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Setup & Installation / Re: CUPS and Print Manager
« on: September 02, 2025, 11:20:09 am »
Hi Mark

ArcaOS 5.1.1 and cups 2.2.13 plus hplip printer (and hpaio scanner) drivers.

I started the Create a Printer process and see
  OfficeJet 7610 Series
  OfficeJet 7610 Series hpijs
listed in HP drivers.

I am wondering if you have hplip installed? - is that what is missing?


Regards

Pete

Heh Pete! Long time no talk

Yup. That was the problem

Checking ANPM, hplip-common and hplip-libs were installed, but not hplip

Checking Manage Printers the files I need are listed now.

Thanks as always, Sir and Best!

M

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Setup & Installation / CUPS and Print Manager
« on: September 01, 2025, 11:41:43 pm »
Hi All!

Labour Day is upon us in Canada - where did the summer go?

Been an extremely busy year for me, advising, with others up here, related to joint international Emergency Management policies for our Federal government, based on some issues occurring down south, which are affecting cross border response.

Finally having a break, I wanted to address yet another interesting problem I've ran into, this time related to CUPS.

Like always, I'm looking for some guidance as to where to look for a solution, as most people in this forum know I'm a self starter - I have a wide format HP OfficeJet 7612 printer that can print up to A3 size paper, which I also use as my office scanner and fax device, when needed.

The part I'm trying to get to work under ArcaOS is printing itself with the 7612 - as background, I did have a previous 7612 which finally had a problem, it seems, with the printer control board, and which I had to retire from service - getting another, new, still in the unopened box unit, I was able to setup the printer on my network to run on most of my Windows and ArcaOS computers. However, on one partition, undertaking the normal set-up under Print Manager for CUPS, the most current HP printer listings seem to be missing -  in the other partition on the system (I always keep two OS/2 partitions on each system, in case a partition fails), the listing is present for "OfficeJet7610 series" which is the correct driver for the printer unit. However, even though I've setup the 7612 on this partition before, for some reason the device list has regressed for some reason.

As I have the complete listing on Printer Manager on the other partition, I was wondering if anyone can tell me which CUPS file(s) contain the complete listings and drivers for all the printers currently supported by CUPS on ArcaOS - I wanted to see if there was an easy way to transfer the info to the affected partition,  or whether someone had any idea as to why the listing regressed, so I could update it in some other way.

Going through localhost:631 on a browser, cups 2.2.13 comes up, which seems to be the most current version - however trying to install from there also seems to have the regressed listing of HP printers on this partition.

I have ArcaOS 5.1 on the partition which was upgraded from 5.0.8 without a fresh install (used the upgrade option).

As always any bright ideas (or any others for that matter) accepted and Best!

Mark

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Multimedia / Re: Updated Uniaud32 build
« on: May 01, 2025, 05:37:44 pm »
Heh Paul!

Hi Mark, I suspect you won't see lockups with the 20250415 build :)

Doesn't have anything to do with Realtek this time, but can confirm today your UniAud 6.12.21 Build 2025/04/15 also works with the NVidia AD1988b audio chipset.

Thanks Mark - for the Realtek system, are you able to send me an alsa.log from 'copy alsahlp$ alsa.log' using the debug driver on a freshly booted system? I'll see if there is a 'fixup' that's missing.

Hi Paul!

As promised I installed UniAud Debug 6.12.21 Build April 15 and Generated ALSA.LOG for the Realtek 1988B system, which is attached below.

Hope it is still useful to you and apologies for the delay!

M

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Multimedia / Re: Updated Uniaud32 build
« on: May 01, 2025, 02:12:23 am »
Heh Paul!

Hi Mark, I suspect you won't see lockups with the 20250415 build :)

Doesn't have anything to do with Realtek this time, but can confirm today your UniAud 6.12.21 Build 2025/04/15 also works with the NVidia AD1988b audio chipset.

Thanks Mark - for the Realtek system, are you able to send me an alsa.log from 'copy alsahlp$ alsa.log' using the debug driver on a freshly booted system? I'll see if there is a 'fixup' that's missing.

Hi Paul!

Just saw this message from April 18 - sorry, was just a bit busy with a variety of things here in Canada. Will send the requested Alsa.log for the Realtek system tomorrow, May 1

Hope it will still be of use and Best!

M

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Multimedia / Re: Updated Uniaud32 build
« on: April 17, 2025, 04:32:12 pm »
Heh Paul!

Hi Mark, I suspect you won't see lockups with the 20250415 build :)

Doesn't have anything to do with Realtek this time, but can confirm today your UniAud 6.12.21 Build 2025/04/15 also works with the NVidia AD1988b audio chipset.

