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From: praetzel@maxwell.uwaterloo.ca (Eric Praetzel)
Subject: Re: 24-bit color board for OS/2 2.0 ?
Organization: University of Waterloo
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 20:21:20 GMT

In article <1dondrINNe8s@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> duffy@theory.chem.ubc.ca (Pat Duffy) writes:
>The XGA-2 standard (from what I have read) supports all the following:
>All VGA modes.
>640x480x(256 and 64k)
>800x600x(256 and 64k)
>1024x768x256 (it comes with 1MB)
>up to 75Hz N/I (yes, that's NON-interlaced)

It was over a month ago that I heard about a new Tseng based board.  4M of
ram (upto 1240 * 1024 in 24 bit, all hi-color, 256 modes supported upto
that resolution) and it plugs into the local bus.
  That is the logical extension.  Paradise, ATI, Diamond and probably others
are shipping 24 bit cards (only 640 * 480) that do all hi-color, 256 color
modes upto 1024 * 768.  These cards are in the $150 to $250 Cdn range and
falling.
  I think that they will hold at the 640 * 480 resolution for a while.  My
bet is that the DACs are only good at the 640 dot frequency for 8 bit
resolution.  Pushing them to 1240 is a bit of a challenge (read as money).
Within 6 months I would be surprised to see a SVGA board that did not support
24 bit.
  The question is where do you get the driver for OS/2?  ATI is very responsive
but 640 * 480 is a pretty limited resolution.  800 * 600 is ok and 1024 * 768
(if you have a > 17" moniter) is great.
  If you want to write something fast for those cards watch out because the
colors cross 64k boundaries (the 286 that crawled out of the 70s is still
assulting us with it "virtious" segmented memory).  We should have more info
when the next computer show hits very soon now.
  - Eric 
// Beware of anyone who can count to 1023 on their fingers.
From: achatche@quads.uchicago.edu (andrew curtis hatchell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: aaaaa.exe - Credits
Keywords: magic cookie
Date: 8 Nov 92 21:08:41 GMT
Reply-To: achatche@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In article <BxAGLw.Hn4@ecf.toronto.edu> murraya@ecf.toronto.edu (MURRAY ALEXANDER W) writes:
>Has this been discussed here before?  I happened to execute "ls -la" in the
>\os2\bitmap directory (the -la being out of habit from heavy Unix usage),
>and two files, namely aaaaa.exe and aaaaa.met, showed as hidden system
>files.  Curious me, I chmod'ed them to be regular files and ran aaaaa.  Lo!
>Behold!  It displays the .met file to fill the desktop and rolls a humungous
>listing of names up in a window; I would imagine it's a list of developers
>for the OS.
>
>I've never heard this mentioned before;  just thought I'd point it out.
>
>Is this on everyone's installation?  I have GA + a beta 32bit GRE.
>
>Regards,
>Alex
><murraya@ecf.toronto.edu>
>

Actually, if you just make the desktop the foreground (i.e. click somewhere
other than on a window), then do a CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-O, you'll get the
credits.
	Andrew Hatchell
From: v053qpgh@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Eric W Sarjeant)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Why I Lost OS/2
Date: 10 Nov 92 04:11:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

After a great deal of hesitation, and an enormous amount of trepidation, I
decided to revert back to my old DOS + Windows world after using OS/2 since
late August of this year.

What a horrid experience this DOS + Windows world is after really experiencing
the power of the OS/2 platform. OS/2 can really multitask, things can really
keep going in the background, and disk I/O is incredibly fast compared to
Windoze. In fact, most of all, I miss formatting disks in the background
while I download files at 9600+ baud and print documents with Ami Pro in
a seemless Windoz session.

Unfortunately, I require Windows more and more. With my CD-ROM drive a non-
SCSI device, and my sound board unwilling to cooperate in booted DOS sessions,
and all the good software (Ami Pro, Excel, Procomm+, and all my multimedia
CD-ROM software) being Windows 3.1 software -- I am left with no other
option.

My question is this; Can I do anything to bring my computer into the world
of CD-ROM + sound board (a Sony proprietary with a Pro Audio Spectrum) with
OS/2? What exactly is this multimedia ket IBM offers and does it include
support for DOS and Windows software as well?

