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From: billt@cvedc.prime.com (Bill Tracy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: running unreal demo, want sound under OS/2 (and don`t wanna boot dos!)
Keywords: unreal, no sound
Date: 12 Oct 92 21:55:33 GMT
Organization: Computervision R&D, Beaverton OR

I have a 486/33, w/ 8 megs, and a pas16 sound card.  I have many games
working with sound (some of Sierra's products and others, and speech
in WCII, Ultima UW intro, and links386 pro).

In trying to run unreal (a LARGE graphics/sound demonstration
program), it does see the sound board (as a sound blaster).  But all
the sound you get is a few clicks just at the start - then nothing.

In the readme, they do suggest running without TSR's, disk caches, etc.

I suspect they are expecting int 7, while I am using int 5.  In the
FAQ for pas's, there is a suggestion to have an env. variable set with
the following: SET BLASTER=A220 Q5 D1 T3
Which does NOT help.

But it would be REALLY NICE to not have to boot dos...




thanks,
Bill


-- 


Bill Tracy 	                  ..tektronix!ogcvax!cvedc!wtracy
Prime Computer,Inc.			..sun!cvbnet!cvedc!wtracy
From: genie@netcom.com (Gene Choi)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 performance tips?
Date: 9 Oct 92 02:05:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.1992Oct9.020545.8631
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <92282.184128ANDY@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> Andrew T. Robinson <ANDY@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> writes:
>Someone was disucssing a FAQ for performance-related questions.  Is such
>a beast underway?
>
>I must admit that I'm really dissapointed with OS/2 DOS/Windows performance.
>An 80486DX50 I recently set up takes a good half a minute to launch MS Word
>in a windowed WINOS2 session--under Windows 3.1 it's about 5 seconds.
>Running DOS-based database applications, I saw a 10x performance drop between
>raw DOS 5.0 and OS/2 DOS boxes (OS/2 is significantly better than Windows 3.1
>in this respect, however).  This conflicts with some earlier primative
>benchmarks I did which showed OS/2 DOS boxes with a 10-20% performance hit
>over DOS 5.0.  I suspect the poor performance I'm seeing is due to disk
>activity being virtualized, but 10x DOS is ridiculous!
>
>I've tried some of the WINOS2 tweaks advertised here and elsewhere and they
>don't appear to make much of a difference.
>
>Is there any relief in sight?

YES.  Go get some more memory.  It seems you have a 486 but only
4 megs of memory for that kind of performance.  All that HD access
is because you have no memory.  You should have a minimum of 6 megs
to run OS/2 at any decent speed.

Gene
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 15:09:39 EDT
From: <BJT105@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Information about video drivers for OS/2 2.0...

In article <1992Oct10.161500.29370@utdallas.edu>, goyal@utdallas.edu (Mohit K.
Goyal) says:
>
>Here is some info. I got from an IBM'er:
>(Albert Shan is his name)
>
>Tseng ET4000 drivers will be in the Service Pack, they will be 32-bit,
>256 colour drivers for VGA, SVGA, and 1024X768.
>
>32-bit XGA-2 drivers for all of XGA-2's resolution's/color combinations
>will be released in a couple of weeks, maybe with the Service Pack.
>
>32-bit 256-color drivers for ATI, CIrrus, Western Digital, & Paradise
>cards will be available before 1993.
>
>32-bit 8514/A drivers will be available before 1993.
>
>
>ALL of the above drivers are being written by IBM!
>
>When I asked A.S. about the availability of drivers that support more
>than 256 colors (such as Tseng cards with HiColor) he said that IBM will
>only make 32-bit 256color drivers...but IBM will give the source code for
>the drivers to the companies (ATI drivers to ATI for example) and he said
>that it won't be too hard for the company to then modify the drivers to
>support 16-colors, or HiColor, etc...
>
>I haven't heard/read much about S3 drivers.  I almost positive their will
>be drivers coming out in 1992.   I don't know if IBM is making them or
>if S3 is, or both.
>
>Oh yeah, ATI is shipping 16-bit OS/2 2.0 drivers with its new Ultra Plus
>and Ultra Pro cards.  ATI says that they have been tested under OS/2 GA
>and the OS/2 beta that is currently available.
>
>
>Well, it looks like everybody is *finally* going to get video drivers,
>and not a moment too soon...
>

Just to add more information on S3, IBM is not involved with writing S3
drivers. But without saying anything about "real soon now", Orchid has
been very active in supporting OS/2, and in working hard on full PM
and VDM support for THEIR boards.  Diamond, however, hasn't shown much
interest in supporting their S3 board, so people who own their boards
might be in trouble.  S3 themselves have a person working on OS/2 support,
but I don't know the status of that effort.

