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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Diamond Speed Star+ (non-24x) driver problems.
Keywords: DRIVERS SPEED STAR WIN-OS2
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 23:19:10 GMT

In article <1992Sep1.020420.2402@athena.mit.edu> andreast@athena.mit.edu (Andreas M Turanski) writes:
>First, I HAVE read the FAQ many times and have tried all sources for many
>weeks. If anyone could help me with all/part of my problems, THANK YOU. 
>I have been running os2 & the WPS for a couple of months and have the
>1024x768 driver working for my Diamond Speed Star+ (again, non-24x). However,
>I can not find a driver to substitute for VGA.DRV for win-os2 full screen
>sessions which will work!! I have tried every driver ZIP-pack I could
>find but they all broke at some point. TWINET54.ZIP from wuarchive had 
>some drivers which worked, then got a "APPLICATION ERROR:GP Fault" in the 
>driver while running Ami pro 3.0. I also tried the drivers in SPDSTAR6.ZIP 
>but those did not work at all!

Are you using EXPAND, per the instructions in the OS/2 README file?

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Install Problem, bad noises!
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 23:55:58 GMT

In article <183jg5INNoiu@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> cxl24@po.CWRU.Edu (Charles Lind) writes:
>	OK, I got OS/2 today and went to install int.  My
>C: drive made HORRENDOUS noises, I thought all was lost.  I
>called Microwarehouse, where I bought it, the guy said it was
>probably a derfective copy of OS/2.  Could this be? 
>	I've got a 386-20 DX with 2 hard drives, bout th
>old 65 meg RLL's.

Please see the OS/2 FAQ List, or obtain the IBM patch available via
anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jtq1@ra.msstate.edu (Jim Quinlan)
Subject: Using COM3 with a UNIQUE IRQ
Organization: Mississippi State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 23:20:15 GMT

I have been trying for the past month to get my COM3 port to work using
IRQ5.  I have configured my I/O board for COM3,IRQ5,port 3E8.  I also 
have the following lines in my CONFIG.SYS file:

DEVICE=C:\OS2\MOUSE.SYS SERIAL=COM1 
DEVICE=C:\OS2\COM.SYS (3,3E8,05,p)
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VCOM.SYS

I'm using the latest kernel patch and COM2210 drivers..

Before installing the COM2210 drivers, OS/2 never saw COM3, no matter
what I did.  The COM.SYS parameters (as per the FAQ) didn't help. 
"touching" the port didn't help.  Telix would see the port, but would
loose characters even during initialization.

With the COM2210 drivers, OS/2 sees COM3, I think.. using MODE, I
can do a "mode com3" at any prompt, and it tells me all kinds of
neat info about it.. but accessing the port with Telix (DOS) or
PMComm (OS/2) results in the session hanging while the application
tries to initialize.. (the modem ready light is light, but I can't send
characters to the port).  

The comm program that came with OS/2 2.0 (PM Terminal)responds by saying
that the port (COM3) is not available..

I have checked to make sure that nothing else is using the COM3 address
or IRQ5.. My computer has COM1 and COM2 build into the motherboard, and
COM3 is on a multi I/O card.  COM4 and LPT2 (both on I/O card) are 
both disabled until I get COM3 working.  LPT1 is also on the motherboard.

I'd appreciate any input on this.  I do know this can be done.. I just can't
figure out why it isn't working.

My System:
386DX/16, 8MB RAM, Paradise Professional (running standard VGA),
210MB IDE drive, Everex I/O card (2S, 1P) with COM3 at 3E8,IRQ5

Jim Quinlan
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: nmiller@starbase.trincoll.edu (norman miller)
Subject: OS/2 works!  Now a small problem and a small question..
Organization: Trinity College, Hartford, CT.
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 13:13:23 GMT

After the troubles I had installing OS2, I didn't think 
that all the problems would then melt away when I installed
new drivers for the Tseng chip.  Thanks to all.  OS2 is
still a bit clunky to my Desqview mind but maybe I'll 
discover new virtues.

