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Hardware / Re: Touchpad use with OS/2, ArcaOS
« on: February 16, 2018, 03:33:10 pm »
I have an old Toshiba Satellite.  It was easy to enable and disable the touch pad.  It has a special key "Fn".  To enable and disable touch pad, I would hit Fn + F9 keys.   It was that easy.

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Hardware / Re: Touchpad use with OS/2, ArcaOS
« on: February 16, 2018, 04:59:45 am »
My Lenovo Thinkpad X220's touch paid is sensitive too.  I have to be extremely careful when using a text program.  I will be typing along and text will be moved, deleted, and inserting somewhere else on the page.  I chalked it up to my poor typing.  I don't dare touch the touch pad.  It is random.  I have to make sure that when I am typing, no part of my hand touches the pad.

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Applications / Re: Open Office 4.1
« on: February 14, 2018, 12:04:17 am »

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   WPI installation:
   Download the AOO-4130-GA-rpm.wpi before you start the installation.
   This WPI is not installable. It's just a helper WPI which can be installed from
   the main Apache OpenOffice WPI. This WPI *must* reside in the same directory
   where the Apache OpenOffice WPI resides before installation.

If you like to do things manually and just grab the DLL's, assuming they are not all in AOO-4130-GA-rpm.wpi you can try dl'ing
files from http://rpm.netlabs.org/release/00/zip/ if your not a yum/rpm user.

I downloaded what I could find on the site.  All the Dll's I downloaded are already included with ArcaOS.  The dll's installed with ArcaOS are newer than the dll's I downloaded. 

I did not have uniclip and installed it.
I installed the gcc4core_1_3_1.wpi
I installed the Libc-0_6_6-csd6.wpi

Where can the AOO-4130-GA-rpm.wpi be downloaded from?

I contacted bitwiseworks and it he stated "Most probably you miss the xslt rpm."

Again, where can this file be found?

David

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Applications / Re: Open Office 4.1
« on: February 13, 2018, 10:28:10 am »
Hi Ian

It list these as needed, but where are they found to download?  The only one it tells where it can be found is uniclip at hobbes.


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Applications / Open Office 4.1
« on: February 13, 2018, 06:08:51 am »
I downloaded Open Office 4.1 after purchasing a development unit.  I had no problems installing. On opening any application, the application loads about half way and then I get an error message which I have uploaded.  Any idea why the program(s) won't finish loading?

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Hardware / Re: Limitation on using an USB DVD and CD writer under ArcaOS
« on: February 13, 2018, 05:54:38 am »
2 Dave Yeo:

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Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD 3.01 (i386-pc-os2-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2015 Joerg Schilling

Where did you took 3.01? Is this available from ArcaNoae repositories only? Access to non-arca users is closed?
It is on the ISO, here, J:\CID\SERVER\RPM\LOCALREP\cdrtools-3.01.1-1.oc00.i386.rpm on a recent beta version.

Thanks Dave for the info. 

Found it on the disk and installed it. 

To begin, I tested it with DVD Toys.  The USB device was now recognized,  whereas, with the ArcaOS 5.02 driver it was not.  I tried to unpack the iso to the writer, but it was not allowed.  It gave me an error message about the CDR Tools not being compiled by Froloff, it was not safe to proceed and would not let me go any further.

Next, I tried it with RSJ writer.  As Neil stated earlier, RSJ cannot find the writer when DVD Toys is installed.  Uninstalled DVD Toys and tried RSJ again.  Sure enough, the USB DVD writer was recognized and worked as it should. 

Note: this is with cdrtools-3.01.1-1.oc00.i386.rpm installed.  Neil is right.  RSJ cannot find the drive so long as DVD Toys is installed.  I now believe, RSJ may have worked with the drivers that came with ArcaOS 5.02. DVD Toys would not let it recognize the drive.  It will require me to install 5.02 again to test.

