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From: jeffb@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Jeff Bartig)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Orchid ProDesigner IIs and refresh rate
Date: 18 Nov 1992 15:11:04 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4
Keywords: Orchid refresh Tseng service pack

Hello,

I have an Orchid Prodesigner IIs with a Sony 1604 monitor.  I've just
reinstalled OS/2 2.0GA and installed the service pack.  I used
selective install to install the ET4000 1024x768x256 driver that came
with the service pack.  I am trying to get the video card to work
in a 70hz refresh mode.

When I boot OS/2, everything is fine (70hz refresh, non-interlaced), but
if I open a DOS or seamless Windows window, the refresh rate drops and
the video image flickers.  I have created a program icon that runs
"xmode 38" in a DOS full-screen session, and this fixes the problem.
After I have all the windows open that I want to work in, I just click
on this icon, and then everything is fine until I open another DOS
window.

I have tried two suggestions I saw on the net:

	1.  DOS fullscreen, svga off, xmode 38, svga on, reboot
	2.  Boot real DOS, do above, and copy svgadata.pmi file to \os2

Neither of these solutions have worked.  In fact, they all produce the
same svgadata.pmi file.

I have called IBM's OS2 support a number of times.  I've talked
with some nice information takers who have taken every shred of
info I could give them and forwarded it to a video analyst.  The
analyst has now sent me two overnight packages containing solutions.
The first package contained a photocopy of a page from the service
pack readme file.  He had circled the startup.cmd fix for the
Diamond Speedstar.  Just to humor him, I tried it.  Didn't work.
The second package contained a single disk and a note.  The disk
looks like the last disk from the 3.5" OS/2 service pack.  I
compared it to the 5.25" service pack disks I have, and the files
were identical.  I tried installing it, but it complained that the
disk wasn't "DISP 1".  I wish they would quit wasting money/time
sending me stuff I already have.

Does anyone have a Prodesigner IIs working in 70hz 1024x768 mode?  Is
this suppose to work?

Jeff

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From: johns@mcs213i.cs.umr.edu (John Stone)
Subject: Re: copyini vs cpyini
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 07:40:47 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Rolla
Keywords: OS2SYS.INI file size growing

Hi there,

I'm NOT using 4OS2, and I have the growing .ini file
problem as well, but mine had only grown to 400k
I ran the cpyini thing and it shrunk down to 100 or so k, 
and there were no ill effects after starting up with the 
new files.

I have a feeling that this problem may vary depending upon
how often a person reboots....

I reboot VERY infrequently, and as such I suspect my files
didn't grow much.. It may be that those people who have problems
with crashes, or reboot with ctrl-alt-del instead of using 
shutdown or something.  

Anyone have any theories here?

Later,
        John Stone
        johns@cs.umr.edu


Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: os2 and flatbed scanners
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:39:03 GMT

In article <qH48TB1w163w@efinley> efinley@infoserv.com (Elliot Finley) writes:
>Does anyone know of any flatbed scanners + OCR software that would
>work under os2?  I am going to buy a scanner, but I DON'T want to go
>back to DoS just to use it...

IBM has some offerings in this area, as you might expect.

I would be interested in hearing about OS/2 solutions in this area.
There are very few areas where OS/2 has no native software available,
but this is (almost) one of them, it appears.

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From: shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr)
Subject: 4OS2 & Incredible Expanding OS2INI.SYS (was: copyini vs cpyini)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, OH
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 15:42:18 GMT
Keywords: OS2SYS.INI file size growing

In article <1992Nov22.213113.1978@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
}While we're on the subject of the massively growing INI file, and
}after apparently ruling out DeskPic as the culprit, is there anyone
}NOT using 4OS2 who suffers from the problem?  (In other words, shall
}4OS2 be nominated as the culprit?)

Tim,

I'm running 4OS2 and do not experience the growing OS2INI.SYS.  If we
find that the problem does not occur using CMD.EXE then I suppose we
could still suspect 4OS2 + <something else>, but not 4OS2 alone.