Bernie
From: 880506s@dragon.acadiau.ca (James R. Skinner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Why XGA-2?
Date: 13 Oct 92 19:03:56 GMT
Organization: Acadia University

dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:

>The XGA standard is just that - a standard.  IBM will always have
>driver support for it.  

Just like 8514/a will always have drivers for it.... 8-)

I like IBM but am a little frustrated when they are working
more on getting SVGA drivers out rather than one of their 
own standards (I do understand why they are doing it though)

The reason I bought an 8514/a was becasue it was an IBM standard....
Oh well they might have seamless drivers in the CSD, maybe...

-- 

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jks4675@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Subject: Why do title changes lose file associations?
Reply-To: jks4675@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 20:49:05 GMT

Why is it when I change a object's title in the settings notebook, the
executable is 'lost'?? For instance, if I change the title for TE2.EXE to
merely TE2, after a reboot, the icon changes to a data file icon and the
call to the executable is lost. 

Although I might be doing something wrong (or stupid), this is EXTREMELY
annoying. I also created an icon for DUNE (Great game, incidentally).
The batch file that the icon called DISSAPPEARED and the icon was lost
somwhere in the universe (Probably went to the same place that the working 
NT code is hidden).

All I did was change the object's title, not the file the icon executes.

Incidentally, the scaled window/clipboard icon making technique is really
something.....

Jeff
From: steck@ccs.northeastern.edu (Paul Steckler)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: QuattroProWindows dies w/ beta seamless
Date: 8 Oct 92 20:10:38 GMT
Organization: College of CS, Northeastern U

Just got Quattro Pro for Windows.   Works fine under
full-screen WinOS2 3.1 that comes with the OS/2 beta.
Trying to run it in seamless mode, I get the following
error:

 	General Protection Fault in 
	module SWINVGA.DRV at 000A:00F7.

Somehow the seamless driver can't handle this application.
All other seamless application seem to run OK.  Anyone
else have similar problems?

-- Paul
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From: joiner@exa.cs.umn.edu (Jay K. Joiner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: HELP! can't access cd-rom drive!
Date: 16 Oct 92 15:11:30 GMT
Organization: University of Minnesota

In <ANDY.92Oct15212556@huey.jpl.nasa.gov> andy@huey.jpl.nasa.gov (Andy Poulsen) writes:

>hi all,

>i just got the new ibm cd-rom, and borrowed a friend's drive.  it's a
>toshiba 3201, and i've got it connected to an adaptec 1542B controller.

I thought IBM said it supported Toshiba 33xx series, not 32xx.

>i got a message saying something like "SCSI-DD not found.  SYS1201:
>cdrom.sys  ... was not installed."   I also got the same message when i

Try rebooting with Ctrl-Atl-Del after receiving that message instead
of pressing Enter as instructed.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Biff
From: CFORDE@bcsc02.gov.bc.ca
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 12:00:07 PDT
Organization: BC Systems Corporation

In article <1992Oct12.012625.17468@random.ccs.northeastern.edu>
steck@ccs.northeastern.edu (Paul Steckler) writes:
 
>I AM contemplating writing PMBiff (I've already asserted my copyright
>on that name :-)), if enough folks demand it.  You're about the
>3rd person to ask about it.  From what I know about PM, this
>is an easy port.  Anyone else interested?
 
What is Biff and what can it do for me?
 
