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Applications / Re: AOS RAM Disk
« on: September 25, 2018, 08:13:58 pm »
Yes Valery, you are correct. My mistake. 4 GB limit.

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Applications / AOS RAM Disk
« on: September 25, 2018, 06:43:44 pm »
I have read that the AOS RAM disk uses memory above the 4 MB limit - meaning on a 8 MB machine I could assign 4MB to a ram disk and not impact any OS/2 applications or the operating system itself.

Yet the Low and High memory check boxes and available amounts don't seem to indicate that is true.

Does anyone know where RAM disk takes memory? And it it does use memory about the 4 MB limit, how does it do that?

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Applications / AOS Removable media monitor - how to install
« on: September 25, 2018, 06:39:21 pm »
I am trying to figure out how to add the AOS removable media monitor widget to xCenter. For some reason when I installed AOS 5.01 on my laptop the monitor wasn't installed.

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FM/2
LxPM (editor from VisualAge C++ 4)
EPM
PmMail
Lucide
Ghostscript/GsView
FrameMaker 5 (win16)
Lotus Improv (Win16)
Mesa
FireFox 45.9
DB2/2
Q&E Database editor (both OS/2 and Win16)
ReportSmith (win16)
Samba client & server
xWorkplace
DragText

Development:
VisualAge C++ both v 4 and v 3
Hyperwise

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Events / Re: Announcing Warpstock Europe 2019!
« on: June 29, 2018, 05:38:20 pm »
I think the rate is just for attending Warpstock, and the room costs are additional.

I wanted to go this year but couldn't. Knowning now when and where for next year makes it easier for me and my wife to plan.  See ya next year, and good luck organizing.

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Setup & Installation / Re: USB 3.0 /3.1
« on: June 29, 2018, 05:29:32 pm »
Andi B - I also prefer working on a desktop over a laptop because of the keyboard, mouse, and much larger monitor. But sometimes it is impratical to haul my desktop around and a laptop is very handy. Hence wifi, and on the newer machines, USB 3, is important.

My opinion is the graphics part is pretty good right now for desktop users. It is easy and cheap to buy a graphics card that is supported by SNAP, and SNAP works great for dual monitors. I am writing this right now on dual 27" monitors each running at 1920 x 1080 via ArcaOS SNAP on a quad core machine. The video card (Radeon X600) cost $7 including shipping. While I don't believe SNAP will run the the very wide 4K screens, I think Panorama will.
Panorama on a quad core machine performs well enough to run video at 1920 x 1080, but I don't know how well it will perform at 4k resolutions.

If video is a concern then it is a concern (to me) for laptops because of the problem running WinOS2. My laptop will not run SNAP and WinOS2 does not run on that machine with Panorama - which means it doesn't run. However there may be a work around for that by running the Win16 apps in WinXP in VBOX. It will be a pain to install and setup, but I suspect it will work.

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If it runs the x86 instruction set it should, in theory, run other OSes . Sigurd Fastenrath has a video on YouTube showing OS/2 running on an Asus minicomputer with an ATOM processor. And one showing OS/2 running on a Samsung slate tablet running a core i5.

As the article you referenced said, the prototype has been out for 2 years and no one has brought a product to market. My guess is the fact that it is not a phone means it probably wont get built/marketed. The not-a-phone-ness of the Palm Pilot appears to be what killed that product/product type. And this pocket pc is not a phone.

My opinion is you want a phone small enough to fit in your pocket. If you are doing computery type things you want a screen large enough to be useful; it may be possible to run a spreadsheet on a phone sized screen but who wants to do that. The "pocket pc" misses both marks: its not a phone but is phone sized, so the screen is too small be really useful for computery type activities.

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Applications / Re: VirtualBox v5.0.51 Testing
« on: May 22, 2018, 06:15:34 am »
Dariusz,

I was trapping in OS2KRNL.

I submitted a bug report and got a response and a fix from ArcaNoae on Sat.

The short version is

"The trap is occurring when PM is attempting to load LEDPANEL.FON which is
installed by PMDCALC.WPI.  The font file itself is OK, but it exposes a defect
in _ldrGetMte..."

So far the fix has been working.

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Hardware / Re: Lenovo External Monitor
« on: May 18, 2018, 04:16:31 pm »
I am currently using something similar - an IOGear Ethernet 2 WiFi Universal Wireless Adapter (GWU637). I use the external switch on the laptop to turn off the radio in the laptop when I connect the adapter - as the adapter instructions suggest.  Two radios on at the same time (the adapter and the laptop) would probably be less than optimal.

