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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: MouseSystems Mouse help
Date: 21 Jul 92 22:18:02 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <19252@plains.NoDak.edu> grosen@isc.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu (Johannes Grosen) writes:
>Ok, so I read the FAQ *after* installing OS/2. I made the wrong choice when
>I chose a mouse (I have a MouseSystems mouse). Now I have OS/2 installed but
>no mouse :(
>
>So, do I have to re-install OS/2 to get the Logitech mouse driver or can I
>change device drivers via config.sys?

Neither.  Open up your "System Setup" folder (within the OS/2 2.0
system folder).  Locate the "Selective Install" program.  Run it.
When you do, you'll see the same dialog you saw when installin OS/2.
Pick the appropriate option to change the mouse driver.  Insert disks
and press <ENTER> whenever asked to.

Your driver will be changed.  Re-boot, and you'll have a working
mouse.  Note that you may have to start using the center button
instead of the right button, but you get used to that quickly.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown)
Subject: Re: Couldn't stick it out...
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 16:12:24 GMT

billr@iplmail.orl.mmc.com (Bill Richmond) writes:

>In article <1992Jul27.212525.26274@infonode.ingr.com>, bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown) writes:
>|> Though I agree the multitasking in windows is probably not as good as
>|> it is in OS/2 2.0, I have done some amazing things with it, such
>|> as run a 500 frame MPEG movie at 15 frames/sec in a 320x240 window while 
>|> downloading at 2400 bps.  When I tried this while downloading at
>|> 10,200 bps, the frame rate dropped to about 10 frames/sec, but my
>|> download continued without a hiccup.  I think the slowdown a was
>|> due to my 386/33 being overwhelmed.  A 486/33 probably could have
>|> kept the frame rate a 15.

>	Well, while d/ling, a friend who uses an USRobotics 14.4 HST gets
>barely more than 1/2 the transfer rate (ie 900-1000cps vs 1700cps) when
>in Windows 3.1 as opposed to not in Windows. There is no question that 

I have a USR Dual 14.4K HST and have not noticed any loss of d/l speed
while in Windows.  I haven't had a real 14.4K HST mode connecton in a while, 
but I remember getting 1500+ cps in this mode.  Now, I tend to connect to
a 9600/V.32/MNP5 host most of the time and get around 1250 cps.

>OS/2 multitasks better. I am about to go back to Windows due to the way
>OS/2 runs things. For instance, if I d/l something from a bbs & it doesn't
>immediately work, I must wonder: does it work at all? Should I simply sit
>here for 3.2 hours tweaking OS/2 to try to get it to run? This has happened
>to me too often. It seems that IBM didn't think a few things out very well.
>Why does this product teach you to use a mouse & at the same time make you
>change the DPMI settings? It is a worthy product but a few things need to change
>before it even has a shot at competing w/Windows...It saddens me to say this for
>Windows is not what it should be, but it is the truth...

I agree, OS/2 2.0 is definitely a better design than Windows 3.1.  
But if I, a person who understands what full memory protection and pre-
emptive multitasking are, and knows the value of a 32-bit flat address 
space, still get so fed up with twiddling around with all the settings
for the dos boxes trying to get my old stuff to work that I chuck the
whole thing, then how is IBM going to pursuade the joe average users
of the world to switch to it?   I think OS/2 is destined to become
another tube of Blue Glue.

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Bailey Brown                               "Above all else, confusion reigns."
Intergraph Corporation                                  
bbrown@casca.b11.ingr.com                              Procol Harum
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Does 800x600x256 on the VGA part of a Graphics Ultra work under OS/2?
Date: 27 Jul 92 18:53:54 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Jul26.200231.12787@ee.ubc.ca> tedc@ee.ubc.ca (ted chen) writes:
>
>I haven't been able to get the Graphics Ultra into 800x600x256 mode using
>the VGA portion of the card, in DOS full screen.  It doesn't even work if
>if I boot from a DOS 5.0 floppy and try going into that mode (VPIC).  Wonder
>what's happening?

