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General Discussion / Re: XEU.com and eComStation
« on: November 12, 2015, 05:52:38 pm »
On Warpstock Europe 2015 Gregory and Joachim from XEU gave a few infos about Mensys/XEU and the future of eCS, if any.

http://members.aon.at/buchinger/WSE2015/#IMG_4282.JPG

They told us their plan was releasing eCS2.2GA in October 2015. They also told us everyone with a valid SS after eCS2.1 (IIRC) are entitled to download 2.2GA. But searching Mensys download site I can't even get 2.2beta anymore.

Reading gugtracker it seems Joachim did some work on some bugs. Never heard anything from Gregory since WSE.

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Applications / Re: VBOX does not start anymore
« on: November 12, 2015, 05:37:56 pm »
There are no directories and I'm pretty sure there have never been. Only 3 files. See below. 'VirtualBox.xml.zuNeu' is a left over from a previous problem.
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{0}[e:\home\default\.virtualbox] dir

 Volume in drive E is E_DataSSD3     Serial number is 065C:45C2
 Directory of  E:\home\default\.VirtualBox\*

 3.04.15  14.51         <DIR>      124   ____D  .
12.11.15  17.32         <DIR>      513   ____D  ..
17.10.10  12.52           1.075    124   _____  compreg.dat
 8.08.15  14.54          15.903    124   _____  VirtualBox.xml
19.11.12  21.05           6.999    124   _____  VirtualBox.xml.zuNeu
17.10.10  12.52          15.538    124   _____  xpti.dat
          39.515 bytes in 4 files and 2 dirs
          45.056 bytes allocated
   5.326.991.360 bytes (5.080MB) free

{0}[e:\home\default\.virtualbox]

There is another .xml on the drive where my hard disk images live in a directory named as the guest machine.
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{0}[r:\w2k] dir

 Volume in drive R is VirtualMach    Serial number is 75C8:B5C0
 Directory of  R:\W2k\*

 5.08.15  18.09         <DIR>      124   ____D  .
 5.11.15  22.44         <DIR>        0   ____D  ..
 4.11.15  15.58         <DIR>      124   ____D  Logs
 4.11.15  16.06         <DIR>      124   ____D  Snapshots
 4.11.15  16.06          85.453      0   ___A_  W2k.xml

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Applications / VBOX does not start anymore
« on: November 12, 2015, 09:52:09 am »
After a crash of my eCS host system VBOX no longer starts. It displays the command lline window with
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VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 1.6.1_OSE
(C) 2005-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.

Waiting for the remote session to open...
but nothing happens. Usually at this time it should start to load the save image.

VirtualBox.exe from command line does nothing too. It immediately returns without popuplog.os2 entry or any other trap message.

I even tried to read back the xml configuration in /home/default/.VirtualBox but does not help.

Any hint to get my saved sessions running again?

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Utilities / Re: Accelerometer / Screen Orientation / Screen Resolution
« on: November 08, 2015, 05:54:54 pm »
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Are you certain?  From what I recall from looking into it years ago was that a driver for the OS was required to park the drives.
I'm pretty sure that my R52 does it via BIOS or harddisk firmware. Otherwise the whole crash protection would be useless for any OS. The predominate OS on Notebooks these days is by far no real time OS and no driver can guarantee the required reaction time. Especially when the OS is booting or shut down. And at that times these feature is most important from a users POV.

At the times of R52 Thinkpads where even sold without Win installed. Although a DOS driver if available would work more reliable than a Win one it does not cover the times when the OS is not running. So yes, from a technical POV I can not imagine that for crash protection a driver is needed. Although I've to admit I did not dig in further. Do you have some special insight to this feature for Thinkpads or for other brands?

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Networking / Re: Codepage problem with NAS
« on: November 05, 2015, 12:41:27 pm »
Restore the backup is more hard as expected :( I have extracted the .zip while running cp1004 into a temporary directory. After switching back to cp850 I now can not even read that directory. Even plain cmd line booted from Alt-F1 is unable to read the root directory on the JFS temp partition. I can not even delete the directory from there.

