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From: clemens@faui8a.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Clemens Beckstein)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: **WARNING: POSSIBLE CSD PROBLEM! ?? **
Date: 9 Nov 1992 12:04:05 GMT
Organization: Regionales Rechenzentrum Erlangen
NNTP-Posting-Host: faui8a.informatik.uni-erlangen.de
Keywords: os2 CSD problem

gsk@idx.com writes:

>--  *** WARNING ** WARNING ** WARNING ***

>OS/2 CSD  XR06055 PROBLEM!  **Warning on installing the CSD!**
>(Golden Release)

>I just installed the CSD on my system, and just noticed a possible SEVERE
>problem!!!

>My system is set up with multiple partitions.. My C drive was a dual boot 
>OS/2 GA and DOS 5.0. My G: disk is a OS/2 BETA release. I used boot manager
>to determine WHICH system I wanted to run...

>WELL... The CSD is updating files on both C: and G:... 

as it is supposed to do --- did you read the readme.sp file?
If you boot from the CSD disks then it will service all OS/2 partitions.
If you want just one specific partition serviced you have to
start A:SERVICE from an OS/2 window...

>I haven't finished the CSD.. but panicked when I saw this happen!

>BEWARE... if you have more than one version of OS/2 installed on your system,
>THERE MAY BE PROBLEMS INSTALLING THE CSD...

problems?  I think your warning should read:
  CSD installers please read the README before installing;
  it means what it says...

>I would assume that the only solution would be to remove the BETA partition,
>install the CSD, and then reload the BETA if you still want to play with the
>WINOS2 3.1...

see above...

Cheers,

- Clemens
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: rda612c@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (js [schwobby])
Subject: Re: ET-4000, CSD and notebook tabs. Help!
Keywords: CSD ET-4000 notebook tabs
Organization: Monash University, Caulfield Campus
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 00:28:46 GMT

jeffgus@netcom.com (Jeffrey Gustafson) writes:

>	I've having trouble with the CSD ET-4000 drivers.  This is
>what I've done so far: In the original OS/2 install I put in the
>Orchid drivers under d:\tseng and added it to the libpath.  I was
>using the Orchid drivers during the CSD install process (does that
>make a difference?).  I installed the CSD and used the selective
>install to select ET-4000 drivers.  BUT the notebook tabs are messed up
>and I can't click on seamless Windows for the WordPerfect for Windows
>"settings."
>	Where did I go wrong?  How do I get seamless windows?  Was the
>problem the Orchid drivers that I added?  Any suggestions?  e-mail or
>post.

>---
>jeffgus@netcom.com
>Jeffrey Gustafson


Hi Jeffrey.

DO NOT USE THE ORCHID DRIVERS.
I had this "BUG" too and maybe(?) the CSD, I`m not sure......

If you still have you old ORIGINAL driver, use this and DELETE the 
additional LIBPATH statement. The driver should be in /OS2/DLL.
Reboot.
IBM has its own drivers, and for some(?) reason it uses the ORCHID one
if you have it in your LIBPATH.

THEN click on selective install and INSTALL FOR VGA first.
Go through the hole procedure of disks 6-15 and the last two of the CSD.

THEN reboot and click on selective install and install for SVGA.
Go through the procedure again ==> 6-15, last two CSD and choose your 
resolution.

DO NOT HAVE ANY STATEMENT OF ADDITIONAL DISPLAY DRIVERS IN YOUR CONFIG FILE.

This should work.

regards
      Jobst

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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Neat Utils for OS/2
Date: 10 Nov 92 18:04:58 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <1992Nov9.161221.6252@gw.wmich.edu> x90wardell@gw.wmich.edu writes:
>	Here are some neat things I would love to see someone make
>up for OS/2 or if there is such a thing perhaps someone could point
>it out to me:
>	A program that will make files with certain exensions have
>a certain icon.
>	For example, all .wp5 icons wuld have a word perfect icon
>when I opened their folder.

AddIcon Version 1.1, written by yours truly, comes close.  You can
obtain it via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.