I really hope OS/2 can catch up in the software department. IBM has a top
notch product here that is highly capable and inordinantly efficient, but
everything I own is designed for DOS + Windows now. Just about every major
manufacturer has jumped on this bandwagon, generally refusing to awknowledge
the limitations and annoying inconveniences of a non-preeptive environment.
I lose more files during transfer than I ever thought possible, I really
want my OS/2 back...URG! 
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 Eric W. Sarjeant                    | "I am only too conscious that I have no
 sUnyaB                              |  claim to wisdom, great or small..."
 v053qpgh@ubvms.bitnet               |
 sarjeant@aol.com                    |
From: kgallagh@digi.lonestar.org (Kevin Gallagher)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 Full Screen Problem
Date: 13 Nov 92 04:19:44 GMT
Organization: DSC Communications Corp, Plano, TX

I have a STB Wind/X (S3 based) and found that OS/2 Full Screen sessions didn't
sinc up over 90% of the time.  Since there are no SVGA drivers for OS/2 yet
for S3 based cards, I am running only in basic VGA mode.

Then, by accident, I discovered that if I first opened a DOS Full Screen
session, get out with ALT-ESC, and then invoke an OS/2 Full Screen session, it
will sync up nearly all of the time.  I haven't a clue why!  I am beginning to
think that this bug may actually be at least partially the fault of OS/2.

Any way, give it a shot.  You may get lucky.
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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Iomega Bernoulli Drives & OS/2?
Date: 14 Nov 92 00:46:54 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <1992Nov12.180208.8356@photon.com> juanman@photon.com (Juan Castaneda) writes:
>Has anyone had any experience(either good or bad) with the aforementioned?
>I have been trying to install OS/2 on my AST 386/33 with an internal 20 
>MB Bernoulli and dual 44 MB Bernoulli's.  I have the OS/2 drivers from Iomega,
>but can't seem to get past Install Disk 1.  Do I really need a fixed drive to
>first install OS/2, then tranfer the OS to bernoulli's? Is there any solution
>to this problem?  Any insight or hints would be greatly appreciated.

I think so.  Part of OS/2's heritage is in mission critical systems,
and the ability to remove the entire set of system files at any point
in time isn't too appealing to OS/2.  So OS/2 itself works best on
nonremoveable media.

That said, you might be able to hack together an installation
procedure for the Iomegas.  I'll try to outline it briefly.
Presumably Iomega provides a new .ADD file.  You would edit CONFIG.SYS
on the first OS/2 diskette so that it points to this file, copy the
file to the diskette, and install.  Midway through the installation,
when it asks you to reboot, you would have to recopy the file over to
the hard disk (from an OS/2 floppy boot).

Not recommended, however.

-- 
Timothy F. Sipples      | Read the OS/2 FAQ List 2.0g, 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: santeew@sisters.cs.uoregon.edu (Wes Santee)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: SP.... Arrrggggghhhhh!!!
Date: 6 Nov 92 08:20:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1992Nov6.082009.16352
Organization: University of Oregon Computer and Information Sciences Dept.

In article <5NOV199214395365@vmsa.is.csupomona.edu> cvetp009@vmsa.is.csupomona.edu (The Far Side) writes:
>.. Well, my friend said I'm the only one in the whole world that has
>serious problems with the SP... so let's see...
>
>The SP is driving me nuts!  The installation seemed to take forever,
>and after the reboot, I discovered that my DOS windowed sessions
>behaved wildly.  First I discovered, as i pressed ALT-HOME, the screen
>went totally wacko!  It turned into a blank screen with several
>flashing color "bars" with letters in them -- kinda like when i
>switched into the wrong video mode.  Making that guess, I tye SVM (set
>video mode program) to switch mode to VGA, and that fixed the screen
>-- altho after pressiong ctrl-esc the WPS was a total mess (easily
>correctly by refresh tho)  Ok, so that made the dos window/full screen
>look fine, except shortly after it ALT-HOME refused to work!  The same
>ting happens everytime i boot up the system.  I installed GA with
>regular vga driver.  I suppose I could fix the dos screen and live w/o
>alt-home, but this is the _SERVICE_ Pak, and it sucks big time.  Oh
>yeah I've installed SP several times, including different copies of
>it.  HELP!!!
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Kaifu Wu
>cvetp009@csupomona.edu

You are not alone...

