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From: rwyble@schunix.uucp (Richard J. Wyble)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Lava video for OS/2
Date: 28 Dec 92 16:43:47 GMT
Organization: SCHUNIX Public Access Unix for Worcester County, MA, USA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

Does anyone know about a company called Lava? They apparently 
manufacture high-end video boards--and drivers--for OS/2. The 
following are quotes from one-or-the-other Fido conferences.

----[ quote, apparently from Lava ]
To enlighten those that aren't aware... Lava is a Canadian 
manufacturer - in business since 1984 building PC add-on boards. Since 
the beginnings Lava boards have always come standard with a Lifetime 
Replacement Warranty - applies to graphics boards, ISA and MCA I/o 
boards, and network cards. We're a small company so support is always 
good since you actually have access to the designers themselves. In 
terms of price - comparable to ATI but higher than the far-east 
products. That applies of course to those products which ATI produces 
which are similar to ours. They don't have anything close to the Nova 
True Color 1024x768 16.8 million colors with BOTH Windows 3.1 and OS/2 
2.0 drivers.
----[ endquote ]

----[ quote, apparently from Lava ]
Suggested list is $1295 US. Street price is something you want to find
on the street, and for wholesale call me or fax me your credentials as a
reseller.
tel (416)674-5942
fax (416)674-8262
----[ endquote ]

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: buhr@umanitoba.ca (Kevin Andrew Buhr)
Subject: Re: DOS session from command line
Organization: University of Manitoba, Canada
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:41:32 GMT

In article <diesel.83@odie.ee.wits.ac.za> diesel@odie.ee.wits.ac.za
(Bruce Diesel ) writes:
|
|  I've got a query on behalf of my brother who would like to know how to how 
|  to start a minimal dos session from the OS/2 command line so that the DOS 
|  session does not pick up the config.sys defaults - i.e. he wants to start a 
|  couple of DOS sessions with only 640k and no EMS or XMS memory allocated to 
|  them.

It's great posting to this board, because almost all the questions
have the same answer.  ;)

The "STARTD" utility, available via anonymous FTP from
"ftp-os2.nmsu.edu:/pub/os2/2.0/sysutils/startd.zip" will do what you
want.  It allows you to type something like:

		STARTD /DOS /WIN /SF noems.set

where the "noems.set" file contains a line like:

		EMS_MEMORY_LIMIT=0

Neat, eh?  The utility also allows fullscreen or windowed sessions.
It allows DOS sessions to be started in the background, and it allows
you to associate an icon file with the program (when it's minimized).
In short, it's an OS/2 requirement.

Kevin <buhr@ccu.UManitoba.CA>
From: h198@hosp.med.umich.edu  (Gene Mangum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: SoundBlaster CD and OS/2 2.1 beta install
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1993  22:22 EDT
Organization: Univ of Michigan Hospitals
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: kestrel.hosp.med.umich.edu
X-Newsreader: FTPNuz (DOS) v1.0

  I received the OS/2 2.1 beta CD last night, and installed it this
  morning.   The doc only listed SCSI CD drives as supported, *BUT*:
 
      - Follow the instructions to create the 2 disks for CD-install
      - copy SBPCD2.SYS to the 2nd disk
      - edit CONFIG.SYS on the 2nd disk to add DEVICE=\SBPCD2.SYS /P:220
        as near the top as possible 
  The doc tells you that if you get message SYS0318, your CD drive was not
  recognized and cannot be used, *BUT*:
 
      - the SB CD message came out soon after SYS0381
      - the install went great!!!!   No swappin' floppys!!!!
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: roadkill@wam.umd.edu (Mike Kindle)
Subject: Procomm Under os2
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 00:35:41 GMT

   Has anyone been able to run Procomm (shareware version) under os2???
It will run but whenever I try to transfer files if I do almost anything else
OS2 will drop the session!  Any Ideas on what settings to try??? If I use 
PM terminal It works just fine but I would really like to use Procomm.
I have a 486/50 with 16 meg ram and the UART is a 16450 (I'll get the 16550
one day) OH, and I'm only trying to transfer at 2400.  I can do it in window's
but like OS/2 much better.  I'm guessing it's only the settings on the dos box
so any help is great.  
PS: I have the GA installed (no CSD) at 2400 it takes a long time to download
    If possible please send reply's be E-mail I will forward to anyone else
    who is interested if they send me an E-mail.

