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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: ATI VGAWONDER XL MOUSE PROBLEM
Date: 19 Nov 92 20:53:46 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Nov17.025147.23320@vlsi.polymtl.ca> fn@junior.mathtok.polymtl.ca (Francois Normant) writes:
>Hi,
>
>I have an ATI VGAWONDER XL 1MB card and I am trying to configure
>OS/2 2.0 to use it. Here is my question: What kind of mouse is it ?
>
>I have tried Inport and Serial but with no success.

As far as I know, you use "bus mouse" and use VSETUP to ensure that it
is set to IRQ-2.

>By the way, where can I find real drivers for this card (not only
>256 colors).

ATI has some OS/2 1.3 drivers that won't work with the service pack
(boo!).  I think Joel Armengaud has a pair of drivers for 1024x768x256
and for 800x600x256.  There is also a "generic" 800x600x16 driver
available.


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From: ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: The SP, Diamond SpeedStar (ET4000), and Higher Resolutions
Date: 17 Nov 92 12:32:28 GMT
 <1992Nov16.200038.10142@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: Forschungszentrum Juelich

In article <1992Nov16.200038.10142@leland.Stanford.EDU>,
heinrich@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mark Andrew Heinrich) says:
>
>IBM??? Please fix the svga.exe program.  I think a better svga.exe program
>will solve many of OS/2 2.0's SVGA problems.
>
And I bet with a better SVGA program it would be possible to run hires with
an ET3000 video too. As I understood SVGA.PMI is also nessesary to switch
between 640x480x16 desktop and hires DOS graphics. Well, while I can't do
SVGA ON, I can use hires DOS graphics and never had any problem getting back
and forth from hires DOS to OS/2 desktop.

Michael Bode.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: adamsm@woods.ulowell.edu
Subject: RUNNING OS2 unz50x32.exe IN OS2? HELP!
Organization: University of Lowell
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:35:15 GMT

I've just discovered all those great ftp sites for os2 applications, no
trouble getting the zips to my home machine but can't run unz50x32.exe
from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu under os2.  I understand that this must be a os2
application but when I copy it to my drive and migrate it, os2 insists that
it is a dos program, resulting in a horrible crash when I try to run it.
I've tried all sorts of ways to get os2 to recognize it as a os2 native
application with no luck.  These ftp zip files don't seem to be compatible with
dos pkunzip, how can I get this os2 unzip to work or where can I get one that
will do the job?  Help, have lots of good os2 apps but no way to get to them?!
  
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: SVGA installed ??
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:52:50 GMT

In article <1992Nov18.100847.29337@nuscc.nus.sg> eng30087@nusunix1.nus.sg (Seah Kwang Leng) writes:
>If the primary display in the selective install menu shows a SVGA
>display, does it mean that I can run the PM in SVGA ? Currently the
>PM is in VGA. I can't seem to find any way to switch to SVGA.
>The help talks about a SCREEN TAB under SYSTEM in the SYSTEM SETUP
>folder in the OS/2 SYSTEM folder. I don't have this SCREEN tab which I
>am supposed to use to change the resolution.
>BTW, I have managed to run DOS SVGA programs in full screen. My display
>adaptor is an old trident card.

Get ahold of the Trident driver of your choice, available via
anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.

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From: acm@acm.Berkeley.EDU (Art McKinney)
Subject: OS2 Redbooks - where are they?
Reply-To: ingr!b11!acm!acm
Organization: Intergraph Corportation
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:21:20 GMT

I was poking around on one of the archive sites and I saw that they
had what appeared to be some redbooks.  Since I didn't have much time,
in my haste, I forgot to write down where they were.  Does anyone
know from where I can ftp them and which directory they would be
under.  I don't know if there is more than one set of redbooks, but
I am specifically interested in the ones for OS2 2.0.
I looked in the faq (rev G), and it told how to order them from IBM, 
but I didn't see anything on how to download them.  I would much 
rather download them and have them online (saves trees).

