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From: mvp@netcom.com (Mike Van Pelt)
Subject: 2.1 + TE/2 *SLOW*!  300baud!!
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 01:11:41 GMT

I just installed the 2.1 beta CD, and up until about 10 minutes
ago, I thought it was really nice.  10 minutes ago was when I
fired up TE/2 and logged on here.  It is so slow (dragging my
v.32 modem down to about 300 baud) that it is really unusable.

Funny thing is, hitting the scroll-back buffer works pretty fast,
but on-line is really wretched.  Other things don't seem grossly
slower than I'd expect from a 256-color mode.

I installed the 800x600x256 driver -- I would have used a 16-color
mode, except that didn't seem to be an option on the install.
(I'm using a Video 7 VRAM-II.)

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From: gt4260b@prism.gatech.EDU (BLENIS,ROBERT STANLEY JR)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: 2.1b and Ultrastor 34F SCSI-2F VLB Adapter
Date: 24 Jan 93 05:27:41 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

Keith,

I have been using OS/2 2.1Beta for a few weeks now, with no problem (associated
with the 34F)  I'm using the default(generic) I13 drivers.  When I tried the
beta 14F drivers on hobbes.nmsu.edu, the system would not boot.(These drivers
do work with GA+SP.)  Your problem could be due to a conflict with another
card.  Give some specifics of your setup and maybe I can help.

Robert Blenis
gt4260b@prism.gatech.edu

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From: dave@bilbo.suite.com (Dave Raymer)
Subject: Re: Writing video drivers
Organization: Suite Software, Dallas, Anaheim, La Mesa.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:59:43 GMT

In article <1isdatINNsbp@travis.csd.harris.com> jgreen@csd.harris.com (Joe  
Green) writes:
> What software (libraries, etc.) and documentation would be needed to  
write
> drivers for a graphics board for OS/2?  Are these things available to  
mere
> mortals?  :-)
> 
> --
> Joe Green				Harris Corporation
> jgreen@csd.harris.com			Computer Systems Division

Joe,

You need a copy of the I/O subsystems manuals (Vol i && 2) as well
as a fairly solid knowledge of OS/2 in general.  Its also does not
hurt to know someone who has done it before.  The documentation that
you need is part of the OS/2 Technical Reference Library available from
IBM.  I could have the series title wrong, but you definately need I/O
Subsystems Vol 1 and 2.  A book on the 386 and 486 processors might be
useful as well.

Dave.
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From: enk2@po.cwru.edu (Erik Kovach)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Trident 8900c supported... right??
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 07:06:11 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University
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In article <1993Jan20.171026.10773@midway.uchicago.edu> pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers) writes:
>	1) After installing 1024x768x256, I ran the Program Manager.
>	   When I exited it, the machine locked up solid.  (I.e., I now
>	   take back what I said in another item about having never
>	   hard-crashed OS/2...)  I am pretty sure this has already been
>	   reported.  (Is it specific to the video mode?)

This is a problem with me and one, if not several, other users, and I don't 
think that it is related to the drivers.  A representative from IBM who 
posted on here said to change the TIMESLICE= line in the CONFIG.SYS.  Check 
back a few posts.

>	2) I really think OS/2 ought to offer a way to choose at boot
>	   time whether or not it should reload all the apps that were
>	   running when you shut down (or crashed).  This copy of
>	   Windoze that I started in 1) above was hard to kill.
>	   (Though, hitting delete key from Window list did work)

There is.  Add the following line to your CONFIG.SYS:

SET RESTARTOBJECTS=STARTUPFOLDERSONLY

(or something like that...I can't find the syntax of this exactly and I, 
too, had to reinstall...)
From: dona@nwra.com (Don Altman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: WARNING - 2.1 Beta Install Problems Traced to a BAD CD
Date: 27 Jan 93 01:21:12 GMT
Article-I.D.: nwra.1993Jan27.012112.23953
Organization: Northwest Research Associates, Inc.

After many abortive attempts to install the 2.1 Beta directly from the
DAP CD, as well as from diskettes made from it, the problem turned out
to be a BAD CD.

The install failures ran the gamut from trap 000d and trap 000e to
missing CLOCK01.SYS, KBD01.SYS, and PMWP.DLLs among others.  Sometimes
the crash was even before the FDISK screen came up.  Also, there were a
few random hangs at various disks or files once I got past FDISK.