Have fun,
Carl Forde                            phonenet: 604-360-7130
VM Database and Development Support   bitnet  : CFORDE@BCSC02
British Columbia Systems Corporation  internet: cforde@bcsc02.gov.bc.ca
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: schepers@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (Peter Schepers)
Subject: Re: Disappearing setting notebook
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 20:04:25 GMT

In article <1992Oct15.174008.25642@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
>Without the title bar, the clock is unmoveable.  To get the title bar
>back, open up the clock's settings from its icon in the Desktop
>folder.  If you try to open the settings from the task list's menu,
>they won't open.  This is a bug.
>
>BTW, I find it easier to change the clock's colors using the color
>palette than from the settings.  But this is only my opinion.
>-- 

What I do when I need to move the clock around (without the menubar) is
resize it using the corners and sides. E.G. moving the clock from the
bottom right to the top left means making the clock full-screen (pulling
the top-left corner of the clock to the top-left corner of the screen) and
then resizing the clock back down to normal size up in the top corner. I
find this much easier than going after the original icon and changing the
settings to bring the menu back.



From the workbench of:                  :        EMAIL ME... I'm bored! (NOT!)
schepers@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca          :        Standard disclaimers apply...
Peter Schepers     University of Waterloo     Waterloo     Ontario     Canada.
From: hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Os/2 and second drives
Date: 16 Oct 92 23:48:06 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab

mikel@networx.com (Mike Lempriere) writes:
>One minor gootcha te be aware of...
>OS/2 2.0 insists that the first partition on the first drivee be C:,
>and the first partition on the second drive be D:.
>E.g. If your existing first drive currently has more than one partition,
>     (C: and D:), it's second partition (D:) will no longer be D: --
>     it will now show up as E:.  The new physical drive will be D:.

Pardon? I think you have confused matters. OS/2 doesn't "insist" on
anything w.r.t. partitions, except that you identify them :-)
If you use the Boot Manager, you can easily specify that the first 
disk be C: D: and the second disk be E: F: G: ... to your heart's
content. And OS/2 can be placed on any of those partitions, and 
started from them as well.

That is an advantage of OS/2 - it need not be started from a primary
partition.

Tom
Xref: sparky comp.os.os2.misc:32596 comp.os.linux:13107
From: person@plains.NoDak.edu (Brett G Person )
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.linux
Subject: Running Linux in a VDM. Can I do it?
Date: 11 Oct 92 05:03:41 GMT
Article-I.D.: plains.21100
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network



I'd like to boot Linux under os/2.  When I try it, i get the
loading... part and then the system tells me that it won't allow
access to the A20 line?  Is there a way to tell OS/2 to allow access
to the A20 line? 
-- 
Brett Person
Guest Account	
North Dakota State University
person@plains.nodak.edu || person@plains.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: goyal@utdallas.edu (Mohit K. Goyal)
Subject: XGA-2 Information...PART 2!
Organization: Univ. of Texas at Dallas
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 22:44:53 GMT

Hello.  Here is the same XGA-2 info. I posted earlier:

---------------------------------------------------
Standard resolutions for XGA2:
- all VGA
- 640x480 (256, 65536-color)
- 800x600 (16, 256, 65536-color)
- 1024x768 (16, 256-color)
- 8-bit/color RAMDAC, 16.7 million color palette
- all non-interlaced, up to 75Hz refresh (programmable)
- XGA is coprocessed, whether you have MCA or ISA
There are also some non-standard modes, such as 1136x1024 16-color
interlaced.  IBM Boca is also working on seamless driver for this mode.
Expect XGA2 drivers for all res. to show up in about 2 weeks (might
even be included in the upcoming CSD).
----------------------------------------------------
...also has busmastering...1meg vram....
 
 Radius is making an ISA (maybe EISA too) XGA2 card.
 Their number is 18005RADIUS.
 The ISA card won't be available until December.
  
  32-bit OS/2 2.0 drivers for all resolutions will be coming out in about
  2 weeks...they might even be included with the Service Pack.


I've gotten some message's on cost...well...

*IBM* is selling an *MCA* version of this card for *$360* (RETAIL!)

I would expect Radius to have a cheaper LIST price for their ISA version,
meaning that it will probably end up costing $225-$250 in stores. (PURE
speculation on my part)

Anyways, if you want more information, CALL Radius at 18005RADIUS and
ask for info. on the XGA-2 card.  They will get your name and address.

I can't believe *DRIVER'S* are going to be available *before* the card!!!

Oh well...

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: lotozo@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (William A Lotozo)
Subject: ClipArt for PMChart?
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 01:13:03 GMT


Are there any ftp sites which have clip art libraries that will work 
with PM Chart?  I installed this os/2 applet but it does't seem to come
with any clip art libraries ... without which the product is useless.