						-Mike

roadkill@wam.umd.edu
From: murrayk@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (the Dodger)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: 32 bit Trident and Palette Manager???
Date: 29 Dec 92 21:20:06 GMT
Organization: CS Dept, Oregon State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: prism.cs.orst.edu

OK, I have a Trident 8900c with 1meg and have been running 800x600x256 colors
with the 16bit drivers and everything has been just fine. Except of course for
those stupid messed up settings boxes. I heard all the talk about the new 32
bit drivers that supposedly support the palette manager. So I downloaded the
NEW ones, not the original so-called 'leaked' ones. They install just fine and
of course they work fine. The colors are a bit different, they seem to be a bit
darker. But that's ok. So I decided to check out this new palatte manager thing
and downloaded IMSHOW. It turns out that it totally screws up my palette and
no colors are correct at all. Is there something I am missing? I ran the
physcolo program and it filled itself up with lots of pretty colors, although
they didn't blend together very well as one would expect.

Am I missing something with these new drivers? I really would like to be able
to use the palette manager in the program that I want to write.

And does anyone know if the virtual desktops are coming back? I have gotten
very addicted to the 1000x1000 on my 14inch monitor.

Thanks
Keith
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murrayk@prism.cs.orst.edu   /___  /   / /__\ \____\ ____\   Corvallis OR 97339
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: papresco@cantor.math.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod)
Subject: Dos->OS/2 communication
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 19:55:24 GMT

Is there any way from a DOS box to tell an OS/2 .cmd to start in
another session (short of polling the file system or something hideous
like that)

Also:  (stupid question alert) How do I make OS/2 and DOS sessions
start so that they are windowed by maximized.

Last: Is there a utility for affixing hotkeys to objects and events?

Absolute last: Is there a way to make a file that takes up truly no
space other then name-space?  i.e. doesn't take up a minimum allocation
unit?
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: samiam@netcom.com (Scott Moore)
Subject: FutureComm XGA card for $350 !
Summary: FutureComm states will sell XGA for ISA bus $350 in feb
Keywords: xga futurecomm
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 06:57:55 GMT

I was able to get ahold of FutureComm, who I have previously mentioned as
being another source of the XGA clone board for the ISA bus. The salesperson
said they estimate the price will be (single quantity) $350. The expected
availability will be in febuary 1993.
Apparently the holdup (according to FutureComm) is that INMOS, the maker of
the chipset, is coming out with the final version soon. The presently
available chipset consists of 3 chips, the two XGA chips as go into the MCA
version, plus an add on AT controller chip which is actually an adapter
to glue these chips to the AT ISA bus. The final version will be just 2 chips,
with the ISA control functions built in. The present version is said to not 
be completely reliable on the ISA, the final version will be.
They also mentioned a third chip set, from IIT corp, but said that it was
not %100 percent XGA compatible. More details will surely follow.

My own opinion:

Comparing XGA to already available and reliable alternatives such as the S3
chips, the $500 price is simply not justfied. Sure, the people who are 
deperate to get os/2 to run propery will buy the card at that price, but that
is a limited market.

                                                   <sam>

-- 
Scott A. Moore [SAM]  | "Cash is more 
samiam@netcom.com     | important than your 
Santa Cruz, CA USA    | mother"
408-423-1624          | Allan Shugart - CEO Segate Corp.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Screen goes blank upon bootup of OS.2 2.0, HELP
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 18:50:39 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <45048@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> scottmm@sag4.ssl.berkeley.edu (Little Mac ) writes:
>	I finally got around to installing OS/2 on
>my clone but I have had a few problems.  The first error
>was the one were the number c00000005 came up on the screen.
>I got the fix for that which apparently worked.  Now when
>I boot up, the three OS/2 windows come up, then they disapper,
>a two line message appears for a split second then disappers.
>After that nothing happens.  When I start pushing buttons
>the Hard Drive is accessed and sometimes an annoying boink is made.
>Anybody know whats wrong?  

