Week of Touchscreen

2007-09-20 00:12:48 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

The thirty eighth week of 2007 is dedicated to collection of info about compatible/non-compatible touchscreens. Our database contains 5 records about touchscreens only... Post new reports using the web-form.

Attention! The developers of solutions are interested to know the list of unsupported Touchscreens and modified drivers. If your notebook has touchscreen then post report too.

New offerings of eCo Labs

2007-09-16 00:07:58 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

eCo Labs is a fund to attract new developers to eComStation. We are trying share the income with developers; stimulate the development of new PM-controls and libraries. Moreover, we are going update the portal for developers and enrich it with links and libraries.

Most popular applications for eComStation

2007-09-14 19:39:17 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Question 1: What do new users ask when come to eComStation world? "Where can I download a program which allows me .."

Question 2: How to promote small useful free utilities?

To solve this problems we have created web-page "Software for eComStation" aimed to collect links to popular software.

Rules:

• Send us name of program, homepage url, links to reviews
• We guarantee that all messages will be processed, no guarantees that all applications will be added to the list.

Send information via web-form

WSE2007 -- calculate the advantages

2007-09-12 01:31:21 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Warpstock Europe 2007 is coming

You are right, the cost of the trip to Valkenswaard (Netherlands) may be very high for you. 300 EURO.. 500 EURO.. 1000 EURO.. or more.

What is the reason to spend so much money?

1. Read the list of presentations. Are you ready invest the money to learn new technologies and obtain this knowledge? (Please visit this page in 7 days again to see updated list)

2. Are you going make a presentation?

The conference is a good chance to

• present success story of eComStation usage;
• share your libraries with other developers;
• learn new eComStation technologies and share the knowledge with other developers;
• present own concept of OS development;
• inform developers which software and drivers should be created;

3. Moreover, the visit of the conference gives you:

• Intercourse
  • You are meeting with other users and developers from different countries, different cultures;
  • If you are a developer, then you are meeting with your clients. Ask them what do they need;
  • Meet the users from your city and region. The conference may help you create Local User Group;
  • Get fresh news and secret information when chatting.
• Income
  • The visit of the Netherlands is good for your experience, you can see how dutch people are working, why they are so productive.
  • You are collecting information what is the trend of OS/2 development. This helps you safe the efforts and don't spend then time to fake goals after return to home.
  • If you are a designer then watch the design of dutch houses, clothes, banners
  • Improve your english(/deutch/dutch), no need to buy tutorials of english language
  • You are mobilizing while preparing for the conference. You are generating more ideas, more code while preparing for D-Day.
  • Present your program to sell it
• Vacations
  • If you don't have a report then interpret the trip as short vacations

Netlabs.org is 10 years old

2007-09-07 09:44:56 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [OS2VOICE, Adrian Gschwend]

Adrian Gschwend (founder of netlabs.org) writes:

Dear community,

Today ten years ago I registered the domain netlabs.org and a few days later the first webpage got online! It's incredible how fast that time went over, thanks a lot to everyone who suported netlabs.org during that time!

I posted a little article about that in the netlabs.org blog, have fun reading it!

eComStation Software Subscription

2007-09-06 15:20:30 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

European users often ask us about Software Subscription. Please contact your reseller, we serve russian speaking users only.

We recommend switch to subscription because this will minimize your expenses to eComStation + this will make the manufacturer search for new users on other markets (this is good for eComStation community).

If your subscription expired - immediately contact your reseller. If reactivate it without delays, you get it for lower price.

Which USB Audio adapters are supported in eComStation?

2007-08-19 16:46:10 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

The users continue to upgrade computers, since 2006 we don't have support of HDAudio audio adapters, so we should search for alternative solutions. Help us gather information about working USB Audio adapters (USB Audio Cards, not MP3-players/flashdisks)

IBM USB Audio driver supports old devices:

• Labtec LCS-1040 (speaker only)
• Altec ADA-70 (speaker only)
• TELEX H-531 (microphone only)

Post new reports via web-form

Sites with information about compatible audio adapters

• ecomstation.ru
• os2warp.be, os2warp.be
• os2usr.org
• os2world.com
• eComStation CD1 holds dosenz of drivers licensed by hardware manufacturers.

P.S. You can support our Hardware database and put banner at your site:

• Picture: banner
• Target URL: Hardware database

ACPI 3.01, testing suspend/resume

2007-08-17 12:25:34 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

New generation of ACPI sub-system is available. eComStation supports suspend/resume on multi-core notebooks and barebones now. FAQs are published at ACPI tools homepage

How to setup sleep/resume? (APM.doc)

• Use Panorama VESA video driver
• Goto BIOS Setup, Enable "Init video after S3". If no such option then ACPI.PSD should try to perform this operation. Add ACPI.PSD /VBE to init video BIOS after resume. (there are no guarantees that this will work)
• Edit acpid.cfg, suspend should be: suspend=S3
• How to suspend? Open Power object -> Suspend
• How to resume after sleep? Press Power button.