Thanks,

Art

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mortenk@dhhalden.no (MORTEN KNUDSEN)
Subject: Re: More bugs
Organization: Ostfold College
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:13:47 GMT

In article <1992Nov21.205951.18557@ugle.unit.no> nareid@due.unit.no (Helge Nareid) writes:
>From: nareid@due.unit.no (Helge Nareid)
>Subject: Re: More bugs
>Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 20:59:51 GMT
>In article <1992Nov19.182139.27450@midway.uchicago.edu>, sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
>|> In article <mortenk.74.721866775@dhhalden.no> mortenk@dhhalden.no (MORTEN KNUDSEN) writes:
>|> >Here are a couple of more bugs I have experienced with OS/2+CSD :
>|> >[Some omitted.]
>
>|> >	- I still can't get norwegian characters in full screen dos & os/2.
>|> >Works ok in a VDM.
>|> 
>|> Do you have the CODEPAGE line in your CONFIG.SYS set properly?
>
>I've got the same problem om my work machine - Tseng video card in 1024x768x256 mode
>but not on my home machine (standard VGA). Both machines are running (UK?) English
>OS/2 with ServicePack installed and use codepage 865 (and yes - my CODEPAGE settings
>are correct on both machines). The problem is a variation on the "cent-yen"-problem
>which is so well-known to all Norwegian PC users. The norwegian character "O-slash"
>occupies the same spaces in the 865 (Danish/Norwegian) codepage as the cent and yen
>symbols in the 437 (USA) codepage. After the service pack was installed, we get 
>"cent-yen" in the full-screen sessions but normal behaviour in the windowed
>sessions.
I got it worked around in full-screen dos by using third party keyboard 
drivers (for dos). Still hav'nt fixed this in full-screen OS/2, though. 
I've tried both codepage 865 and 850.
>
>|> Timothy F. Sipples      | Read the OS/2 FAQ List 2.0g, available from
>
>- Helge Nareid
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: swapfile fix-- how, where?
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:41:15 GMT

In article <Bxq9wB.M1G@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> madenner@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (mark andrew denner) writes:
>	I was talking with an IBM rep the other day, and i mentioned
>that i'd bought a copy of OS/2 a while back (right when it came out) and
>that i'd stopped using os/2, even though i like it a lot, because i had
>a rather small hard drive, and i'd had problems with the swapfile
>growing to take up the whole drive, causing performance problems and
>even crashing os/2 on occasion.  he told me that that problem had been
>fixed, but didn't know where i could get the fix.  i really liked os/2,
>but had been planning on shelving the os until i could afford a larger
>hard drive.  is the fix to this problem in the CSD, or is it available
>by ftp or what?  i really liked os/2 and kept up with this info for a
>long time, but have gotten out of touch with this newsgroup (which has
>blossomed into several newsgroups in my absence).  anyone directing me
>to a solution to this problem would be showered with thanks.  

The fix is available both in the Service Pak and via anonymous ftp
from software.watson.ibm.com for GA (XR02000).

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr)
Subject: Re: TE/2 vt100 emulation problem
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, OH
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:04:56 GMT

In article <1992Nov16.014807.1726@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> kbass@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Ken Bass) writes:
}In article <9309@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> djbpitt+@pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum) writes:
}>[Problem with TE/2 VT100 emulation & vi]:

}>The specifics are that parts of the screen are often (but not always)
}>blacked out as I move across them (either with cursor movement or when
}>entering text). [Etc...  Ctl-L repaint produces "correct" display].

}>I have "redraw" set in vi and I can't find any other settings to
}>twiddle. The mainframe I'm talking to is running Ultrix 4.2. I'm using
}>the vt100-nam termcap setting. I can't prove that the problem is with
}>vi, rather than with the termcap settings in general.

}[Problem also occurs with Telix].

Suggest:

Probably need to fix your config settings.  I've been using TE/2 also, 
but I can't remember the settings names, so you'll have to interpolate 
from a description.

Your problem(s) are probably due to having backspace set to "destructive"
(i.e., backspace character erases the character.  "Real" VT100's don't do
destructive backspace.  There, a backspace character merely moves the
cursor backward one character position, but does not otherwise change the
display (i.e., "nondestructive" backspace).

I expect that your backspace type is set to destructive and you want non-
destructive.  Vi uses backspace a lot for positioning the cursor, so
running it with destructive backspace on will hammer your onscreen display
pretty badly.

The same applies to Telix

Larry

P.S. The termcap entry does distinguish between destructive and non-
     destructive backspace, but nondestructive IS the appropriate
     setting for vt100.

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From: frank@cs.yorku.ca (Frank Pikelner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Repost, I need help with a boot error
Date: 19 Nov 92 15:43:08 GMT
Article-I.D.: yetti.1564
Distribution: world
Organization: York University, Dept. of Computer Science


Well, so far no luck. I'm hoping someone will reply this time.

I need help, or at least a hint, why when I boot up OS/2 I get an ERROR:

-
1201: The device driver "G:\OS2\MDOS\VSVGA.SYS" specified in the
DEVICE command on line 60 of the CONFIG.SYS file was not installed. Ignored.
-

I looked in the directory and the file is there. I tried changing the position
this line in the config.sys file - no luck. I need a hint (help), where to find
the answer, is it so obvious that no one has replied? Then just email me, and
tell me I'm dumb, but email me at least.