I'm using the Trident 1024x768x16 driver (their latest and greatest)
and as soon as I installed the SP, things started freaking out.

At first I thought I installed the drivers wrong and went back
and read the SP Readme.  Then I installed the drivers using their
C:\MYDISPLAY method and reinstalled the SP.  No go.

I have the same problems as do you, but I also have a couple more.

(1) In windowed DOS or OS/2 sessions, the text in the windows also
pops up the upper right hand corner of the WPS.

(2) Also in windowed sessions, there appears to be 1 line
that is blocking text to some degree.  Any text appearing on
that line is partially blacked out.

(3) In full screen sessions, I'll be typing along and all of a 
sudden, text will just _stop_showing_on_the_screen_.  I can
still type, albiet blindly.

In all cases, a return to the WPS (which will then be covered
with garbage) to do a refresh *usually* solves the problem,
but occasionally, it will lock up my windowed sessions
(which is a _serious_ pain in the butt when I am doing my
programming assignments and haven't saved in the past 5-7
minutes -- you may not lose a lot of work each time, but
when it happens every 15-20 minutes...)

Has anyone found a fix to this problem?  Is it the
drivers or the SP?  Is Trident working on 32-bit drivers?

Hrmph...
-- 
Wes Santee             | "I think it's about time we voted for senators
santeew@cs.uoregon.edu |  with breasts.  After all, we've been voting
                       |  for boobs long enough."
                       |       -Claire Sargent on women senators
From: sal8@po.cwru.edu (Steve Luzynski)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Supported SVGA cards
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 21:53:20 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University
NNTP-Posting-Host: b61442.student.cwru.edu

In article <Bx9q39.75L@news.orst.edu> gersta@gyro.ECE.ORST.EDU (Andreas Gerstlauer) writes:
>From: gersta@gyro.ECE.ORST.EDU (Andreas Gerstlauer)
>Subject: Supported SVGA cards 
>Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 00:16:16 GMT
>I want to buy a 486 clone in the next time but at the moment I'm not
>quite sure which graphic card I should take. As I want to use OS/2
>with a better resolution than the standard VGA I was wondering if anybody
>could tell me what SVGA cards/chipsets and resolutions are supported by OS/2, 
>especially with the SP or by the manufacturers and what will be supported in the
>near future (Is there a list with drivers/resolutions?). What about any of
>the accelerated chip sets (S3 ... or even the new mach32 from ATI)?
>I was thinking about a card based on the et4000 (1024x768x16?), a card with a S3
>chip or even the new ATI Graphics Ultra Pro (with the mach32 chip).
>Something else: I thought that I've read something about a standard for SVGA
>                modes (VESA ?) so you don't need a driver for every different
>                card. Is this true or did I get something wrong?
>

Right now your best bets are et4000 based cards (as IBM will likely support 
et4000 forever now since they sell them in PS/2s). No manufacturer has yet 
provided drivers for any of the accelerated cards, and if you peruse headers 
on here you may notice that there hasn't been much luck going on with ATI 
cards.
[This is the viewpoint of a happy ET4000 user. If others have experiences 
with other cards, feel free (as if I could stop you) to follow up.]

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From: rkimmel@stein.u.washington.edu (Denise Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: my ddeagent.exe is missing!!!!
Date: 9 Nov 92 00:15:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov9.001530.1663
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle


 I'm missing my ddeagent.exe (DDE Interchange Agent) from my winos2.  I'm running the GA with the Serive pack, and for somereason that file isn't to be found.  Any suggestions short of reinstalling both over again?

thanks!
From: benezra_a@spcvxb.spc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Timer Execute of Programs
Date: 12 Nov 92 04:32:51 GMT
Organization: St. Peter's College, US

In article <1drpdbINNp2r@coral.bucknell.edu>, skelly@bucknell.edu (sean kelly `94) writes:
> Here's something they should include in program settings-- some connection to an
> alarm clock (ie. to execute the program at some time, or at multiple times). 
> I've tried executing programs through the alarm utility that comes with OS/2, but
> it only seems to work with .CMD files, and other 'automatic' programs.  What I
> would like to do is start up a terminal emulator that will execute a script (say,
> to get mail from the net).  I've tried this under the alarm clock and after
> executing the program crashes and notifies me that it has exceeded heap size. 
> I've tried alarmpro2.5, but it insists (in the scheduler) that it's 1993, the
> clock setting is correct tho. so it will execute the programs--starting next
> year!  Is there any way to have a program (in it's own session) start up at a
> specified time.  I think the reason the alarm clock crashed is that it doesn't
> open a new session for the routine.  I'm using Qmodem (DOS), would an TE/2 or a
> similar program solve myu problems (being a native OS/2 app)?  Any help would be
> greatly appreciated.
> -Sean