Well, that's a different story!  If it doesn't work from DOS, either,
it probably means that you haven't configured the card.  Did you run
the INSTALL program that comes with it (on the first driver disk)?
When you do, there should be a section for configuring the card.  Be
sure that the monitor type has been selected properly.  If you select
a monitor that doesn't support 800x600, the card will refuse to
activate that mode.  Two common settings are:

NEC Multisync 3D - 800x600, and 1024x768 interlaced
NEC Multisync 4D - 800x600, and 1024x768 non-interlaced.

I always advise people to pick one of these two if the card doesn't
have an exact match on its list.  Note that if you pick a monitor with
more capability than the one you have installed, the card will let you
select a resolution you can't display, which could cause problems.

Note also, that the NEC Multisync 2A will NOT support 1024x768.



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From: lafourc@storm.CS.ORST.EDU (Chris LaFournaise)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: PMWP.DLL -- which diskette?
Date: 29 Jul 92 03:50:37 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Oregon State University
Originator: lafourc@storm.CS.ORST.EDU

Somehow, the file c:\os2\dll\pmwp.dll became corrupted on my hard drive.
Can anyone tell me which installation disk it can be found on?  I assume
that it is compressed into some other file.

Thanks...

-Chris
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Chris LaFournaise                                     lafourc@prism.cs.orst.edu
From: pdc@lunch.wpd.sgi.com (Paul Close)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: 1280x1024 OS/2 2.0 Video Card (& driver)
Date: 31 Jul 92 00:44:47 GMT
Reply-To: pdc@sgi.com (Paul Close)
Distribution: comp.os.os2.misc
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
Originator: pdc@lunch.wpd.sgi.com

Frank D Chamberland (tau@athena.mit.edu) writes:
>
>I think this question may be a little premature (it never matured for
>OS/2 1.x), but does any one know if the following video card exists:
>
>1280x1024
>color (4-bit color is good enough)
>non-interlaced
>ISA bus
>RGB(+(h/v)sync) output (failing that I think I can get an adapter cable)
>***  OS/2 2.0 drivers  ***
>$500 price range
>
>From what I've read most of the S3 based video cards should be able to
>handle this (or something close like 1280x900 (???)) but I don't know
>of any that claim to have OS/2 drivers.

The S3 cards and the ET4000 cards can only do 1280x1024 *interlaced*.  I
don't know of any affordable card that does 1280x1024 non-interlaced.

Apparently the S3 cannot do a hardware cursor at 1280x1024; that's why they
use 1280x900.

There aren't any 1280x1024 drivers for OS/2 yet in any case (that I know of).
-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: cvadrtbc@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan)
Subject: Re: BACKUP's and the Desktop
Organization: California Polytechnic University, Pomona
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 17:38:00 GMT
X-Posted-From: vmsb.is.csupomona.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In article <92202.102131BRYAN@wvnvm.wvnet.edu>, Jerry Bryan <BRYAN@wvnvm.wvnet.edu> writes...
>between the INI files and desktop directories.  Remember that INI files
>are hard to backup with standard facilities such as BACKUP and COPY because
>they are always open.  You have to run the backup out of CONFIG.SYS
>before they are opened, which in turn means you have to boot to back them
>up.  I hate to boot when it really is not necessary.  The other concern

You really don't have to.  Someone on Fidonet a long time ago, posted
this very useful tip for backuping INI files:

CALL=C:\OS2\XCOPY C:\OS2\*.INI C:\BACKUP\*.INI

I think that was it.  Put this in your config.sys and it will backup your
INI files before the WPS loads up (when the INI files are not in use.)

Srikanth
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 and Modplay
Date: 30 Jul 92 17:02:11 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Jul28.193741.23379@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
>
>I've been pointed to it.  The file is WOWII100.ZIP, and is available
>from wuarchive.wustl.edu, located in the /mirrors/msdos/sound
>directory.  The author claims OS/2 2.0 compatibility (with some
>restrictions), so I'll try it out and report back soon.

I've finished testing the WOWII 1.00 Mod player.  It actually works
under OS/2 2.0.  I was shocked and amazed!  This is the only Mod
Player which has woked so far.  There isn't much in the way of an
interface, requiring you to specifiy input files from the command
line, but it does a great job.  There is a minor glitch in the sound
related to the fact that the program is doing double-buffered DMA
transfers, but the author knows about the bug - its related to being
in v86 mode and is unavoidable.

