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#61
I'm also eagerly waiting for this to be posted with source, as it likely has fixes applicable to the klibc port. No sense duplicating work.
#62
A while back I saw a post (I believe on the UnixOS/2 mailing list iirc) stating that the GNAT compiler in gcc 3.x is not nearly as good as the one in gcc 4.x because the 3.x compiler first translates the Ada code into C, whereas the 4.x compiler compiles the Ada code directly into bytecode. The general conclusion of the discussion was that the effort required would be more worthwhile after a gcc > 4.0 is ported to OS/2, which, to my knowledge, has not yet been attempted.

I have not confirmed this difference to be fact, but if it were me I would check into it before going too far with the effort.

Then again, if it is true, maybe that would make the 3.x port easier than a 4.x port.

Just my $0.01.
#63
No Christian. This is not about a person doing what he wants with his money. This is publically associating a product with a charity, directing what other people do with their money, not his money. The association of the product with the charity means that consumers of the product become donors to the charity. We can call them consumer-donors. Now whether to give to the charity is part of the decision to purchase the product.

It is a bit like the red phones for AIDS in Africa. Consumers are invited to buy a red phone to contribute to the cause. The worthiness of the cause, and the visibility of the sign of the noble red phone for such donors, motivates people to buy the phone, increasing its sales. See how the economics are affected by the public association, whereas if the cell phone company gave quietly to the charity out of ordinary sales it would not have this effect. This can work negatively against the product as well if people do not like the charity or would be ashamed by the visibility of the sign of it.

To make the public association is to allow for how it will influence the decisions of people who might consider using the product. To accuse people who are influenced by it of violating his rights is simply wrong.
#64
USB / Re: usb irq conflict
2007.06.08, 01:31:21
I have all devices in my notebook sharing IRQ 11. That includes the hard drive controller and the USB controller. It caused sound lockups on eCS beta3, but with beta4 it's working fine. In general, if the drivers involved are compliant with IRQ sharing, it should not cause problems. What makes you certain that the problem is related to IRQ conflicts?

Sometimes IRQ's can be changed, sometimes not, it depends. On mine there is nothing I can do about it. The documentation with ACPI describes some parameters that can be set which might work for some setups.
#65
Hardware / Re: uniaud
2007.06.08, 01:22:24
Thank you Chris, for sharing the info about your unique and impressive sound setup. I hope you are subscribed to the uniaud-user list, as I may have questions for you later.
#66
Hardware / Re: uniaud
2007.06.06, 04:11:12
Quote from: Pete on 2007.06.05, 23:59:38

Hi obiwan

If you know where to post an error report on the latest "stable" "gbo" build then Please report that it simply does Not work.

Having installed that uniaud32.sys file and rebooted my sounds no longer work at all.

Hardware involved: nVidia CK-804 and ALC850

Uniaud driver: 114RC2 package updated with ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/uniaud/uniaud32_stable_070602_gbo.zip

Hi Pete. The "gbo" driver simply does not work on some hardware, and does work on other hardware. It works on mine, for example. A good place to discuss which hardware does and does not work with it is the uniaud-user at netlabs mailing list. I would suggest reverting to your previous uniaud32.sys or trying a non-"gbo" build.
#67
Hardware / Re: uniaud
2007.06.05, 19:45:01
Quote from: ChrisR on 2007.06.05, 12:30:32
With later versions of uniaud I put the following line in comfig.sys to make the sound working;

RUN=x:\MMOS2\unimix.exe -id21 -val1

Where x is of course the drive where os2(ecs) is installed and asuming unimix is copied to the mmos2 folder.


Thanks for the tip Chris. Can you tell us what hardware you are using for which this makes a difference? If you don't mind, could you try it (both with and without this command) using one of the "stable" "gbo" builds found in ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/uniaud, keeping of course a backup copy of your existing uniaud32.sys?
#68
Article Discussions / Re: Rexx Today
2007.05.26, 02:19:39
You might have a look at Rexx/DW. Rexx bindings for Dynamic Windows. Dynamic Windows is a cross-platform GUI toolkit, which does work on OS/2. Rexx/DW works with all the flavors of Rexx I know about, including Open Object Rexx and Object Rexx. I started to use it to add a GUI to one of my utilities just before I decided to stop using and developing that utility. So I did not get very far with it, but from what I saw, although it is still pretty new, it seems like a good, forward-looking solution to what you're talking about.
#69
I thought the story in a way was rather frivolous. The eComStation demo wasn't the only option he investigated only cursorily. He concluded that the hardware was incompatible with Linux after a particular version of the kernel, which is unlikely, considering the way the Linux kernel is developed. More likely, the distros he tried simply left out the support to keep it light, but it could have been made to work with a custom compile.

In fairness, though, it is pretty clear the exercise was not for the purpose of exploring the best option, but only to quickly find out what could install easily and work. He did not want to spend much time, and wrote about it to spare others who might have the same desire. In the end, he is not even very satisfied with the option he chose, and declined to recommend it.

It is a good lesson in the fact that sometimes how easily something installs makes the difference between whether anything else about it is even considered.