OK I reinstalled Arca0s 5.02 and installed just RSJ writer.  The USB writer worked fine with the drivers included with version 5.02. Update:  I was mistaken.  The driver appears to work with RSJ, but when finished nothing is written to the DVD.  It is bank.  Did this several times.  So one diffinitely needs the cdrtools-3.01.1-1.oc00.i386.rpm for USB to work properly.

There was one other difference I noted.  DVD Toys was unable to see the USB drive with the driver that came with version 5.02.   With cdrtools-3.01.1-1.oc00.i386, DVD Toys was able to see the USB drive, but would not allow one to use it due to the above reason stated.  It seems to me, somehow adding that this driver was compiled by Froloff and DVD Toys may work with this program.  Now if one could only figure out why RSJ writer will not work with DVD Toys installed.

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Hardware / Re: Limitation on using an USB DVD and CD writer under ArcaOS
« on: February 12, 2018, 09:27:57 pm »


No, as I checked in my arcaos copy, it has latest OS2CDROM.DMD v. 10.163, the same as supplied with UDF 2.16

2David Graser:
Good that the version from cdrtools 2.01.01.a59 works for you. But v. 10.163 is newer and has more features. Some IOCTL's are missing from Froloff's version. RSJ may not work with it too. And UDF will not work with it, too. Did you checked, which CDRTOOLS version is supplied together with CD/DVD Toys? I'd suspect that this version work well with Froloff's version of OS2CDROM.DMD (because CD/DVD Toys uses Froloff's version of CDRTOOLS), but RSJ needs OS2CDROM.DMD from UDF distribution. This is only a hypothesis. Hm, looking into my version of DVD Toys, I don't see cdrecord in its installation directory. Where does it looks for it, interesting?

Yes, too bad that Nickk/Froloff disappeared both and did not left the sources.
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Given a choice between the newer version or the earlier version, at this moment I have go with the earlier version.  I want USB writer capability.

Can Froloff's driver be disassembled to possibly see what he added or changed?

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Hardware / Re: Limitation on using an USB DVD and CD writer under ArcaOS
« on: February 12, 2018, 07:33:48 pm »
2David Graser: What is your os2cdrom.dmd version? You need a custom version from Froloff (cdrtools 2.01.01a59, or so), or from latest UDF 2.14-2.16. Older versions of OS2CDROM.DMD may not support ioctl's required to write CD's in packet mode. OS2CDROM.DMD 10.163 works for me.

Thanks Valery!  I did an internet search and found the driver,  I installed it with the other 2 packages that the page recommended installing with it.

cdrtools 2.01.01a59
emx0944.exe
aspirb10.zip

Rebooted and started DVD Toys again.  Bingo, this worked like a charm.  This is with ArcaOS 5.02.

Tried RSJ Writer. but it did not work.  It was then I realized that this program probably only works with CDR drives and not DVD writers.

So it appears that without this version, ArcaOS 5.02 cannot install to an USB DVD writer.

Again thanks for all the help from everyone.

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Hardware / Limitation on using an USB DVD and CD writer under ArcaOS
« on: February 12, 2018, 09:28:12 am »
I took the ArcaOS 5.02 image, using DVD Toys, was able to easily burn the image onto a disk.  This was using an internal DVD writer.

I then tried it using my USB LG DVD writer.  DVD Toys could not find it.  However when I put a data disk into the drive, the drive is recognized easily by the operating system, however, with a blank disk in the USB drive, neither RJS CDWriter or DVD Toys was able to burn the image.

Is this a known issue, not being able to burn to an USB DVD or CD writer?


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Hardware / Re: Best FAT32 driver settings
« on: February 11, 2018, 08:44:20 am »
I went into FM/2 settings and changed the scan settings to not load the system icons, but to use FM/2's default icons when loading the files.  FM/2 now comes up almost instantaneously using its default icons.  Thanks for all the suggestions I received.