Larry
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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: "Environment Space", Running out of Room
Date: 20 Nov 92 20:56:43 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <57250022@acf3.NYU.EDU> chapman@acf3.NYU.EDU (Gary W. Chapman, , , ) writes:
>>Is there anyway to increase the amount of environment space for PATH and SET 
>>commands in DOS or OS/2 sessions?  I'm having difficulty getting FORTRAN 5.1
>>running under OS/2 becuase it requires all kinds of SET and PATH statements.

You shouldn't have a problem for OS/2 sessions.

>For DOS sessions, it's just like under DOS - only I can't find it in
>the online docs:
> 
>In the config.sys, add /E:xxxx at the end of the SHELL= line

Try looking up COMMAND.COM in the command reference.

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From: hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: CD ROM Supported by OS/2 2.0
Keywords: CD ROM
Date: 23 Nov 92 05:51:14 GMT
Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab

harold@disk.uucp (Harold Davis) writes:

>I was wondering if anyone was aware of any CD ROM Drives being supported by
>OS/2 other than IBM's. 
>Harold

Nah, just Sony, NEC, Toshiba (=IBM), ...  :-)

The current state is a bit hodge-podge, but apparently the latest
internal version supports a slew of CD-ROM drives. Maybe a New
Year's resolution/release?

How about those presumably proprietary drives offered with the 
SoundBlaster Pro card (Egghead, etc.) - I suppose they are
probably slow, etc., but (VHS vs. BETA) may become popular 
unless other drives become cheap. Are they supported?
 
Tom

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jst50986@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jack S. Tan)
Subject: Re: Someone, please repost inst. of Speedstar Diamond on Gateway.
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:01:22 GMT

ashwath@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Ashwath Ram) writes:


> I have lost the posting somewhere and I need to install a
> Diamond Speedstar SVGA on a Gateway 2000 with a Crystal Scan 1024 NI.
> I know there were a lot of postings on how this is to be done with
> the Tseng ET4000 SVGA drivers, VMODE etc. could someone please repost
> this.
>
>
> Thanks in advance
> Ashwath Ram

I have the same setup you do, and this worked for me;

 1.  Select "OS/2 System" --> "System Setup" --> "Selective Install"
     --> "Primary Display"
 2.  Proceed with install.  When it prompts for diskette 6 or 7, it means
     the GA disks, not the Service Pack ones.  (OS/2 is looking for fonts).
 3.  Select the desired resolution when the dialog box comes up.
 4.  Quit the Selective Install when complete, but do not shut down.
 5.  Get a full-screen DOS session, and type SVGA OFF (safety precaution)
 6.  Use VMODE to select the proper monitor (VMODE MONITOR) and resolution
     (e.g., VMODE 38).  Run the VESA extensions, if you like (VMODE VESA).
 7.  Run SVGA ON.
 8.  Shut down and reboot.

Note that you need the VMODE instructions in an AUTOEXEC.BAT for full-screen
WIN-OS2 sessions, or else the monitor will lose sync for the session.

Hope this helps.

-- 

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From: shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: How to "register" new hardware with OS/2?
Date: 18 Nov 92 17:24:31 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, OH

In article <1992Nov17.172930.25639@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
>If you just want to wipe partitions off, I recall a page of Hex code
>in the Norton utilities Advanced Ed 4.5 book which (when keyed into
>DEBUG) would produce a .COM file to wipe partition tables.  You were
>supposed to use it as a last resort if the table couldn't be accessed.
>It will wipe all partitions, forcing you to re-run FDISK, I believe.

My thanks for the numerous answers to the second question in this
thread.  I am interested in any answers to the original poster's
first question:  How does one add, say, an additional hard drive
to an existing installation?  I'm not going to complain about the
the need to handle 30 or so disks to end up with a GA + CSD install,
but if there's a way to add to the existing installation, I'd
rather do it that way than to reinstall OS/2.

