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Messages - Joseph M. Kempf

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Hardware / Re: AMD 8-Core, UEFI and eCS 2.1 a No Go
« on: August 01, 2014, 10:09:03 pm »
The latest eCS v2.2 beta installed very easily on my ASUS A88X-Plus motherboard.   The CPU is an AMD four core A10 6800K .  I think I tried to install eCS v2.1 but I recall I had difficulty doing so and abandoned v 2.1 for the beta v2.2.

I hope this is helpful.

Joe Kempf

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Applications / Re: VirtualBox and Skype problem
« on: May 29, 2014, 12:40:46 pm »
I don't have an impression that there is an active effort to port an updated version of Virtual Box to OS/2-eCS.   Perhaps you might have better luck with a slightly earlier version of Virtual Box for OS/2 hosts, perhaps: VirtualBox 1-5-6 build 9.wpi ?

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Setup & Installation / Re: ecs2.2 beta refresh
« on: April 29, 2014, 01:09:18 pm »
I've had similar experiences with network cards, Dave.  It seems odd when Firefox, Opera and Slpr return error messages in eCS v2.0 or v2.1 and yet  browsers work in Windows XP running as guest in VPC in the same eCS v2.0 or v2.1 host.

I'll find time this week or next to read more of the ACPI help resource.  I want to give the eCS v2.2 and Uniaud32 v2.02.01 betas a thorough tryout. Going through the motherboard manuals and reconsidering jumper and bios options seems a good idea.  It is good to have the on-board NIC work and to know that new NIC drivers work with newer network devices.  Managing IRQs has always been tricky and I have used and unused old PCI OS/2 sound cards on hand  as a backup resource.

Thanks again all.  I'll report on my progress.

Joe

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Setup & Installation / Re: ecs2.2 beta refresh
« on: April 26, 2014, 06:55:57 pm »
Thanks again for your time gentlemen.

The uniaud-readme text provides troubleshooting instructions. 

LBMix gives an error message
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Mixer API Initialization failed
  Recall unimix.exe didn't quite work either.  Uniaud32 /V at boot up provides the following information:
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HD - Audio generic at 0xfeb44000 irq 18
Detected Mixer: ATI ID aa01
Hardware manager indicates two IRQs are assigned to one of the sound-chips (the 2nd).  The first sound-chip has no IRQ assigned.  Since the on-board USB controllers and the NIC also are assigned non-exclusive use of IRQ 18 I wonder whether there is an IRQ conflict.  The on-board NIC and USB controllers work but not the audio.  I'm going to check an eCS v2.1 installation where audio works but not a similar on-board NIC.  I may try to reset the IRQ but I'll read the ACPI help files first.    As I suspect this may be a hardware issue I'll swap out the beta UNIAUD36 v2.02.01 drivers for the stable older 1.0.21 version if and when other options fail.

I'm thinking that IRQ 12 or 15 might be good choices?


Thanks

Joe

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Setup & Installation / Re: ecs2.2 beta refresh
« on: April 24, 2014, 12:39:11 pm »
Thanks for entering the conversation Dave.

The eCS beta v2.2 is installed on an ASUS A88X-Plus and a MSI FM2-A75MA-P33.  Both motherboards use an AMD A10-6800K CPU with 4Gb of RAM.  No PCI or PCI-X cards have been installed on either board.  The on-board NICs work well, to my delight.  So does the on-board video.

Later today or this weekend I plan to methodically test all options such as swap in and try speakers that I know work on other devices.  I''ll systematically test all options on both motherboards with all BIOS options enabled and disabled. Yesterday however I physically tested sound on the front panel of the ASUS A88X and probed it with unimix.exe.  I tried front panel sound enabled and disabled.  I tried front panel AC97 sound enabled and HD sound enabled.  The system remained silent.

Do I read you response correctly Dave?  You have tested UNIUAD32 v2.02.01 on an ASUS A88X with front panel enabled for High Definition and you found that sound works?  Did you test it on a similar motherboard with High Definition enabled?   Should I focus on the High Definition BIOS option rather than the AC97 option?

Thanks for your time and answers you-all.

Joe

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Setup & Installation / Re: ecs2.2 beta refresh
« on: April 24, 2014, 03:47:05 am »
I had a moment to run the newer version of unimix on my ASUS A88X and this is the result:

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[C:\]unimix.exe -list
Command line mixer for UNIAUD32. Version 1.1
Detected UNIAUD version 2.02.01
Detected 2 audio adapter(s)
Error: invalid number of PCM instances for adapter 0
Control list for adapter 0

[C:\]
As you can see unimix.exe properly identifies the version of uniaud32 that ships with  eCS v2.2 beta.  It detects the two on board audio "adapters".  Then it reports an error I do not understand.

