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Messages - Dave Yeo

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Applications / Re: Dos window
« on: May 01, 2020, 04:41:35 pm »
Try opening a full screen DOS session, if that works, use ALT-HOME to make it a window. If that doesn't work, try the above referenced WPI and retest. Here that was good enough to open a full screen session which can be ALT-HOME to the desktop.
There's a couple of other tricks if it still doesn't work, likely referenced in Gregg's presentation.

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Hardware / Re: USBDRV ?
« on: May 01, 2020, 04:32:45 pm »
A couple of points.
You can mount an ISO by double clicking it. Unmount with the widget that looks like a house.
When installing something like the USB drivers, there's often a DLL that needs replaced that is in use. The command unlock x:\os2\dll\usbcalls.dll will load the DLL into memory so that it can be overwritten, a reboot will be required to use the new DLL
Run minstall /F:USBAUDIO.SCR (or use the full path) IIRC to install the audio drivers.
A FAT32 formatted drive should just work with Lars's drivers but generally sticks need partitioning and LVM info added to work on OS/2. Our FAT32 driver is still a bit flaky but being fixed, hopefully for AOS 5.0.5

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Storage / Re: WinOS2 hangs on File Manager and a FAT32 drive
« on: May 01, 2020, 08:12:37 am »
There is https://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/windows/win32inst.zip which replaced the 16 bit installer with 32 bit files, but this was for Win32 programs that came with a 16 bit installer which didn't run under Odin.
Funny enough, I also remember the opposite in the Win95 days, 16 bit Windows programs that would run fine under WinOS2 (or Win 3.1) that came with a 32 bit installer which needed Win95+ to install.

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Applications / Re: WarpIN: Exception on Main thread
« on: May 01, 2020, 02:48:57 am »
Hi roberto,

What processor are you using?  If it is an Intel unit it might help to turn off hyperthreading because using it is very unstable and can give the results you are seeing.
The processor is an Intel i7 2820QM 2.3GHZ
Grilling chops is good.

I really have no problem now, everything works well for me.
This is a very specific problem of some hardware.
saludos

Your problem is Hyper threading is turned on, which makes old operating systems such as OS/2 very unstable.
Have you looked in your BIOS for a setting to turn it off? That is the simplest. The other way is to pass the correct parameter to acpi to disable the correct cores. If your BIOS does not have an option to turn off Hyper Threading, you should open a ticket as I don't know which bitmask you need.
With only the 4 real cores enabled, you will get much better performance and it should be stable.

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Sounds like the recent ICU update broke AOO, if no one has a better idea, you might need to open an issue at Bitwises Github page on ICU.

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Hardware / Re: USBDRV ?
« on: April 30, 2020, 03:36:34 am »
It's class 1 USB audio so should work fine with the ArcaOS drivers.

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Hardware / Re: USBDRV ?
« on: April 30, 2020, 12:18:36 am »
I am a bit confused as to what USBDRV is that is mentioned here. is this a replacement for the stock ArcaOS USB drivers with better device support ?

I see it mentioned in particular for USB Audio.. and have ordered this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00IRVQ0F8/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 as this has been mentioned as working fine with USBDRV.

Someone able to clarify this for me ?

It is a different development tree. Better support for large sticks out of the box as OS/2 usually needs a partitioned stick and usually sticks look like a big floppy, which only usually works up to 2GB on OS/2. There's also better USB Audio support and IIRC better support for some asynchronous devices.
OTOH, only the ArcaOS drivers are supported by Arca Noae and only those are going to support USB3. Lars is pretty good about supporting his ones but doesn't have access to the ArcaOS source so they've diverged over the years since both branches started based on the sample code supplied by IBM.

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Storage / Re: WinOS2 hangs on File Manager and a FAT32 drive
« on: April 30, 2020, 12:12:57 am »
Did not ArcaOS 5.04 come with the https://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/dos/2GBFIXPA.ZIP fix?  Previous versions did not.  The original was

https://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/dos/2gbfix.zip

IIRC, it is first included in 5.0.5

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Internet / Re: The new browser / QT5
« on: April 30, 2020, 12:07:24 am »
The other thing that catch my eye are the javascript frameworks that young people are using today to produce multiplatform applications like node.js and others. I would like to have more time to evaluate and understand that frameworks.