Best!

M

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Multimedia / Re: Updated Uniaud32 build
« on: April 16, 2025, 04:12:58 pm »
Hi Mark,

glad to hear you are OK and writing a Novel - great! My 5th part is going well, I think I can finish it in time (Release Date 25/9/25) because I have to have a knee surgery (new knee) in May, I will be 4 weeks of work then and have fortunately and hopefully enough time for the book.

I will test automute later, but I guess, from what I understand so far - the problem with my hardware is somewhere in the communication between uniaud32.sys and uniaud16.sys

Paul is doing a tremendous job, so I hope to get sound to run on this really marvelous Laptop.

All the best and thanks for your help!

Sigurd

Good Morning Sigurd (my time)

Yep, decided when I had free time (which is almost none at the moment), to write a Sci-Fi novel based on a character Andre Norton abandoned after two novels 65 years ago. Being a writer in other genres (including professional technical writing) thought it would be an interesting exercise, to keep the grey cells in tune.

I'm currently slowed although still mobile - fractured my right ankle and foot beginning of March so 5 weeks into recovery, wearing an Air-Cast, which is now off, and getting back to walking somewhat normally again

It sounds like Paul has got your sound working, from a couple of other posts you made, so the disabling of auto-mute may be moot in your case, and may not need to be tested - for you and others, if you do try it, I tested Pauls Build 6.12.21 dated 2025/4/15 and it solved the lock-up problem which appeared in build 2025/04/14 when trying to disable auto-mute.

I agree that Paul is and has for years done a tremendous job in all of this, as have many of the other extremely talented people who continue to try to keep this OS alive and working decades after it was first created, and with all the obstacles of time and technology being light years beyond what was new and fresh in the 80's to 90"s - some days its tough to fathom that I started my professional career then, and am close to retiring now, still using a version of that same operating system ...........

But good talking to you, a fine rest of the week . and glad your problems with sound with UniAud are finally being resolved.

Best!

M


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Multimedia / Re: Updated Uniaud32 build
« on: April 16, 2025, 02:16:57 am »
Hi Mark, I suspect you won't see lockups with the 20250415 build :)

Heh Again, Paul!

I can report that 6.12.21 Build 20250415 Release solved the hard lock with the unimix.exe statement in STARTUP.CMD on the Realtek system, and sound works perfectly again, at least with limited testing.

Will try it on the other tower system I have as well, tomorrow, and Best!

M

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Multimedia / Re: Updated Uniaud32 build
« on: April 16, 2025, 01:49:29 am »
Hi Mark, I suspect you won't see lockups with the 20250415 build :)

Heh Paul!

I will try 20250415 and get back to you!

Best!

M

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Multimedia / Re: Updated Uniaud32 build
« on: April 15, 2025, 08:31:18 pm »
Hi Sigurd!

Long time no talk - hope your fantasy series is ticking along - I'm now 150 pages into writing a novel myself, if only I can find the time to finish it.

Just was wondering, as I dropped a note to Paul today, whether you had tried disabling the AUTO-MUTE switch as a way of getting sound, if your using the RealTek audio on your machine (mine uses Realtek ALC892 successfully).

I tried Pauls latest build and there definitely seems to be some problems with the Realtek portion of the code, build dated 14/04/2025, at least for me.

The UNIAUD build I'm using successfully for RealTek is dated 29/10/2021. I think you said you already had checked your computers Realtek component using unimix -list. If you wanted to try to see whether that fixes your problem.

The statement I used to disable AUTO-MUTE is unimix.exe -id20 -val0=0 however you would need to substitute the ID for your Realtek hardware for the one I have for mine. If you wanted it can be entered from a command prompt window on your desktop, to test first, incase of booting problems, by typing unimix.exe -idX -val0=0, where X is your ID. After entering that, use something that produces sound to see if its working.

I can also provide you a copy of my STARTUP.CMD file if you wanted to modify it and use it if the test is successful. The STARTUP file for this is really simple - again just substitute the -id number that I found for my system with that of yours.

As always, Best to you Sir and a fine week and Easter weekend!

M


In the end, you would be able to do this yourself. We are too few developers so you will have to learn to become one :-)

Cheers, Lars

I doubt this will ever happen, a lack of time and skill. I do not even understand where this here is going to lead me.

I will follow your suggestions later this evening, thank you very much.

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Multimedia / Re: Updated Uniaud32 build
« on: April 15, 2025, 08:00:07 pm »
Heh Paul!

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| It would be interesting if others with realtek hardware could test, which would help determine if this issue is | unique to your hardware or more generic.