>	Another util that would be nice would be one to change the
>default OS/2 logo screen that pops up every time you turn on the
>machine.

I'm told you can hack around and do this, but I haven't seen anyone
actually write everything down.  Thoughts, anyone?

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From: ucgadkw@ucl.ac.uk (Dominik Wujastyk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Where is the deinstall in the CSD?
Date: 12 Nov 92 20:26:06 GMT
Organization: Bloomsbury Computing Consortium

2ftohaul@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:

>I heard there was a de-install included with the CSD.  I can't find it and
>I really need to use it.  Could someone let me know where it is?  Thanks.

It's on disk 8 of the CSD, if I recall correctly.  Use unpack to
get it.  I.e., cd to \os2\install, and then say
     unpack a:\os2\fix\uninstall.ex@

[I'm doing this from memory, so you might have to check that 
I've got the details right.]

Then go back to the WPS, copy a program file from the Templates
folder to the folder where you keep stuff like install, and install
uninstall.  Voila.  It works for me.

Only one gotcha: if you install something from the original GA disks,
you have to re-run the CSD upgrade, since you can never be quite
sure that part of the upgrade hasn't been overwritten by the GA install.
This is mentioned in a readme somewhere.

Good luck.

Dominik
From: vohwi-d@acsu.buffalo.edu (David A. Vohwinkel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Seamless Windows
Date: 11 Nov 92 15:40:23 GMT
Organization: UB

Can someone please explain to me what is seamless windows....

			
					Dave V
From: shyguy@ocf.berkeley.edu (David S. Shy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: 256 Color?
Date: 7 Nov 1992 15:23:55 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandstorm.berkeley.edu

>I tried imshow.exe with the Tseng 1024X768X256 drivers, and the palette
>seems all messed up. The bitmaps don't like one bit as they do if I put
>them on the desktop background...

Well, I too am using the 1X7X256 drivers... when running wingif seamlessly
the picture in wingif comes out fine perfect, just as i expected... however
the background gets all messed up.  it's not until after i quit wingif
does it refresh the screen and clean up everything.  (i think this is 
normal behavior though due to the way the palatte is implemented.)

however, my problem is that when i put a 256 colored picture in the back-
ground, it looks strange.  what i mean is that when i compared the picture
that was displayed in wingif against the one which i displayed in the 
background (w/o wingif running to make sure nothing is screwing w/ the backg.
pic.) the one in the back ground looks as if it's been dithered really
bad.  (not to 16 color though.)  the image is somewhat choppy, plus some
of the colors used are really bad... (like the red is really red or
something...)  in essence, wingif blows it away... (i never had this problem
while using windows... anyone know's what the problem is or have answers
to what's happening?

=============================================================================
| David Shy		   | 486D/33/12/120 | A proud OS/2 user who isn't   |
| shyguy@ocf.berkeley.edu  | 1.4/1.2/1/1304 | deprived by Micro$oft/WindoZe |
=============================================================================

-- 
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| David Shy		   | 486D/33/12/120 | A proud OS/2 user who isn't   |
| shyguy@ocf.berkeley.edu  | 1.4/1.2/1/1304 | deprived by Micro$oft/WindoZe |
=============================================================================
From: dave.flacks@almac.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: cpbackup problems
Date: 13 Nov 92 12:00:55 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: ALMAC BBS Ltd

I solved it. There is a bug in the beta that some people have been
talking about concerning path names greater than 32 characters.

I was trying to run CPBackup on a 32 character path and it bombed out.

Solution: Shorten the path, kill someone at IBM, and wait patiently for
another bug fix.
---
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From: giorgio@berta.sublink.org (Giorgio Bertazzo)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Service Pack & OS/2 Italian
Date: 3 Nov 92 12:24:54 GMT
Organization: Giorgio Bertazzo

