HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: re: COM3 and Selective Install???
From: ghdai@vax1.umkc.edu
Date: 23 Jan 93 11:59:49 CST
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City
NNTP-Posting-Host: vax1.umkc.edu

>>I have my modem connected to COM3, and configured CONFIG.SYS by adding
>>(3,2E8,9) at the end of COM.SYS and VCOM.SYS. But if I changes the
>>video resolution using selective install, COM3 configuration in
>>CONFIG.SYS is gone. I mean (3,2E8,9) is disapperaed. I have to
>>edit CONFIG.SYS again. Has anybody having this problem?

Yes, I had had such a problem.  The installation did erase it.

>
>Interestingly enuf, I just now ran DSPINSTL (for Trident SVGA).
>It didn't change my COM/VCOM lines.
>
>BTW, I had trouble with my third serial port (which the card thinks is
>COM4, but OS/2 calls COM3)

If you have only three COM ports, OS/2 will call the last one COM3 even if
you configure it as COM4.  COM3 for OS/2 is only a logical name, but under
DOS and the traditional PC hardware scheme, it's a physical name.

> when the IRQ was set to 2 (which OS/2 thinks
>is 9).  I had to change it to IRQ 5 to get it to work reliably.  So my

On an ISA AT-compatibale machine, IRQ2 is mapped to IRQ9, because IRQ2 is
just the cascade interrupt controller for IRQs 8-15. (The oldest PC/8088
had only IRQs 0-7.)  Have you tried set it up as IRQ9 in your CONFIG.SYS?
That is, set the jump on the I/O card to IRQ2, which should usually be what
the manual for the card says, but in the CONFIG.SYS, put in (3,2E8,9) instead
of (3,2E8,2).  BTW, I never tried.  It's just my guess.

>current COM/VCOM lines are (3,2E8,5).  But, it seems to work fine.

My current settings are the same as yours.  When I did it, I was not aware of
the mapping, and I don't have an LPT2 port (requiring IRQ5) bothering me.

Guohuan H. Dai/2
-- 
GHDai@VAX1.UMKC.Edu |** Happy user of only OS/2 !!! / HPFS on 2 entire HD's **|
|* OS/2 2.1beta includes MMPM/2, Fax/PM, Win3.1 enhanced mode, TT fonts, etc.*|
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: hoppie@kub.nl (Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers)
Subject: News about Jumbo tape software?
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 08:32:57 GMT
Organization: Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.misc

After the initial Colorado bashing, and after the initial beta of BackMaster,
is there any movement on the tape drive front?

My system crashed two times at me this year (one time hard), and that $$@%$&
tape drive sits there scratching his back and doing nothing except consuming
place and power. Grrr.

I do not care that much what this will cost me (well...) but I *need* reliable
tape backup software for Colorado Jumbo-250 drives. HPFS-aware, etc. --
just a normal thing. PM Not Necessary. You know.

Any reports from people who are actually using such a piece of software?


Jeroen

-- 
Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers, research engineer at     |  Stop connecting computers;
Infolab, Tilburg University, The Netherlands    |  start connecting people!
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mluong@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Mingh Luong)
Subject: OS/2 on notebook
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:39:41 GMT

Hey all OS/2'ers!

I've got a question for you all or whoever.  Right now, I have OS/2 running
on my notebook computer (386sx w/4megs), and  I was wondering what 
can I delete, from what the main OS/2 stuff, so that OS/2 doesn't eat too
much of my HD space?  And also, what are some suggestions for speeding up
OS/2? (besides getting a faster computer and more RAM)?
From: unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Can I *PLEASE* get a fast COMM driver that &^$#* works!?
Date: 27 Jan 1993 04:49:05 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: physics.ubc.ca

frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca (Steve Frampton) writes:


>Well, I tried version 0.40 -- SAME problem.  Once again, I get:

Are we all beginning to suspect your hardware?
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: burleigh@ogre.cica.indiana.edu (Frank Burleigh)
Subject: ATI GU+ beta drivers in WinOS2 2.1beta?
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:05:43 GMT

Let me ask it this way:

Can I use ATI's graphics ultra plus Win31 drivers in WinOS2 31
(the beta)?  I actually installed them but they require Win to
be in enhanced mode so WinOS2 didn't want to run.  I thought
WinOS2 could now support enhanced mode code...