The ONLY VISIBLE CLUES were a rythmic blinking (around 3 Hz) of the
access light on the CD-ROM drive (while it kept trying re-reads) and
differing amounts of time for each rebuild of the installation
diskettes.  Rather than the diskette access light being on continuously
with only occasional CD reads, most of the time was spent on CD reads
with only occasional diskette writes.  Once, diskette 1 took over 45
minutes to create.

Each time I generated a new set of installation diskettes, the errors
were new.  With each set of installation diskettes, however, the errors
were repeatable.

The problem seems to be that the install program doesn't time out when
it encounters a bad track on the CD, but keeps trying to read.  My
guess is that eventually it gets either a good read or one with so many
errors that it can't detect them.  The result is that files are
randomly corrupted when copied off the CD.

Once I finally managed to get a crippled version of 2.1 running, I
tried to do a selective install of the printer driver.  The OS
immediately gave an error message about a possible bad CD.

IBM replaced the CD promptly, and last night I confirmed that it indeed
had been the problem.

There's nothing special about the number one.  I would guess that there
was a whole batch of bad CDs.  Mine came around the end of December.
If you have persistent install problems with vanilla hardware, this
could be a cause.
-- 
Don Altman                                 Northwest Research Associates, Inc.
dona@nwra.com                              Bellevue, WA
(206) 453-8141                             (206) 646-9123 (FAX)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
Subject: Re: WinOS2 in 2.1beta
Reply-To: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
Organization: Columbia University, New York
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:40:37 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.001109.25462@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:
>mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green) writes:
>: I have the 2.1beta and can't get Windows programs working without running
>: the WIN-full-screen session.  No WINOS2 settings exist when I create a
>: program object for a Windows program.  I tried reinstalling WINOS2 support
>: using selective install.  It gave me a Y E? N A R I error, and I told it to
>: retry...it continued, then appeared to hang saying it was configuring.
>: I double clicked on the top left, and on OK, and it closed.  Same as before,
>: no Win-OS2 settings.  Any ideas on how to get this to work?
>: 
>: Video is ET4000, 800x600x256.
>: HPFS partition
>: SCSI (AHA1542) disk (also an IDE)
>: 
>: I believe I should be able to get seamless winos2, as well as settings.
>: I installed 2.1 on a freshly formatted partition.
>: 
>
>I've noticed that if you just try to create an object for a windows program
>it won't run seamless. This is a real hassle when you're trying to create a
>template to run a program, since it inevitably ends up in a full screen 
>session.
>
>Alternatively, if you migrate the application, you will get proper seamless
>support.

I reinstalled again. (1 install, 2 selective installs of DOS/WINOS2)
and it works, now!

By the way, the Y N A R I error seemed to be because disk16
G:\OS2\DLL\WINCFG.DLL is locked because the file is in use.

Probably deleting this file before installation would have let it work.
Incidentally, it worked at the second selective install without doing anything
different!

Also, there is a bug in selective install.
You can only select 1 resolution to be installed (SVGA support).
The instructions say to select several.

I can't wait until they fix the install database so that I don't have to
insert 20 disks!

:-)

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From: huie@netcom.com (John Huie)
Subject: Printer and MS Windows Font problems, please help!
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 05:53:52 GMT


Hi out there. I just installed os/2 2.1 beta and encountered some problems.
First of all, how do I reinstall or add a new printer driver? Second,
how can I activate the ATM in MS Windows sessions? I tried to set atm on,
but everytime I open a Window session the atm is still inactive. Also, my
DDE file seems to be corrupted, how can I reinstall it again? Thanks in
advance,

John





Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: paw7w@fulton.seas.Virginia.EDU (Perry Alan David Wood)
Subject: FAT Diskcache Size
Organization: University of Virginia
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 03:33:39 GMT

I installed OS/2 2.0 last summer and have recently upgraded the 386 on
which it is isntalled from 8 meg to 16 meg of RAM.  When OS/2 installed
itself (with a FAT partition) it set aside a 384K diskcache.  With the
extra RAM I decided to try a 1024K diskcache.  After rebooting to
make the change I tried the following:

	pkunzip -t largefile.zip

There was of course some disk activity.  Then I tried it again, thinking
this time it would all be in the diskcache.  It ran in the same amount
of time with what seemed like the same amount of disk activity.  I tried
the same experiment with DOS 5.0 and SMARTDRV.  In DOS, the second time
I did the pkunzip -t command there was no disk activity at all but it
ran only slightly faster.  Is SMARTDRV merely a reflection of the last
1024K bytes of disk IO?  Is OS/2's diskcache doing something different,
perhaps more efficient some how?