Thanks, Larry
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jeff@claw.clearpoint.com (Jeffrey J. Griglack)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: The Great Logical Disk Fiasco of '92
Date: 17 Nov 92 14:57:16 GMT
Reply-To: jeff@claw.clearpoint.com
Organization: Clearpoint Research, Hopkinton, MA

The other night I decided that I needed to have a DOS partition so I
could run certain programs that I have not been able to run in an OS/2
DOS session, so I started rebuilding my system.  I copied most of my
disk to a 120 MB SCSI that I have just installed and started
repartitioning my main drive.

I partitioned it into 2 primary partitions.  One, 81 MB, with DOS 5.0
and the other, 120 MB, with OS/2 (HPFS).  I also installed the Boot
Manager so I could boot off either.  I reinstalled the Adaptec driver
(AHA152X.ADD) and saw that everything was still okay with the data on
the SCSI drive.  Then I started to figure out how to access the DOS
partition from OS/2.

What I discovered was that only one primary drive can be active at a
time, so I would have to make one a primary and one a "logical" drive
in an extended partion.  I started rebuilding again.  I made the 120
MB partition an "extended" partition with one "logical" drive in it.
I reinstalled OS/2.  Everything came up and worked fine EXCEPT....

I reinstalled my Adaptec driver and modified config.sys, but I can't
see my SCSI drive.  I have not touched the hardware, so that hasn't
changed.  I have a C: drive (FAT) and a D: drive (HPFS), but I can't
get at the SCSI drive (F:?) (HPFS).  Has anybody else gone through
this and, if so, what did they do?  What is it about having a logical
drive that makes me not able to see the additional physical drive?

Configuration:

	33 Mhz '386 ISA (generic) with AMI BIOS
	16 MB memory
	202 MB IDE drive (boot)
	Adaptec 1520 (no control)
	120 MB SCSI drive
	the usual parallel, serial and stuff like that.

Can anybody help me with this?  The only way that I can think of to
correct the problem is to go back to having two primary drives (this
was when I last saw the SCSI drive) and living with things that way.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: butler@offa.cs.odu.edu (Prince F. Butler)
Subject: Re: Paradise says it is not working on 2.0 video drivers
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA
	<1992Nov18.014356.3040856@locus.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 06:29:56 GMT

Just as a little note to people when you call up tech support at companies.
If you want to get a thoughtful answer and not just the answer that they give
people to get them off of the line as soon as possible, when a tech support 
person answers a question, ask them if you can quote them on the Internet
news.  Tech support people dig a lot deeper to find correct answers if they
think that what they say might come back to haunt them.
From: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Diamond SS 24x DOESN'T WORK??? HELP!!!!!!!
Date: 16 Nov 1992 17:56:57 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc12.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, roland@spock.uucp (David A. Braun) says:

>Hello world, I just bought a Diamond Speedstar 24x a few days ago and I cannot
>get it to work with OS/2.  It worked fine when I booted to DOS, but when I try
>to boot OS/2... The system boots and my windows appear. I can usually move a
>window or something before the system crashes. When it crashes I either get an
>IPE or system lockup with garble on the screen where something was supposed to
>appear... I can run at least a few programs, but, for example, if I run the
>terminal program that came with OS/2, it loads, but either selecting the Change
>item in the menu or trying to connect crashes the system... If I run galleria 
>(image editor) I can usually get it to start and open small bitmaps. But, if I
>try to load anything larger than the screen area... CRASH.  I got this card
>hoping to solve my problems with my old OAK card... but it has only caused
>many more.  I have not yet installed the CSD, but I don't think the system
>will make it through the CSD instalation process without crashing...
>HELP!!!!!!  HELP!!!!!!  HELP!!!!!!!  HELP!!!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!