Thanks in advance.
--
Frank Burleigh
Department of Sociology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN  47405
CIS 72730,1017; Internet burleigh@ogre.cica.indiana.edu; Bitnet burleigh@iubacs
From: gogol@diku.dk (Peter Skov Knudsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Is OS/2 a dead end?
Keywords: So quoth Bill Gates
Date: 22 Jan 93 16:42:03 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

sparapan@flame.ra.anl.gov (RA Sparapani RA/208/xxx gwing) writes:


>This is pretty funny coming from the same guy who said that
>OS/2 was the wave of the future(or something like that).

>Rodney

>Argonne National Laboratory
>from the people who brought you the Manhattan Project
>"Arrogance is bliss."       Rodney Sparapani

Maybe it's this quote you ar thinking about, which is from mr. Gates' foreword
to some good-for-nothing book about OS/2 1.0:
   OS/2 is the most important operating system, and maybe the most important
   program ever written (or something like that).
Well, I must admit that I dont quite understand mr. Gates, but as I can see
it there are three possibilities:

I) He is just a sprat, that nobody should pay any attention to.

II) He has some terrible plans for computer industry; he thinks of OS/2 1.0
as the most important OS ever written, but thinks of OS/2 2.0 as a dead end.
Watch out, given to much influence in computer industry this guy might be
very dangerous.

III) He is the person making the most reliable predictions about the future in
computer industry. Reliable in the sense, that he always predicts the
totally opposite of what things turn out to be. Just have a look at some of
his insightfull predictions:
   - OS/2 is the most important OS... (see above. said about OS/2 1.0)
   - By MS-DOS version 5 (or was it 6) MS-DOS and UNIX will be the same.
   - (I'm not at all sure about the wording of this, but I remember mr.
     Gates predicting that BASIC would become one of the most important
     programming languages)
   - OS/2 will never sell more than a few hundred thousand copies.
   - OS/2 is a dead end (said at a time where OS/2 had sold about
     2 million copies)


Peter SKov Knudsen, gogol@diku.dk
Computer science student, University of Copenhagen
From: msaletni@jade.tufts.edu (Michael J. Saletnik)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Orchid Video
Date: 21 Jan 93 14:24:34 GMT
	<MSALETNI.93Jan20092233@jade.tufts.edu>
	<1jkl75INNnnq@terra.cs.waikato.ac.nz>
Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA

In article <1jkl75INNnnq@terra.cs.waikato.ac.nz> hamish@terra.cs.waikato.ac.nz (Hamish Marson) writes:

>Hmm.. Mine says 911 too, but the specs I have for the card (From Orchid)
>say that the card does accelation of 'normal' VGA modes as well, something that
>the 911 didn't do (Or else why were all those people complaining about the
>S3 being slow in VGA modes?)

Hmm ... this would be very important to know, as it would change our
decisions on when, in a VDM, to change VIDEO_ROM_EMULATION to OFF.  I
know that now, for WordPerfect/DOS I use the Orchid 132x60 driver, so
I have this setting OFF, but what about things like Quattro Pro/DOS?

					Michael

--
Michael J. Saletnik, Tufts University E'91 G'93
michael@binkley.ext.tufts.edu msaletni@pearl.tufts.edu
Manager of Computer Resources, Dept. of Civil Engineering
From: hayesb@yvax.byu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: 2.1b bug and editorial comment on killing processes
Date: 21 Jan 93 11:30:44 -0700
Organization: Brigham Young University

In article <7J5oXB1w165w@comtch.spk.wa.us>, mstaben@comtch.spk.wa.us (Matthew Staben) writes:
> sparapan@flame.ra.anl.gov (RA Sparapani RA/208/xxx gwing) writes:
> 
>> In article <1993Jan19.231538.1313@yvax.byu.edu> hayesb@yvax.byu.edu writes:
>> >I tried booting a specific version of DOS from drive A:.  The process went f
>> >until I tried to execute a ver command.  The window hung and I couldn't even
>> >kill it from the WPS.  It did not affect any other part of the system though
>> >
>> >I have seen several messages about providing a hot key to kill processes tha
>> >hang (like the WPS).  I think this is a great idea.  There have been numbero
>> >occasions that the WPS has locked up, freezing the mouse and keyboard and
>> >forcing me to reset.  Many times there has still been disk activity going on
>> >the same time, so I would assume OS/2 is still alive and running, just the W
>> >is toast.  Killing it and restarting it would be quite beneficial, instead o
>> >having to hit the reset button.     
>> >
>> >You listening IBM?
>> >
>> >Bryan
>> >hayesb@yvax.byu.edu
>> 
>> Bryan and the OS/2 World:
>> 
>> I'm sorry to be picky (I wish for what you ask as well) , but if there is an
>> application or process that freezes the keyboard, then how are you going to
>> hot-key and kill the WPS or anything else for that matter?  I think that is
>> why PC makers made the hard reset button.  Sorry if this is offensive to 
>> Bryan or anyone else.
>> 
>> Rodney
> 
>  
> But ROOOODDDDNNNEEEY, what about the CTRL-ALT-NUMLOCK keys.  They work 
> when WPS is frozen to create a dump diskette!  (do it twice sometime)
>  
> Matt
> 
> mstaben@comtch.spk.wa.us


Uh, Matt, I tried the CTRL-ALT-NUMLOCK combo.  It locked the system.  Couldn't
even get a CTRL-ALT-DEL.  What's the story on this key combo?