Thanks
From: rob@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (Robert Rittenhouse)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Logitec C-7 mouse won't work
Date: 12 Oct 92 20:58:36 GMT
Organization: Cybernet BBS, Boca Raton, Florida

earlyd@newt.ee.byu.edu (David Early) writes:

> 
> In article <tdukes.921010171202@volt.ee.eng.auburn.edu>, tdukes@eng.auburn.ed
> >I have been using OS/2 since April and think its great. I finally convinced
> >a friend of mine to give it a try. He was a little uncertain so he opted for
> >dual-boot.
> >
> >24-hours later we still can't get the mouse to work. Otherwise the installat
> >seems to go ok.
> >
> >I thought I saw mention of a problem with the Logitec C-7 earilier, but
> >since I have a mouseman I paid little attention.
> >
> >Is there a quick fix for this problem?
> >
> >Todd
> 

I also have a C7. The fix is to unplug the little sucker for 10-15 
seconds and then plug it back in.  To prevent the problem from 
happening again if you dual boot from DOS issue the command:
MOUSE [2] PC
Where the 2 is used if you have it on port 2.

Nonetheless I have never been able to INSTALL OS/2 with the mouse
working. I've only been able to get it to work by doing the unplug
replug switch as above after installing with the keyboard.

Rob Rittenhouse
PS: The IBM folks are aware of this--that's where I got the info.
From: 34R33O7@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU (Robert A Rawlinson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Logitec C-7 mouse won't work
Date: 12 Oct 92 18:54:54 GMT
Organization: Central Michigan University

I also had problems with a Logitec C-7 mouse. Just yesterday in fact. OS/2
was fine but the darned mouse pointer just set there. I worked fine in DOS.
Then after about 4 reboots, it started to work. I have no idea why it started
but seems fine now.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: peterp@unipalm.co.uk (Peter Piggott)
Subject: rexx20 fixes
Organization: Unipalm Ltd., 216 Cambridge Science Park, Cambridge CB4 4WA, UK
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 14:51:45 GMT

I have just installed the rexx20.zip fixes.
I can no longer run the rexxtry.cmd utility. The first time I try, I
just get placed back at the C:\ prompt.
The next time I receive an error:
rc = 48 ........................................ REXXTRY.CMD on OS/2
Oooops ! ... try again.     Failure in system service

If I use pmrexx rexxtry I get:
REX0048: Error 48 running C:\OS2\rexxtry.cmd, line 66: Failure in system 
service

Any ideas?

Cheers,

PeterP

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From: ken@unixg.ubc.ca (Kenneth White)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Shutdown without a mouse
Date: 16 Oct 1992 15:18:13 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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From: d9mikael@dtek.chalmers.se (Mikael Wahlgren)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Why XGA-2?
Date: 13 Oct 92 23:43:04 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden

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

>>(2) An IBM standard, just like VGA.  Meaning you won't have to muck
>>about trying to find a driver.

>Not a very good point.  ATI has drivers for just about everything already.
>(And will soon for OS/2 as well...)

Too bad that ATI has promised OS/2 drivers REAL SOON NOW, for quite some
time.  When they finally arrived, they were so poor, that ATI recommended
using IBM's instead.  No support for Crystal Fonts, no Seamless support,
no speed optimization.  

>Sounds good.  Do the Ultras busmaster?

No they don't.

Mikael Wahlgren
From: gershon@husc10.harvard.edu (Ethan Gershon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 on 386sx - How is speed?
Date: 14 Oct 92 21:18:20 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc10.gershon.719097500
 <GKUSHMER.92Oct13124913@jade.tufts.edu> <1992Oct13.191005.1093@njitgw.njit.edu>

>In article <GKUSHMER.92Oct13124913@jade.tufts.edu> gkushmer@jade.tufts.edu (Greg Kushmerek) writes:
>>I have, in a drawer at home, a number of fully functioning Intel Above 
>>Boards with piggybacks.  Each of these total 4 megs of ram and slide right
>>into a 16 bit expansion slot.  The chips are all 120ns.  Seeing what 
>>Steve had to say makes me wonder - should I dig these out and stick
>>them in my machine?  