Your desktop did not get built properly, it seems.  Follow the
procedure in the manual for using MAKEINI to rebuild the desktop.

-- 
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Dept. of Econ., Univ.   | /faq, or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP")
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.1 Beta is OUT!!!!!!!!!!! Wide Release!
Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 07:52:51 GMT

mjharris@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mike Harris) writes:
// Of course since this *is* a wide release beta if some kind soul was to put
// the files in 1.2M disk image files and then made it available at say
// Hobbs. Well that sure would make some of us happy and just think what wide
// beta testing it would have with all the net OS/2 guru's. Just a thought.
// 

I don't know about this - I know that when I became involved in the 2.0
beta program (which was also a "wide" beta program), I was required to sign
a non-disclosure form. 

Does "wide" really mean "open" ? 

-- 
Tom J Parry.
Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel)
Subject: NO 2.0 Video Device Drivers in Tandy Sensation!
Organization: DAFCO: OS/2 Software Support & Consulting
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 00:26:37 GMT

I finally found some os/2 video device drivers on the Tandy Sensation!
CDROM, but the drivers are for pre-v2.0 versions of os/2 only.
This implies to me that most of the multimedia capabilities of the
Sensation will be unavailable in os/2 v2.x.
-- 
Dave Feustel N9MYI <feustel@netcom.com>
 
                        Happy Holidays to ALL!!!
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: dlcogswe@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Dan Cogswell)
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.1 beta to be released 12-28 to EVERYONE!!
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 01:54:14 GMT

reisert@sttng.mlo.dec.com (Jim Reisert) writes:

>I just called the order desk, and they said the beta code is only
>available on CD-ROM.  How can I get the floppies?

Buy a CD-ROM and copy. 

<grin>

-- 
Dan Cogswell               Or as we say in Michigan:  "Dee-troit"


Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: weberj@dia.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Weber)
Subject: CRASHing OS/2 + service pack : ugly bug
Originator: weberj@dia
Organization: Informatik, Uni Stuttgart, W.Germany
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 09:14:35 GMT

My hardware:

386-40, ISA, 64k cache, Tseng ET4000 card, IDE + WD 2200 

There is a screen saver for dos called EXPLOSIVE I got 
from Simtel PD1:<MSDOS.SCREEN>

This screen saver triggers after 1 minute and displays a screen
with pretty fireworks.
I installed it in the autoexec.bat

Now I run win-os2.clock.exe in a seamless window on WPS.
If I do nothing for a minute, explosive triggers and switches to 
dos full screen (which it shouldn't I think) and displays its
firework pattern.
If I press Alt-ESC to get back to WPS the screen mode is something
like CGA, the fireworks continue and one ICON from WPS appears.
Afterwards the fireworks stop moving and rien ne va plus but 
the reset button.
The version of  EXPLOSIVE (never saw such a fitting name ;-) is
2.02S
If I run clock.exe in full window and explosiv triggers after 
1 minute, the screen gets the color of the wps background and
the system hangs, too.

If I run my Z80 emulator ZSIM PD1:<MSDOS.EMULATOR> in two dos windows
it doesn't run correctly. Without service pack it did.


-- 

Juergen G. Weber
Student am Institut fuer Informatik
University of Stuttgart - Germany
From: lbv2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (BRIAN PAUL VAN LIEU)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: IDE and SCSI together???
Date: 23 Dec 92 16:50:27 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University


    Hi folks,

        I am a bit confused about some stuff I have read lately. I had always
        thought that you could nave one and only one controler card. I read an
        article the other day that clearly said 'Both an IDE and a SCSI card
        can co-exhist peacefully'.

