bit beyond my abilities at the present time.

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Applications / Re: Gimp on OS/2
« on: April 03, 2013, 04:46:58 pm »
I am hoping to be able to be able to build isomaster (allows manipulating ISO files, adding/removing files) but it is GTK based.  The library that does the ISO work builds fine on OS/2 but no GUI to make use of it.  So I was wondering if things had slowed down enough to have a chance to make any progress?

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Applications / Re: Odin
« on: March 23, 2013, 02:26:01 am »
Couldn't software load a dll manually and ignore this? Unless it of course is a library used in multiple programs? So if you write your own program using your own library(.dll), it could have 20 characters if you wanted, it just can't be part of the system? :P Also, unrelated, but thanks Paul, your ports have been very helpful and made using OS/2/eCS a lot better than default.
The 8.3 name restriction on DLLs is not overcome in your own programs... when porting from Linux for instance we have to sometimes use shorter names.  The restriction is in the loader.  There is a driver that was part of Odin that will allow longer DLL names but the driver can potentially cause issues on the system.

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Programming / Re: Graphics support/Hardware
« on: March 19, 2013, 07:58:03 pm »
Thanks Andy, does this mean it would be possible to port video editing programs then?
Short answer is yes.
It may take a lot of porting supporting libraries to make it happen.  If porting from Linux I find that one library requires another library etc. and etc.  If porting from Windows using Odin then Odin may require some (possibly significant) updates.  Also, without 3D support (and on modern hardware not even 2D support) it would be slow.  There had been an effort begun to build 3D support but it was by one person and it became more than he could do.

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Applications / Re: Odin
« on: March 19, 2013, 06:15:48 pm »
Beside the Libpath there is also the beginlibpath and endlibpath which can be set (though are not technically environment variables) before launching an application. 

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Programming / Re: Graphics support/Hardware
« on: March 19, 2013, 06:13:15 pm »
While this topic is more of a mixture of programming and hardware, can we get more than 32mb out of our graphics cards using eCS? "It doesn't need it" isn't really an answer I'm looking for. I'm an advanced video editor. I've used things like Sony Vegas, where a project could very well consume 2GB ram, and a lot out of a video card. Is it impossible to program in a GUI or something to control the OS and how much power/memory it uses from any graphics card? Of course that is more advanced and could lead to problems, but takes out the need to have individual driver profiles for every card.
Is this 3D rendering?  Currently there are no 3D hardware drivers for OS/2, any 3D rendering in OS/2 is done by software rendering with at most 2D acceleration (current hardware is not even 2D accelerated at this time).  SNAP (which is a 2D accelerated driver for supported cards) would only use 32mb for 2D acceleration (which was stated as a max for 2D but I don't know any technical details around that).  Panorama is pure Vesa so no acceleration, I don't know what limits it has on memory usage but as there is not a 3D component I suspect it is not needing much either.  In neither case will more video memory be likely of much use as the rendering is happening in software which would probably require an increase in the VirtualAddressLimit to accommodate 2G of memory by a single application.

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Internet / Re: Questions on Security certificates and Wifi
« on: March 12, 2013, 04:20:37 pm »
Thanks for your answer Andy. Then, I suppose that it would be possible to implement this function if XWlan would become updated and that it even might be quite "doable" ?
I don't know how easy or hard it may be to add to xwlan but it should be possible.  wpa_gui allows selection of WPA2-Enterprise (EAP) and then it has the input for Identity, Password, and CA certificate.  What I do not know is whether you input the path to your certificate or if it expects it to be loaded by something else that it points to and then you just put in the name... if it has to be imported I do not know what it would be imported into.  I think though it points to the path (or it may need to be in the same directory as wpa_gui and just give the filename).

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Internet / Re: Questions on Security certificates and Wifi
« on: March 11, 2013, 03:48:09 pm »
I believe these may "work" with the latest wpa_supplicant builds by Paul Smedley.  I have not tested the certificates but have with Cisco LEAP which while entirely different did require special additions to the wpa_supplicant that is in the later versions (as is the certificate code).  However, these do not work with xwlan.  I used the wpa_gui to make the connection but wpa_gui will not launch the supplicant so you have to build a conf file and figure out the command line parameters to call wpa_supplicant and then you can use the the wpa_gui to setup the connection.  I do not remember the parameters as it was a while ago (one of his earliest builds) that I was testing it.

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I also tried it on an Lenovo R500. Booted half way and then asked me to put in the CD again.
Go into the BIOS and change the SATA to compatibility... it can't drive the SATA CD.
Andy

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