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#1
Multimedia / Re: SNAP - Quiet mode?
2012.07.18, 20:51:12
Hi, just read this.
I believe shift+backspace is what you are looking (closes the visited folder and opens the parent folder). But to have it as a would be nice.
#2
Hardware / Re: Battery and Thinkapad r52
2012.04.08, 17:31:44
Hi there once again.
As mentioned before I experimented a little bit with apm on my thinkpad r52. There definitely is a great difference
when a. not using the smp kernel and b. when using the latest speedstep files for ecs /os2. First off all this combination seems to increase the time left when running on battery. I now have appr. 2h 45 min to 3 h when running on battery charged and the system idle and setting the display brightness to the lowest value. But there is on more thing I found out by chance which really amazed me: I use the genmac driver to be able to use wlan with the r52. Running ecs with the smp kernel on battery I had to set the bios speed step value for running on battery to -automatic- to make sure that the genmac driver worked correct when loading. Still on some boots I had the problem that the device was not found. Now I can even set the battery values to the lowest level like battery optimized or minimum battery and the wlan device loads any time I boot.

Greetings

#3
Hardware / Re: Battery and Thinkapad r52
2012.03.21, 20:16:08
Hi there once again,
I kind of played around a little bit with my R52. The main think I did was to switch back from the smp kernel to the
14.105 Kernel. This really was an improvement concerning power consumption. Running on 100% charged battery, display set to the lowest value, no programs running I now have a remaining time of usage somewhere between 2h30 and 3 hours, which is a great improvement. My battery widget is reacting more sensitive too, showing alternating values much faster, depending on activities, lke starting firefox or papyrus f.e. I think I will do a new, clean install with the uni-kernel.
On further question: I included the following statement in my config.sys -SET SHOWEXTENDEDPOWERMENU=YES
Now I get an extra graph in my power-object which increases or decreases if I run the R52 on AC or DC, Further on there is a line included stating -throttling disabled-. Which throttling ?????. The conclusion is that there is some kind of throttling supposed to be.

Holger





#4
Hardware / Re: Battery and Thinkapad r52
2012.03.18, 14:30:50
Hi there and thank you for your answers,

-I am not sure if the thinkpad r52 can do ACPI or not. If it can, you should use the ACPI stuff from eCS Software-

I tried ACPI but never really was satisfied. In some ways the last version worked, at least I was able to reduce the CPU Speed, but the performance was kind of notchy, so I quit trying.
Strange enough, I remember I had posted the issue some time ago in a german forum, and someone stated to remember 2.5 to 3 hours of usage running on battery. Are there any differences between OS/2 and Ecs concerning APM?


Greetings

Holger
#5
Hardware / Battery and Thinkapad r52
2012.03.17, 12:43:05
Hi there, I bought a new accu  (battery?) for my thinkpad r52.
I once again became aware of a problem concerning powermanagement and ecs (Version 2)
Running Ecs system with fully charged battery the powermanagement shows a remaining time of 100 minutes usage left. This is shown when running in idle state, display ist set to the lowest value, no programms running.
Changing to WinXp on the same machine, and running under similar conditions, I have apr. 3h30min time of usage left. Are there any known issues with Ecs and the R52 which could explain this difference. I use apm, which probably is old compared to powermanagement with winxp, but for example suspend resume works very good on this machine, so I rather suspect a problem with apm and the battery

#6
Hi, sorry to let you wait
I was just testing  right now:
I concentrated on the conversion of tracks directly from CD
and I really was delighted, everything works real smooth.
I tried all kind of conversions (preset) and some with my own settings
and the results were perfect.
Reading from CDDB works fine too
So, a big thank you to you
(I have a machine with two CD-Rom drives, so I will do some testing adding files from both drives too)

Greetings

Holger



#7
Hi Remy,

sorry for letting you wait, but I was quite busy the last two days.
I will download the new version and give it a try.
I really don' t know what went wrong the las time as I even deinstalled the whole package
and reinstalled again, but even then I received the same error-message.
But as mentioned before, I hope I will be able to do some testing today.

Greetings

Holger
#8
Hi there,

strange things are happening: yesterday I downloaded and installed according to your instructions
and did a first quick test, converting a complete cd to mp3.
everything worked or seemed to work.
I wanted to continue today but no matter what I try I always get an error reading:
    24 +++       Call STREAM wfile, 'c', 'close';
REX0040: Error 40 running C:\PROGRAMS\FFMPEGCA\FFRUNCA.EXE, line 24: Incorrect call to routine
As I didn't change anything this seems quite strange

Holger







#9
Hi there,
I really am interested in testing a version with the ability to directly convert form audio-cd
Is there a download available already ?

Holger