Recreate from achive with ALT-F1 hangs for hours. Guess same problem while reading some directories/files.

Have to boot eCS boot CD to make some maintenance.

Which config.* is used for ALT-F1?

Plan is to change the codepage statement there to 850,1004, then boot with ALT-F1 cmd line, chcp 1004 and then delete the problematic directories/files.


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Utilities / Re: Accelerometer / Screen Orientation / Screen Resolution
« on: November 05, 2015, 12:33:41 pm »
I think you're mixing two different 'systems' here in this thread.

1) The hard disk protection built f.e. into Thinkpads since many years uses accelerometer devices to detect the strength of acceleration. Not sure if the accelerometer is built into the hard disk or on the motherboard or anywhere else in the Notebook. Either hard disk firmware or BIOS immediately puts the heads onto parking position when strong accelerations are detected.

If BIOS or hard disk stores such events and where that information is saved for reading by the user (OS via driver) is unknown to me. But obviously some models do as you pictures show.

2) Screen orientation change can be made by a simple switch, an extra accelerometer chip or the same accelerometer chip which is used for disk protection. Which one to choice is up to the Notebook manufacturer and can vary between different devices. Guess it's usually not the same as the one used for protection but who knows. As usual PC manufacturers hardly give any information on which system the use and no information about where these switches/chips are connected. If you do not find information where these data can be read for your specific device you will have a hard time re-engineering from what other systems/drivers do.

Question - which of the two systems is really important for OS/2? IMHO it's pretty useless to read out if the BIOS/hard disk does currently detected a crash and prevent disk failures by moving heads. Maybe if there were stored a counter somewhere how often this protection mechanism was triggered could be of some interest, but....

Screen orientation might be interesting if you have such device and it is usable with OS/2 (I suspect no for real work). If you can find the information about the connection of the switch to the system, the address where the information of current state is stored and coding of the info I can write you a driver to read it. But that does not help you very much cause someone has to check how hard it is to rotate screen in SNAP or Panorama. This largely depends on the used graphic controller too as for performance reason you hardly want to rotate screen in software (although doable).

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Networking / Re: Codepage problem with NAS
« on: November 04, 2015, 04:48:03 pm »
Okay another test with 'CODEPAGE=1004,850' in config.sys gave correct display with both SAMBA and FTP in LarsenCommander. But that breaks my desktop (Arbeitsoberfläche on German systems). Currently rebuilding my main machine from archive :-(

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Networking / Re: Codepage problem with NAS
« on: November 04, 2015, 03:50:22 pm »
Sorry Ivan, forgot to answer your question. It's a self build NAS running Openmediavault which TTBOMK is based on Debian Linux.

The offending characters where saved there from a Windoze machine.

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Networking / Re: Codepage problem with NAS
« on: November 04, 2015, 02:58:24 pm »
Thanks Alex. I've read your excellent voice article about codepages now.

I've changed chcp to 850,1004 and played with cppal too but not much success. Different problems with VIO window and PM program LarsenCommander and difference between Samba and FTP.

Samba & LarsenCommander with 1004 - starting from a cmd shell after setting 'chcp 1004' leads to both of the above characters are displayed as blank. Changing font from WarpSans to Workplace Sans the apostrophe is displayed as rectangle. The 'a' in Grada with the skewed line above is displayed as blank with both fonts.

FTP & LarsenCommander with 1004 - WarpSans, Workplace Sans and SystemVIO displays characters correct now, hurray.

Samba & VIO - the strange 'a' with skewed line (what's the correct English term for this?) in 'Grada' is displayed correct only with chcp 850. Codepage 1004 seems to does not include this character and shows a blank. VIO with 1004 does not display the apostrophe too. VIO with 850 shows instead apostrophe the little house in CodepageProblem2 above. Beside that 1004 for VIO window is not good as it seems to miss the graphic symbols which are used to draw the frames in 4os2 popup windows. But FTP and VIO with cp1004 would display the two characters correct.

So still not satisfactory solution. Netdrive FTP and Samba (when used with LarsenCommander) gave different problems with different code pages. But I can not find a good setting for SAMBA.

