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OS/2 - Technical => Setup & Installation => Topic started by: melik on 2010.03.21, 20:46:35

Title: ecs on 'modern' laptop...
Post by: melik on 2010.03.21, 20:46:35
Hi,

I am trying to setup the eCS (2.0rc7, as I cannot install the 1.2 there) on a laptop (has SATA).
I have some issues so far (installation worked when i set the SATA as ATA-mode from BIOS).

I can only run the Win16 Session as 'fullscreen' only, as the windowed session just 'freezes' the system.
But even then, there is no mouse cursor on the fullscreen win16 session..
I am using the laptop's trackpad (could be this the reason?), as there is no PS/2 on this..

Any ideas ?

Thanx in advance

Mel
Title: Re: ecs on 'modern' laptop...
Post by: hecom on 2010.03.22, 00:59:14
Add DEVICE=x:\OS2\MDOS\VMOUSE.SYS and DEVICE=x:\OS2\MDOS\VCOM.SYS in the config.sys
Title: Re: ecs on 'modern' laptop...
Post by: melik on 2010.03.23, 15:14:59
Thx!

The vmouse.sys helps ! But I got an error (device driver was not installed) for
the vcom.sys... I assume this device needed to run windowed win16 sessions,
right?

Mel
Title: Re: ecs on 'modern' laptop...
Post by: BigWarpGuy on 2010.05.28, 22:13:40
I will be trying eCS 2.0 on my Acer Aspire 3050 notebook computer. The Aspire 3050 is a couple of years old.  8)

I want to install it on a netbook (either my Asus EEE 701a pc or an Acer Aspire One). Will I be able to install it from an USB cd drive or USB DVD drive?  ???
Title: Re: ecs on 'modern' laptop...
Post by: Radek on 2010.05.28, 23:34:03
vcom.sys is a VDD for a COM port. Guesses follow: The laptop has no COM port, only USB. com.sys is not installed, vcom.sys has not found com.sys. Right?  :)

vcom.sys is needed only if you are using a mouse attached to a COM port. You don't need it otherwise (USB mouse, built-in trackpads and so on). If you have no COM port on the laptop then delete the vcom.sys line from your config.sys .
Title: Re: ecs on 'modern' laptop...
Post by: jmbw on 2010.06.14, 09:03:03
BWG:  yes, installing eCS2.0GA from a USB CD-ROM works on the Asus Eee 701.  The one thing I had to do was go into the CD boot options (from the second prompt that the eCS installation CD gives at boot) and on the final page, and tell it to recognize the USB CD and install from it.  I never did figure out how to get it to recognize SD cards and/or USB flash drives, or even a secondary partition on the SSD, so I had to type the registration key in by hand.

What I *can't* figure out how to do is enable the network.  eCS recognizes the Atheros WLAN port and seems to install a GenMac driver for it, but the driver doesn't actually work (it complains about a missing section of PROTOCOL.INI at bootup, and the Hardware Manager calls it "Unsupported DEVICE!!!" (although that may be on purpose???  since all the dev info is believable).  The wired LAN port isn't recognized at all.

I gather (from googling) that people figured this out a couple of years ago with eCS 2.0rc5 but I haven't been able to make it fly with 2.0GA (the current version of GenMac seems to be newer than they used, but does that mean it incorporates their patches or not?).  It writes a log file in ecs\system\genmac\driver (um, sometimes), which looks like a log of Windows calls being emulated, and there are a couple of file-not-found errors in there.  But do they matter?  Also it's possible I've gummed up my CONFIG.SYS by running MPTS repeatedly trying to uninstall/reinstall drivers (there are some lines duplicated).

John Wilson
D Bit
Title: Re: ecs on 'modern' laptop...
Post by: BigWarpGuy on 2010.06.19, 02:32:42
Thank you for the information. It is appreciated. I am still waiting for my eCS 2.0 to arrive.  8)