        Is this true, especially under OS/2?

        I am contemplating buying a CD-ROM, and I want to upgrade my system to
        a SCSI drive over the summer, but all I have now is an IDE drive. I
        was thinking of getting the Adaptec 1542b card, and running the CD off
        of that. DO I also need to get a SCSI HD, or will OS/2 pick up the IDE
        drive and its controller too? (I know an IDE drive can not run off of
        a SCSI card...)

        This might sould like a silly question, but the things I have read,
        and been told, conflict.

                                            cheers,

                                            bvl
-- 

  Brian P. Van Lieu
  Lehigh University-AXP
  lbv2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu

            OS/2 2.0...anything else is just a DOS.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
Subject: WINOS231 & MSCDEX 2.21
Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 23:40:58 GMT

Does anybody have MSCDEX working with WINOS321 without having to 
initiate a specific dos version ? 

When I do use a spec. dos version, I load fsfilter, and this gives me
access to all my os/2 partitions AND the CD-rom drive. BUT NO ! That's not
enough for Winos231 - I have to mount it again as g: using MSCDEX. There
must be a better way ...

Here's hoping.

-- 
Tom J Parry.
Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,fido,nz_os2[D[D[D[D[D[D[D.[C[C[C[C[C[C,fido.os2
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Subject: OS/2 b2.1 - install bug and work around
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 19:23:27 GMT

I have installed the OS/2 2.1 beta on three machines (a few time each for
different options).
 
I have notived that the Win-OS/2 Enhamced Mode support does not always get
installed. You open System Setup, WinOS/2 Settings....and the Win_Runmode
offers no option and the there are no buttons.
 
If you open the settings for the migrated Windows apps or the full-screen
Win-OS/2 session....and the same is true. You get the default which is
Standard Mode only.
 
If you get this.....re-install the DOS and Win-OS/2 support from the Selective
Install and you will get the WinOS/2 Enhanced support the second time around.
 
It will also re-install your video drivers to ensure your video remains
compatible.
 
Steve


-- 
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Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz         | for proportional representation. It
+64 4 478 4714                          | looks like we may get a more  
**** Happy user of OS/2 v2!! ****       | democratic system "real soon now".
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr)
Subject: Re: Did microsoft really write an OS/2 "Terminator" crash prog?
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, OH
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 23:51:50 GMT

In article <1huqi2INNkok@cae.cad.gatech.edu> chris@cad.gatech.edu (Chris McClellen) writes:
>In <1992Dec31.053435.21362@cbnews.cb.att.com> shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr) writes:

>>In article <1hspsiINNc1d@cae.cad.gatech.edu> chris@cad.gatech.edu (Chris McClellen) writes:
>>}In <1992Dec30.172609.17583@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> bross@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Brian J Ross) writes:

>]Is that so uncommon?  I'm serious.  Please don't theorize.
>]Report the facts as you know them.  (I'm inclined to agree

>I dont see anything wrong with posting an opinion about why 
>IBM made OS/2 not boot without CONFIG.SYS.  I put in the
>word THEORIZE so one would know it was an opinion instead
>of FUD.

Oops, sorry.  When I wrote that I had no intention of attacking
you, your theory, or the principle of theorizing on the net --
How could I?  I theorize here all the time.  You'll note that I
made a point of saying I agreed with the principle that a system
should be robust enough to survive the loss of its console AND
that a system with corrupt configuration files should boot to a
default configuration.

Funny thing about language -- you can (or, at least, I can)
write in all sincerity a request for information: is that 
behavior (failure of system following failure or loss of console)
uncommon including a request for concrete information rather than
speculation or theorizing.  However, the results end up sounding
like something else entirely: an attack upon theorizing and upon
an individual for doing so.  Maybe I shouldn't post after 10:00 pm.

Chris, I apologize.  Upon rereading, I find my wording unfortunate
and easily misinterpreted.  I sure wish I had said it different way.