Do I need a DBSC system? Or is this a problem with our Samba? Or is there a setting for Samba?




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Networking / Codepage problem with NAS
« on: November 01, 2015, 12:11:49 pm »
I can connect to my sons NAS (guess it runs some sort of Linux) via FTP and SAMBA. But I've problems with special characters. Using netdrive ftp plugin I've to select 1208 UTF-8 which seems correct to me. Now I see a the character in picture CodepageProblem1.png correct.

But another character displays wrong see CodepageProblem3.png.

I can not set any codepage to display this on correct.

Wenn using netdrives samba plugin the first character displays correct. But the second character displays wrong too. I do not see any setting for samba to switch codepages. But samba shows this ´ different. See CodepageProblem2.png

Needless to say looking from Windoze to this samba share both special characters displays correct. See CodepageProblem4.png

Is our UTF-8 not the same as the Win and Linux one?

Another thing I noticed - using Seamonkey to connect to the NAS via ftp I can not find any codepage to display the second character, the ´, correct. Neither on eCS nor on Win. Seems to be a strange definition of ´ character which only Win can decode correct. Any hint to solve this?

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Utilities / Re: Accelerometer / Screen Orientation / Screen Resolution
« on: October 28, 2015, 01:08:19 pm »
For me GPIO is General Purpose Input Output which is a common term with Microprocessors. IMHO this does not mean any sort of accelerator by definition but only an Input in this case. Maybe as simple as a switch on a special port pin (maybe as simple as reading a port pin from the parallel port like we did in the past but who knows). Of course any much more advanced device like an accelerometer can be handle by GPIO pins too. Although not very common as they usually are connected via some serial connection like I²C, SM-Bus, Com.....

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Applications / Re: Which program to use for ripping audio CDs to flac?
« on: October 24, 2015, 10:17:00 pm »
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What is your screen size ?
3840 x 1200 pixels (two displays), SNAP, AFAIK standard fonts sizes.

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(may be I can add a view/hide icon text)
Not for me please. I'm a text guy, I can not work with icons. I need menus with text.

Btw. the about dialog does not show up in xcenter or task list. I can be hidden by other windows and AVxCAT does not respond to input as long as the (invisible) about dialog is not closed (need moving the other windows away to see it).

Just discovered the wrong Target folder will be used as long as you do not exit and restart AVxCAT. Seems you only read the 'Target folder' on program start but do not update when the user changes it afterwards.

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One thing that came to mind is I vaguely remember you can't install into a logical (JFS) partition if there is not at least one other primary partition on the drive. IIRC DFsee can setup the partitions that way but eCS can not install afterwards.

Another problem would be disks with 4k sectors. Such disk are not usable with OS/2. But is should be not a problem for you as 4k sector disks are usually > 1TB big. And the 2TB 4k disks I've seen does have a 512B sector compatibility mode.

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Applications / Re: Which program to use for ripping audio CDs to flac?
« on: October 24, 2015, 07:26:34 pm »
I tried it long ago but had problems. Anyway just test again. I do not see an option to select the output folder, is there any?

And can AVxCAT convert into subfolder with name of Album?

I've currently installed v1.2.5 - have to search for current version though.

Just tried 1.3.5 and seems to work. One problem View - Open target folder still opens e:\home\defaul\.avxcat instead the Target I selected.

Another problem is the font for 'Add files' 'Add dir' looks not very good. See attached picture.

The file/directory select dialog is kind of strange in my opinion. Maybe a CUA dialog or FOC would be a good choice.

Anyway thanks for you work on AVXCAT. Have to test more.




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Applications / Re: Which program to use for ripping audio CDs to flac?
« on: October 22, 2015, 08:13:08 pm »
I guess the problem is jripper starts both cdda2wav and flac at the same time - flac starts before cdda2wav has extracted the wav from CD. Maybe jripper does not get notified when flac is conversion is done and so does not start cdda2wav for the next track. But that's much guessing.

As a work around I now encode to wav and do the conversion to flac afterwards. So no need for jripper to control both cdda2wav and flac (or lame). This works.

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