I think with the new browser, support for node.js should follow.
As for QT6, as long as the QT people keep updating QT5, we should be fine but eventually they will stop, probably about the time that QT7 work starts :)

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Hardware / Re: search for a PC for the next 10 years
« on: April 30, 2020, 12:03:59 am »
It's the Intel Hyper threading that is broken if the scheduler (all older OSes including OS/2) doesn't understand it, I believe the AMD does work but you can test.

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Programming / Re: Memory 'footprint' API?
« on: April 29, 2020, 11:59:53 pm »
In short, how do I take a snapshot of what's currently loaded?

I'd like to cover both the low and high areas.

What I am not looking for is a summary level stuff. Instead I want to see DLL/object level stuff, where it is sitting and so forth.

I suppose the closest I can describe it to is what the Theseus => Linear Memory Map => Show Process Contexts provides, except that I want to struture a memory map which shows each process currently running and which DLLs it links to and where these DLLs reside in memory.

Is there a starting point in terms of OS/2 APIs I should look at?

Theseus is the best we have. For shared DLLs, high light a process, doesn't matter much which, and under process, click on Shared Object Summary, which will tell you which and where DLLs are loaded. Bottom of the list above address 1FFF0000 is the high memory arena. There's also the private memory summary and various other stuff under process such as General Process Information which will tell you what files a program has opened, where the DLLs a process is using is listed.
If you look under help, there's the various programming interfaces, C and Rexx if you want to write a better program using the Theseus Data.

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Internet / Re: Web Browser. which/where/how ?
« on: April 29, 2020, 11:49:39 pm »
Hi Mathew, I'd advise using https://bitbucket.org/dryeo/mozilla-os2/downloads/firefox-45.9.0.en-US.os2-Pentium-m-SUa2.zip if you like Firefox or https://bitbucket.org/dryeo/dry-comm-esr31/downloads/seamonkey-2.42.9esr.en-US.os2.Pentium-m-Sua2r1.zip for SeaMonkey on most systems.
As for extra DLLs, if 38ESR is working for you, you only need to use ANPM or YUM to install Hunspell and a dictionary, libvpx and optionally the FFmpeg libs for multimedia support.

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Internet / Re: The new browser / QT5
« on: April 29, 2020, 04:25:06 am »
I think Pete was joking, he even added the :)

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Storage / Re: WinOS2 hangs on File Manager and a FAT32 drive
« on: April 29, 2020, 04:22:19 am »
Works fine here, even displays a 2.8GB file which kind of surprised me. FAT32 volume is 31GBs.
Perhaps there is a broken short name? Winos2 does display the 8.3 short names for long names, which is nice as they just don't show up with a JFS or HPFS volume.
Could be the version of the fat32 driver as well, I'm using the latest which may not have been released yet.
I do have the patch that Doug mentioned installed and DOS sees,
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O:\>dir q:

The volume label in drive Q is FAT32.
The Volume Serial Number is 1709:2826.
Directory of Q:\

MOZPRO~1 ZIP 2828406809   1-22-20  6:04p
LIBCX    ZIP    931741   3-30-20 10:17a
QTWEBE~1     <DIR>       4-01-20  2:21a
LOCALE   TXT        52   4-06-20  6:18p
      ~2            20   4-07-20  9:13p
      ~1            20   4-07-20  9:13p
492~1    PAT      4950   3-29-20 11:14p
VERSIO~1 DIF      2394   3-29-20  2:09p
FOO                  0   4-11-20  3:50p
49~1     2           0   4-11-20  3:50p
      10 file(s) 2829345986 bytes used
                 2147155968 bytes free

You could try a dir at a DOS prompt

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I don't think it's related to Swapper.dat... As far as I'm aware, that's not a file in drive C:.

By default it is if you installed to C:. Take a look at your config.sys, search for SWAPPATH. Should be a line like
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SWAPPATH=C:\OS2\SYSTEM 2048 2048

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