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Setup & Installation / Re: Dual Boot
« on: 2008.07.30, 09:58:27 »
OS/2 boot drive can be D: or anything else. You can install OS/2 on a logical partition. No problems here. Start installation from your CD, install Boot Manager, create a partition for OS/2 (for example, D: ) add the partition along with the winblows partition to the boot manager menu and so on. I recommend creating a 2 GB HPFS "system" partition, where you will have only the opeating system, and adding JFS "data" partition(s) later, where you will have your apps and data.
You can experience lot of "fun" with the existing winblows on your machine. At any rate, archive critical data from your machine first. There is a lot of potential problems on your way :D thus try first and ask then :D It isn't possible to enumerate all problems in the advance.

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(a) My unsupported cardbus controller: TI 6411, it should be supported in ver. 7.05, TI 6411 isn't supported by anything else.
(b) The ACPI problem: AFAIK, SMP kernel will not run without ACPI. Therefore, problems with ACPI will result in problems on all multi-CPU machines, that means, on a majority of machines today. IMO, making the cardbus driver "not fighting" with APIC at least seems to be necessary.

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Hardware / Re: Compact Flash Cards (and any OS)
« on: 2008.07.15, 09:34:24 »
2ddan, the "bursts". This seems to be a "feature" of eXtreme Problems. DOS sessions (or screen refresh in DOS sessions) seem to have so low priority that even a simple typing a text does not pass. You get the "bursts" you have written about. They prevented me from using a DOS plain text editor (kedit) under eXtreme Problems. Typing anything was impossible. Note that DOS 98 was not featured by this property.
I don't know whether the problem can be fixed (boosting the DOS session priority or refresh rate). I have made a mild attempt do fix it and I failed. Because I don't care about winblows I haven't tried further.

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Applications / Re: CD Record
« on: 2008.05.30, 14:41:23 »
SYS3184 is "divide by zero" fault. It seems to be a problem of pmwrtaud.exe and not yours one. Things to try:
(1) Use RSJ instead of cdrecord. 21-days full functioning demo can be downloaded from www.rsj.de
(2) Try to use cdrecord from command line and bypass the Audio Creator PM interface.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Troubles installing Warp 4
« on: 2008.05.26, 09:46:02 »
It's weird. First, as it has already been mentioned, W4 does not have LVM. Second, the strange HD behaviour. Does the disk contain some "maintenance partition"? Some HDs do, I have even heard that some system can have a part of BIOS on such "maintenance partition" (Some Compaqs, it sounds crazy, what if the HD becomes defective or gets replaced, but I am selling what I have bought).
Such "maintenance partition" can make the HD unusable with OS/2. FDISK will not understand the HD. On the other hand, the partition should get deleted long ago during FDISK attempts. I don't understand it.
Perhaps, it should be decided first whether it is the HD which is wrong or whether something else is (is also) wrong. If you can get some HD, which you can wipe out and use for OS/2 installation attempts then replace the HD and try again. The HD can be old, it can be small (2G is enough, even 500M is enough for W4) but is should be as standard as possible. For example some WD.
The inability to produce the installation diskettes is also strange. Long ago, when I had W4, I made the diskettes on a winblows machine in my work or from DOS. No problems. I also made the diskettes from DOS session in OS/2. No problem.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Troubles installing Warp 4
« on: 2008.05.23, 14:06:32 »
A few recommendations:
(1) If you can then start with a clean disk (no partitions at all) and do everything from OS/2. Set the disk to LBA mode (you will see the LBA addressable 8 GB of the HD, you will see more later, after installing a better HD driver).
(2) I am not sure whether PC DOS FDISK has made something wrong with your MBR. (I am speaking about the "non DOS" pratitions with wrong size.) In the end, PC DOS is not the same as MS DOS so that I cannot exclude it. I had the best experience with DOS 5 (MS DOS) FDISK. Delete all partitions with this FDISK. Ignore senseless partition sizes, the FDISK does not understand well big partitions but it is able to delete them flawelessly :)
(3) Another problem can be PnP. Disable PnP during installation.
(4) Next problem can be the CD ROM driver. Let us suppose you can read CD (from the installer).
(5) Start the installation, select "Advanced Installation" and you get OS/2 FDISK. Create a 2 GB partition at the start of the disk, make it bootable, save changes and quit. This will cause restart. Next time, you select your partition for installation.
(6) Install bare bones OS/2. Format the partition HPFS. Do not install anything you can install later. Install only standard drivers related to your machine and offered by the installer. Do not install network (this can be done later) and sound (this also can be done later). Do not install APM, PCMCIA, etc.
(7) Install HD driver. You need the files mentioned by ddan. Restart. Now, you should see the whole HD and you can create additional partitions.
(8) If you have a video driver for your video card, then the driver is GRADD most likely. You will need to install FP5 at least for Warp 4 (you should install the fixpack at any rate to get rid of certain bugs in the plain system), you should not need fixpacks for Warp 4.5
(9) Now, it's time to install so far not installed parts of the system.