Thanks,

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From: dan@ni.umd.edu (Dan Burns)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Seamless Windows with ET4000 & CSD
Date: 17 Nov 1992 08:14:12 -0500
Organization: University of Maryland College Park
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: ni.umd.edu



Do the new ET4000 drivers that come with the CSD provide seamless windows,
or just higher resolutions than 640x480?

--Dan
From: kjb@calmasd.prime.com (Ken Brucker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS2SYS.INI file keeps growing to > 5 MB
Date: 16 Nov 92 18:29:05 GMT
Organization: Computervision, San Diego CA

In article <9604@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>, djbpitt+@pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum) writes:
> To continue the "my os2sys.ini file is bigger than your os2sys.ini file"
> competition, mine had grown to 11MB before I caught it! Someone reported
> on the net that the screen saver Deskpic, which I was running, is the
> culprit. 

I'm also using Deskpic but I haven't seen the file size growth on my system. 
There must be something else going on here....Deskpic may just be bringing the
problem out into the open in certain situations.

Ken

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: rscott@csws6.ic.sunysb.edu (Robert Scott)
Subject: Problems with screen redraw
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 01:35:58 GMT

Article 38372 of comp.os.os2.misc:
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: rscott@csws17.ic.sunysb.edu (Robert Scott)
Subject: Problems with OS/2
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.misc
Summary: Need help with OS/2 problems
Keywords: lockup
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
Distribution: The known universe
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 22:18:38 GMT

I've been having this problem with os/2 ever since I had it.  Lately it has
gotten much worse so I've decided to ask for help.

Basically, whenever I switch from a dos session to the wps, the screen will
start to redraw itself but then stop midway.  Usually the top of the screen
will remain undrawn.  At this point the mouse works, downloads continue, 
but I can't do anything.  Ctrl-ESC and Alt-ESC flush some buffers but thats
about it.  

Two days ago, I had a pretty bad crash with the system just rebooting on me.
I then had to do a CTRL-ALT-F1 to rebuild my desktop.  Since then I have had
the screen lockup about once every hour.  NO FUN.

Now the system had been working pretty well for the last couple of months.
I suspect the problem may lie in my SVGA driver.  (Its the one I got from
cardinal technologies and is the converted 1.3 version.)  I am using
1024x768 @ 256 colors.  Chkdsk reveals nothing on any  of my drives.

Any suggestions?

---ralph



Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: janovetz@ehsn21.cen.uiuc.edu (Jacob W Janovetz)
Subject: Re: 256 colors on backround
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 01:04:17 GMT

bauhaus@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Amod Ashok Patwardhan) writes:


>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.

  I may know a solution for this.  I've tried to unzip several things with the
unzipper on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, but they don't work with the stuff I've zipped.
I use PK-UNZIP 1.93 beta.  This works great and gives better compression on
average than LZH.  It may have some new fancy compression in it that the 
OS/2 unzipper doesn't recognize.   (oh, I don't know the exact version on the
PK-ZIP program)  I have it, but I don't know how to u/l to ftp-os2.  Are we
allowed to just 'put pkunzip.exe' or what?  Let me know if I helped, etc.

       /
    / * /   Jake Janovetz
   *   *

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jlu@cs.umr.edu ( Eric Jui-Lin Lu )
Subject: Looking for WYSIWYG word processor which can import/export TeX file
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 21:23:09 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Rolla
Originator: jlu@mcs213c.cs.umr.edu


The subject says it all.  I prefer OS/2 version, but win/dos version are
also acceptable.  I was told AmiPro do a pretty good job in this subject.
Any comment?  Thanks!


  --Eric
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: Brandon.Vanevery@launchpad.unc.edu (Brandon Vanevery)
Subject: ANY way to do 24-bit graphics in OS/2 2.0?
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:25:26 GMT


I know of no method to do 24-bit graphics in OS/2 2.0.  I'll take any
suggestions, including writing drivers and running DOS/Windows tasks.
Anyone know if any company EVER plans to release an OS/2 24-bit driver?

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: clagett@ms.uky.edu (Bill Clagett)
Subject: A neophyte asks:  Can you get rid of Windows?
Summary: Weiner dogs make bad pizza
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 20:21:04 GMT
Organization: Big, Dangerous Ideas, Inc.