There is a more recent version out (version 1.2b - WOWII12b.exe -
located in /pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS right now on wuarchive.wustl.edu).  I'll
try this one soon.

-----

If anyone has a soundblaster and a non-ATI video board, I'd like to
hear how well the Sound System (ss.zip) program does.  As I've said
previously, this program can't display its graphical interface on an
ATI VGA Wonder for some reason.  It doesplays it fine on an Ultra or
on other VGA boards, but I can't test it there, since those computers
(at school) aren't running OS/2.
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From: matt@ra.oc.com (Matthew Lyle)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Which video card to buy?
Date: 30 Jul 92 16:31:38 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: OpenConnect Systems, Dallas, TX

I've been hearing that a fair number of the SVGA + cards don't have good
solid drivers yet for OS/2.  If one were to buy a video card today, which
would be the best one to buy for an OS/2 system?

-- 
Matthew Lyle                                           matt@oc.com
Technical Support Specialist                           matt@utdallas.bitnet
West/SW/SE/Mid Atlantic Region (*Phew*)
OpenConnect System, Dallas, Texas                      (214) 490-4090
From: jclarke@gandalf.rutgers.edu (J.Christopher Clarke)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Interesting Modem Problem.
Summary: Works under Win-OS2, not under Desktop.
Keywords: com3,modem,config.sys
Date: 28 Jul 92 20:10:01 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


	I have just recieved OS2 2.0 (very quickly; in 2 days) and set it up.
I have a real problem with my modem, through.  It seems that the software that
comes with the OS doesn't connect with the modem.  I have done the fix to the
config.sys so that it accesses the com3 port where the modem is (DEVICE=...(
3,03E8,5)).  This allowed me to access the modem using my Crosstalk for Windows
software under Win-OS2.  It connected, slowly.  But still, it would not use the
PMTerminal that came with OS2.  I have called IBM, the software maker and the 
computer maker, all who blame the others.  Essentially, IBM says it the hardwar
settings, the software maker thinks the OS (but won't say it) and Gateway hasnt
called back.
	To the chase, if there is a conflict with the interrupt, would the 
Crosstalk software, running under OS2 in a WinOS2 box, work, while that under
the Desktop software, it does not.

Perhaps it is a hardware conflict, but I hate to open it up and move jumpers,
etc.; I know I'll zap a chip or something.

Any comments are welcome.

J. Christopher Clarke
jclarke@gandalf.rutgers.edu
From: mstaben@comtch.spk.wa.us (Matthew Staben)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: more about video cards
Date: 27 Jul 92 16:13:25 GMT
Organization: Waffle BBS at CompuTech Spokane, Washington

pv9955@albnyvms.bitnet writes:

> Okay, I still do not know which video card to get with my new computer to
> run OS2.  Above all, I would like an ATI Ultra, but cannot afford one.
> I guess I will look into the Vantage or even the Wonder.
> My other options are the SpeedStar or a local bus adapter based on the ET4000
> chip.  How do the Tseng cards work with OS2 ?  A techie from IBM said that
> a special patch is required for OS2 to work with the ET4000, and it is 
> available through IBM.  Does anyone have experience with this?
> 
> And what about local bus video?  Does OS2's 32 bit interface take full
> advantage of the local bus video?  And are there drivers out there for 
> local bus ET4000 for OS2 ? 
> 
> More importantly, what do people think is a good video adapter to work with
> OS2 ?  Please reply via EMail.
> 
> Thanx,
> P. Volpe

 
I too use a Tseng4000 - and when OS/2 first arrived - I had troubles.
 
No more...
 
