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* [Qemu-devel] OS/2 and Latest CVS QEMU
@ 2004-06-16 17:34 Antony T Curtis
  2004-06-16 20:33 ` Fabrice Bellard
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Antony T Curtis @ 2004-06-16 17:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: qemu-devel


Cool - OS/2 Warp Connect actually installs and runs (blue-spine box,
cdrom version)... however, the OS/2 CL-GD5446 video drivers don't seem
to recognise the chipset and will not install :|

The generic PCI RTL8029 network driver doesn't seem to work either - and
prevents OS/2 from starting up.

OS/2 is running at a good speed - feels pretty fast.. WinOS/2 works too
- Booting a real DOS under OS/2's VM window seems to max-out QEMU and it
becomes unresponsive... It only gets as far as showing "Starting PC
DOS..." before it locks up. (booting IBM PC-DOS 7 under OS/2 Warp
Connect, no fixpacks). Only a 'kill -9' successfully killed the process.

-- 
Antony T Curtis <antony.t.curtis@ntlworld.com>

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* Re: [Qemu-devel] OS/2 and Latest CVS QEMU
  2004-06-16 17:34 [Qemu-devel] OS/2 and Latest CVS QEMU Antony T Curtis
@ 2004-06-16 20:33 ` Fabrice Bellard
  2004-06-17  1:11   ` Antony T Curtis
  2004-06-17 10:21   ` Antony T Curtis
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Fabrice Bellard @ 2004-06-16 20:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: qemu-devel

Antony T Curtis wrote:
> Cool - OS/2 Warp Connect actually installs and runs (blue-spine box,
> cdrom version)... however, the OS/2 CL-GD5446 video drivers don't seem
> to recognise the chipset and will not install :|

Are you sure there is a 5446 driver in OS/2 ? I only saw 5436.

> The generic PCI RTL8029 network driver doesn't seem to work either - and
> prevents OS/2 from starting up.

You should activate NE2000 traces and record the standard output.

> OS/2 is running at a good speed - feels pretty fast.. WinOS/2 works too
> - Booting a real DOS under OS/2's VM window seems to max-out QEMU and it
> becomes unresponsive... It only gets as far as showing "Starting PC
> DOS..." before it locks up. (booting IBM PC-DOS 7 under OS/2 Warp
> Connect, no fixpacks). Only a 'kill -9' successfully killed the process.

Maybe it is using the VME extension (QEMU does not implement it, but 
maybe OS/2 ignores the CPUID settings).

Fabrice.

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* Re: [Qemu-devel] OS/2 and Latest CVS QEMU
  2004-06-16 20:33 ` Fabrice Bellard
@ 2004-06-17  1:11   ` Antony T Curtis
  2004-06-17 10:21   ` Antony T Curtis
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Antony T Curtis @ 2004-06-17  1:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: qemu-devel

On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 21:33, Fabrice Bellard wrote:
> Antony T Curtis wrote:
> > Cool - OS/2 Warp Connect actually installs and runs (blue-spine box,
> > cdrom version)... however, the OS/2 CL-GD5446 video drivers don't seem
> > to recognise the chipset and will not install :|
> 
> Are you sure there is a 5446 driver in OS/2 ? I only saw 5436.

Downloaded it from
http://www.embeddedsoftwaregroup.com/cirruslogic/graphics/desktop/5446/

Unzipped it to a floppy disk image.

> > The generic PCI RTL8029 network driver doesn't seem to work either - and
> > prevents OS/2 from starting up.
> 
> You should activate NE2000 traces and record the standard output.

Ok... I shall give it a go sometime soon... I downloaded that driver
from hobbes.nmsu.edu

> > OS/2 is running at a good speed - feels pretty fast.. WinOS/2 works too
> > - Booting a real DOS under OS/2's VM window seems to max-out QEMU and it
> > becomes unresponsive... It only gets as far as showing "Starting PC
> > DOS..." before it locks up. (booting IBM PC-DOS 7 under OS/2 Warp
> > Connect, no fixpacks). Only a 'kill -9' successfully killed the process.
> 
> Maybe it is using the VME extension (QEMU does not implement it, but 
> maybe OS/2 ignores the CPUID settings).