I don't have OS/2, but am interested in buying a machine with a real
operating system.  OS/2 may fit the bill.  Unfortunately, most
information on OS/2 tells me interesting things like that the PM uses
the EM20 to do WP4S, hence YWP and VIW88 never UJF, so just wait for
KJDI, unless you can get KUQQ.  Evidently you have to know about OS/2
to find out about OS/2...  But that's not the point.  The point
is...uhh...oh yeah:

I don't know how OS/2 runs Windows programs.  I don't really care
either.  If you are not interested in Windows, can the
emulation/whatever be removed.  How much diskspace does this save?

Bill
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: quan@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Tony Quan)
Subject: TRAP D under Service Pack WIN-OS/2
Originator: quan@Xenon.Stanford.EDU
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 22:15:49 GMT


Hi!  I've got a problem with running WIN-OS/2 under the new Service
Pack.  I get very frequent TRAP 000D error messages when trying
to run WIN-OS/2 full screen.  The trap always occurs right before
the WIN-OS/2 Program Manager is about to appear on screen.  I'm running
OS/2 on a Gateway 2000 386/33 with 12 MB of RAM and a Trident video card.
The problem occurs whether I used the Trident video drivers or the
standard VGA drivers that come with OS/2, so the problem doesn't seem
to be related to that.  Also, I know that traps are frequently caused
by bad memory, so I've tried swapping out the memory and the traps
still occur.  I didn't have this problem before installing the Service
Pack, so I'm guessing the problem is software related.  Any clues?

I'd appreciate e-mail replies.  This group is huge!

--Tony Quan
quan@cs.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: kaul@bcrvm1.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: XGA and 640x480x65536
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 20:49:50 GMT
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.15 by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Reply-To: kaul@bcrvm1.vnet.ibm.com
Organization: IBM T. J. Watson Research

In <1992Nov17.170031.12531@ifi.unizh.ch> erzberg@ifi.unizh.ch (Martin Erzberger) writes:
>... The announcement
>of the XGA-2 card tells something about OS/2 supporting
>640x480x16 bit colors. Is there yet another driver to be released
>yet?

No, the drivers for XGA and XGA-2 are the same.

> Maybe this mode is only supported with the XGA-2?

That 64k color mode is available only on the XGA-2.  There are some 
internal differences that make support on XGA unfeasible.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: 11458747@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (CHRISTIAN WILSON)
Subject: Re: Pause in loading  OS/2
Keywords: os2, bug
Organization: Faculty of Engineering, Monash University 
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 05:35:39 GMT

>In article <1992Nov12.225819.20137@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>>In article <1dol06INNo65@crcnis1.unl.edu> pickrell@hoss.unl.edu (Andrew Pickrell) writes:
>>>Sometime in the last couple of weeks, a pause has developed in the loading
>>>of OS/2.  After the title screen with the GA text comes up, the computer
>>>waits about 10 seconds before hitting the harddrive again.
>>>Does anyone know the reason behind this or better yet, a solution???
>>
>>Good question.  Perhaps the hard drive needs to be defragmented.  This
>>pause would perhaps indicate some delay in finding the initial system
>>files (kernel, etc).  Have you replaced the kernel recently, or
>
>I don't think that's it...if it was fragmented then it would grind away 
>at the hard drive during that time.  A pause would indicate something else
>was going on...

Watch the DTR lights of your modem. Mine os/2 seems to check it at this 
time. THus the other comm ports too.

Christian.
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From: jdsmith@novell.com (Doug Smith)
Subject: Trident 9000 Problems
Organization: Novell NPD
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 20:50:01 GMT

I installed the Trident 9000 800x600-16 seamless drivers yesterday.  OS/2 
came up fine in the correct mode.  However, seamless windows doesn't seem to 
work.  When I launch a windows app that is set up to run in a window, 
everything crashes hard.  I can't even use ctrl-alt-del to reboot.

Any help would be appreciated.

Doug Smith
Novell NPD
jdsmith@novell.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: ericwolf@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Eric Wolf)
Subject: SP and video support
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 23:51:59 GMT

I am looking to buy a new video card to use with OS/2.  I would like to get
a card that already has driver support included with the SP...

Now, I was going to get a Tsent ET4000 but since the availability on that
card has been reduced to near zero, I am looking for a different card
to purchase...  Any suggestions?

I would like it to support 1024x768x16, at least.  256 colors would be nice
but I would like decent speed out of it.  Any suggestions on what other cards
are directly supported by the OS/2 SP that might work.

Thanks a lot to anyone who can help me out!

- Eric
  ericwolf@mentor.cc.purdue.edu