There is a file called "ATRGF.ZIP" around which will let you start a timed 
program in it's own session. Set it for whatever time or days you want. It 
works great. It is a rexx program also.
ab
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: swkgb@nuscc.nus.sg (George David Bishg)
Subject: Trouble installing os2 2.0
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 04:42:41 GMT

I have an IQUE 486SX20 with 8 meg of memory and a 200 meg hard drive.
When I tried to install OS2 2.0 recently I only got as far as disk 1
when the program stopped and told me that it was unable to locate
"a:country.sys" on the A drive.  I was installing from A and when I
checked the disk the file was exactly where it was supposed to be.  Any
suggestions on how to correct this problem?  I am installing from 3.5"
disks.

Thanks
George
From: hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Service Pack Failure
Date: 7 Nov 92 02:15:03 GMT
Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab

bart@paradyne.com (Warren Bartlett) writes:
>It is a 486/33 with 8 Meg memory, OS/2, TCP/IP installed.
>I start the installation and immediately get
>OS/2 !! SYS02025
>OS/2 !! SYS02027

>In the Tips and Techniques, I find references to
>this problem with old versions of AMI BIOS
>So, I check and, sure enough, It has AMI BIOS.
>However, it is newer than referenced and
>should not be a problem. But, the note says
>it could be an OLD Hard Drive (strange).
>Well the hard drive is an older ESDI from
>Microscience (160 Meg).

I think those are the error messages you get if OS/2 thinks it is
not a bootable disk - ie. "I can't find the boot record/os."

As a past victim of the ibm1s506.add driver with ESDI controllers,
I would guess that this is the problem. They seem to have not put
the "new, improved, works with every IDE, ESDI, RLL, ..." version
of ibm1s506.add on the Service Pack. 

I have the new, improved version, so I put that on disk#2, and it 
installed the SP happily. I had to re-boot from floppy and copy the good 
.add to \os2, of course, because the install unpacks a compressed 
version to the hard disk, and of course, it's that same non-working copy. 

Once you correct the driver/install pains, it should be happy.
You can either put the GA version of ibm1s506.add on, if that 
worked for that system, or any version that did work. The "final"
version should be posted soon to CIS, and presumably to software.watson.

Tom
From: evanc@uuisis.isis.org (Evan Champion)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Executable Flag
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 92 01:12:34 GMT
Organization: International Shared Information Service (Ottawa)

Something that has always annoyed me is that OS/2 will only run a program if 
it has a .EXE/.COM/.CMD/.BAT extension.  With no file naming requirements 
with HPFS this seems to be a needless limitation.  It really annoyed me 
today because I couldn't get KSH to run a script file until I renamed the 
script to a CMD file.  Why not just have an executable flag; it would be 
automatically turned on for any .EXE/.COM/.CMD/.BAT and would be optionally 
set for other files, much like chmod for Unix.  It shouldn't be too hard; I 
don't know about how attributes are saved with HPFS but there should be a 
way to put it either in the file attributes or extended attributes for the 
file.  This along with case sensitivity for filenames would really make my 
day.

Evan
From: hacker@cco.caltech.edu (Jonathan Bruce Hacker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Window Washer
Date: 7 Nov 1992 10:19:29 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: punisher.caltech.edu

adhir@cygnus.umd.edu (Alok Dhir) writes:

>In a previous article, Tim Sipples claims that a screensaver called Window
>Washer is available via hobbes.  I couldn't find it.  Anyone else?

>Perhaps it's time for an all-inclusive index on hobbes.  I am sick of
>going into directory after directory looking for something.


Don't get all bitter, perhaps its time you looked a little harder?

There are complete indexes (including all the sub-directories) with 1
line descriptions for stuff in the 'all' directories in /pub/os2/all
file name 00Index and also a complete listing for stuff in the '2.0'
directories in /pub/os2/2.0 file name 00Index.  Download these
(perhaps renaming one :-) and use your favorite text editor/viewer to
search for whatever ails yee.