Try removing the 0-wait state jumper on the card.
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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: com16550.sys on Hobbes?
Date: 23 Nov 92 19:58:25 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <1992Nov23.032553.17627@news.tufts.edu> gkushmer@jade.tufts.edu (Greg Kushmerek) writes:
>I was poking around Hobbes when I saw a file in the /pub/os2/all
>tree called com16550.zip.
>I downloaded it, unzipped it, and decided to stick it in my config.sys
>folder.  I noticed, however, that this file was created in 1991 meaning
>pre 2.0.  Has anyone had any trouble with this driver and OS/2 2.0?
>Has anyone had to remove the driver?  Or does everyone with a 16550
>use this?

It probably works, but it is no longer necessary.  OS/2 2.0 (and 1.3
as well, I think) support the 16550A(F)N UART directly.  OS/2 2.0 also
lifts the maximum bps rate allowed by MODE (from 19200 to 57600), so
that driver isn't even necessary for high speed modems.

Technically, COM16550.ZIP belongs in /pub/os2/all, but, practically,
it really should go to /pub/os2/1.x.

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From: kperic@vms.eurokom.ie (Konstantin Peric S.W.I.F.T.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: WPS problems
Date: 16 Nov 92 11:04:06 GMT
Organization: EuroKom Conferencing Service

Hello,
I've installed OS2 2.0 some two weeks ago. I keep beeing irritated by small
WPS quirks, and I'm wondering whether those are bugs or me...
Here they are:
1) some windows do not remember their settings. For example, I've defined
the C drive root window to include only File system objects with the archive
flag set to on (so that I don't see any system or hidden files). Those settings
disappear as soon as thesystem is rebooted.
2) the C drive windows insist on showing both the real name and object name. 
This problem, together with the previous one, and compouneded by the slowness
of opening directories of more than 50 files, make me wonder what the C drive
icon is made for... It certainly cannot be used as a file manager. BTW, I've
tried DIRMAN20: it is better, but still has some strange bugs (sometimes,
DIRMAN says that directories do not exist, even if it shows them in the
directory screen).
3) in an effort to unclutter the desktop, I've tried to modify the desktop
popup menu. I wanted to have there my commands prompts (in a cascade menu),
and also the font and color palettes. First, the interface to modify
the menus is AWFUL: you have to locate from scratch each program file (i.e.
locate folder, find all the items, pick the one you want). Second, when
I install a DOS command prompt (full screen of windowed) and launch it
from the menu, the following appears: "SYS3006: the drive or path you
specified with the new COMMAND.COM is invalid". The COMSPEC points to c:\,
instead of C:\OS2\MDOS. Launching the DOS box by double-clicking the 
icon works fine. I do not see any way to put the font and color palettes
in the menu: they are not programs.    Is there any trick with REXX scripts?

Is there anything to help? BTW, I'm using OS/2 2.0 CSD level XR02000.

Kosta Peric
kperic@vms.eurokom.ie
From: djbpitt+@pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Screen saver safety - Update
Date: 15 Nov 92 15:16:05 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In a recent posting, I commented that when I began using Deskpic, my
os2sys.ini file began growing at the rate of 1MB a day. When I caught
it, it had reached 11MB. I asked whether other users could confirm this
behavior.

Users of Deskpic, Window Washer, and Scrutil have written that they have
been using these programs for months with no explosive growth in the
size of their os2sys.ini files (no reports one way or the other from
Yowza users). Two explanations:

1) Deskpic had nothing to do with the peculiar behavior in my system.
That this behavior coincided with my introducing Deskpic was
coincidental.

2) I had a fair amount of trouble configuring Deskpic and I may have
done something inappropriate that caused it to misbehave.

Any advice on which of the preceding seems most likely (and on
alternative explanations) would be welcome.