Bryan
From: ez003045@hamlet.ucdavis.edu (James E. Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: 2.1b bug and editorial comment on killing processes
Date: 21 Jan 93 19:08:16 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

Patience may be a virtue ("*never* had to reset"), but who has all
day to wait around for the system to come back?  I have tried waiting
before, but most of the time, if it hangs that hard, it's faster to
just reset.  And I'm on a 486-33, so if I have to wait 5 mins to get
my system back, (8mb, BTW) I don't even want to _think_ of what it
would be like for those on slower systems...

I cannot _STAND_ when one app hangs and will not permit me to do 
anything else, but I don't want to wait for it forever.  Why is it 
that sometimes an app will usurp the whole system when it hangs and
sometimes it wont?


jel

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jurlwin@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU (Jeff Urlwin)
Subject: Re: WinOS2 in 2.1beta
Organization: University of Maine, Department of Computer Science
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:51:22 GMT

In article <1993Jan24.064834.28954@news.columbia.edu> mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green) writes:
>I have the 2.1beta and can't get Windows programs working without running
>the WIN-full-screen session.  No WINOS2 settings exist when I create a
>program object for a Windows program.  I tried reinstalling WINOS2 support
>using selective install.  It gave me a Y E? N A R I error, and I told it to
>retry...it continued, then appeared to hang saying it was configuring.
>I double clicked on the top left, and on OK, and it closed.  Same as before,
>no Win-OS2 settings.  Any ideas on how to get this to work?
>
>Video is ET4000, 800x600x256.
>HPFS partition
>SCSI (AHA1542) disk (also an IDE)
>
>I believe I should be able to get seamless winos2, as well as settings.
>I installed 2.1 on a freshly formatted partition.

Just a thought...do you happen to use 4DOS as a DOS shell?  I did, and when
4DOS used the UMB, I could not get seamless windows to work.  In my 4dos.ini
file, I changed the UMBEnvironment to = NO and UMBLoad = NO.  Is anything else
using your UMB?

Jeff


-- 
--------------------------------------
jurlwin@gandalf.umcs.maine.edu

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: cnadler@vnet.ibm.com (Cliff Nadler)
Subject: Re: OS/2 Wish List
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 14:28:51 GMT
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.16 by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Reply-To: cnadler@vnet.ibm.com (Cliff Nadler)
Organization: IBM T. J. Watson Research

In <gershon.728114431@husc.harvard.edu> gershon@husc11.harvard.edu (Ethan Gershon) writes:
>Also:  A PM-based command line interpreter.  Like an xterm with scroll
>back and resizable windows.  Stdin/out apps (like copy, unzip, etc) would
>appear in the window, full screen apps (like TED) would have a fresh
>window set up for them.  Pull down menus would do useful things like
>command history, directory switching and searching, copy/paste, etc.
>(I realize this could probably be written by a third party, but it
>really seems like something that should be included with the OS (more
>than, say, the Tune Editor should be).)

Have you looked at PMREXX using REXXTRY.CMD? That will put you into a REXX
command prompt (where you can run any OS/2 command) in a PM window. You'll
have to put some characters in quotes (so the REXX interpreter doesn't 
misinterpret what you type in, but ...) like *,^,@.

Cliff Nadler
IBM Federal Systems Company

Note: This post represents the views of the poster, not those of IBM or the
      IBM Federal Systems Company
From: hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Must I have to reformat to install the new OS/2 2.1 beta
Date: 21 Jan 93 01:33:58 GMT
Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab

lavog00@DMI.USherb.CA (GUYLAIN LAVOIE) writes:
>Hi all, I just got the OS/2 2.1 Beta, I'm using OS/2 2.0 GA now,
>can I just put the 2.1 Beta over my 2.0 GA?

According to several reports, formatting the OS partition (you did keep it
separate from the programs and data files, yes? :-) helps avoid problems
when installing the beta.
 
Some have reported that installing without re-formatting resulted in
various glitches (in DOS sessions, WinOS2, ...) which went away when the
partition was formatted and then the beta was installed. 
 