Thanks

Joe

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Setup & Installation / Re: ecs2.2 beta refresh
« on: April 23, 2014, 03:34:43 am »
Thanks for this advice Silvan.

The version of unimix.exe included in the most recent uniaud update package was created on 9/22/2010.  The version that shipped and installed with eCS beta 2.2 was created on 9/23/2013 and is thus three years newer.

The older version produced the following error message.
[C:\]unimix.exe -list
Command line mixer for UNIAUD32. Versio
Detected UNIAUD version 202.01
Error: invalid number of PCM instances

It seems as though I'm going to learn a bit more about uniaud.  Webpage http://trac.netlabs.org/uniaud states:
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The latest beta version of Uniaud32 is 2.02.01 which is based on ALSA 1.0.24. This version has had very little testing. It is currently unknown if there are any problems with this version. Try it at your own risk and backup first
My version is the beta 2.02.01.  I may have to install an earlier stable version, say maybe: Uniaud32 v.1.9.26 

Should I install two sets of uniaud drivers, one for each on-board sound chip?

BTW: I tested it on an ASUS A88x-Plus motherboard and generally find eCS beta v2.2 much to my liking.

Can anyone tell what is a "PCM instance"? ;-)

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Setup & Installation / Re: ecs2.2 beta refresh
« on: April 22, 2014, 03:49:06 am »
Hi Joseph

You may want to check what the output of unimix -list > mixer.txt shows (unimix.exe is a command line mixer which you should find in \MMOS2)....
Hope the above helps.

Pete

Having first checked the bios and then the OS/2 hardware manager I tried unimix.exe as follows with disappointing results.

[C:\]unimix.exe -list
Command line mixer for UNIAUD32. Version 1.1
Detected UNIAUD version 2.02.01
Detected 2 audio adapter(s)
Error: invalid number of PCM instances for adapter 0
Control list for adapter 0

Any thoughts?

Thanks


Joe




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Setup & Installation / Re: eCS demo CD beta 5
« on: March 29, 2014, 10:46:30 pm »
I am writing this post from the desktop pc with eCS Demo Cd 2.2. As I already said, the system works fine and the ACPI recognized all 4 processors! The 16 Gbyte Corsair USB key has been properly detected.

I have chosen "boot with your own values" and the ALSA driver was already enabled. In spite of that, the sound is still missing. Motherboard ASUS M4A88T-V EVO with AMD 880G / SB 710 chipset.

Audio ALC892 8-channel High Definition Audio Codec

Anyway, a good job!

<SNIP>

I hope to try this eCS v2.2 beta on an Motherboard ASUS A88X-Plus motherboard with an AMD A10 four core CPU later this week with audio; ALC887 High Definition Audio Codec.  I'll report how it goes.   I'm please how this beta works so far on a MSI FM2 A75MA-P33 motherboard with an AMD A10 four core CPU. So far no sound with the ALC887 on the MSI motherboard.

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Setup & Installation / Re: ecs2.2 beta refresh
« on: March 29, 2014, 10:26:40 pm »
Thanks Pete and Greg:

I'll try both of your suggestions later this coming week.  This past week has been busy.  Much of my little free time has been dedicated to updating my Win XP installs in advance of the 4/8/14 end of service date for XP.  I run a critical application in XP inside OS/2-eCS hosted virtual machines.  I must say that this application works very well host by eCS v2.2 beta on up-to-date equipment.  I  expected that this application would be unstable running in SMP mode on four cores of a CPU in this beta.  For that matter I'm enthusiastic about this  eCS beta so far.  I have had what would be an unexpected number of crashes accessing a SATA DVDRM and a USB floppy drive though.

Joe

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Polls / Re: eComStation Retail Store?
« on: March 29, 2014, 08:45:34 pm »
I enjoy building my own eCS desktop PCs so I can not imagine purchasing one 'retail'.  A laptop is another matter though.  Some years ago I purchased an IBM T43p Thinkpad with eCS pre-installed.

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Setup & Installation / Re: ecs2.2 beta refresh
« on: March 22, 2014, 10:56:05 pm »
Finally, I found an opportunity to complete a new mid-tower build with a MSi FM2-A75MA-P33 motherboard with an AMD A10 6800K CPU.  My first attempt to install eCS v2.1 crashed with a TRAP error, so then I tried the eCS 2.2 beta refresh.  The beta v2.2 installed lickity-split to a Kingston SSD and booted up so very fast!   Beta v2.2's version of the Realtek 8169 NIC drive is working with the on-board Realtek RTL8111E.  I couldn't be posting this comment otherwise. So far there is no hint of audio from the on-board Realtek ALC887.  We'll see about that.  So far so good.  Now I'll begin installing software.  Wish me luck.

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