I am using an OS/2 Lan Server 3.0 installation in a virtual machine. At some point it started exhibiting this rather strange behaviour: whenever I activate the window menu (Alt-Space or by clicking), select any of its entries (using keyboard or mouse)or click on one of the launchpad buttons I hear the typical "warning beep".
Has anybody got an idea what the reason for this could be? Also any hint on how I can fix this behaviour?
I am using an OS/2 Lan Server 3.0 installation in a virtual machine. At
some point it started exhibiting this rather strange behaviour:
whenever I activate the window menu (Alt-Space or by clicking),
select any of its entries (using keyboard or mouse) or click on one
of the launchpad buttons I hear the typical "warning beep".
Has anybody got an idea what the reason for this could be? Also any
hint on how I can fix this behaviour?
A couple of possibilities, something crashing, look in popuplog.os2 in
the root of your boot volume.
You're using Danis506.add and have a failing hard drive and it beeps
when there's a problem with reading/writing the drive.
I've only noticed this in the last year or so.
I'm using VirtualBox running on Linux. What hypervisor are you using?
OK. You ever clean your INI files? Look at https://ecsoft2.org/wptools
Am Freitag, 4. Oktober 2019 04:34:28 UTC+2 schrieb Dave Yeo:
A couple of possibilities, something crashing, look in popuplog.os2 inThank you, that's a good one, but it does not contain any entries more recent than a year old.
the root of your boot volume.
You're using Danis506.add and have a failing hard drive and it beepsNo, I'm not using it. Also since I'm in a VM I don't think hardware problems are very likely :)
when there's a problem with reading/writing the drive.
Not sure whether this helps, but I have tried out a few things and observed that the beep I keep getting is lower and longer than the beep that I can configure in the "warning beep" in the system setup.
Am Freitag, 4. Oktober 2019 18:07:47 UTC+2 schrieb Martin Dietze:
Not sure whether this helps, but I have tried out a few things and observed that the beep I keep getting is lower and longer than the beep that I can configure in the "warning beep" in the system setup.
Plus: I get this will all native PM menus, e.g. a program's menu bar at every click.
Do you have system sounds en- or disabled (Syst. em Setup -> Sound) ?
The sound which you hear in your VM just might be crippled to a
beeping noise?
The sounds snippets "out-of-the-box" have sampling rates of 22050 or
even 11025 only. Try if 'sox.exe' to rate 44100 would help.
The sounds snippets "out-of-the-box" have sampling rates of 22050 orNot sure I understand this. I guess this only makes sense if I have sound on my system, right?
even 11025 only. Try if 'sox.exe' to rate 44100 would help.
Exactly, some USB audio adapters really don't like the low sampled sounds.
When I try to play a wav file for instance, I get the usual "not supported" dialog along with the usual warning tone (shorter, higher pitch), not the one I get with every click on a menu.
Yet another reply to myself: I took a snapshot and removed MMOS2 entirely. After that the beep was still there. I think that pretty much proves that the problem is not related to sound drivers or anything else multimedia-related.
Does/Can your VM generate any log files? - might give a clue to the problem.
Am Samstag, 5. Oktober 2019 11:35:56 UTC+2 schrieb Martin Dietze:
When I try to play a wav file for instance, I get the usual "not supported" dialog along with the usual warning tone (shorter, higher pitch), not the one I get with every click on a menu.I need to correct myself here. It is actually a sequence: first the lower pitch, longer beep, then the shorter, higher pitch warning beep.
I have captured a screen video demonstrating what happens including the tones I am getting. Maybe this helps (or at least avoids misunderstandings): https://drive.google.com/file/d/12pDXED66GWbc3FVK-OL2AqzQ6FkH-UTl/view?usp=sharing
That is a weird beep. If I understand correctly, this only happens when
using the mouse to open a menu? Not, for example, using ALT-F to open
the file menu.
Am Sonntag, 6. Oktober 2019 05:54:01 UTC+2 schrieb Dave Yeo:
That is a weird beep. If I understand correctly, this only happens when using the mouse to open a menu? Not, for example, using ALT-F to open
the file menu.
No, it also happens, when I use the keyboard.
Can you set up another small VM - just the system - to see what
happens? And give the VM PS/2 mouse and keyboard, not USB-.
On 10/04/19 01:29 PM, Martin Dietze wrote:
The sounds snippets "out-of-the-box" have sampling rates of 22050 orNot sure I understand this. I guess this only makes sense if I have
even 11025 only. Try if 'sox.exe' to rate 44100 would help.
sound on my system, right?
Exactly, some USB audio adapters really don't like the low sampled sounds. Dave
Exactly, some USB audio adapters really don't like the low sampled sounds. Dave
That's why our USB audio drivers do automatic sample rate, bit depth and channel (mono/stereo) conversion.
I'm getting to the point of thinking that there simply must be some corrupted system file somewhere. Just very annoying that there doesn't seem to be a way to identify it.
IIRC, VMware doesn't officially support OS/2. Did your VMWare install
get updated at some point?
I believe there are utilities to migrate the
virtual machine to VirtualBox, might be an interesting test.
What's weird is the actual beep, which isn't the system beep/bell
Am Dienstag, 8. Oktober 2019 00:02:44 UTC+2 schrieb Dave Yeo:
IIRC, VMware doesn't officially support OS/2. Did your VMWare install
get updated at some point?
Yes, several times, I usually go with VMWare's upgrades.
I believe there are utilities to migrate the
virtual machine to VirtualBox, might be an interesting test.
What's weird is the actual beep, which isn't the system beep/bell
I actually did this, but later realised that there is no support for the PC speaker on a MacOS host anyway: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/627
If the problem did not exist prior to a VMWare update there is a chance
that the update(s) introduced the problem.
Is it possible to backlevel those updates to check?
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