One small problem: the screen on which I  write this is 
considerably slower than it is under Desqview.  I'm using
MS-Kermit.  Any ideas?

One small question: I think I'd prefer a vga mono screen to the
one I have, a  Samsung SyncMaster 3.  Would that be a wise move
or will OS/2 applications  require color?

Norman Miller
nmiller@vax1.trincoll.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: OS/2 1.3 and dual monitors (VGA + hercules)
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 20:27:39 GMT

In article <1992Aug31.170527.5670@fics.uucp> ekl@fics.uucp writes:
>I am trying to get a machine up and running with dual monitors. What I
>want (need) is to have both VGA and hercules installed simultaneously.
>It does not matter if the hercules monitor is not operating, and that
>os/2 only utilizes and runs on the VGA screen. I need to have the 
>monitor installed for windows debugging purposes.
>What I used to have was a VGA-only system, which worked beautifully.
>Then, when I inserted the herc-card into the system, os/2 stops booting.
>Does anyone know what I have to do? Does anyone run such a setup, and if
>they do, would they care to send me a copy of their config.sys (or tell
>me what I need to do).

You must use a true text-only MDA card (not Hercules).  Reason?
Hercules memory mapping can conflict with VGA/SuperVGA adapters, and
OS/2 is not going to let that happen.

I've seen MDA cards for around $6 here in the U.S. -- they are still
easy to get.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
From: cnadler@vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: I've seen NT......and I'll take OS/2 2.0 thanks!
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 92 01:02:45 GMT
Organization: IBM T. J. Watson Research

In  <ss-nllr.feustel@netcom.com>  feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel) writes:
> I've not figured out how to do the following two things from 32-bit
> code; perhaps you can enlighten me:
> 
> 1) do port i/o to/from my analog i/o card from C Set/2

No can do (directly) in C/Set-2 Release 1.0. Write some Assembly and set it up
in an IOPL segment.

> 
> 2) read data without echo from the keyboard from C Set/2 (getch() is
> not found by the linker when I use that function.

getch() is considered part of the "migration" libraries. Make sure you have
them installed, and set your compiler options to include the migration
support.

Cliff
NOTE: These are my words, and my words alone. IBM will disavow any knowledge
of them.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: eng30087@nusunix2.nus.sg (_)
Subject: Printing to FILE
Organization: National University of Singapore
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 15:15:08 GMT


How do I capture the output to a printer port in OS/2. I need this
as some packages do not have this print to file option.

Thanks for any help.
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Difference between DOS upgrade and full version
Date: 1 Sep 92 13:24:32 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <92244.103632CCHEW@UCF1VM.BITNET> CCHEW@UCF1VM.BITNET (Chris Chew) writes:
>In article <1992Aug31.095400.13874@actrix.gen.nz>, Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz says:
>>
>>
>>With the DOS upgrade, it gets a bit silly. If you want to re-partition
>>your disk for OS/2, you have to do it first with DOS FDISK and re-install
>>DOS.....then install OS/2 over the top.......
>>
>I don't remember having to do this. I just used the FDISK from OS/2 that
>was part of the installation process. The FDISK step was an option, and
>was necessary if boot manager was used, as far as I recall.

There's a bug in the OS/2 fdisk.  When I allowed the OS/2 program to
do the fdisk, it didn't erase the newley-partitioned volume ID's.  So
when it tried to format the new partitions as HPFS, it failed.  When I
tried to format it manually, it asked for a volume label to be typed.
After typing "DIR", I saw an untypeable volume label.

I booted DOS, and formatted the volumes from there.  Then I
re-installed, and used the install program to re-format them as HPFS.
It worked fine from there.

