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Messages - Sigurd Fastenrath

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Applications / Re: OS/2 for Power PC and the Thinkpad 860
« on: November 20, 2018, 08:30:22 pm »
Here it Comes! I think this will be a taff Task...  ;)


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Applications / OS/2 for Power PC and the Thinkpad 860
« on: November 13, 2018, 01:06:52 pm »
If everything wents well I will get a ThinkPad 860 with PowerPC CPU at the Weekend. With this I will fill my last gaps regarding my ThinkPad Collection and my OS/2 Collection.

Regarding the Software, just take a look at the Picture  ;)

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General Discussion / Re: Binary decompilation of OS2KRNL and other DLLs
« on: October 31, 2018, 02:23:30 pm »
Once that is complete, I'll design OS/2 tools which will allow me to create a custom loader, and intercept and redirect all DLL references, allowing me to perform the equivalent of a Windows procmon.exe capture for any apps of interest.

To be honest: I do not understand why you try to reinvent the Wheel. I would like to Point you to the already existing, I would say THE OS/2 LOADER, where ArcaOS seems to base on as well, QSINIT. I see no reason to create another one. And, as others already stated, I would like to suggest that you take part in already existing OS/2 Projects, to concentrate on one Problem instead of writing everything from Scratch. Even for IBM with (I do not know exactly the number) some hundred programmers I would guess in Hand, it took years to get something out the door. I would guess that some Projects/other developers would be happy to Profit from your Knowledge and abbilities. This also may Benefit your Health and Prevent from falling back in some Kind of burn out Syndrom.
All the best.

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Applications / Re: How to install and use DropBox plugin for Netdrive
« on: October 15, 2018, 08:25:10 am »
Anybody have any idea how to install or use the DropBox plugin for NetDrive?

I assume that to install it I use

YUM install  ndpdbox-0.6.0.b9-0.oc00.i686.rpm

This does create a folder on the desktop titled NpdDBox 0.6.b9. Inside the folder is an icon for Dropbox Authorize.

If the browser (firefox 45.9.0) is already open and I have signed on to DropBox when I click on Dropbox Authorize, click on the Start button, and then copy the text from the "Api Request Authorized" page on DropBox.com I get what looks like an error dialog box, title is DropBoxauth, message is: 
No access token in http reply!

If the browser isn't open then when I click the Start button, the browser starts and opens a sign on page for Drop Box. When I type in my email and password and click Sign In nothing happens - there is a busy cursor that never goes away.

This is exactly what happend to me last year. I contacted bww but in the end I gave up after some weeks and several attempts. Allways the same like yours. Would be interested in a solution as well!

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Hardware / OS/2 Warp running on Thinkpad 25 (former: ARcaOS 5.03)
« on: October 07, 2018, 09:24:50 am »
Here are my observations running ArcaOS 5.03 on the ThinkPad 25. The ThinkPad 25 is the ThinkPad Anniversery Edition, based on the ThinkPad T470 series with some Modifications, especially a Special Keyboard. This is in fact the best Keeyboard I have ever used.

I will modifiy this text here, as it is work in Progress.


First: Hardware Modifications

Usually it is not possible to use ArcaOS with the ThinkPad 25 if it comes right from the factory. It includes a NVMe M2280 512 GB SSD. This NVMe Controller is not supported by ArcaOS, as there are no Drivers. Fortunately the Laptop has an inbuild SATA/AHCI Controller as well. So I bought and installed an SATA/AHCI M2280 SSD with 1TB size.


Second: BIOS Settings
- disable secure Boot
- enable CSM Module
- change NVMe to SATA


Third: Preparing the SSD
- I wanted to keep the Original "Thinkpad 25 Signature Edition" of Windows 10 and so I installed it first from the Recovery USB Stick
- In fact I did this BEFORE I changed the BIOS settings
- as the recovery tool allways creates a GPT hardware Layout, I had to convert it then
- to convert I used a special Linux Version, as I mentioned elsewhere in this forum
- I then installed EASEUS Partition Manager to shrink Windows 10 and add Partitions
- one of the Partitions is FAT32 formatted, to exchange data between Windows and ArcaOS
- I then installed DFSEE and added LVM Informations to the SSD
- Finally I installed the AIRBOOT Manager


Fourth: Adding ArcaOS

Due to the lack of USB 3 drivers and having no USB 2.0 mode on the Thinkpad 25, ArcaOS can not be installed from DVD/USB. It may work with a Dockingstation, but I do not have one. Therefore I made it the "Usual way" I am using: Cloning and Restoring with DFSEE.
So I installed a fresh ArcaOS 5.03 on the Lenovo X200T, what went flaweless. I added some programs as mentioned elsewhere here, i.e. The Warp Server for e-business components, Bonuspak, DOSBOX, ....
I then created a clone and copied this clone on the Thinkpad 25 inside Windows 10. There I restored it with DFSEE to the designed Partition.

Reboot.


Fifth: Observations (in short)

What works (great!):

- FullHD Video Resolution with reasonable performance
- Sound (but no control on volume/loudness, with some applications it works i.e. mplayer)
- LAN
- Keyboard Backlight (via Keyboard combination)
- all 4 kernels supported
- Power Management (funny: the T25 has got two internal batteries, while the Widget in xcenter Dows Show only 5% the Power Allication does Show 77%. See Picture attached. I guess this is because xcenter does Show one battery, the program does Show both.)
- AHCI SATA controller with superb performance
- creating a RAM disk (but see below)

Not working/supported:

- WLAN
- USB (only 3.0)
- Touch support (depending on USB I guess, so I did not contact Wim Brul so far)
- DOS and WINOS2
- Bluetooth
- Camera (depending on USB I guess as well)
- RAM management: the T25 has got 16GB of RAM, but only 1.3GB are usable as "Low Memory". One can create a 14GB RAM disk, but this is a problem on modern hardware that can hopefully be resolved


Conclusion:
Really great! Once USB 3 and the Memory Problem is solved, it would make even more sense and fun!