When I slide the switch off the indicator light for the radio turns off.  In Windows the switch must be on for the radio to work. If the switch is on I can also use the Fn key-radio key combo to turn the radio on or off - but the slider switch must be on for that to work.  Actually the Fn key combo brings up a software app that has a radio button (pun intended?) for turning the radio and/or bluetooth on or off.

So I don't know that the slider key will actually turn on the radio in OS/2.  I am pretty sure the slider key in the off position makes sure the radio is off, but sliding the switch on may just allow the software to turn the radio on/off.

But in any case I stil have the whitelist issue. It appears the radio/card I have installed doesn't have a Genmac driver, and the cards which do won't work in the laptop.

It also appears that some have modified the BIOS, but to do that on this laptop the BIOS chip has to be removed from the laptop and reprogrammed in a burner/programmer. It also looks from the forum that some have not been successful and ended up with a laptop that doesn't work.

Given the possibility that even if I successfully modify the BIOS to allow the radio to be installed, it still may not work in OS/2 because of the on/off issue. Given the risk and cost (e.g. have to buy an eprom programmer) of modifying the BIOS and the uncertainty of the on/off issue, I will stick with what I have.

Thanks for the advice. Godspeed to the wireless multimac programmers, whoever they are.

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Hardware / Re: Lenovo External Monitor
« on: May 18, 2018, 03:06:51 am »
Unfortunately I have no idea what the PCI id is, since I could not get the machine to boot. WikiDev lists a bunch for this class of card, and I can't tell what the specific id is for this card.

The label on the card says Intel 512an_hmw

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Hardware / Re: Lenovo External Monitor
« on: May 18, 2018, 01:54:10 am »
BIOS does not allow changing WiFi card - just enable or disable for WiFi.

It does however have a setting which converts the 2 USB 3.0 ports to USB 2.0. It comes with 4 USB ports, by default 2 are USB 3 and 2 are USB 2.

I had a patched BIOS for my Thinkpad T43p, but didn't think of that for this machine. I will look to see if someone has patched this one for unauthorized WiFi cards. This model has a sliding switch on the side for turning on and off WiFi - in addition to the usual Fn - key method, which only works in Windows. I thought I might have a fighting chance of getting some WiFi card to work with GenMac given the switch on the side.  Thanks for the suggestion.

Doug

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Hardware / Re: Lenovo External Monitor
« on: May 17, 2018, 06:06:32 pm »
Thanks Doug for the advice. I went back and tried ALL the options after your post.

In the BIOS on the Config -> Display  screen selecting Analog (VGA) as the "Boot Display Device" causes the VGA port to work on the laptop, but only if on the Config -> Display screen Discrete Graphics is selected as the "Graphics Device"; selecting either Integrated Graphics or NVIDIA Optimus will result in no output on the VGA port.

If the external monitor is plugged into the VGA port on the docking station, this combination of settings in the BIOS (and only this combination) will display on the external monitor when the laptop is plugged into the docking station.

When plugged into the docking station the laptop will boot without the lid open by pressing the power button on the docking station; you will bypass the option of entering BIOS and start at Airboot.

As Doug stated, simply unplugging the external monitor from the VGA port on the laptop will cause the display to revert to the laptop's LCD. However each time the display is changed (LCD to external or external to LCD) Panorama resets to VGA 1024x768. Selecting the desired resolution and rebooting fixes that.

Lastly: I tried replacing the WiFi card in the machine with an Intel WiFi Link 5100 because of some posting someone else had about that card possibly working. The laptop will not boot with that card in place; it complains about an unauthorized WiFi card.

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Applications / Re: VirtualBox v5.0.51 Testing
« on: May 15, 2018, 02:23:49 am »
I am using a ATI Radeon PCIe x600 card. Fantastic card, very cheap, quick.

I thought it was related to SNAP because the trap happens after the SNAP splash screen and before the screens turn blue and then the desktop appears. Which is what lead me to revert to VGA and reinstall SNAP.

ArcaNoae thinks it is a timing issue and not a SNAP issue, and my reverting to VGA is effecting the timing of something on startup. There are a number of other people who have gotten the same Trap at the same location.

The trap happens every morning when I first boot up, but sometimes also happens on reboot during the day. I will keep the SET LIBCX_HIGHMEM=2  REMed out for a day or two if I get no traps so I can report back to ArcaNoae.

I now don't THINK there is a conflict between SNAP and Vbox that cause the trap. But there are some memory considerations when using SNAP and vbox, which were talked about on this thread or the other VirtualBox thread. Basically: SNAP will consume lots of memory it apparently doesn't need, which can affect vbox starting and running. The solution is to limit the memory consumed by SNAP with the GAOPTION VIDMEM xx command. I am using 32 for the xx, which limits SNAP to 32MBs. This works ok with my SNAP dual monitor setup when using 64k colors.