David

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Hardware / Re: Best FAT32 driver settings
« on: February 10, 2018, 06:01:19 pm »
I can't believe it has a virus.  Windows populates the screen in seconds.
To leave doubts, if it could be a virus. It's simple.
1-You can format from OS2 as fat32.
2- Copy reliable os2 files.
3- Try
a-If it works well, os2 is not the problem, and you should think about a windows virus.
b-If it does not work well, the problem is not a virus.
If the answer is (a)
Format the partition again, start windows and see what files the virus has copied to that partition.

I had a similar problem recently and it was a windows virus, which spread through all the fat32 partitions, when starting win.
saludos
I

I ran Kaspersky Antivirus over the FAT32 partition.  It found nothing.  I am beginning to believe it is the the way the WPS handles files.  Windows GUI must handle FAT32 files differently than the WPS.   

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Hardware / Re: Best FAT32 driver settings
« on: February 10, 2018, 05:37:00 pm »
Strange. What filesystem has your disk C: ? It seems, it wrongly assumes this disk being FAT. The message

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FAT32: Error: Sector 7 does not exist on drive C:

means that number of sectors on disk < 7 (usually 0). Also, please, check the newer version fat32.ifs, r332: ftp://osfree.org/upload/fat32/fat32-0.10-r332-os2.zip, I made some additional checks in FS_MOUNT, so it should not wrongly mount other file systems, than FAT/FAT32/exFAT.

The drive C was a NTFS partition.  Installed your latest driver, added the /Fat switch, rebooted, the the system booted up fine.  This version corrects the error.

To test something else , I tried the WPS drive objects on both machines.  It is almost just as slow as Fm/2.  I just thought of one other difference between the two machines.  One uses ArcaOS and the other uses eCS 2.0.  One other thing to test.

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Hardware / Re: Best FAT32 driver settings
« on: February 10, 2018, 07:09:24 am »
Was using an earlier version of FM/2 3.20 on my eCS laptop.  Although not fast populating the screen, once populated, I could switch back and forth between drives and it was fast.  Something changed between 3.20 and version 3.24.

It appears to be more than the version numbers.  The slowest access time is coming from my multiprocessor notebook every time the FAt32 drive is accessed.  On the other single processor laptop, it is slow scanning, but once done, it is fast bringing up the FAT32 drive once it has been scanned for the first time.  This is not true for the notebook.  The scan time is the same no matter how many times it is accessed.

Tried PMView.  Same thing.  On the single processor laptop, the files do load faster than on the multiprocessor notebook.

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Hardware / Re: Best FAT32 driver settings
« on: February 10, 2018, 06:15:29 am »
2David Graser: hi

I'm using

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ifs=d:\os2\boot\fat32.ifs /cache:2048 /h /ac:* /largefiles /fat /exfat /eas /plus
call=d:\os2\cachef32.exe /f /p:2 /m:50000 /b:250 /d:5000

PS: Also, AFAICS, WPS opens these 128 GB and 1 TB drives faster than 40 s. It scans all directory structure for about 10 s (folder view), but just opening an icon view is fast -- 1-2 s. FC/2 does not scan whole directory structure each time, but FM/2 probably, does.

It appears that FM/2 is indeed the problem and only on FAT32 drives.  ZTreeBold brings the display up instantaneously.

Icon editor brings up the text fast and then brings up the graphical displays one at a time.   Same thing with PMView.  Text first and then   the picture for each file one pic at a time.  Even under text view, it makes no difference for FM/2.  it is no faster.

Valery, thank you for the additional switches and their excellent descriptions and your thoughts on what my problem might be!

David

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Hardware / Re: Best FAT32 driver settings
« on: February 10, 2018, 05:48:34 am »
I tried your settings and am now getting an internal processing error at location
##1000:05b5 - 0003:05b5.
65535, 9051
FAT32: Error: Sector 7 does not exist on drive C:

128606a7
Internal revision 14.201_smp

The system is stopped. Record all of the above information and contact your service representative.

Testing has revealed that the /fat switch is the problem.  If left out of the statement, the FAT.IFS driver loads fine.

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