Please see Picture.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Just purchased ArcaOS...
« on: August 22, 2018, 12:38:50 pm »
Same error here, today, except of the USB iso files, else can not be downloaded (ACPI, AHCI etc.)

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Hardware / Memory hole on modern hardware and USB 3.0 - Solutions?
« on: August 10, 2018, 08:56:24 am »
On more recent Hardware I have Problems with a Memory hole in RAM. I know I read something About this before but can not find it.

Example: on the ThinkPad 25 (with latest QSINIT) there is only 1.3 GB of RAM available (please see Pictures attached) allthough 16GB are installed.

May be it is related to this (just a guess): the Thinkpad 25 has two graphic cards, the internal Intelchipset and in addition an 2GB Nvidia 940m. May it be that this two Gigabyte of the Nvidia are used or seen by the OS/2 RAM Management as some kind of RAM and therefore it reduces the possible 4Gb (3.5GB) to 1.3 GB? Unfortunately it is not possible to deactivate the NVidia in BIOS.

Is there any Clue about this Topic? Memory hole? And are there possible Solutions?

Thanks in Advance.

Obviously it does make no sence to use ArcaOS-OS/2 on such kind of Laptop if only 1.3GB of RAM is availeable.

And another question just for information: is there any information about the status of the USB 3.0 driver? My last one is from Warpstock Europe 2016, where David A. spoke about it and made a guess it would be at about 90%. I know that some new problems occured with this, but just to know: will it happen? Thanks for the great work!




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Events / Re: Announcing Warpstock Europe 2019!
« on: July 02, 2018, 08:23:58 am »

Uhuu well previous Warpstocks where between 25 and 30 Euro's per year.

The 105 Dollars translates to 89 Euro's. It includes lunch twice.
How much is that in Cologne in the Youth Hostel ? I forgot ? 7 Euro ?
It includes tea and coffee the whole day.

Also the rent of the room is more expensive on Saturday since I renting it for the evening as well. So people can stick around if they want...



I do not know why you are ranting here and why you compare it to our Meeting in Cologne, something I allways try to avoid.

But the truth is:

The costs for attendence at Cologne is 0,00 Euro (Zero) as Thomas Müller and me pay the fee for the room, the Coffee and Cake, there are 7 Euro for Lunch, that is all, if someone wants. Visitors are free to spent some money if they want to, and in the past years this money was handed over to i.e. Bitwise to sponsor projects. So - ALL the costs for the event have been sponsored each year by Thomas Müller and me - since 2015 (from 2013 to 2014 we used some of the sponsored Money for the next Event) - !!. We keep no Cent at all for us. And in addition: if you follow the Year by Year thread for this event at os2.org you will find the whole costs of this event as we usually show the bill of the youth hostel. So - for me - besides this event it is simply to expenesive to add another 200 or 300 Euro for a second event. As easy as this. And 120 US Dollar are today 102 Euros.

That said - our event live because of the participation of the visitors, they prepare everything for free as well, make Presentations and Thomas Müller is recording videos, that are postprocesses by Wolfgang Reineken and made available on the os2.org homepage by Andreas Roederer - all in their free/spare time. Thanks to every visitor these events are still alive and make such fun. And it will take place as long as there are some Visitors interested in.

Your comment is another reason for me to make it obvious not to attend in Soest.




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Events / Re: Announcing Warpstock Europe 2019!
« on: June 30, 2018, 09:36:04 pm »
Of course and sadly that 105 Dollars is only for access but lunch is included both days. Dinner is not included, more information will follow later. Roderick

Thanks for the Information, but this is to expensive for me. All the best and good luck!

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Events / Re: Announcing Warpstock Europe 2019!
« on: June 28, 2018, 12:56:32 pm »
Is food and hotel (overnight)included in this price or is this "only" for the organization? It is very unlikely that I will have time to attend (May is allways full of work), but in case I could I would like to estimate the full costs for it Thanks.

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Setup & Installation / Re: USB 3.0 /3.1
« on: June 23, 2018, 06:35:57 pm »
My last information is from May 2016, when David A announced at Warpstock Europe it is at 90%. Nothing since, may be there has been some informations at the last WSE, but the videos are still not online.  ???  :(

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Setup & Installation / Re: OS/2 nativ on Thinkpad 25
« on: June 17, 2018, 10:48:13 pm »
Well done, here some additional Information I was able to get, so far:

- LAN is working, "Intel Ethernet Connection I219-V" using E1000B LAN Driver from Arca Noae

- Sound: partly working with latest UNIAUD and /A:0 switch, but:
  - only working with "Sounds" like playing MP3 with PM123
  - not working in combination with Video (stutters)
  - no Volume Control

Will try to get PCI Output, but is not that easy so far.

Overall a really great experience!

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Hardware / Re: Lenovo T420 - disabling touchpad
« on: June 13, 2018, 04:32:49 pm »
Just for the notes:

- the Lenovo Thinkpad T450s has the Option to disable the Touchpad in Bios
- as well as the Thinkpad 25 (based on the Thinkpad 470)

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Setup & Installation / OS/2 nativ on Thinkpad 25
« on: June 09, 2018, 08:27:43 pm »
Well, it took some time, but finally……

To avoid doubleposting you can follow, if interested in, this thread here (German, please use a translator)

https://www.os2.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1417#p10301



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Programming / Re: 10% Fundraising for QT5 and new Browser
« on: March 23, 2018, 07:28:14 pm »
We are already past 50% of the target:

From 4.200 Euro are 2.030 Euro left! We may make it!!

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