This is how I installed the service pack on an OS/2 2.0 italian version.
I cannot offer guarantees of any kind about the results on other systems, but my system  is working apparently OK, with SVGA 256 colors, and all the rest.
When I tried first to install (I made a backup of my HPFS just before) the
SERVICE command told me he didn't see packages to upgrade.
The problem is in the package's name, which is, for Italy, XRI0000 instead
of XR00000.
I changed twice the package's name in C:\OS2\INSTALL\SYSLEVEL.OS2.
The SYSLEVEL.GRE file is OK.
Then i run the servpak install, and now it seems quite good.
On my system it looks faster, although now I'm running 256 colors.
Only, now I'm driving fool switching continuously my answers from si/no to
yes/no ...
:-)
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|__) |__ |__)  |  |__|  Giorgio Bertazzo
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From: kl@isr.harvard.edu (Kun Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS2+VIO windows=110baud
Date: 11 Nov 92 06:53:03 GMT
Article-I.D.: burrhus.1992Nov11.065303.10027
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

In article <1dptm4INNbqg@gap.caltech.edu> josephc@cco.caltech.edu (Joseph Chiu) writes:
>Those of you who are having CRAWLING windowed sessions, check to see if 
>your CONFIG.SYS contains a PRIORITY=ABSOLUTE line.  If it does, it may
>be the reason for the slow performance.  In my own particular case, setting
>PRIORITY=ABSOLUTE made windowed sessions go at a snail's pace.
>
>(The default is to leave the line out, or PRIORITY=DYNAMIC)
>
I did try both priority options. None changed anything (of course, I
rebooted after the changes). My original config.sys didn't have the line.

For the reference, I ran the timer.cmd posted days ago here on 386DX/20MHz
with 8M RAM (80ns). Video card is BOCA SVGA (ET 4000 based) with 512K. 
I am using 640x480x256 provided by the CSD.
(The hard disk is Conner 3204P (16m sec), if necessary to know.)
The timer.cmd result is: 
for windowed session, time=342.130
for full screen session, time=28.810

I also noticed that it is faster when the window is not focused. May be due to
less re-drawing? 

In my case, problem is specific to PMTERM. Since I cannot maximize it to
the full screen, my connection to the main frame through serial port at
9600 baud looks like a 1200 baud modem connection. Does anyone know any
remedy for this.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mlevis@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Mike Levis)
Subject: Re: ChkDsk /F
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 08:33:30 GMT

In article <1992Nov6.232703.11425@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> mholmes@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Mark Holmes) writes:
>Why am i unable to run ChkDsk (OS2) with the F parameter?
>It gives me a message saying that it is unable to do so because the hard
>drive is in use or locked by another process.  Chkdsk runs fine otherwise.
>Also it will not run with the F parameter when I boot from the installation
>disk.  I'm using FAT.

The following comes from the OS/2 FAQL 2.0g:

:
:With IBM OS/2 2.0, insert the Installation Diskette, Shutdown (if
:necessary), and reboot.  When prompted insert Diskette 1 and press
:ENTER.  When prompted, press ESC.  You will be given an OS/2 command
:line prompt.  From there you can make necessary changes to your hard
:disk [...]
:
:You may use this diskette boot method to run CHKDSK on your FAT or HPFS
:volumes.  After you reach the command line, insert Diskette 2.  Do not
:log to another drive.  Type CHKDSK X: /F to repair most kinds of damage
:to your hard disk, replacing X with the appropriate drive letter. [...]
:

Remember, ``do not log to another drive''.  Also, do not drive to another
log, either.  (bad joke, I know :)

>
>                                       Mark
>
>-- 
>*------------------------------*----------------------------------------------*
>| mholmes@lonestar.utsa.edu    * CAUTION!  New sig under construction.  All   |
>| mholmes@ringer.cs.utsa.edu   *           employees must wear helmets.       |
>|    And remember The most dangerous computer virus known to man is MS-DOS    |
                                               ^^^^^                 ^^^^^^
OS/2 2.0 has multiple viruses running concurrently.  :)

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"I believed what I was told, I thought it was a good   .--.
life, I thought I was happy.  Then I found something  (OS/2)
that changed it all..."  --  Anonymous, 2112  [Rush]   ~--~
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: icsip194@Msu.oscs.montana.edu
Subject: Modem / Boot Mgr. interaction?
Reply-To: icsip194@Msu.oscs.montana.edu
Organization: Montana State University
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 01:37:04 GMT

I noticed a posting here a couple days ago about a possible interaction between 
modems and the boot manager, but i didnt see any replys posted.  