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I resemble that remark about Realtek (Tested it today on my Hyperfire system with Realtek ALC892) using the 14/4/2025 release today

I had an interesting problem with the new release (I currently had the build from 29/10/2021installed).

Rebooting after installing the new files, the system hard locked (needed a manual reboot by pressing the reset switch on the tower.) The lock occurred after running STARTUP.CMD.

You (and others) may not remember, but I needed to add the statement unimix.exe -id20 -val0=0 to STARTUP.CMD, to get sound enabled with your drivers on that system. This was due to a software switch present seemingly in all the RealTek hardware which enables a feature called AUTO-MUTE by default.

IOW I needed to disable that switch to get sound with your drivers installed on a system with Realtek audio installed. As it is instance specific, it needs to be re-enabled after ever boot, whether hard or soft in nature, so the easiest way to do that was through placing the statement in STARTUP.CMD.

Anybody else who may want to try that will need to run unimix -list first to see what ID the switch is on your Realtek system. In my case it is at ID20 (hence the -ID20 in the unimix statement), but yours may be at a different ID. Substituting your ID for the one I have in the statement above may work, if AUTO-MUTE is the reason you can't get sound, even though the driver installed correctly.

However, the problem I ran into with the new build is that, after installing the 14/4/2025 version of the driver, the partition booted up, ran correctly up to the STARTUP.CMD (startup.cmd prompt window displayed) but hard locked there, and stopped the boot.

I then disabled the STARTUP.CMD, rebooted and the boot went normally and the new version of UNIAUD32 seemed to be installed, but no sound. Opening a prompt window, and running the unimix.exe -id20 -val0=0 command manually, again hard locked the system at the prompt window (doing it that way has enabled sound in the past, but only until you reboot, if the statement is not in STARTUP.CMD.

Reverting back to the 29/10/2021 build and the problems went away.

So, Paul, I haven't read the entire follow-on thread about this build, (was out in Ottawa stamping out fires for the politicians up to this weekend) but I suspect SOME problem may affect the Realtek code in the UNIAUD drivers.

Best Sir as always!

Mark

This section probably explains the failure:
Code: [Select]
hda_codec_cleanup_stream: NID=0x6

hda_codec_cleanup_stream: NID=0x3

Period size min=2f0 max=2f0
Error -22 second time.. Bailing
U16: StartStream: ConfigDev failed!!

It would be interesting if others with realtek hardware could test, which would help determine if this issue is unique to your hardware or more generic. Worst case, I should be able to test on Thursday afternoon or Friday when I'm back at home.

Meanwhile I'll search the code to see where this is coming from.

Edit: it's from here - https://trac.netlabs.org/uniaud/browser/GPL/branches/uniaud32-next/lib32/sound.c#L1025

Edit2: the other interesting thing would be to try playing audio using an app that uses libkai (eg VLC). I think that error is from uniaud16 trying to configure MMPM audio.

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Multimedia / Re: Updated Uniaud32 build
« on: September 16, 2024, 05:21:59 am »
Heh Martin!

Hello Mark
Detailed instructions on how to do all that are present in the PDF attached called Testing Guide for UniAud32. It is the last version I created (v1.2) as I got too busy after that to do any more updates to a variety of Testing Guides.
Can I have your permission to post your PDF content on the OS2World wiki?

Regards

As always, you have blanket permission, Sir, if it helps the cause. Go For it!

When I have the time, I always want to contribute - as you know, I've tried to add a lot of items, testing and perspective in the past - unfortunately, I've found my interests far exceed the time I have available.

Best!

M

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Multimedia / Re: Updated Uniaud32 build
« on: September 16, 2024, 05:14:30 am »
Heh Sigurd!

Hi Mark,
thank you very much for your exzellent Tipps and Hints, as well as the PDF. Due to being busy I gave it all a first shot, found out there is with switch A:2 an "Auto mute" ID6, but had no luck so far.

I will come back to this later for sure, but this will take some weeks, as I have, besides my daily work, have to finish the 4th book of my nith-part fantasy Story. There is a new part each year, it should be ready at 24.9.24 (I have a faible for numbers, i.e. the first part is available since 21.9.21, the fifth will be at 25.9.25 and so on, German calender format) , so I have to Focus on this topic for the next couple of days.
It is free if charge, but unfortunately only available in German.

https://im-schatten-der-drei-sonnen.de/

Thanks again!

Thanks for the kind words.