Just apply the VSVGA,VGA, etc. patches (available from IBM NSC BBS) 
and all those problems will be fixed.  Next, obtain a SVGA driver
(take your pick) specificially made for the TSENG4000 drivers (same BBS
source).  If the driver you pick leaves non-colored icons with big text
(and general ugliness), write back and I'll tell you how to patch the
driver so that the icons and text are the correct size.
 

mstaben@comtch.spk.wa.us  _or_  mstaben@visual.spk.wa.us
From: ching@angelo.amd.com (Mike Ching)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: What is needed to install CHKDSK on a bootable floppy?
Date: 24 Jul 92 04:41:27 GMT
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Santa Clara, CA

In article <Bruvyv.69H@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> meyer@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Don Meyer) writes:
>pvonk@scott.skidmore.edu (Pierre VonKaenel) writes:
>
>
>Unfortunately, I really doubt it.  I wrote MAKEBOOT.CMD, using the files 
>'blueprint' by someone else.  (Can't remember his name now, it's noted in 
>the comments of the .CMD file.)  Anyway, I tried 'losing' some of the files,
>and things started not to work.  The only one I can think of offhand is the
>PRINT0#.SYS, which is not necessary unless you are going to be printing.  But 
>this only saves 7994 bytes.
>
>If a one-disk solution is that important, maybe you could look into using 
>the FDFORMAT trick on 3.5" disks...
>
>Don

Someone previously posted that you could put cmd.exe on drive b:
and change config.sys to point to it and that works for me.

Mike Ching
From: jrs@panix.com (Jon Saxton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Format 1.2M to 1.44M
Date: 26 Jul 92 18:20:10 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

Thanks for the info on the other extended disk formatter.

I noticed that FDFORMAT uses a sector interleave > 1 on those extended formats
which put more than the standard number of sectors per track.  Presumably
this is to compensate for the reduced inter-sector gap size.  If the formatter
you are using doesn't do that then it *MAY* explain the problems you have in
using extended-format 5.25" diskettes.

My system is one of those which does handle the extended formats:-

    3.5" 82 cylinders 21 sectors per track
   5.25" 82 cylinders 18 sectors per track

I have never managed to get OS/2 2.0 to read low-density diskettes formatted
to 80+ cylinders - OS/2 double-steps them erroneously.  Previous corres-
pondents have commented on this; OS/2 seems to go part way towards using
the disk tables but only part way.
-- 
===========================================
MSDOS on a '386 is a waste of good silicon.
Jon Saxton - jrs@panix.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: johnw@civil.ubc.ca (John Wong)
Subject: Com port problem with OS2
Organization: Dept. of Civil Engineering, U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 18:33:42 GMT

Hello out there:
	I have problem in opening up COM port in Qbasic running under OS2.
The program tends to stop at the "open com" statement. But the same program
runs OK under DOS. Any suggestions to what to do to correct this problem?

John.








Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: quan@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Tony Quan)
Subject: Re: Does the TR256FIX work?
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 05:32:09 GMT

In article <1992Jul27.023855.2970@actrix.gen.nz> Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
>In article <26JUL199218382999@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu> cvadrtbc@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan) writes:
>> Does the TR256FIX from hobbes work?  It's supposed to get rid of
>> the garbled DOS session problem, but it makes it worse!  Anyone
>> else experience this?
>> 
>> Srikanth
>
>Before, switching from Wolf3d to the desktop and back had the image broken up
>into several pieces - even multiple mini-wolf-windows! Now if just looks like
>I'm looking at it through a frosted window. General shape and colour are
>maintained......but definition is gone. 
>
>Steve
> 
>

I was the original poster of this fix...I downloaded it off the Trident
BBS.  Easy download for me since Trident is local.  Anyway, perhaps I
should have been clearer in my original posting.   If you read the
README that came with the patch, it seems to imply that the patch
fixes only scrambled WPS screens that appear when you're coming from
a DOS or OS/2 fullscreen.  The patch doesn't seem to intend to fix
scrambled DOS or OS/2 fullscreens.  The patch causes the WPS to
refresh automatically on the switch.  I don't think it does anything
else.

--Tony
quan@cs.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: pvonk@scott.skidmore.edu (Pierre VonKaenel)
Subject: PC Week dumping on MS
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY, 12866
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 13:09:13 GMT

Someone recently posted a description of the latest PC Week's article
on NT and how it won't run all DOS and Windows programs.  As I read
through the magazine, I was amazed to find article after article
dumping on NT or raising doubts about its capabilities in the initial
release.
Talk about an about face!