Thanks for any help! 
--
Perry A. D. Wood            paw7w@Virginia.EDU
University of Virginia
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: orville%weyrich@uunet.uu.net (Orville R. Weyrich)
Subject: Re: Who sells 16550 UARTS!! (This has been asked before, 1000 wet noodles!!)
Reply-To: uunet.uu.net!weyrich!orville
Organization: Weyrich Computer Consulting
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 05:48:31 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.132758.20139@hellgate.utah.edu> bangell@cs.utah.edu (bob angell) writes:
>
>sorry to clutter up an already busy group....however, who knows where I can
>order a 16550 UART board with maybe just one or two com ports??!?  Any 
>suggestions??

I am presently evaluating a 2-serial port card + parallel that I bought
from Hard Drives International for $50. It has a new-fangled chip-set that
is supposed to have the functionality of two 16550's "in there".

We'll see :-).



orville

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From: Gary.Woodman@anu.edu.au (Gary Woodman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Trying to create OS/2-Bootable 5.25" Diskette
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 01:16:28 GMT
Organization: Computer Services Centre, Australian National University
NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.5.23

In article <19930123.035953.532@almaden.ibm.com> KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM (Kenneth A. Kahn) writes:

>In <roelle.727715397@uars_mag> Curtis Roelle writes:
>>Wanting to create an OS/2-bootable 5.25" 1.2MB floppy, and faced with
>>several apparent choices for accomplishing that goal, I copied the
>>following three files from os2-ftp.nmsu.edu:

>I'm afraid it can't be done.  There's just no room.  An *absolute* minimum
>system is about 1.3M of disk space.  If you have a second disk drive, you
>can get away with it by moving some files to it and then pointing to them
>in CONFIG.SYS via "B:\"; some of thse files include CMD.EXE, KEYBOARD.DCP,
>and VTBL850.DCP (I think that's really it).  

I successfully put UHPFS.DLL on B: (after extending the LIBPATH, of course).

>The next release of SE20BOOT
>will include the ability to build a 2-disk BOOT system that should allow
>you to do this automatically.

Thank heavens for that! OS/2 is _not_ going to get any smaller...

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sci240s@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Wey Jing HO)
Subject: Re: MMPM/2 and PC speaker
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 06:10:42 GMT


>In article <1993Jan17.005410.1297@yvax.byu.edu> hayesb@yvax.byu.edu writes:
>>I just installed the 2.1b and don't have any drivers for the PC speaker.  I
>>don't have any type of sound card and was wondering if sounds can be played
>>through the PC speaker in both MMPM/2 and a WIN-OS2 session.  Any help would be
>>appreciated.

	What about installing PC speaker driver fro Windows 3.1? I know this
will let you play sounds in WINOS2 (maybe!!). You can ftp the PC speaker
driver for Windows 3.1 from normal Windows ftp site such as wuarchive.wustl.edu
and monu6.cc.monash.edu.au
 

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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Inexpensive OS/2 CD-ROM Revealed
Date: 24 Jan 93 22:44:53 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <1993Jan24.185027.15542@ncsu.edu> amcandel@eos.ncsu.edu (Alex Candelaria) writes:
>	I'm not sure about OS/2, but to do Windoze Multimedia, doesn't it
>require a CD-ROM with a access time of less than 500ms?  While the price of 
>the drive you mention is quite attractive, it has a 650ms access time, which
>may cause trouble down the multimedia road... :)

I believe the MPC specification says that the data transfer rate must
be 150K/second (which this drive provides).  I don't think MPC is
particularly rigid about the access time.  This drive is about
average.  Some drives are as slow as 1000ms average access; the high
end Texels are now down around 250ms average access.

I am suggesting that this NEC CDR-25 is attractive if price is a
concern.  If speed is a concern, then I recommend getting the Toshiba
CD-ROM drive offered in conjunction with the OS/2 Professional
Developer's Kit.  Those drives start at $400 with a 350ms average
access.  The external, Kodak Photo CD compatible drive (with 300K/sec
double spin) is $500.  These prices are far below the street prices
for comparable or equivalent drives, as far as I can tell.

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From: Michael.Nelson@f20.n125.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 Wish List
X-Sender: newtout 0.07 Jan 18 1993
Date: 26 Jan 93  10:13:08

Monday January 25 1993 09:11, Jeff Urlwin wrote to All:

JU-> This is especially a pain with the TCP/IP package and running a lot of
JU-> the options...they all run from separate command shells.  What a pain.

JU-> I don't see a solution for this, except to give them all a rudimentary
JU-> pm interface, so that they can respond to the shutdown themselves.