You should pass both with Warp 4 and Warp 4.5 Note that the diskette producing program on the Warp 4 CD is a DOS program. The program can be started directly from the CD. Therefore, you can put your CD into some machine, prepare 3 diskettes, open a DOS session, and run instcd (or cdinst - I don't know right now) from the root dir of your CD. Note that the machine must have a standard, ATAPI diskette drive, not a USB one or some extra drive, which needs a special driver.

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Hardware / Re: Doscall1.dll
« on: 2008.05.15, 15:45:43 »
DOSCALL1 is not a DLL, it's a part of the operating system. This "DLL" is responsible for most of CP calls. Guessing possible causes:
- corrupted system kernel, not very probable.
- the IFS uses it's own doscall1.dll, for example, for hooking CP calls. The IFS marked its DLL a system dll but the uninstaller forgot to remove the entry from user.ini . When the system starts, is sees that it has to load doscall1.dll but there is none in sight.

Check the installation package whether it contains doscall1.dll . If it does then check your user.ini (start from CD, maintenance console) and check whether the SYS_DLLS entry contains doscall1.dll . It should not be there, remove the entry if it is there.

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Marketplace / Re: OS2 Warp version 3 video cards
« on: 2008.05.12, 11:29:05 »
As to the "old video cards". IMO, the best solution for OS/2 was Riva TNT2 Ultra. There was a native OS/2 driver for it, perhaps, you can download it from somewhere even now. The card run like hell, perhaps even better than most of "new video cards". Disadvantages from the contemporary point of view: PCI and only 32 MB of video memory. The OS/2 driver was GRADD, therefore, FP at least 5 for W4, FP "much" for W3.

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Hardware / Re: Best OS/2 & eComStation Laptop
« on: 2008.05.07, 10:02:19 »
Here is one anti-advice: Do not buy Sony Vaio bx297xp. Even if this notebook pretends to be highly compatible with eCS (both network cards supposedly supported by Genmac, video supposedly supoorted by SNAP, HD supported by Dani drivers, etc.), you won't be able to put to work anything of it (except HDs). Literally anything: First of all, you won't be able to install (bacause of USB CD drive) and then you find out that you have no network card, no PCMCIA, that you cannot burn CDs (you can read them) and that your video isn't compatible with SNAP. Naturally, no APM and no ACPI.
In the other words, don't make the same blunder I have made ;D

A suggestion: Can notebook owners among us post a short report
- which NB they have
- what does not work on it
- what works only partially (for example: no SNAP, Panorama works)
- what they have not tried (because they haven't needed it)

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USB / Re: Connecting a mobile phone to eCS?
« on: 2008.04.24, 14:23:13 »
Thanks you both. I will check the LVM info - supposing I'll be able to access the card from DFSee ;D So far, I only know that I can check the card by DFSee. I didn't dare to manipulate the card because I am completely new in connecting phones to computers ;D
The card isn't big (256 MB). It's a "micro SD" card but I have an adapter (also sold with the phone) to the normal SD card size. Nevertheless, this means getting the card out of the phone. A simpler solutiuon seems to be FAT32.IFS and FAT32 format.
If I understand well then the card should not contain something that must not be lost. In the worst case, I can connect the phone to winblows and format the card from winblows. Am I right?