If you decide to try the Radeon x600 PCIe there are two considerations to keep in mind. The card is a half height card and you probably want to make sure it comes with full height bracket. Otherwise you have to replace the bracket - which is easy if you have the full height bracket. The other consideration is the card has a weird connector on the back, a DMS59 connector, and you need the cable set to go with it: male DMS59 to 2 female VGA connectors, or male DMS59 to 2 female DVI, or male DMS59 to 1 VGA and 1 DVI. It appears any card will work with any cable set. The part number seems to indicate the bracket height, the memory on the card, and the cable set included with the card, but you can switch the cable sets around and they still work.

The card runs between $5 to $10 on ebay. If it doesn't include the cable you can get the cable for about $5 to $10 on Amazon or ebay.

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I don't understand your last question about reselecting logical partitions for reinstalling ArcaOS.

Purchased a used Lenovo T530 loaded with Win7 and installed ArcaOS on the same drive as Win7. Both WIn 7 and ArcaOS2 boot drives/partitions are C: You are right about making the ArcaOS partition(s) logical. [In my case the install was complicated by replacing the hard drive with an SSD.

The final process was:

1) Make DVDs from Win7 recovery partition on the hard drive. The hard drive for a Lenovo laptop comes with a partition at the end which contains the stuff to reinstall/recover the Win7 installation, along with a utility to copy that data to DVDs. It took 5 DVDs to store all the data.

2) Swap the spinning hard drive with the SSD drive.

3) Boot to 1st  recovery DVD and restore Win7 to the SSD.

4) Boot to Win7 and immediately shrink the partition to the smallest it will go and you want it to be. In my case that was 93 GB. Use the "Create and Format Hard Disk Partitions" tool in Win7 under Control Panel, Administrative Tools.

5) I wanted my Windows development tools in a separate partition so I created a new partition (10 GB) in Win7, which became the D: drive in Windows 7.

6)  I booted to the ArcaOS DVD, and on the first screen after the installer started I selected System Management and created  the partitions I wanted. Then exited back to the installer and completed the install.

What didn't work was trying to use a retail copy of Windows 7 to install on the new SSD drive while using the product ID I extracted from the existing Windows on the spinning hard drive.  It installed OK but would not activate using the product ID from the old Win7 installation. I was trying to avoid the process of creating the recovery DVDs, installing from those, and then shrinking the partition.

5)

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Setup & Installation / Re: Panorama v Snap Video
« on: May 15, 2018, 01:18:32 am »
My experience with Panorama is that the performance is pretty good at 64K colors if you "Enable shadow buffer" - the check box on the first page of the Screen object. I have also found that I need to check both "Enable Custom Resolutions" and "Use Native Resolution" on the "Custom Resolutions" page of the screen object or else I can't get above 1024-760 with the monitor complaining the settings are out of its range. With those check boxes selected if sets the resolution perfectly.

The other side is that WinOS2/Dos support is rather spoty. WinOS2/Dos work well on my AMD machines, (RS780) chip reported. The default install for ArcaOS loads C:\OS2\MDOS\VSVGA.SYS. With that driver I get the message "The system does not support this session's video mode in a window", and yet it actually does. If VVGA.SYS is swapped for VSVGA.SYS the message goes away.

However on my laptop (Lenovo T530) WinOS2 and DOS do not work; neither will display.

The other disadvantage of Panorama is it doesn't turn off the monitor when inactive.

The advantages of SNAP are: dual head output, WinOS2/DOS works perfectly, and it turns off the monitor(s) after a period of inactivity.

With dual head you get the same width as a 4K  monitor (3840) but at a much cheaper price. Here I  can get (from Microcenter)  2 Dell 27 inch monitors which look very good for $300 for the pair. Add in a ATI Radeon x600 PCIe video card for $5 including shipping (eBay) and you have a pretty sweet setup.  The Radeon will do either VGA/VGA, DVI/DVI, or VGA/DVI depending on which cable set you hook up. (The connector on the card is DMS-59 and the cables come as DMS-59 -> VGA/VGA, or DMS59 -> DVI/DVI or DMS59 -> VGA/DVI.)

I am running VGA/VGA because I am sharing the dual monitor setup between an ArcaOS,  Windows 7, and  Windows XP/eCS machines; VGA KVMs are much cheaper than DVI KVMs. The Windows 7 machine is using the video from the motherboard; I am connected to the VGA connecter on the motherboard and the DVI connector on the motherboard with a DVI to VGA active converter between the DVI and the KVM ($9 from amazon.) The KVMs outputs are connected to the VGA inputs on the monitors.

The disadvantages are: you have the bezels around the monitors so there is a black area  between the left and right monitors, and most of the inexpensive 27 inch monitors only run a maximum of 1080 vertical resolution.

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