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From: mikel@networx.com (Mike Lempriere)
Subject: Re: New TSENG 4000 drivers: non-interlaced/70Hz?
Organization: NetWorx
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Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 21:22:13 GMT


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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Missing Lockup/Shutdown options
Date: 20 Nov 92 21:05:59 GMT
Reply-To: jxm3035@hertz.njit.edu
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

I am posting this for a friend (note the Reply-To line above).

He has a generic 486/33 computer with Tseng 1024x768x256 video.  He
has installed GA and the SP and the Tseng drivers.  One day, after
some version of WPSBACKUP crashed, the Shutdown and Lockup options
disappeared from the system menu.

We looked all over the Desktop file's extended attributes and in the
OS2.INI file, but could find no reference to the entries.  We found
that the user-defined menu items were in the EA's, but the Lockup and
Shutdown entries are probably pointers into a DLL file somewhere, so
we couldn't figure out what to replace.

Anyhow, rebuilding the desktop (delete the desktop file, os2.ini and
os2sys.ini and rebuild them from ini.rc and inisys.rc and wait for the
desktop to rebuild after a reboot) brought the menu items back.

Has anyone figured out a better way to do this?

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From: jst50986@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jack S. Tan)
Subject: Re: OS/2 loses sync after going to fullscreen mode
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 07:38:27 GMT

ifai645@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Paul C. Janzen) writes:


> I used to have a Northgate 386/20 motherboard with Zymos SVGA circuitry
> built on the motherboard. Now I have a shiny new 486/50 motherboard,
> and I got a Cardinal 700 1M (ET-4000) SVGA card to go with it.
> This runs my NEC Multisync 2A (variable-frequency) monitor. 
> 
> My problem is that somehow, OS/2 is confusing my video card. When 
> I first go into either a DOS or OS/2 fullscreen session, the monitor
> loses sync. When I return to the WPS, sync is not restored. (But until
> I go into a full screen session, everything is fine.)
> 
> I can run 'vmode' blindly, but nothing I do seems to work. Furthermore,
> when I do a shutdown / C-A-D (also blindly), and boot raw DOS, the 
> monitor is still confused. Vmode does no good here, either. Only a 
> reset-button or bws fixes the problem.
>
> I haven't run svga, and my config.sys has no mention of Svga. I have
> also run selective install, to just as little avail. So it can't be 
> the need for a new VSVGA.SYS mentioned in the os2tnt.doc. 
> 
> I have read the FAQ and the README, but nothing seems to apply to 
> my situation.
> 
> Thanks....
> 

Are you trying to run in SVGA mode (i.e., something above standard VGA)?
I had the same problem for awhile (navigating the WPS with out-of-sync
video is fun!).  I was running in 1024x768x256 (or trying to) on an
ET4000 card.  I had to boot native DOS (reset switch), set my video modes
from there, and create a new SVGADATA.PMI file using 'SVGA ON.'  Replacing
this file over the old one in \OS2 did the trick.

It seems that VMODE under OS/2 does not run the same as under native DOS.
(Possibly due to the way OS/2 handles the video.)  Trying to set a custom
monitor under OS/2 didn't work for me; the same settings came in clearly
under DOS.

-- 

Jack Tan                                     Sattinger's Law:
jahk@uiuc.edu                       It works better if you plug it in.
From: msmith@netcom.com (Martin P. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Plus Hardcard problem after SP
Date: 19 Nov 92 02:21:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.1992Nov19.022109.12260
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <Gary.Woodman.857.722047327@anu.edu.au> Gary.Woodman@anu.edu.au (Gary Woodman) writes:
>I was pretty pleased to receive the latest Hardcard driver a couple of 
>months ago, and merrily set to filling it up, with the swapfile amongst 
>other things.
>
>After installing the service pack, the Hardcard does something seriously 
>upsetting to OS/2 - which works fine with or without the most recent driver. 
>When the driver is loaded but the Hardcard is not installed, the driver 
>realizes, explains, and prompts me to carry on. All well and good.
>
>But when I install the Hardcard, _whether or not I use the driver_, OS/2 
>bombs out in a big way with "cannot find C:\OS2\COUNTRY.SYS"!
>
>I've tried again and again, and I've tried the INT13 driver, apparently 
>without effect. 
>
>Any suggestions as to what to try next?
>
>Environment:
>Hawk (clone) 486SX-33
>MR BIOS
>6Mb RAM (but the m/b only sees 4 :-()
>Seagate ST3144 (130Mb IDE)
>generic I/O
>Logitech bus mouse
>Trident TR8900C 1Mb
>NEC 1.4Mb floppy
>Plus Hardcard 80 II (sometimes :-()
>OS/2 2.0 GA (kernel and VBIOS fixes)+SP
>Trident 800*600*256 virtual desktop driver
>Deskpic (hey! the aquarium works!)
>Pulse
>etc etc etc...
>
>--
>Gary.Woodman@anu.edu.au         This post made from 100% recycled electrons.