-- 
Jon Hacker
Caltech, Pasadena CA
hacker@tumbler-ridge.caltech.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: MVOLPERS@CIPVAX.BIOLAN.UNI-KOELN.DE (Markus Volpers)
Subject: Re: OS/2 Full Screen Problem
Organization: BIOLAN - COLOGNE UNIVERSITY (FRG)
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 09:10:35 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.22

In <1dr3rbINN14s@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> jms20@po.CWRU.Edu writes:

> 
> OK...here's an interesting problem.  
> 
> When I open an OS/2 full screen session, the monitor looses sinc, but
> there's no problem opening a DOS full screen session.  
> 
> My system is:
> 486/33 - 8Mb
> Diamond Speedstar
> OS/2 2.0 + CSD
> 
> Any ideas?
> John
> -- 
> | John M. Sully                    |                                       |
> | Computer Science                 |      Natural Blonde --                |
> | Case Western Reserve University  |        Please Speak Slowly...         |
> | jms20@po.cwru.edu                |                                       | 

I have the same hardwareconfiguration and had the same problem since I my first
installation of OS/2. All nice advices from the net didn't help.

Markus


Markus Volpers    Dep. of Zoology and Ecology,  University of Cologne, Germany
From: mts@hardy.u.washington.edu (Sean Milligan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: OS/2's Interrupt Mapping
Keywords: IRQ, Interrupt
Date: 6 Nov 92 18:03:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov6.180326.10300
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle


	I read somewhere that OS/2 calls the interrupt addresses by different
numbers.  (Ex. 9 is IRQ2, I think).  I'm trying to get all my boards to work
and was wondering if anyone knows if this is true and if so would they please
post the various addresses for OS/2 corresponding to the "Real world" settings.

Thanks

Sean T. Milligan, University of Washington
mts@hardy.u.washington.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: nmouawad@waterloo.edu (Naji Mouawad)
Subject: Re: Joel's ATI drivers and the SPP
Organization: University of Waterloo
	<10260@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM>
	<1992Nov5.085045.13559@njitgw.njit.edu>
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 20:29:59 GMT

In article <1992Nov5.085045.13559@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:


   In article <10260@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM> pgleason@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Pat Gleason) writes:
   >
   >In another thread, someone stated that ATI has said that NO 1.3
   >driver will work with OS/2 2.0 Service Pack and that ATI will not be
   >releasing working ATI Wonder drivers until 2Q 93. I for one need
   >hi-res drivers that work NOW. 

   Perhaps ATI's drivers won't.  According to the readme on service Pack
   disk 1, you can.  I quote:

   >After applying the Serice Pak, if you install a 16-bit display driver
   >named DISPLAY.DLL, you must do the following:
   >
   >1. Create a directory and name it as follows:  C:\MYDISPLAY
   >2. Edit the LIBPATH= statement in CONFIG.SYS so that C:\MYDISPLAY is
   >   in the statement before C:\OS2\DLL.
   >3. Copy the new file DISPLAY.DLL to the C:\MYDISPLAY directory.
   >4. Restart the system.



This will not work. The CSD will not work with 1.3 ATI drivers. Source
of information: Tech-support at ATI.

naji.
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From: jhlee@rose.handy.co.kr (Lee Joo Hee)
Subject: ET4000 + MDA = BANG!!!
Organization: HandySoft Institute of Technology, HandySoft Corp.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 04:45:28 GMT

	Hi, there.
	I installed my OS/2 and CSD after trying a lot of installation.
CSD does not work with MDA installed as secondary monitor. Somebody helped me
this thanks to him. And now this problem kicks me.
	I have ET4000 as a primary video and MDA(Hercules card compatible exactly). After applying CSD, I installed secondary monitor by my self with
	"device = vmono.sys"
on config.sys.

	It works a few minutes but after some video mode changing
my computer makes "psi...psi... ... bang". I have to remove my MDA to 
work again. Before I apply CSD, problem was loosing SYNC on MDA monitor but
this time it hangs up my computer.
	Is there any help? or must I install secondary video using install 
program?
	Any help or comment will be appreciated.
	thanks
	jhlee@rose.handy.co.kr

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