Note that your OS/2 "upgrade" install disks get marked once you make
your first installation with them.  Afterwards, they're just like
ordinary install disks.  You can install OS/2 onto an unformatted
system with it after this.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Just what IS Alt-F1 (was Re: Multiple Desktops....)
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 12:32:16 GMT
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange

In article <Sep02.210652.27515@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> mm459504@LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Michael Miller) writes:
> In article <60052@mimsy.umd.edu> rpfaff@umiacs.umd.edu (Ray Pfaff) writes:
> >Interesting that you should mention this.  I crashed my system all the way 
> >to having to do an Alt-F1 to bring it back yesterday (warning:  I downloaded
> >[Rest Deleted]                                                                 
> 
> 
> I've heard a number of references to this infamous Alt-F1-at-bootup sequence
> and was curious as to what it did exactly. (I've heard that it disallows
> program starts and I've also heard it erases the Svgadata.pmi file)
> 
> So what does it do?
> 
> Mike

It restores the os2.ini, os2sys.ini and config.sys files from the
C:\os2\install directory where they are put at install time, to the C:\os2
directory where they are used. The effect of this is to return the OS/2
desktop to the default.
 
The alt/cntl/f1 (performed when the clock first appears on the blank desktop
as the system comes up) prevents programs from auto-starting. This is NOT the
same at the Alt/F1 which restores the desktop to the default.
 
Steve
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Previous posts for win-os2 tweaks
From: eputnam@vax1.umkc.edu
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 19:15:45 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City

In article <1992Sep1.190025.16109@nmt.edu>, jreynold@nmt.edu (John Reynolds) writes:
> 
> -- 
> Windows...It's like a stale cookie.
> OS/2..."It's like butter" (SNL quote)

I think you mean-- OS/2..."It's like buttah"
Granted, it's hard to do an Eastern accent in text, but that is close.
From: v099nlxv@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (PHYPAPA)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: diamond stealth drivers
Date: 3 Sep 92 14:13:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

can someone please tell me where I can find a driver to use with my
diamond stealth video card? thanks
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: wang@sparc8.cs.uiuc.edu (Eric Wang)
Subject: Mouse causes trap on install
Reply-To: wang@cs.uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 19:36:56 GMT

I've got a Northgate 386-20 Page Mode with 4 MB of DRAMs and a Microsoft
mouse.  After I boot the Installation disk and Diskette 1, just waving
the mouse around causes a trap 000d within 1 second 100% of the time.  I
had 4 spare DRAMs, so I laboriously swapped them into my computer, i.e.
boot install, wave mouse -> get trapped, power down, swap 4 chips, boot
install, wave mouse -> get trapped, etc. for 9 iterations.  I suppose I
could disable my COM ports and try installing without the mouse, but
I've already resigned myself to junking this DRAMned Northgate
motherboard and have purchased a new one (that uses SIMMs, yaaay), which
is on order.

OS/2 -- it really *is* a better mousetrap.

(Snicker snort -- it was almost worth the DRAM hassle just to establish
this pun.)

Eric Wang
wang@cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: OS2/DOS Performance Tuner
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 23:35:37 GMT

In article <24080.689.uupcb@spacebbs.com> michael.hagerty@spacebbs.com (Michael Hagerty) writes:
>I am looking for an OS/2 app to simplify the task of tuning the set-
>tings for DOS applications.  I recognize that this message is going
>to encourage a number of people to fire off flames telling me to use
>only native OS/2 apps.  Please attempt to restrain yourselves.  I
>choose to use OS/2 as "a better DESQview than DESQview" and when I
>find a native OS/2 app which is as inexpensive, flexible, functional
>and uncrippled as its corresponding DOS app, I shall buy it.
>[...]
>I would like to be able to fire off an OS/2 app with a DOS app as a
>parameter to it.  Have the OS/2 app "manage" the DOS app by setting
>up a session with virtually all of the settings at full or on.  The
>manager app would, upon the DOS app's exit, calculate how much RAM
>was required, including the other versions of memory.  It should
>also determine whether comm ports were touched, etc., producing a
>list (or file) of DOS settings appropriate for the app.
>[...]