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USB / Connecting a mobile phone to eCS?
« on: 2008.04.24, 10:50:30 »
I have become an ovner of Nokia E51. The phone runs Symbian S60 v. 9.2. Among others, the phone contains a SD memory card which should be reachable by a computer using USB connection (the cable is sold with the phone). There are two USB regimes used by the phone, one of them is a "plain data transfer" when the SD card pretends to be an ordinary mass storage device. The device is FAT16 or FAT32 (I have a FAT16 formatted card).
Winblows reach the card immediately, how else. Apple is able to read the card but not too well (wrong card capacity). eCS detects the card, mounts it as a drive but it is completely unable to operate it.
If I attach the card and run DFSee, I get a warning about "large floppy device" but the card seems to be detected well: capacity is okay, format is FAT16, sector is 512 B as it should be. Except the warning about large floppy device, no errors are reported. But the card has no drive letter even if it should be "drive G:".
What am I doing wrong? What driver I need to access the card? Is there such driver at all? Has someone more experience?

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Applications / Re: My eCS 2.0 hopes...
« on: 2008.04.14, 09:39:25 »
(a) A possibility to install from a USB CD.
(b) A possibility to patch the installation by means of a USB device (we are doomed to ATAPI diskettes right now)
(c) A more recent video driver. Most of video cards you can buy now are not supported by SNAP.
(d) A better support for networking. We often see network cards which we cannot make functional.
(e) Better font rendering.

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Applications / Re: OS2Additions for VPC/2...
« on: 2008.04.10, 13:11:04 »
It depends where you have installed. If you have winblows VPC and an OS/2 virtual machine in it then VPCAdditions010021.iso is your file. If you have OS/2 VPC and an OS/2 virtual machine in it then there is no ISO. There is a ZIP file with the additions. You can get the file into the virtual machine only from a CD because it's too big and you have no shared folders so far. Therefore, copy it from the CD into the virtual machine or create an ISO file with the zip and attach it to your virtual machine.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Problems with Open Office
« on: 2008.04.03, 16:36:35 »
(a) The Wingdings font has been installed by the OS/2 installation. I have installed DOS and WIN31 sessions as well, perhaps that's why the font is there. On the other hand, the font is useful for normal (non mathematical) text :) I will uninstall it and I will see.
(b) I haven't tested printing so far. I will try and see. Results tomorrow, I don't have web at my home.
(c) The Edit->Font->Modify trick has been decrypted already :) But it does not allow setting font for operators. You can set fonts for text elements, like variables, function names, and so on.
(d) I have only one copy of Open Office in my machine so that reading of unrelated configuration files should not threat.

...

Results:
(a) Printing. Yes, the Wingdings font is both in .pdf and on the paper. It was adventurous ;D I commanded "export PDF", selected a directory and started typing the file name. Open Office crashed immediately. Nice! After deleting popuplog.os2, I tried again. A menu apeared, that wanted to recreate a chashed file. Well, nothing has been recreated, most likely because the file was too short and too quickly created. How dotting! Open Office recreates empty files! Okay, I typed the equation again, exported the file without meddling with directories. The file seemed to be saved. I run Seek and Scan and searched for sss.pdf Surprisingly, the file has been found!
(b) I deregistered the Windings font and tried again. Now, the mailboxes disappeared completely: Open Office simply ignored almost all operators, including those, where it used to print the mailboxes. Perhaps, the configuration problem? Because I am not a guru in Open Office, I decided to uninstall (using warpin) and to install again. The same result.

The only proceeding seems to the Catalog->Edit option. When editing "special" characters, Open Office offers the Symbol font now but it is not using it.

Version 2? ;) Version 0.0.0.2 pre-alpha ;D

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Setup & Installation / Re: Problems with Open Office
« on: 2008.04.03, 09:55:31 »
(1) I haven't moved/switched from anything - neither from Smart Suite nor from anything else. I simply installed Open Office on my machine, where I haven't any "office" so far.
(2) I have checked Format->Fonts. It allows you to set fonts for variables, functions and similar things and it also allows you to set "custom fonts" which you will use in your formulas. IIRC, you cannot set symbols there but I will check and try again.

An example of the problem: If I write "a = b" I get "a diskette b". I can set fonts for 'a' and 'b' but there seems to be no way of setting the '='. I can update the symbol "%equal" and get the wished '=' but this is not a solution. You can update only few symbols this way and you must now write "a %equal b".
BTW, let us notice the Catalog->Edit option. I have the Windings font there as well, even if the equation editor has nothing common with Windings. But I can change the font for defined symbols.

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