How to achieve success in testing?

• update danis506.add to 1.8.1 (How to update Danis -- Software updates)
• disable all device drivers before testing suspend/resume (USB, audio, network)
• You can see the list of Sleep states supported by your computer when starting ACPI daemon (S1 - computer is stopped; S2 - computer is stopped, part of devices are powered off; S3 - all devices are powered off, except memory; S4 - all devices are powered off; S5 - power off)
• Post the report to the tracker

How to help to other users? Share the results of your tests.

Step 1: Post report about your computer/motherboard to Hardware database

Step 2: If you have installed eCS 2.0 RC1 or higher then Goto ecomstation.com Please include the \var\log\instlog.zip file, this contains all of your configured settings, as well as a small overview of the hardware. This makes it easier for us to identify supported (or unsupported) hardware.

Install ACPIFU WPI (Fast Upgrade) if 3.0 is working fine on your computer.

ACPI 3.01, what's new:

ACPI.PSD

• fix SpeedStep&Throttling for Uni kernel and MADT absent in acpi table
• expand LAPIC ESR handling
• fix memory heap
• add duration of HLT

APM.ADD:

• rebuild ACPI_STATE_S1
• fix going to absent state
• optimize throttling setting

Solutions based on eComStation

2007-08-08 19:36:02 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

OS/2 (eComStation) is alive while people are using and improving the system. The developers of solutions ensure long life for our operating system because computers with OS/2 make money for their customers year by year. The developers bring new industrial technologies to OS/2, feed support service, fill OS/2 with unique features to keep the solutions competitive.

Examples of solutions based on OS/2: ATM, sound processing (speech, digital restoration of sound), training devices (astronauts, oilmen), technical appliances (measuring, medical), virtual machines (mainframes, SVISTA), CMMS, restaurants, etc.

Why should you write the story today?

• You should do this to protect your investments made into OS/2 platform.
• OS/2 users are located in different countries and cities. They will read the story because of OS/2 word :) And spread the information about your company and products among own colleagues.
• The developer of the operating system will get information about your requirements and improve OS to satisfy them.
• Your story gives stimulus to thousands of users, developers and companies.
• It's easy. Solution story is based on usual product flyer.

Where to collect solutions? www.ecomstation.ru site is hosting Solutions list since 2002. Yyou can publish german, dutch, english texts there.

How to write Solutions story? Take the flyer of your product, add Introduction, add one-two paragraphs about advantages of OS/2 usage, add 2 advertisement photos/screenshots, 2 screenshots of back-end demonstating usage of OS/2. Use the web-form to send your contact information

Welcome to homepage of solutions!

eCo Software newsletter, 200707

2007-08-06 02:38:33 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [eCo Software, news]

In the beginning of the summer we updated: ACPI subsystem, Panorama video drivers, Bootable JFS, General Network Utilities, Piano Launchpad, eSchemes, Firewall ports setup, Personal Cards Manager Traffic Visor III, PNG IO Proc. Mokey's audio IO Proc, T&V HappyPlayer, etc.

eComStation growed in the last 5 years. All planned technologies, applications and drivers were created. What is the next target? The main goal today is select/create TOP TEN eComStation applications (and 30 must-have applications and tools for usual PC user).

1. Updated eCo Software runtime

Please pay attention to requirements of our software, install needed runtimes first.

Attention:

• If you have Imagination released in the first part of 2007 and going install new program from eCo Software then ..
• If you have WPFLDREX.DLL released in the first part of 2007 then ..

Then read the instructions, update the runtime and our software.

2. ACPI sub-system

ACPI is the engine which pushes eComStation ahead today.

Updated ACPI.PSD 2.22 (20070526), APM.ADD, ACPI snooper (download from BETAZONE)

• ACPI supports multicore notebooks/desktops based on VIA chipset now
• ACPI.PSD can't boot if MADT ACPI table absent - fixed
• New switch /St for ACPI.PSD
• Stack is replaced on UNI and SMP now, so /EIS should work better

APM.ADD - Please join the testing of suspend/resume. eComStation is able perform this operation even on multi-core notebooks! Read ACPI-APM.doc -> 4.0 Usage.

