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Graphics and Window Design / Re: Bigicons-Alt_options_config_pngs
« Last post by David Graser on Today at 06:44:00 am »
blue screen - set 20
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Internet / Re: Problems with OpenSSL library after update.
« Last post by Dave Yeo on February 04, 2026, 06:55:17 pm »
Yes, the long term plan is to move GCC to compiling to ELF, which it is already capable of. Wlink in theory can link ELF files to OS/2 executables and does mostly work for C programs. CPLUS is another matter. As well other parts of the toolchain would need updating. Need a skilled programmer that is interested.
As for OpenSSL, another option might be not using the assembly code. Haven't looked at OpenSSL, but generally these projects have C code as well as assembly with the C code being a fall back for times when there is no assembly available like using a different CPU. Be slower and need to recompile the library.
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Internet / Re: Problems with OpenSSL library after update.
« Last post by OS4User on February 04, 2026, 05:29:59 pm »
It is a bit tricky case.

OS4Team added (may be 7 years ago or more) AVX support on user`s request and it works fine. Of course, the application which is supposed to use AVX has to be compiled and linked properly. It means all the data has to be aligned in accordance with the AVX requirements.

My investigation has shown than we can reach the necessary alignment but we have to provide the following:
 - compilation has to be done to ".elf"  (not ".obj")
 - the linker has to understand ".elf"

These two are very far from OS4Team interest and activity. What OS4Team can do to help  is only remove AVX support, but for me it sounds stupid.
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Hardware / Re: Serial Port Shenanigans - ArcaOS 5.1.1 on a Lenovo M920t
« Last post by AmbulatoryCorpse on February 04, 2026, 11:43:11 am »
Thanks for the FOSSIL overview.

I am a little confused by the vmodem vs physical modem stuff, but I have a very wild, shot in the dark, suggestion. 

The sio package includes a serial port emulator service (vmodem.sys) and a telnet server (vmodem.exe). Between them they can create around 250 virtual serial ports that interact with bbs software to handle guests from the internet parallel to actual physical phone lines. Default it provides 4, effectively emulating a 4 port multi serial card with modems.


Try switching on CSM AND limiting your system to a single processor and see if SIO will run.  To limit to a single processor add /MAXCPU=1 to the ACPI.PSD line in CONFIG.SYS, e.g.

PSD = ACPI.PSD /MAXCPU=1

The reason I suggest this is the COM.SYS on my AOS 5.1 system is dated 8/3/2002 and SIO2K was released 6/6/2002, so they were both revised/released about the same time, suggesting that maybe the issue isn't in the COM stack/driver/interface but rather someplace else.

One processor should still be fast enough to handle multiple BBS "lines" - after all people were running multi-line BBS on machines before there were multi-core processor machines.


At this point I'm pretty sure what I'm running into is sio trying to use things that aren't present in the modern LPC bus, but would be present in the ISA bus that the OS says it's talking to. I think proper fixes could be someone writing a replacement for (parts of) sio or someone writing an updated ISA driver that can recognize LPC emulating ISA then fix up other things. I'm trying to make sense of technical information beyond me, so yeah.

At any rate I will try apci and orther suggestions when I next have time.
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Hardware / Re: Serial Port Shenanigans - ArcaOS 5.1.1 on a Lenovo M920t
« Last post by Doug Clark on February 03, 2026, 06:14:57 pm »
Thanks for the FOSSIL overview.

I am a little confused by the vmodem vs physical modem stuff, but I have a very wild, shot in the dark, suggestion.  Try switching on CSM AND limiting your system to a single processor and see if SIO will run.  To limit to a single processor add /MAXCPU=1 to the ACPI.PSD line in CONFIG.SYS, e.g.

PSD = ACPI.PSD /MAXCPU=1

The reason I suggest this is the COM.SYS on my AOS 5.1 system is dated 8/3/2002 and SIO2K was released 6/6/2002, so they were both revised/released about the same time, suggesting that maybe the issue isn't in the COM stack/driver/interface but rather someplace else.

One processor should still be fast enough to handle multiple BBS "lines" - after all people were running multi-line BBS on machines before there were multi-core processor machines.
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Nah. I was being a complete brain dead idiot. Too tired.

As it turns out, the error message was exactly correct. It could not connect to the server. Which server. DDNSAPS.CMD... Normally started from tcpstart.cmd Doh! This was done to implement remote config, but it's also used locally.

Funny how it whinges that it can't connect to a server when it's not running.

Hence the brain dead me bit...

Please return to your normal programming, whilst I reboot myself. :)

-Chris
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FYI:

The RPM Tickets should be open here: https://github.com/bitwiseworks/rpm-issues

Just as a note, usually users post their issues on users forum to see if other user share the same issue. Once the issue it is confirmed the procedure it is to open a ticket or contact the developer. 

Regards
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Hi

Why not open a ticket?
As I don't think it will be resolved here.
Its allways better to open a ticket.
As then the maintainer reads it, and he can answered you.

Greetz Tellie

1000% agreed with Tellie. Developers complain they get no feedback and in genereal users complain about the quality of the sofftware.
So please open a ticket.

Roderick
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Hi

Why not open a ticket?
As I don't think it will be resolved here.
Its allways better to open a ticket.
As then the maintainer reads it, and he can answered you.

Greetz Tellie
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Internet / Re: Problems with OpenSSL library after update.
« Last post by Dave Yeo on February 02, 2026, 05:01:19 am »
OK, didn't realize where the developers are, pretty crappy situation. At that the whole world seems to be going down the flusher.
As for the problem, yes it should be fixed. There's always people with old hardware/operating systems vs developers with the latest and endless ram etc.
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