Maybe... OS/2's VDM was pretty advanced for it's era... IBM even demoed
OS/2 running Windows95 in a window back in 1996.... months before it was
axed. (the hacks IBMers did to the Windows95 binaries to make it work
never were released)

-- 
Antony T Curtis <antony.t.curtis@ntlworld.com>

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* Re: [Qemu-devel] OS/2 and Latest CVS QEMU
  2004-06-16 20:33 ` Fabrice Bellard
  2004-06-17  1:11   ` Antony T Curtis
@ 2004-06-17 10:21   ` Antony T Curtis
  2004-06-17 17:06     ` malc
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Antony T Curtis @ 2004-06-17 10:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: qemu-devel

On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 21:33, Fabrice Bellard wrote:
> Antony T Curtis wrote:
> > Cool - OS/2 Warp Connect actually installs and runs (blue-spine box,
> > cdrom version)... however, the OS/2 CL-GD5446 video drivers don't seem
> > to recognise the chipset and will not install :|
> 
> Are you sure there is a 5446 driver in OS/2 ? I only saw 5436.

Ok - the OS/2 drivers appear to look at the VGA BIOS to check what chip
is there... I have tried by using a copy of a real 5446 BIOS (copied
from a 5446 card I have here) and Cirrus's IDCHIP utility reports that
the VGA BIOS reports it as a 5430. I have also noticed that the 5446 and
5440 cards I have here have identical VGA BIOS

The SB16 emulation appears to work fine for the system sounds on XP-Pro
but it's choppy when playing mp3 etc. OS/2's SB16 driver crashes
however.
-- 
Antony T Curtis <antony.t.curtis@ntlworld.com>

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* Re: [Qemu-devel] OS/2 and Latest CVS QEMU
  2004-06-17 10:21   ` Antony T Curtis
@ 2004-06-17 17:06     ` malc
  2004-06-17 21:31       ` Antony T Curtis
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: malc @ 2004-06-17 17:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: qemu-devel

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Antony T Curtis wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 21:33, Fabrice Bellard wrote:
> > Antony T Curtis wrote:
> > > Cool - OS/2 Warp Connect actually installs and runs (blue-spine box,
> > > cdrom version)... however, the OS/2 CL-GD5446 video drivers don't seem
> > > to recognise the chipset and will not install :|
> >
> > Are you sure there is a 5446 driver in OS/2 ? I only saw 5436.
>
> Ok - the OS/2 drivers appear to look at the VGA BIOS to check what chip
> is there... I have tried by using a copy of a real 5446 BIOS (copied
> from a 5446 card I have here) and Cirrus's IDCHIP utility reports that
> the VGA BIOS reports it as a 5430. I have also noticed that the 5446 and
> 5440 cards I have here have identical VGA BIOS
>
> The SB16 emulation appears to work fine for the system sounds on XP-Pro
> but it's choppy when playing mp3 etc. OS/2's SB16 driver crashes
> however.

What did you do when it crashed? For me system sounds on OS/2 (Merlin)
quite ok, and it never crashed, granted i only played some wavs from
media directory.

-- 
mailto:malc@pulsesoft.com

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* Re: [Qemu-devel] OS/2 and Latest CVS QEMU
  2004-06-17 17:06     ` malc
@ 2004-06-17 21:31       ` Antony T Curtis
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Antony T Curtis @ 2004-06-17 21:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: qemu-devel

On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 18:06, malc wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Antony T Curtis wrote:

<snip>

> > The SB16 emulation appears to work fine for the system sounds on XP-Pro
> > but it's choppy when playing mp3 etc. OS/2's SB16 driver crashes
> > however.
> 
> What did you do when it crashed? For me system sounds on OS/2 (Merlin)
> quite ok, and it never crashed, granted i only played some wavs from
> media directory.

I haven't successfully installed Warp4 or Warp 4.5 yet... Only have Warp
Connect installed... I am thinking of digging out the old OS/2 2.0 or
2.1 floppies for nostalgia :D

-- 
Antony T Curtis <antony.t.curtis@ntlworld.com>

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