I will say in my spare time, I'm currently writing a fiction novel, based on a character created by Science Fiction / Fantasy writer and Grande Dame of both, Andre Norton, abandoned after two novels in the late 50's / early 60's. That's in addition to writing two non-fiction Emergency Response Plans at the moment, one for a facility in Pennsylvania (wind farm) and a corporate solar operation in North Carolina (Actually 20 facilities there but one plan).

So I hear you - I'm 65 but certainly not retired - just don't know how to stretch life to include 40 hours a day, 9 days a week.

Best!

M

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Multimedia / Re: Updated Uniaud32 build
« on: September 12, 2024, 03:28:33 am »
Hi Sigurd!

Been very busy this fall with a variety of items but was looking in today and saw your post.

Hi Sigurd,

  Had a look at your logs, and from what I can tell, only the switch /A:2 is going to have a chance of working because the other two are HDMI ports which will not work with AOS (unless a video driver is created that supports it). Check your BIOS and see if there is a setting to use the RealTek audio on your computer (this is what /A:2 enables). Also check if you have a headphone jack, and see if you get sound there. It could be that some laptops use HDMI for their speakers so would force using external speakers or headphones with that unit with OS/2.

Regards,

Hi David,

thanks for looking into this. I will give your hints a try and report!

May take a day.

Thanks again!

Further to Davids suggestions, I was wondering when you added the /A:2 switch to the UniAud 32 statement and ran PMUniMix. Does it show a variety of volume controls for your realtek card (I'm assuming you have PMUnimix installed)? If so, did adjusting the volume controls make any difference?

The reason I ask is because I ran into a problem where, installing Paul's latest UniAud driver of the day a couple of years ago, I could get no sound to play. Trying various methods of physical troubleshooting, no sound was still present at all.

So I skimmed a number of Linux forums for a week or so, researching problems with the drivers, and finally found a problem exactly like mine.

It seems that driver has a function embedded called AUTOMUTE. With the Realtek driver on my motherboard UniAud set the function to enable by default, essentially muting the sound through the chipset. Don't know if all Realtek sound chips operate in the same way.

Using the UNIMIX -names command (not PMUnimix), I was able to find the Automute ID for the sound system, and used UNIMIX to change the switch to "disable". Sound was perfect after that.

However, after reboot, sound again disappeared, and Automute needed to be disabled again. I created a file and added it to STARTUP.CMD so that the AUTOMUTE function was disabled automatically, upon every reboot.

Detailed instructions on how to do all that are present in the PDF attached called Testing Guide for UniAud32. It is the last version I created (v1.2) as I got too busy after that to do any more updates to a variety of Testing Guides.

Don't know if thats the problem your encountering, Sigurd, but if it is the suggestion may help out and Best!

Mark

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Applications / Re: ANPM database error
« on: August 16, 2024, 11:39:50 pm »
Heh Lewis!
Sorry for the bumpy ride with the (temporary) transition to maintaining our own metadata at the 2rosenthals.com mirror.s I managed to fat-finger my edit to the update script which caused us to bypass the actual download of new packages (D'Oh!).

Anyway, all fixed now. The last metadata update on the 2rosenthals.com mirrors of netlabs-rel and netlabs-exp was timestamped at around 5:30am EDT, which corresponds with the timing of the cron job. We also managed to pick up some more recent files.

A word of caution:

The 2rosenthals.com mirror of netlabs-rel and netlabs-exp have nothing whatsoever to do with arcanoae-rel, arcanoae-exp, and arcanoae-sub. The Arca Noae content is unique to the arcanoae-* repos. None of the arcanoae-* repos are mirrors of anything else, nor are there any mirrors of their content anywhere.

Also, one might note that there are a handful of qt5 5.15.2 packages available from arcanoae-rel which are not available from netlabs-rel (or, obviously, the 2rosenthals.com mirror thereof). These packages were necessary to allow qt5 to upgrade cleanly on ArcaOS, as bww did not provide them (e.g., the qt5 metapackage for 5.15.2). It is not possible to upgrade qt5 with *just* the packages at arcanoae-rel, nor was that ever the intent of Arca Noae.

Hopefully, the Netlabs repos will be back up and available soon.

Thanks for posting this, Sir - as to the Netlabs-rel site, it seems to be back up, as of this morning - sent you a second e-mail on that one. I don't think netlabs-exp was ever down.

Best as always!

Mark


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Applications / Re: ANPM database error
« on: August 16, 2024, 08:57:51 pm »
Mark I can confirm  what you are seeing.

Thanks Eugene!

The array of available files I'm seeing is somewhat different than what was previously there, or at least I think so.

I also sent an e-mail to Lewis today, as I had a few questtions.

A fine weekend to you, Sir and Best!

M

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