Larry
-- 
Larry A. Shurr (las@cbnmva.att.com) speaking only for myself.
Norman, listen carefully.  I am lying.  Are you sure your circuits are
registering?  Your ears are green.  Logic is a little bird singing in a
meadow.  Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell bad! - Mr. Spock
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: Bernoulli drives and OS/2.
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 20:10:12 GMT

In <1992Dec23.153434.26594@syma.sussex.ac.uk> nickw@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Nick Watkins) writes:

>From article <1992Dec18.190816.546@mksol.dseg.ti.com>, by mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539):
>> In <1992Dec18.002215.21333@netcom.com> feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel) writes:
>> 
>>>I don't understand the comment that Bernoulli drives don't work with
>>>os/2 without drivers. I read/wrote Bernoulli drives in an MS DOS
>>>session for quite a while before I got the Iomega drivers for os/2 and
>>>was able to use the drives in os/2 sessions. 
>> 
>> I think the trick to this is that you have to use AFDISK to format the
>> Bernoullis under DOS instead of the Iomega software.  It formats them
>> slightly smaller (42 vice 44 MB), but on my system they seem to access
>> a LOT faster.  That could just be the difference in the I/O speed of
>> the adapter, though.
>However the ASPIDISK s/w driver will only read above format and not 
>the Bernoilli format. Anybody got the Bernoulli shareware library on
>an AFDISK Bernoulli 44 ?

Right.  However, the Iomega RCD adapter seems to be able to read both
(its own format and the AFDISK format).

Now then, what's this Bernoulli shareware library and where would one
go about finding it?

-- 
"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
 in the real world."   -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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From: ak@ananke.stgt.sub.org (Andreas Kaiser)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: 1280x1024 in 256 colors under OS/2 (Any Suggestions) 
Distribution: world
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 93 15:06:10 GMT
Organization: ananke


In article <6322svh@rpi.edu> schimken@colossus.cs.rpi.edu writes:

  > The stuff that comes with IBM's XGA-2 says the card will do 1280x1024
  > interlaced at a frame rate of 50 Hz and a line rate of 53.4 KHz.

But the same stuff tells, there is no OS/2 support for 1280x1024.

		Gruss, Andreas

:::::::::::::::::::: subnet:  ak@ananke.stgt.sub.org
:: Andreas Kaiser :: fidonet: 2:241/7220.9
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: BBS program locks up entire system!  Help
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 18:28:24 GMT

In article <baloo.725703439@mik.uky.edu> baloo@nx01.mik.uky.edu (kevin s coupal) writes:
>I'm using remote access bbs software and when the user goes into the file
>area and selects the file list, the screen goes out and up comes an error
>screen.  It sais something about an internal processor error and to report
>the location to my representative.  Here is the location number
>##0160:fff6453f-000d:a53f.  60000,9084
>Anyone ever have this type of lock up before?  This number does me no
>good at telling me what is causing the lockup, why can't they simply
>put error messages in english?  Also, how do i get in touch with an 
>os/2 customer service rep?  There is no support numbers anywhere in the
>box os/2 came in.  Big help there IBM

WHICH BBS software?

IBM toll free OS/2 technical support can be reached at 800-237-5511 in
the United States.  This number is given in every OS/2 package -- look
for a fold out card with support information on it.  Ask for OS/2 Help
when you call, and give the serial number (if any) contained on this
card.

-- 
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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.]
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mikel@networx.com (Mike Lempriere)
Subject: Re: Where to put swapfile (was What is the recommended size ...)
Organization: NetWorx
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 00:01:45 GMT

Jeff Urlwin (jurlwin@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU) wrote:
: In article <1992Dec16.135640.15444@msc.cornell.edu> tommy@lynx.msc.cornell.edu.UUCP (Mike Thompson,332,54714,2734927) writes:
[stuff deleted] 
: Well...the DosOpen call has a parameter which is the Open Mode of the
: file which can specify OPEN_FLAGS_NO_CACHE as an option.  This option
: tells the system NOT to cache this file.
[.sig deleted]

Ya, too bad it doesn't work.