You need to replace the file IBM1s506.add on disk one or two of the SP with
the version from the GA release. There is a problem with the new driver and 
hardcards. Quantum are aware of the problem and are producing their own .ADD 
file for the hardcard. 

MArtin Smith
msmith@netcom.com
From: alcorn@ces.cwru.edu (Justin Alcorn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: How do I unfragment my HD?
Date: 20 Nov 1992 21:22:24 GMT
Organization: Computer Engineering and Science, Case Western Reserve University
NNTP-Posting-Host: george.ces.cwru.edu

In article <1992Nov19.225117.5440@nmt.edu> mystical@nmt.edu (Gurupartap Davis) writes:
>
>>>> I understand that using utilities like Norton's SpeedDisk are a no-no
>> > under OS/2, but can they be used if I DualBoot DOS?  
>>
>>That's what I have been doing all the time.
>
>I tried this once, and when I rebooted under OS/2 many of my icons had been
>screwed up.  All of the OS/2 applets now have a generic "OS/2 Window" Icon.
>Isn't there an OS/2 util that can defragment the HD?

Under 1.2 and 1.3, I would boot to DOS and tell SpeedDisk to ignore any file
that began with ea* .  That worked fine.  I have NOT tried this under 2.0!

Actually, a couple times, I told it to put ea* first - I think it worked,
but i'd be VERY skittish about this one....


"Darn These Computers, They're so Naughty and Complicated!"

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From: rbotimer@max.ct.gmr.com (R Douglas Botimer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Moving "OS!2 2.0 Desktop" ?
Date: 23 Nov 92 22:06:51 GMT

In article <1992Nov23.195422.11563@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu  
(Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
:In article <Mf3y0H600iUxI2dlJ3@andrew.cmu.edu> Carl B Jabido  
<cj00+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
:>Is it possible to move the Desktop to another partition?  I partitioned
:>my drive as follows: 40 meg system, 60 meg user, 20 meg swap file.  This
:>left me with very little space on the Desktop.  I wanted to move this to
:>my 60 meg User partition where I have 20 megs free still.  Is this
:>possible?
:
:In a word, no.  At least I haven't figured out how to do it yet, nor
:have I heard of anyone who has.
:

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Actually it is very easy to move the Desktop to another partition (per the
Red Books).  Just open up the appropriate drive and drag the Desktop to the
partition where you want it.  There is a caveat - some programs may look
for the Desktop on the same partition as the rest of OS/2 (e.g. WPSBAK).

By moving my Desktop to another partition and backing up the OS2*.INI files, I
was able to reformat my system partition, install the Beta and then restore the
Desktop with all my customization intact.  NOT recommended - it is not  
guaranteed to work.

Doug
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From: gogol@diku.dk (Peter Skov Knudsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: 256 Colors in WPS
Date: 20 Nov 92 13:34:54 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

vohwi-d@acsu.buffalo.edu (David A. Vohwinkel) writes:

>I hope this question hasn't been asked a million times...... but I'll ask it 
>anyways....

>	Is there a way to get 256 colors as a background in the WPS... I have
>installed the latest service pack( I ordered it from IBM), I have run dspinstl,
>and loaded the TSENG SVGA drivers in 1024 x 768 x 256  and the 640 x 480 x 256
>and rebooted... Then typed svga on in both the dos full screen and os2 full 
>screen and no go. What I want to do is have a SVGA .Gif picture converted
>to .BMP mode and displayed on the screen as a background in the Work Place
>Shell. I used gif2bmp, and the latest vpic to do the conversions. I can view
>the .bmp in 256 colors using vpic but when I put it as the background it only
>comes up in 16 colors!!!!!  Is there a program out there that will fix this.
>Or did I do something wrong...... 

>			Thanks 

>				Dave V

1) You tell, that you have used dspinstl to install the hires Tseng drivers.
This is a bad mistake. You should ALWAYS use selective install to install
a new display driver. Its possible to install a display driver with dspinstl,
but it wont make all the neccesary changes to your system. For one thing,
you wont get the proper fonts installed - just have a look at the ugly font
used for the tabs on a notebook. More seriously, dspinstl will sometimes
give you a highly unstable system - I guess that it doesnt replace all the
files. But all is not lost. You should use selective install to install the
plain vanilla VGA drivers (which will fix up the mess you've made. Then reboot
and once again use selective install to install the required drivers, and
all will be fine. It may seem a bit strange, why IBM has included the dspinstl
program, when as a matter of fact you should NEVER use it. But whatever the
reason is, the dspinstl program is NOT DOCUMENTED and IBM has never mentioned
it, which should give you a fair warning against using it. The README file
for the CSD specificly says, that you should use selective install to 
install new graphic drivers!