You can use WPSBKUP if you want to save the desktop and customizations.
-- 
Tom Hatton
hatton@cgl.ucsf.edu
(415)-476-8693
Organization: William Rainey Harper College; Palatine, IL  60067
Date: Monday, 25 Jan 1993 13:39:17 CST
From: <DGRAHAM@HARPERVM.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Anything like SOFTMAC available?

Is there anything available for OS/2 that will do MacIntosh emulation. Does
anyone know if this is even possible. And if not, at least a utility to read
in MacIntosh files. I tried the macutils found on hobbes, but that seemed to
be for reading Mac files into Unix, and not OS/2. Thanks for any info.

Dave
From: zhao@unixg.ubc.ca (Jiansheng Zhao)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Mr. File, where?
Date: 22 Jan 93 17:02:41 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
NNTP-Posting-Host: unixg.ubc.ca


Someone mentioned there is a Norton Command like file manager for  PM
written by IBM employee. Where is it?
-- 
Jiansheng Zhao
Dept. Chem. Eng, Univ. of B. C., Canada. V6T 1Z4
zhao@unixg.ubc.ca
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: des@inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
Subject: Re: Questions for OS/2.2
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 10:55:31 GMT

Steve Luzynski (sal8@po.cwru.edu) wrote:
: In article <1993Jan20.095018.16729@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> mew@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Merlyn) writes:
: >From: mew@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Merlyn)
: >Subject: Questions for OS/2.2
: >Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 09:50:18 GMT
: >I am thinking of switching from DOS/Windows to OS/2.2 but have some questions
: >that i need answering.  Any reply would be gratefully received.

: Well, actually right now you could only be switching to 2.0 or 2.1beta but 
: I'll let that slide... :)

nope, you can switch to OS/2 v2 or OS/2 v2.1beta (or even OS/2 v1.3 if
you're feeling obscure :-)

--
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
david shepherd: des@inmos.co.uk                     tel: 0454-616616 x 625
                inmos ltd, 1000 aztec west, almondsbury, bristol, bs12 4sq
		Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television
						      - Husbands and Wives
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mitchell@cort (Burt Mitchell (x39688))
Subject: Re: Scrolling performance (was Re: OS/2 Wish List)
Organization: Eastman Kodak Co. - Clinical Diagnostics Division
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:21:08 GMT

A while back someone was saying that there was a way to set the cursor in
a command window to a solid block.  The writer claimed that scrolling speed
was improved by doing this.  Of course I wasn't paying close attention to
the procedure to change the cursor.

Has anybody tried this solid block cursor idea and if so did it work?

Burt Mitchell  mitchell@serum.kodak.com


Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Printer Problem - WinOS2 3.1 & OS/2 2.1beta
Keywords: Printer Problem Beta Win-OS/2
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:57:36 GMT

In article <2461@newsserver.cs.uwindsor.ca> mathur@server.uwindsor.ca (Amok User) writes:
>I've been getting weird printer problems since installing the new OS/2 beta - specificially Win-OS/2 applications won't print.  AmiPro says that "the Printer device is not functioning, install a working printer" even though I have one installed.  I can still print from OS/2 and DOS sessions though.
>I can't even do a Print to File.  The Printer is a HP LJ IIIp, if that helps.
>All suggestions welcome, respond here or in EMail.

The LJ III driver in Win-OS/2 beta (current release) is buggy.  Use
the LJ II series driver instead (IIP, for example), as a workaround.

-- 
Timothy F. Sipples      | Read the OS/2 FAQ List 2.0i, available from
sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu | 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp, in /pub/os2/all/info
Dept. of Econ., Univ.   | /faq, or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP")
of Chicago, 60637       | [Read the List, THEN post to ONE OS/2 newsgroup.]
From: e0v6366@zeus.tamu.edu (VARELA, EDMUNDO)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Diamond, Inc.
Date: 25 Jan 1993 00:57 CST
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: zeus.tamu.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

Hello,
Has anyone heard anything new on Diamond Speedstar drivers?  I realize that the
CSD included drivers for TSENG 4000 cards, and these work well enough on my
machine, but I have a strange variation on the Speedstar family.  I have a 
HiColor card, which has a HiColor RAMDAC, capable of producing 32800 colors.
I would like to use this capability.