    One solution is to change the TCPSTART.CMD file so that those daemons that 
can run detached are started with DETACH rather than START.  For instance,
PORTMAPPER and SENDMAIL run just fine detached, and detached apps don't show
up in the task list.  If they aren't in the task list, OS/2 doesn't ask you if 
you want to shut them down when you do a shutdown.  It can make the whole
thing alot cleaner during boot, too, since you don't have to watch them open
and then minimize the windows manually.

    Note: some of the daemons don't work right when detached... TELNETD and
FTPD come to mind.

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From: me90plb@brunel.ac.uk (Paul L Barnfather)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: MMPM/2 and SB
Date: 23 Jan 93 10:53:06 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
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Pat Gleason (pgleason@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM) wrote:
: In <1993Jan20.095750.25675@unlv.edu> slumos@unlv.edu (Steve Lumos) writes:

: >out is that when they said that I needed the 2.0 DSP to get *full*
: >functionality, I assume that they mean that without the 2.0 DSP I can
: >get *some* functionality (which I can't).

: I am glad to see someone else read that paragraph the same way I did.

Well I've got a soundblaster 2.0 with version 2.01 DSP, and I can't get
MMPM/2 to work either. I don't see any error messages (or anything) when (if)
the device driver loads, but when I try to play a .WAV file, I get the 
message that 'Digitised Sound channel could not be opened, contact IBM etc..'

BTW, the SB is on IRQ5, my LPT1 is on IRQ7 and I don't have LPT2.

Any ideas ??

Paul.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: rm113@cus.cam.ac.uk (R. Moss-Eccardt)
Subject: Re: HELP! OS/2 no-go after board upgrade
Organization: U of Cambridge, England
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 11:08:52 GMT

In article <jcmorris.728152342@mwunix> jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris) writes:
>rm113@cus.cam.ac.uk (R. Moss-Eccardt) writes:
>
>>To be rather pedantic, it doesn't just mean 'bad RAM'.  We get TRAP 0002s
>>on PS/2 70-121s because they have a slightly older processor module.  IBM
>>have an Engineering Change available for such machines.  
>
>Can you tell us how to identify the 70-121 units which are in need of the
>EC?  I'm running an evaluation of OS/2 using a -121, although most of its
>use is under DOS (via dual boot).  I haven't run into a 0002 and would
>prefer to avoid it if possible.
>
>(I don't even know the vintage of the motherboard.  The box got a new
>(or more properly, refurbished) system board a few years ago after
>the onboard async adapter died.)
>
>Joe Morris

I can't quite lay my hand on the bit of paper I got from the Support Centre.
It was part of an IBM internal document that is a complete 'how to diagnose
TRAP errors' guide.  It lists all sorts of part numbers that can cause 
problems, not just 70s, but 55s and others.  It also refers to a program you
can run to isolate bad SIMMs.   
However, the particular EC fixes TRAPs at cold-start.  If your machine boots 
cleanly, then you don't have the problem.

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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Possible to install OS/2-2.1 beta from second hard drive?
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:31:16 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.194506.8500@cobber.cord.edu> covey@cobber.cord.edu (Mark Covey) writes:
>Greetings.
>I've seen some discussion of installing the OS/2-2.1 beta directly from
>its CDROM distribution media without making the 20+ disks.  One has to
>make the first 2 installation disks and then through some machinations 
>can get the rest of the dope from the CDROM.
>I've ftp'd a copy of the beta and have downloaded the zipped files to my
>second harddrive.  My question is this:  Can I install this downloaded 
>beta from my second harddrive to my first HD without making the 20+
>installation disks?  If so, how?
>The drives in question are IDE's controlled by a single interface, BTW.

No.  Not using the diskette images files.  (If you had the entire
contents of the CD-ROM, you could.)

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From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
Subject: Re: How do you get OS/2 PAS-16 drivers to work?
Reply-To: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
Organization: Columbia University, New York
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 20:48:52 GMT

Use selective install to add 0 M/Audio adapters :-)

In article <1993Jan28.090547.11042@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> quan@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Tony Quan) writes:
>
>Hi!  I've installed MMPM/2 under the OS/2 2.1 beta but I can't
>figure out how to get the beta PAS-16 drivers to work.  I followed
>the instructions in the readme but all of the MMPM/2 devices still
>complain that there's no MIDI or digital audio device on the system.
>What's the problem?  Am I missing something really obvious?
>
>--Tony
>quan@cs.stanford.edu
>
>


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