2) If youve installed the TSENG drivers from the CSD, you will most definately
have a 256 color display (since all the TSENG drivers from the CSD are
256 color drivers). The catch is, that the palette management in these drivers
isnt as good as one could hope for. This means that most 256 color bitmaps
will look strange when used as a background. There are two "workarounds"
for this: Find a bitmap whose pallete closely matches the one tha OS/2 uses,
or convert your bitmap to greytones. It seems that the OS/2 pallete includes
all the 64 greytones that can be generated, so B/W bitmaps look just fine.
The problem with Windows programs messing up the pallette, is due to OS/2
allowing Windows programs to play around with the pallette. I dont think,
that theres any workaround for this.

Regards

Peter Skov Knudsen, email gogol@diku.dk
Computer science student, University of Copenhagen
From: bauhaus@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Amod Ashok Patwardhan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: re: 256 colors on backround
Date: 21 Nov 92 19:35:12 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucscb.ucsc.edu


Major bummer. Have been following the conversation re: 256 colors. Tried to
get ahold of the "bga" pictures from software.watson.etc. What kind of .zip 
format are they in ? every unzipper I can get from ftp-os2.nmsu.etc cannot
make heads or tails of them. Note that other .zips from the same directory (!)
are ok. Can someone reference me to an unzipper that will do it ?

                                               [sam]

PS -> IBM

The new drivers for tseng are cool. No finish the damm job and get the colors
to work.
From: djbpitt+@pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: software for Zyxel Fax Modem under OS/2?
Date: 17 Nov 92 17:22:11 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

My Zyxel 1496E came with Zfax, a DOS fax program. Is anyone using this
with OS/2? Are there any special considerations for OS/2 use? Finally,
are there shareware OS/2 fax programs that will work with the Zyxel. I
checked tinf30, which lists several OS/2 fax programs, but there are
none you can try before buying.

Thanks,

David
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From: sal8@po.cwru.edu (Steve Luzynski)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Help on OS/2 with network
Summary: EtherLink 3c503, PC-NFS, OS/2 2.0
Date: 19 Nov 92 20:58:53 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University
NNTP-Posting-Host: b61442.student.cwru.edu

In article <2120@hsdndev.UUCP> nhvim@gauss.med.harvard.edu (Victor Mo ) writes:
>From: nhvim@gauss.med.harvard.edu (Victor Mo )
>Subject: Help on OS/2 with network
>Summary: EtherLink 3c503, PC-NFS, OS/2 2.0
>Date: 17 Nov 92 13:29:10 GMT
>I just installed a copy of OS/2 2.0 standard version on my 486 AT.
>It works fine with my 16MB memory. This mechine is networked to SUN
>through EtherLink 3c503. How can I get OS2 work with my network?
>Do I need some kind new network drivers? Do I need a new copy of
>PC-NFS?
>

It will work just fine with your old DOS net software. The rub there is that 
only the DOS session you start the software from will be able to access the 
network drives.

A better solution would be to buy either IBM's TCPIP or FTP's TCPIP package. 
I'm pretty sure you can get NFS support with both of them.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: ltlowe@bnr.ca (Todd Lowe)
Subject: Question about Boot Manager
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 22:42:38 GMT


I have just started useing OS/2, and am using the dualboot method.
My hard disk is completely FAT and only a single partition.  I plan to get
a second drive and put HPFS and OS/2 on it and keep my DOS stuff on the
first drive.

I don't currently know much about the boot manager, but I'd like to
know if I'll be able to install it with out having to reformat/partition
my current DOS drive?  I've got a lot on it and do not want to have to
backup/restore everything (~150 Meg) just so I can add the boot manager.

-Todd

ltlowe@bnr.ca

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: borger@gremlin.muug.mb.ca (James Borger)
Subject: Help installing READIBM.EXE
Organization: The Haunted Unix Box
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:55:24 GMT


I'm having a very very hard time with the PDK CD ROM I ordered from IBM.

I don't have a CD ROM drive so I have to keep running to a DOS machine
that has one and copying the files over!  ARGH!  I'm trying to get the
READIBM.EXE program going but every time I launch it says there aren't
BOOKS and BOOKSHELVES paths in config.sys, so I added them, rebooted and
it still gives the same error!  What do I have to do to install this
thing?  I got the DOS version running, at least that one has enough sense
to let you into the program so you can enter your own path!!!!

Also, how on earth do I add paths to the DOS emulation windows?  I see it
has a few remnents of my old DOS path but I can't figure where to add the
rest!  I've been all over the online help and nowhere can I see where it
says to edit the PATH statement used in DOS emulation!