-- 
Pierre von Kaenel	| Skidmore College	     | pvonk@scott.skidmore.edu
Math & CS Dept.		| Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 | (518)584-5000 Ext 2391
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"I support youth all over the world."
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: cvadrtbc@vmsa.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan)
Subject: Re: PMWP.DLL -- which diskette?
Organization: California Polytechnic University, Pomona
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 05:51:00 GMT
X-Posted-From: vmsa.is.csupomona.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In article <1992Jul29.035037.24980@CS.ORST.EDU>, lafourc@storm.CS.ORST.EDU (Chris LaFournaise) writes...
>Somehow, the file c:\os2\dll\pmwp.dll became corrupted on my hard drive.
>Can anyone tell me which installation disk it can be found on?  I assume
>that it is compressed into some other file.

It's on Disk 5,  use UNPACK to unpack it.  BTW, take a look at the INSTALL.LOG
file in the \OS2\INSTALL direcotry, it tells you which files came from which
disk, very useful.

Srikanth
From: jwty@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Strange solutions!
Date: 30 Jul 92 06:13:43 EDT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Cornell University

Hello!

  I posted a couple of days ago about some strange problems with OS/2:
Icons stayed grayed when they shouldn't have, and the Shutdown function
didn't work.  Thanks to those who posted suggestions!  The problems have
been fixed!

  Chkdsk didn't help - apparantly there wa nothing wrong with the file system.
What did the trick was going through the procedure to rebuild the WPS
desktop.  It seems that all these problems were the result of the
initialization files being corrupted.  Once thy were restored, everything
started working again.

  Of course, I had to spend a couple of hours changing the settings of
my apps, recreating the icons for some DOS apps, and making replacement
shadows.  Also, the recovery procedure fiddles with the CONFIG.SYS, so
that had to be worked on too.

  What I've learned from this is the value of programs like WPSBackup.
I have decided to run it occasionally to keep an updated replacement version
of my initialization files handy.  If the strange problems return, I will
try their recovery procedure.   If that gets me going again, I'll register
WPSBackup and consider it money well spent.

  I hope this turns out to be useful to some of you who have strange problems
that Chkdsk can't fix.

	Chris
From: saguaro.cs.psu.edu!bowman@overmind.mind.org
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Speedstar redisplay
Date: 22 Jul 92 22:31:00 GMT
Organization: Penn State Computer Science
X-mailer: Stadel 3.4a-227
X-Spam-content: irrelevant

I've got a problem: whenever I switch between full-screen windows
sessions and the wps, the display is not refreshed.  In fact, neither
display is refreshed appropriately.  I'm using the new Orchid 1024x768
256 color PM display driver and the 1/15/92?? release of the Tseng
1024x768 Windows driver (and the May vsvga).  I've tried to set the flag
for window refresh on focus, but then my mouse cursor disappears on the
Windows scree :-(.  SVGA is ON.

Anyway, I think I've tried almost every "sensible" combination of values
without much luck.  Does anyone have any ideas?

--Mic

PS: please email responses, this group is too busy to follow any more

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Mic Bowman                                Computer Science Department
bowman@cs.psu.edu                         Penn State University
(814) 865-1406                            University Park, PA 16802-6103
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From: urbndv8@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Bleeding Rivets)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: 8514 & Scrambled/Clipped fonts
Date: 22 Jul 1992 15:28:53 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucscb.ucsc.edu
Summary: Selective Install is the culprit


Problem:  change from VGA to 8514/A mode using Selective Install and then
all proportional fonts are mangled ... lose parts at the end, especially
in icon text, and some characters in some programs are mangled.

Tech Support at Boca helped me out ... it seems
Selective Install tries to change the font files when you go to an 8514,
but fails because of course they are in use.

So a complete reinstall will do the trick (and did) ... also, unpacking
the fonts whereever they are on the install disks and booting from floppy
and copying over should do it.

Don't forget a reinstall _will_ keep your old desktop in use, so a reinstall
might be simplest.

Dunno if this should go in bug lists and or the FAQ or not.

-- 
"The possessed's mad speech is the higher wisdom of the world, since it is 
human...Why have we not yet acquired this insight in relation to the world
of the free will?  Because outwardly we are the masters of madness, because
the insane are violated by us, and we hinder them from living according to
their ethical laws...Now we must endeavor to overcome the dead point in our
realtionship to insanity."       --Wieland Herzfelde, 1914