So, any ideas?

thanks, 
Edmundo Varela Rodriguez			  |	(e0v6366@zeus.tamu.edu)
Graduate Student				  |
Texas A&M University Aerospace Engineering Dept.  |

"Graduate life: its not just a job, its an indenture" -- author unknown
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Subject: Re: converting GIF ---===> BMP
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:37:43 GMT

In article <1993Jan23.010819.12579@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> nsorathi@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Nilesh Sorathia) writes:
> Is there a program out that will convert 1024x768x256 GIF to
> 1024x768x256 BMP?  I have a program called GWS that's suppose to convert
> the files, but everytime I try converting it gives me an error saying
> something like "file can't be converted".  I tried all the GIFs I have
> and none of them worked.
> What I'm trying to do is make a BMP for the background of OS/2.
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
> If so, my E-Mail address is "Nsorathia@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu"

You want GIF2BMP.EXE. It's on any OS/2 BBS worth calling.
 
Steve

-- 
Steve Withers - Wellington, New Zealand |      
Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz         |        Space for rent.
+64 4 478 4714                          |   - cheap rates, nice location. 
**** Happy user of OS/2 b2.1 ****       | 
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: 003316g@dragon.acadiau.ca (Steve Gregory)
Subject: Trident 8900c and OS2 2.1
Organization: Acadia University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 02:32:33 GMT


Can someone please help me. I just finished installing OS2 2.1 and I can't
seem to get 640x480x256c. I have a Trident 8900c with only 512k but I
could still get 640x480x256c with 2.0. I have run "dspinstl" but it would
not install the SVGA drivers even after asking me if I was really sure I
wanted to as the configuration would be "unstable". 
    Has anyone else had this problem and found how to fix it?

Thanks in advance.


-- 

steve.gregory@acadiau.ca 
Help my .sig file has left me and is seeking a divorce, what should I do ?
< She claims I've been seeing another .sig! >
From: ILCHUK@WRLCVM.BITNET (Jeanne Ilchuk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Print Screen/3270 mode
Date: 25 Jan 93 16:10:25 GMT
Organization: Washington Research Library Consortium

For some reason I can't get my print screen to work.  I'm using 3270 terminal
emulation and I've tried just about everything.  I'm sure that I must have
overlooked some setting in the emulation portion of os/2, but I don't know
what or where that is.

I'm desperate.  Can anyone help me?

Jeanne Ilchuk<ILCHUK@WRLCVM>
Washington Research Library Consortium
4209 Forbes Blvd
Lanham, MD  20706
(301) 731-1000 x405
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Questions: HPFS/Paradise
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:43:06 GMT

In article <00967358.A5701220@vms.csd.mu.edu> 2609cowend@vms.csd.mu.edu writes:
>>Yes.  The first two diskettes in your OS/2 set constitute a bootable
>>pair (see the FAQ List for details).  Just place an OS/2 text mode
>>editor (like tedp090.zip, available via anonymous ftp from
>>ftp-os2.nmsu.edu; check file /pub/os2/00Index for location) on a
>>floppy disk, and use that in an emergency.
>>(I'll try to cover this better in future releases of the FAQ List.)
>     I tried to do this (yes, I did consult your FAQ before posting), but the
>two disks wouldn't list any files in the partition.  I'd have my E: prompt,
>do a DIR, nothing.  The problem was definately in the SIO/VSIO drivers 
>(the system would freeze once it initialized my COM3 when it ran the drivers
>in config.sys), why would I not be able to access the files?

OS/2 locked out the hard disk -- it wants you to run CHKDSK on it
first.  (A bit of a fail safe mechanism, I suppose.)  That's part of
the FAQ, too.

>>No, they shouldn't.  Your SoundBlaster isn't sharing in interrupt
>>(like IRQ 7), is it?
>     No, my SoundBlaster is on IRQ 2, well away from my mouse, modem and
>printer...the reason I ask is that all sound support in OS/2 works fine except
>for the applets specifically for OS/2...
>     I had similar problems with the WinOS231 beta that came with the 2.00.1
>beta, but that works fine with 2.1...

In the CONFIG.SYS make sure you are listing IRQ 9 in those device
driver statements that apply to your SoundBlaster (if any).  IRQ 2 is
mapped into IRQ 9 on the AT bus.  (Well, that's an oversimplification,
but that explanation will serve well enough for now.)

(I'm just getting up to speed on OS/2 multimedia, by the way, so, if
I'm to be considered an expert in anything, leave that one aside for
now.  :-)  Give me a couple days.  :-))

-- 
Timothy F. Sipples      | READ the OS/2 FAQ List 2.0i, available from
sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu | 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp, in /pub/os2/all/info
Dept. of Econ., Univ.   | /faq, or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP")
of Chicago, 60637       | [Post to ONE newsgroup only AFTER reading the List.]