What would be really cool is if OS/2 could use such boards for
concurrent multi-processing.  Doesn't have to be symmetric
multi-processing... just the ability to offload less urgent tasks
to another processor and then get the results a bit later.

(there is a card for the Mac with a 68040 chip on it which allows
one program to be running on the card, another on the computer's
CPU... same general idea.)

                                              --Ethan Gershon
                                                gershon@husc.harvard.edu
From: mystical@nmt.edu (Gurupartap Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: X communications program
Date: 17 Oct 92 00:01:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: nmt.1992Oct17.000153.2783
Organization: New Mexico Tech


I seem to remember someone once mentioning a MS-Windows program
that does X.  It supported (I think) using multiple terminal
windows from a single modem-line hookup.  Also Zmodem.  Does anybody
know where such a program could be found?  I don't really care if
it runs X, I just want multiple terminals.

-Partap
mystical@jupiter.nmt.edu
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: HELP NEEDED WITH NEC CDR-74 CDROM
Date: 16 Oct 92 01:31:38 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Oct15.210836.1645@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> rays@elm.lle.rochester.edu (Ray Stewart) writes:
>I am trying to get a NEC CDR-74 CDROM to work under os/2 2.01 (beta).
>
>I have done the patch on CDROM.SYS (changed IBM to NEC).

You realize that not all drives are equivalent.  If your NEC drive
doesn't use the same protocols as IBM's, you've made a useless driver.
The only reason that the TOSHIBA->SONY patch worked was that these two
drives used the same protocol suite.

>OS/2 recognizes the drive and it appears in as driver e:

Well, it find the drive.  The driver doesn't test every function prior
to installing.  This is why it checks manufacturer ID's.

>When I try to access to drive I get THE PARAMETER IS INCORRECT ERROR.
>This is rather strange and cryptic message.
>The drive is being accessed because the drive light blinks.
>
>Here is a copy of my setup in config.sys
>
>BASEDEV=OS2DASD.DMD
>BASEDEV=AHA154X.ADD
>BASEDEV=OS2SCSI.DMD
>DEVICE=D:\OS2\CDROM.SYS /I /N:4
>ifs=d:\os2\cdfs.ifs

Try restoring your original copy of the CDROM.SYS driver and removing
the "/I" parameter from the DEVICE= line.  I think that makes it not
check manufacturer ID's.

Please post the results so we'll know whether or not this works.
-- 
David Charlap         |"there aren't 50,000 things for which it's worth writing
dic5340@hertz.njit.edu| software; and the computer industry doesn't have enough
----------------------+ programmers to create that much good software.
Therefore, most of it must be worthless" -- Boris Beizer "The Frozen Keyboard"
From: bau55536@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Larry Combs Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Possible New User Questions
Summary: help
Keywords: use
Date: 16 Oct 92 05:10:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.Bw77oy.M7
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana


	I've been considering upgrading from Dos50/Win31 to OS/2.  Before
	shelling out the bucks for something I can' use, I thought I'd
	ask the NetGuru's for advice.
	First I'm running a 386sx/20 with 4mb/80ns ram, and a physical
	105mb HD.  I'm also running Stacker 2.0 with some 9 virtual disks
	totalling somewhere in the neighborhood of 150-170mb.  The main thing
	I want to know is can I still run Stacker under OS2, and if so how?
	Also, in reading the net just now I saw quite a bit of refs to OS2    
	Win31.  What exactly is this, and is it included in the OS2 package.

	Please respond via e-mail, since this group is relatively big, and
	I don't have a huge amount of time to check (like once a week!!)

					Thanks in advance,
					    Larry Combs, Jr.
					    b-uffelmann@uiuc.edu
From: rider@geloser.login.qc.ca (Serge Ayotte)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Please explain '.inf' files! What are they?
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 92 10:59:34 EDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Gentleman Loser System, Montreal/Qc/Cdn

HIya folks...

After all the threads that this topic as generated, I still have one
small questions...

Is there a way to CREATE yourself these .inf fornmat files???

I have a few doc files that I have (like for example the FAQ) that I
sure would like more to set up as .inf with all the possibility of
search that they have (whitout saying that I planned do start writing
prg for Os/2 one of these days... Got to learn C and assembler first
<grin>).

Thanks for the info!

Serge Ayotte

The Magic of Windows:  Turns a 486 back into a PC/XT.
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