Excellent idea.  However, I would point out that much of what you ask
for is already in the base operating system (in terms of the memory
settings).

The memory settings you assign to each program object are ceilings
rather than hard and fast allocations.  OS/2 2.0 automatically assigns
the minimum amount of conventional, EMS, XMS, and DPMI memory to a
running application.  It will supply more, up to the limits you set,
as the application requests it.  But if the application only requires
300K conventional, it will only get that.

There are also some other clever features like code sharing and demand
paging which further improve performance in this area.  You've got a
darn smart operating system under the hood already.

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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS2 doesn't support Hercules? SYS 0355?? what is it?
Date: 1 Sep 92 13:14:10 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Aug31.144646.4048@ornl.gov> rm3@ornl.gov (MCBROOM R C) writes:
>In article <liuyu.714771225@kramden> liuyu@kramden.nyu.edu (Liuyu) writes:
>>Before I started to bash OS/2, does OS/2 support Hercules? 
>
>No OS/2 does not support Hercules.  This story got a lot of play during
>the round of beta's, but no one (either IBM, Hercules, or other) has
>apparently seen a profit in supporting the card.
...
>IBM you are only as good as the view on the screen.  Please make it easy
>for the card makers to give you a beautiful face!

Hercules has stated, on many occasions, that they will not support
OS/2 2.0.  Period.  They feel that it is doomed to fail, so they won't
spend ten cents on developing for it.

Personally, I think Hercules is doomed to fail, and I wouldn't spend
ten cents on buying any of their products.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: doug@shako.Colorado.EDU (Doug McKnight)
Subject: Re: Why not OS/2 ???? Hmmmmmm
Reply-To: doug@shako.Colorado.EDU (Doug McKnight)
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 17:55:11 GMT

>  ....
>  Ref: Animal House (the movie)

>  "It's a joke, boy"  

>  ... That's the problem with old folks, the don't watch enough videos
>  <grin>

>  Greg


I'm sorry. I hadn't realised that you were quoting from the classics....
Hit it!
Doug
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Difference between DOS upgrade and full version
Date: 2 Sep 92 14:08:58 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <unruh.715387898@physics.ubc.ca> unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh) writes:
>dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
>
>>Note that your OS/2 "upgrade" install disks get marked once you make
>>your first installation with them.  Afterwards, they're just like
>>ordinary install disks.  You can install OS/2 onto an unformatted
>>system with it after this.
>
>
>Disk 1 does if it is not write protected ( mine was while disk 0 which
>it does not write to was not)

Isn't that obvious?  The disk will not get marked if it's protected.

Anyway, I sorta figured they intended to write somthing, since all but
one disk had the sliders removed.

My disks are still "upgrade-only" packages.  I backed up all 21 disks
(!) and installed from them, so my IBM disks have never been written
to. 


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: ignacij@meishan.animal.uiuc.edu (Ignacy Misztal)
Subject: Disk with >1024 cylinders: problems
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 18:39:53 GMT


Does anybody have disk with more than 1024 cylinders (without mapping
software) running with OS/2 without problems? The Red Book from IBM
suggests that disks with >1204 cylinders are ok, but space over
that limit should be used in HPFS partitions only. I reformatted my 660 
Mbyte ESDI disk from FAT (disk mapped to 1024 cylinders, only 528 Mbytes
usable) to 660 Mbyte mixed FAT/HPFS. Now, various files become corrupted
randomly. When accessing these files, the system freezes. I am uncertain 
whether the problems are due to HPFS, >1024 cylinders, ESDI disk, or what
something else. 
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Ignacy Misztal			E-mail: ignacy@uiuc.edu
University of Illinois		Phone: (217) 244-3164
1207 W. Gregory Dr.
Urbana, IL 61801
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: hacker@cco.caltech.edu (Jonathan Bruce Hacker)
Subject: bypassing the OS/2 printer driver (aye Scotty)
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 00:47:21 GMT

I have a really dumb DOS program that will only print to a file
with an extension .out.  This means that I can't use LPT1.OS2 as
a means of speeding up printing.