New perspectives make us move the support service to the ACPI tracker, Create ticket, input Title: model of notebook or motherboard or common problem; post the report, attach files. Mention if you have posted reports in the past (we have 2 collections already)

ACPI makes developers create new applications and tools. Please, download new smart and modern Battery Widget

3. WPS extenders

Piano Launchpad 1.20 brings to eComStation desktop: dynamic drawers, any size of icons, backup/restore, bubble tips, help. Read the review here Whatsnew: Fixed some critical bugs; scaling of icons with antialiasing

eSchemes 1.38 (Download from BETAZONE) -- mechanism of desktop schemes (every schemes contains different colors, buttons and other parameters), please apply the schemes designed by professional designers, don't spend time to schemes editing. What's new:

• Making attempts to complete eSchemes for eCS 2.0
• updated schemes: Technosense, Summer
• Gallery of eSchemes

Personal Cards Manager (20070630) Address book, integrated to desktop, Whatsnew: Fixed critical bugs

4. Video drivers

Panorama VESA is available from BETAZONE (20070716)

• fixing Dive
• Improved WPS setup
• To simplify the upgrade of Panorama, you can install warpin package

It's necessary collect at the homepage of Panorama: source code snapshots, libraries for fast drawing of video stream, fullscreen, etc. If you have sources and examples, please contact us. Testing:

• Does Panorama VESA work fine on DBCS systems?
• Test output to external monitor (beamer)
• Test compatibility with multimedia applications, with commercial applications

5. Internet/LAN software

General Network Utilities (20070725) Read more about GNU here (many screenshots): RUS ENG, SWE

Whatsnew:

• We fixed all bugs found by new users
• Changed the algorithms of some utilities
• Updating the user interface and artwork

Updated Traffic Visor III 1.01.3 (system to analyze IP-traffic)

Updated SVSNET.SYS driver for Serenity Virtual Machine

6. Multimedia applications

• PNG IO Proc update (20070506), Download from BETAZONE, whatsnew: Fix of libpng warning: Ignoring extra png_read_update_info() call; row buffer not reallocated
• New system audio codec is available - Monkey audio (.ape files), 20070525
• T&V HappyPlayer updated (20070729)

7. USB devices

• Searching information: Does eComStation supports USB Touch screens?
• USB FAQs are updated. Read advices from Robert Lalla, how to increase the performance of reading from USB 2.0 flash disks.

8. Bootable JFS

Updated JFS drivers (20070612), available from BETAZONE, whatsnew:

• Several threads are creating files with equal names
• Fixed 4os2 problem
• enabled symbol "+" in EA
• added /G:gid /U:uid for compatibility with Linux

Support our efforts purchasing JRescuer recovery tool

9. eCo Software support service

The hardware database contains more than 1190 reports of supported hardware. You can post new reports or add notes to published. Now gathering reports about supported Color Laser Printers

10. Collaboration with other developers

• Doodle released SDL/2 compatible with Panorama VESA
• If you are using Widescreen activators created by Robert Lalla then please notify him.

11. Additional information:

• Welcome to eCo Software homepage
• eCo Software runtimes
• Full pricelist of eCo Software products
• BETAZONE -- How to download ACPI, Panorama, eSchemes?
• Previous eCo Software newsletter

Presentations at Warpstock Europe 2007

2007-08-05 16:28:32 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

eCo Software is obligated make 4 presentations at Warpstock Europe 2007

• Evolutionary Sprint 2007/11 (aka "Change your mind") -- The results of 2007. What's new in eComStation; Current roadmap (item by item); Your participation (roles, goals); eComStation in 2009
• eComStation Developer Connection -- how to start the development of new program, how to improve current software, perspectives till 2009
• La-la-la -- Music and eComStation
• My Desktop -- Overview of WorkPlace shell applications and desktop extenders

To improve the quality of presentations, we are going:

• attract additional consultants
• make the speakers learn the english again

Other conferences

I select eComStation because..

2007-08-04 14:38:25 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Every user can post own opinion, why he likes eComStation?

• russian language: forum.ecomstation.ru
• english language: www.os2world.com

The next conference in 3 monthes

2007-07-16 11:41:46 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

You have all chances to visit eComStation conferences in 2007, check your organizer:

• Warpstock Europe 2007 -- November 2 - 4, 2007, Eindhoven, Netherlands
• Warpstock 2007 -- November 15 - 18, 2007, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

There are plans for Developers Workshop 2008 -- end of april .. end of may, 2008, Place: Duisburg or Dusseldorf, Germany

During archaeological excavations, we have found the mentions of Second Annual OS/2 World Conference & Exhibition (July 17-20, 1995; Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Mass.)

Full list of conferences - www.ecomstation.ru site

Live stream of presentations

2007-07-07 12:55:14 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

You can watch the live stream from the DWS2007 workshop

• OGG Vorbis stream: netlabs.org
• Photos and notes on russian language: ecomstation.ru

Piano Launchpad updated

2007-07-01 00:44:09 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

As you know, one of the barriers for new users today is Look&feel (and the entrie user interface), Piano Launchpad is aimed to change the situation a bit (the agenda of DWS2007 conference contains some reports related to user interface)

Japanese Piano Launchpad

Homepage: http://ecomstation.ru/eschemes-deluxe

The 1-st review of eComStation 2.0 RC1

2007-06-29 19:43:51 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Thom Holwerda published short review of eComStation 2.0 RC1

As you can see, eComStation developers should invest extra efforts into User Interface improvement.

eCo Software is working on eSchemes mechanism and Piano Launchpad (scalable icons)