Thanks,

David

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From: 925wardell@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Crashing OS/2 - No.2
Date: 17 Nov 92 18:28:52 EST
Organization: Western Michigan University

In article <Bxv0vs.oE@brunel.ac.uk>, me90plb@brunel.ac.uk (Paul L Barnfather) writes:
> Yet another *really* annoying repeatable crash, needing a COLD reboot:
> 
> Try running Origin's Ultima Underworld in a window - it causes a Trap 00008
> after a few seconds. It also does this if you window it from full screen.
> 
> It does this EVERY time. It runs OK full screen.
> 
> What is a Trap 8 ? How can a DOS program crash OS/2 so effectively.
> 
> Any suggestions much appreciated - the only reason I wanted it in a window    
> was to create an icon for it !!
> 
> Paul.
>  
	You can do the same thing with Class Tetris.  Post CSD with
running high res and putting certain DOS apps in a window will now
crash OS/2 with a Trap 008.  It is a double fault (name of the crash).
I am not certain what causes it but I believe it probably has something
to do with the way the program (game) uses the display for games.
At this time, it is risky to put DOS games into a window.
	Many high color pictures will do the same thing.

							-Brad
From: sjb5@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (STACY JOHN BEHRENS)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: NEC CDR-83 CDROM don't work. Why?
Date: 22 Nov 92 20:00:48 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

I just shelled out the bucks for a NEC CDR-83 CD-ROM drive and am attempting
to get it to work, but am running into a number of difficulties.

1.  The generic driver from hobbes doesn't seem to work.  It simply thinks
that it is another floppy drive.
2.  The disks don't go into the drive, they stick out part way.  Is this
normal?  I haven't seen a CD-ROM drive yet that does this.
3.  Every time anything tries to access the drive, the disk kicks out, from
what little way it went in and I get a device not ready error message.
4.  There are no external terminators.  I assume this means that it is
automatically terminated, but I am not sure and there is *nothing* in the
manual about it.
5.  Assuming the disks are in correctly and they are supposed to stick out
part way, the disk doesn't spin up at all.

*****************************************************************
6.  WOULD SOMEBODY *PLEASE* FIX THE FUTURE DOMAIN 1680 SCSI DRIVER?  The mouse
pointer freezes *EVERY* time the hard drive is accessed.  This is REALLY
annoying
******************************************************************

FYI I have the following machine:
386/40 with 20 megs RAM
Quantum PD170
Future Domain 1680 SCSI adapter
Paradise Pro VGA card
NEC Intersect CDR-83 CD-ROM drive


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From: feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel)
Subject: Port I/O for 32 Bit Apps
Organization: DAFCO: OS/2 Software Support & Consulting
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 02:09:36 GMT

It's just been brought to my attention that the i/o bitmap can be used
to enable i/o instructions for selected ports in 32-bit mode as well
as in virtual 86 mode. Is there a way in os/2 for an application
to get i/o permission for specific ports when running 32-bit code?
This would eliminate the need for a ring change to execute i/o
instructions and would speed up real-time control routines.
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From: kiehl@ibt013.ibt.kfa-juelich.de (Horst Kiehl)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: How to solve write protection faults in VDM's?
Date: 19 Nov 92 13:47:40 GMT
Reply-To: kiehl@ibt013.ibt.kfa-juelich.de (Horst Kiehl)
Organization: Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH (KFA), Germany

In article <1992Nov19.015043.27715@wam.umd.edu>,
adhir@wam.umd.edu (Al Dhir) writes:

>[santeew@sisters.cs.uoregon.edu (Wes Santee) writes:]

>>(1) I make an image from a DOS disk in drive A: (without all
>>    that FSFILTER stuff because I don't need access to the HPFS
>>    partition) and stick it on my FAT partition D:.
>>
>
>You DO need the FSFILTER.SYS whether you do or don't use HPFS.  Install it
>in the CONFIG.SYS file in the bootable image and all will be well.

And you need to close the disk image to be able to write to the physical
diskette. FSACCESS A: accesses A: via FSFILTER.SYS and OS/2. To get
exclusive access to A: (to make a system disk, for example), use
FSACCESS !A: then.

Horst
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