I'm having what seems to be a similar problem where the keyboard or both
keyboard and mouse lock up when trying to dial or connect.  The only way to
relieve the problem is to turn the power off and re-boot.  It is a 9600/2400
fax/modem and I am using Kermit 3.01.

Any E-mail hints would be appreciated!
From: atoenne@mpii02000.cs.uni-sb.de (Andreas Toenne)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: CSD + Trident 1024*768 drivers
Date: 9 Nov 92 09:32:20 GMT
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut fuer Informatik, Saarbruecken

In article <1992Nov5.042035.15928@tplrd.tpl.oz.au>, davidb@tplrd.tpl.oz.au (David Bassin) writes:
|> 
|>   It seems from the netnews that in systems to which the CSD has been
|> applied, the Trident 8900C 800*600*256 driver has serious problems,
|> such as transparent backgrounds in notebook tabs, etc.  The 800*600*16
|> driver is reported as being OK.  I have not seen any reports on the

Oh yes ?
Don't count me! I had 800x600x16 installed on GA without any problems
(except when I switched between graphics DOS and OS/2).
When I installed the SP my system simply hung up, black screen, cursor in the
middle of the screen!

I have checked the following:
SVGA handler are installed properly, SVGA ON is executed in DOS fullscreen.
I copied the 800x600x16 driver as display.dll in a separate directory
but I did not know how to handle the Windows driver.

What is wrong with this?

	Andreas
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From: jwbst2+@pitt.edu (John W Bairen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Problems with OS/2 2.0 Install -Really Weird
Summary: Machime USED to work, until changed Video and HD Controller
Date: 7 Nov 92 21:09:31 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

Hey everyone...
	I have been getting some really weird errors when trying to
reinstall OS/2 2.0 on my machine. Let me know what you think.

	Here is the situation:
		I had a few problems with my older IDE HD controller so
		I got a new one. This works fine under DOS/Windows. I
		at the same time upgraded from my Trident 8900 SVGA
		card to a Diamond Speedstar 24X SVGA card. I reinstalled
		OS/2 2.0 after going through all this, to make sure
		everything worked OK. I even repartitioned the drive so
		that I could have more space for OS/2.

	Here's what Happens:
		OS/2 Install goes fine. I get through all the disks and
		am ready to start the system up for the first time. The
		graphics work fine with the ne SVGA card. I let the
		system start to come up and it makes it past the OS/2
		logo. The disk spins for a while and then stops, like it
		usually does. Then it starts again, then stops leaving
		a "c0000005" in the upper left hand corner of the
		screen. 

	Things I've Tried:
		I have tried mucking about in the CONFIG.SYS file, with
		limited results. If I change the PRIORITY_DISK_IO line
		to no, IOPL to no, and PROTECTONLY to no, the system
		will come up, but , obviosly, with out DOS or Windows
		support. Leaving IOPL set to YES has different results.
		If I do this, the system halts until I hit a key, then
		the disk spins a bit and then the system hangs. That's
		it.

	Anyone have any clues? I would really like to have my system 
functional again. Any help would be appreciated.
					

	Please send all replies to mattm%deadlock@uunet.uu.net

			Thanks,
				--Matt Mossholder
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: smadden@titan.trl.OZ.AU (Steve Madden)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Win 3.1 Beta and Novell networks problem
Date: 12 Nov 92 23:35:20 GMT
Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia

Hi there all fellow OS/2 users,

We have a machine here with the Win 3.1 Beta installed on it, and are 
experiencing a bit of a glitch. Basically, we go through loading all the
drivers etc to connect to the Novell server, which all goes OK. We get a
message saying that the connection to the server has been established OK
as well. Now, the server's hard disk should be mounted as F:, but under
DOS under OS/2 it is actually mounted as [: (yes, I do mean the square
bracket :) !!!! We only discovered this after quite a bit of searching !! 
Although we can still use this to some extent, there seems to be a
problem when logging onto the server, as we get a bunch of error
messages about not being able to mount various directories, and not
being able to locate the printer via capture. Also, we cannot get
Microsoft mail to work. Anyone know how to get the drive letter back to
normal (yes lastdrive is set to Z), or have similar experiences or
otherwise under the GA+SPP ??? All information most gratefully received
!