Since this is a graphics program printing to LPT1 is very slow. Anyone
got any clever schemes that would allow this program to bypass the
OS/2 print driver and print directly to the spooler.

(PS. print driver is for HP LaserJet)

-- 
Jon Hacker
Caltech, Pasadena CA
hacker@tumbler-ridge.caltech.edu
From: rpeou@athena.mit.edu (Rith   Peou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Telemate screensaver unpredictable
Date: 1 Sep 92 17:44:01 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Hello.  I was wondering if I missed something with the Telemate screensaver;
the screensaver activates at random times (at least to me), even when I'm
typing something the screensaver would activate.  Is there a way to
remedy this?  Telemate works perfectly otherwise and the screensaver problem
doesn't happen under plain DOS.

Thanks for any help,
Rith
From: tamu@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Henderson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: 1 drive or 2 ?
Date: 29 Aug 92 21:27:19 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana


I am now out growing my current drive and need to move up.  I currently
have a 120 meg IDE drive and see two options, 1) buy another 120-170 meg drive
2) sell the 120 and buy a 240 meg or so drive.

The question is now, is there an advantage to 2 drive over 1 or 1 over 2?

For ease of installation I like 2 drives, that way I don't have to move the
os and apps over.  If I use two I figured one would have the apps and the
other the documents/data/etc.

If I opt for 1 drive I'll have to install the os then move everything over,
might or might not be a pain???

Any suggestions/ideas/experiences?  I plan on going to 240 meg at least.

Thanks,
Todd
tamu@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu
From: mike.walsh@compart.fi (Mike Walsh) 
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: OS2-TO-SUN
Date: 29 Aug 92 16:53:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: ComPart BBS, Helsinki-Finland, +358 0 506 3329 (14 lines V.32bis)
Reply-To: mike.walsh@compart.fi (Mike Walsh) 

Has anyone any experience of connecting PCs running OS/2 (preferably
OS/2 2.0) to SUN workstations ?
How did you do it ? Any details of problems etc grateful received. Mike
From: mendels1@husc4.harvard.edu (Andrew Mendelsohn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: OS/2's Future
Date: 27 Aug 92 18:20:33 GMT
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

I thought some of the readers might be interested in Lee Reiswig's 
talk at the Windows and OS/2 Conference in Boston last week.
He discussed the future of OS/2 as IBM sees it.  Please excuse any 
misinterpretations I may have made in the following summary.
He stated that IBM's strategy for the desktop and workstation OS's  is 
3-fold: 1) Dos on the low-end, 2) OS/2 in the middle, and 3)AIX on 
the high end.  
OS/2 will be split into 2 products, one the current desktop product 
will continue to be enhanced (Win 3.1, 32 bit GRE, improvements to 
the WPS and improvements to memory utilization so that systems 
with 4 MB RAM will really work, Pen and Multimedia extensions, 
etc.)   A second OS/2 for servers and powerful workstations is being 
built that will be portable, run under a microkernal (MACH?), and be 
seamlessly integrated with AIX (AIX will be another subsytem under 
the microkernel) so that users may use both OS/2 and UNIX 
programs from the same desktop.

The future of WPS is that it will be introduced in some form into DOS 
and into AIX (probably in the OS/2-AIX portable form) in order to 
unify the user interface.  The WPS will be continually expanded in 
capacity so that it will provide a painless transition to the Taligent OS 
interface when it becomes available for those who are interested in 
migrating to the new platform.  IBM intends Taligent to be able to 
run PM programs to protect users investments.  

Interesting echoes of MS strategy with WIN NT and CAIRO, except 
that OS/2 substitutes for Windows and CAIRO is not currently 
projected to be added to DOS (at least the rumors I read a while 
back).
andy mendelsohn
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