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!!!!


Xref: sparky comp.os.os2.misc:37192 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:30461
From: leo@hoss.unl.edu (Leo Chouinard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: My Deskjet 500 is on LSD
Date: 20 Nov 1992 19:21:47 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Distribution: world
Reply-To: leo@hoss.unl.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: hoss.unl.edu
Keywords: paper paper

In <1992Nov20.025139.23772@u.washington.edu> rene@hardy.u.washington.edu (Rene Magritte) writes:

>Being the paragon of environmental consciousness, I am quite disturbed
>by my Deskjet 500's little habit of blessing me with an extra page
>every time I print something from a windows or Win/os2 session.  WHat
>gives?  How do I fix this little present dispenser?

When I installed the new DeskJet 500 driver available on 
software.watson.ibm.com (and presumably also on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu by now)
as my default printer, the problem went away for me.  
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: cambria@smaug.enet.dec.com (Michael C. Cambria)
Subject: Re: Any Gateway2000 users out there?
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 21:19:29 GMT


In article <mullins.721927625@convex.convex.com>, mullins@convex.com (Don Mullins) writes...
>ARG!!!
> 
>  I just ordered a new machine from Gateway2000, and as my luck would have
>  it, the very next day I heard a horror story about installing OS/2 on a
>  Gateway machine.
> 
>  The machine I ordered is:
>   Model 4DX-33V
>   8MB RAM, 64K Cache
>   Adaptec 1542A SCSI, with a 200MB HD
>   ATI Ultra Pro VESA Local bus, with 1MB VRAM
> 
> [Stuff deleted]  
> 
>  Is anyone else out there running OS/2 on a machine from Gateway's current
>  (apparently new) line of machines?  Is it working O.K?
> 
> [Stuff deleted]  
> 
>Thanks,
>Don
> 
>--
>---                     Don Mullins, mullins@convex.com
>----                      Convex Computer Corporation
>---                         Richardson, Texas (USA)
>--

I've had very, very few problem with my Gateway 386/33c (1 year old) 
        8MB RAM
        Diamond SpeedStar SVGA w 1MB
	120MB WD Caviar
	FD1680 SCSI controller with 520MB Fijitsu(sp) drive

I am running with BootManager.  All my OS2 partitions are HPFS.
I run OS2 GA on one primary partition ("production")
      OS2 GA+SP w/TSENG OS/2 drivers (800x600) on my test OS/2 partition

Our systems are somewhat different, but if I can help, holler.

/Mike
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Help: HPFS Problem
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 02:53:12 GMT

In article <1992Nov20.174723.15574@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> x27@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (T. Voelkering) writes:
>So it look, as if the error has been corrected. But if I try to boot or
>try to copy the OS2.INI to an other name I get:
>	The system detected an internal processing 
>	error at location ##0f00:131e - 002:131e
>	65535, 9051
>	CPS: Extend not found.			<<- WHATS that ????
>	048600b4
>	Internal revision 6.466, 92/10/15	
>The only thing I can do is to rename the OS2.INI. But if I try to make a
>new one (MAKEINI OS2.INI OS2_20.RC) and reboot all I get is a gray screen and 
>a mouse pointer :-(
>So: What can I do?  I could make backup to the network and do a 
>reinstall and restore. But dont like that.

Oh, drat.  The famous "CPS: Extent not found" error.  You're not going
to like this.

Under rather obscure conditions, OS/2's HPFS in GA has a small
problem (just as you've described).  The cure that IBM suggests,
anyway, is a full reformat, reinstall, and immediate application of
the Service Pak (which has the corrected HPFS code).  Messy, I grant
you.

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Organisation: ECP-Paris France
Date: Tuesday, 17 Nov 1992 09:23:45 EDT
From: Farzad FARID <FARID@FRECP12.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: HELP: Strange bug with window size

      I've encountered tow stranges bugs since I use OS/2 2.0. What is
is funny (it may be a coincidence) is that each of these bugs appeared after
a crash (to be more precise a lockup and not a Trap). Since then I'm stuck
with these to problems, one of them being slighlty annoying :
  - After the first crash, now all my OS/2 and DOS windowed Sessions open
 *maximised* all the time. Well this could be called a positive bug :), but
anyway I'd like to know how it happened. I suppose all the information about
window setting is stored in the .INI files, could anyone give me more
information on how to modify these settings to get my sessiosn open just
how I like them to be.
  - The second bug is more annoying : after the second crash, all these
windowed sessions not only start maximised but now they all have the
*same starting position* on the screen ! Therefore every time I must work
with multiple windows (and that's always the case :) I must move the newly
created window, eventually resize it. It's particularly annoying if one
window opens in the background without being visible at all. My request is
the same : how can I cope with this ?
    Thanks.


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