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eCS running great! Few questions now...

Started by craigm, 2010.06.11, 15:53:55

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craigm

I am so happy to be on eCS 2.0 now, feels like I am back home =)

With that...a few questions on hardware:

1. I have an ASUS – CUV4X-D Motherboard with dual (and separate) Pent 3, 1 ghz CPU's. - It seems that eCS 2.0 is only seeing one of the CPU's. The BOIS reads both CPU's and I was just running WinXP on this machine and it was also reading both CPU's. I have Panorama and ACPI both installed and I thought thats all I needed.

2. With eCS should I install MMPACK or does eCS 2.0 come with it installed already? Does it help with anything? If not I dont want to install something just because.

3. Anyone have luck with wireless printers? I have a Epson Workforce 610 and it does not see it, which I didnt think it would, but I also connected it directly to my eCS computer with a USB cable, eCS sees it (as in unknown device) but then I cannot add it via the printer template. I have not tried CUPS...I don't think that is part of the eCS install though.

4. Is there a good site for optimizing the config.sys anywhere for eCS 2.0? I have a Warp 4 book that has some ideas but its been so long since that version to eCS 2 I am not sure I want to use it. Has anyone bought the Mensys eCS FAQ book? I know it was made during eCS 2 r6 (?) but is it still relavent to eCS 2? Because I might buy it (I like physical books).

Thanks ahead of time for the help and glad to be typing this again on a eCS machine!


Saijin_Naib

#1
1) Start up the ACPI wizard and go through it. If the ACPI line does not have /SMP on it, you're only going to initialize one CPU. Conversely, just open a command prompt and e config.sys and find the ACPI.PSD line and add /SMP to the end.

2) MMPACK comes with eCS but the mp3 codec does not ship with eCS due to licensing issues.

3) Never tested

4) Not sure.

CDRWSel


craigm

I don't think I have the ACPI /smp command...not sure what line to put it in though. I did a search in the config.sys and only found two lines with ACPI in it:

RUN=C:\OS2\ACPIDAEMON.EXE

&

PSD=ACPI.PSD

Thanks!

The Blue Warper

Hi!
You should add the /SMP switch to the PSD line:

PSD=ACPI.PSD /SMP

If all goes well and eCS sees both your CPUs (you can try running the command "cpu.exe" from a command line session, IIRC), you may also try adding the /APIC parameter:

PSD=ACPI.PSD /SMP /APIC.

Hope this helps.

Regards

craigm

PSD=ACPI.PSD /SMP worked!!!!!!!!!!

I have both CPU's working now. BTW what is the /APIC command for? Should I put that in there still?

Pete

Hi craigm

That sounds like an older mainboard? What chipset is involved?

Panorama is not relevant to getting multiple cpus working - and may be the wrong choice of graphics driver if you have a graphics card supported by SNAP.

Which version of ACPI did you install and what is the line used in the config.sys file (PSD=ACPI.PSD...)? You probably need the /SMP switch and maybe /APIC or /PIC - you will need to test to find out.

It may be that this board would work better with OS2APIC.PSD rather than ACPI.

Another thought: Do not reboot from Windows into eCS but power off Windows and leave it for a short period of time so that any Windows acpi settings are cleared from BIOS memory.


Regarding MMPACK: You may want to have a read of "README: MP3 Support in eComStation" in the Multimedia folder.


No experience of wireless printers myself but I have doubts that the standard OS/2 printer drivers contain the correct driver for that printer. Maybe an earlier OS/2 Epson driver will work but cups does list this printer so suspect that would be the best 1st step. Start by installing ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/eCUPS003.wpi and see how that goes.


eCS is supposed to create an "optimised" config.sys at installation. I find that it is not correct as on an install with DOS/Win16 support deselected, ie not installed, eCS still stuffs the config.sys full of useless unwanted DOS lines. Apart from that it is not that bad.

There is a config.sys tool, called ConfigTool, somewhere that may help... aha! Here it is http://www.os2world.com/goran/cfgtool.htm


Hope the above is of some help

Pete

The Blue Warper

craigm,
as to the /APIC parameter, I suggest you to read the readme.
Basically, APIC stands for "Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller", and it's an enhanced version of the old PIC.  One of the advantages of APIC over PIC is that APIC can handle more IRQs (I think a theoretical number of 255, but actually 224) than PIC (which is limited to 16), by using a routing table.

Anyway, if /APIC works for you, I think it's a better choice than PIC.

Bye!

craigm

Well /APIC was bad, killed my mouse and keyboard (both USB), lucky I was able to use my CD1 of eCS 2 to go in and change the config.sys file.

Now to see if somehow I can get my printer working...