Thanks,


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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: To OS/2 or not to OS/2, *that* is the question...
Date: 5 Nov 92 17:36:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: midway.1992Nov5.173657.2986
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.advocacy
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <1992Oct31.221826.17187@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> riehm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Riehm) writes:
>I bought a copy of OS/2 last August, started to install it one night, ran
>into (more or less trivial) problems, put it away and have just come back to 
>it now, thinking that I would try again.   Then I see the troubles that the
>CSD has caused and wonder just what IBM is up to...   and then the current 
>issue of PC Magazine runs tests on OS/2 and DOS5/Windows3.1 and finds that
>in almost all of them the DOS/Windows combination is faster, evidently
>contradicting what I had been led to believe in this newsgroup.
>What to think?  I've got a working system and I just don't have the time to
>spend fixing it if it doesn't work properly (it's a true blue system all the
>way but still...).   OK I know that PCMag is hostile to OS/2 and is a 
>mindless MS supporter but still - are their figures in error, and are their
>tales of installation problems really not typical?   

Just on one point, the PC Magazine benchmarks were seriously flawed,
in my opinion.  When multitasking was tested, they tested with only
Windows programs (e.g. Word and Excel running together), and they
checked the "Separate Session" checkbox under OS/2.  (Why?  You've got
me -- that was incredibly dumb, and immediately invalidated their
results, because they were comparing apples and oranges.)

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: SP and STEALTH
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 23:27:57 GMT

In article <9211111954.AA21586@magnusug.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Eric B Karabin <ekarabin@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> writes:
>	Is there anything in the Service Pack that can be used
>to get SVGA on a Diamond Stealth card?

No.

There is, however, a crude first attempt at a driver for S3-based
adapters like the Stealth.  Check ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.  Filename is
something like f10x8.zip, in /pub/uploads at the moment.

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From: rider@geloser.login.qc.ca (Serge Ayotte)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Minimum recommended size BEFORE installing SPG?
Date: 5 Nov 92 03:20:59 GMT
Organization: Gentleman Loser System, Montreal/Qc/Cdn

bharris@hfglobe.intel.com (Bennie Harris) writes:

> 
> My installation used ~3meg more disk space as the readme file
> said it would. I'am also using FAT with Dos on C:. So I
> suggest you free up additional disk space to prevent problems
> with the SP installation.
> 
> -- Bennie Harris

Thanks Bennie for the warning, (and also again thanks Don who emailed
me...), thats just what I did tonight... a clean up taht is... Now I'm
up to 4,900,000 plus free space on C:, I hope that should do it.

TCTTYL!

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Serge Ayotte                                  rider@geloser.login.qc.ca
From: warmuth@warmuth.wu-wien.ac.at
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: 32GRE slow
Date: 9 Nov 1992 13:03:42 GMT
Organization: Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
NNTP-Posting-Host: warmuth.wu-wien.ac.at

In  <mortenk.52.720467456@dhhalden.no>  mortenk@dhhalden.no (MORTEN KNUDSEN) writes:
> I installed the service pack last night, and was very disappointed when
> graphics speed dropped significantly (about 50%). I suspect this is a bug
> of some sort, of something wrong happened during installation. I have a 
> ET4000 card (the one that lost sync w/o the VSVGA fix), and have tried it
> in 640x480x16, 640x480x256, 800x600x256. All modes are a lot slower than
> before I installed the SP. 
> Has anybody else had this problem? Is there a fix?

I think this is a general problem of the SP. On my machine (IBM model 80)
the GRE is slower than before, but not 50% (10% to 20% will meet it). I heard something about a 'Performance Pack' available soon - but that can be a wrong
information. We will see it.

Michael
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc