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From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Subject: Re: Windows Standard/Enhanced in Beta 2.1 - how?
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 10:14:53 GMT

In article <1993Jan19.165506.20283@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> reisert@sttng.mlo.dec.com (Jim Reisert) writes:
> 
> 
> I clicked on the Windows Settings box in my 'Quicken for Windows' object.  I
> then clicked on Windows mode, but nothing happened, no report of what mode
> it was set to run in.  How do you change the Windows mode on a
> per-application basis?
> 

I'm not too clear what you mean......
 
In the "WIN-OS/2 SETTINGS" is the WIN_RUNMODE setting. It offers either 3.1
Standard or 3.1 Enhanced. You chose which button you want.
 
If you  *don't* have this setting....then there was an error on your install
of the 2.1 beta. I have had this error on 2 of the 4 machines I have installed
the beta on. You fix it by re-installing the DOS and Windows support using the
Selective Install function. Ths always sorts it out.
 
If your full-screen WinOS/2 doesn't offer this, you can add "/3" as a
parameter on the "program" page of the object's settings. This will start the
full-screen session in Enhanced mode......
 
Steve
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: vanpatjm@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Joker)
Subject: NI Video Drivers
Organization: Clarkson University
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:17:53 GMT

Hi -

	Forgive me if this question has already been answered.  My university
is terrible at updating the News here.  It really sucks. 

	I was just wondering if anyone knows about any possible up and coming
NON Interlaced VGA drivers for Tseng chips?  The new version of OS/2's video
is wonderful compared to 2.0, but it lacks N.I. video, and almost hurts to look
at after a while.

	If anyone knows, please email me at vanpatjm@craft.camp.clarkson.edu
because if you answer on News, I may never be able to read it. :)  Thanks alot.

							- Jason
From: mathur@server.uwindsor.ca (Amok User)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Printer Problem - WinOS2 3.1 & OS/2 2.1beta
Keywords: Printer Problem Beta Win-OS/2
Date: 22 Jan 1993 00:07:49 GMT
Organization: University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada


Well, all I have is my LJ IIIp with 1 meg.  However, my friend doesn't even have a LaserJet, but we installed the driver so he could print to file and I could print it, and his doesn't work either.  I think it's buggy.

Does anyone know if it's possible to replace the proper files with files from the GA or from (gasp) Windows 3.1?

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: quan@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Tony Quan)
Subject: Re: MMPM/2 and SB
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 09:11:24 GMT

In article <1993Jan27.035111.9248@ncsu.edu> amcandel@eos.ncsu.edu (Alex Candelaria) writes:
>	From what I know about the PAS-16, can't you set the PAS and SB IRQ 
>to be the same as long as you don't try and access both parts of the board
>at the same time?  I remember reading that in the PAS-16 user's guide, I think...
>
>
>					Alex
>					amcandel
>					candel in the morning
>


The PAS-16 user's guide says on page 1-36 that the Sound Blaster and PAS
portions of the card can share the same DMA channel but not the
same IRQ.  Of course if you share the DMA channel you can only use
one part of the card at a time.

--Tony
From: cvadsgpb@vmsa.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: 2.1 beta
Date: 21 Jan 93 16:40:00 GMT
Organization: Cal Poly, Pomona
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

I've been have random keyboard lockups in OS/2 sessions.  The keyboard
just dies,  but I can still press Cntrl-Esc, at which time, the keyboard
revives itself *sometimes*.  Anyone else having this problem?  

In WinOS/2 3.1, how do I disable the Print Manager from loading up?  I know
it's something in the INI file.  I'd like to delete all of the True-Type
fonts in the SYSTEM directory,  just to free up some space,  are there any 
references to these fonts that I have to remove in the INI file?  Thanks!

Srikanth
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: os2 mono
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 00:37:18 GMT

In article <dwells.727733760@newshost> dwells@cognet.ucla.edu () writes:
>I'm trying to save some bucks on a new ISA system, and I'm wondering if
>the os2 interface works well on a monochrome display.  How about it?

On VGA monochrome, just fine.  Both display and adapter should cost
about $100.  Stay away from TTL monochrome (e.g. Hercules), though.

OS/2 2.x comes with two color schemes for VGA monochrome (or for
monochrome notebooks, for example).  Go to OS/2 System -> System Setup
-> Scheme Palette, hold down the ALT key, and drag either one to the
desktop after you've installed.

>Alternatively, any recommendations on greyscale displays for os2?  If
>I go grey, then I'd probably want something like a 1280x1024x2 17'
>setup, preferably one that works with a standard color card.

Cornerstone makes one, I believe, as does IBM.  I would opt for the
VGA monochrome, though, and save your pennies for the large, color
display when you can afford it.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: menaf00@DMI.USherb.CA (FRANCOIS MENARD)
Subject: OS/2 v2.1 MPU-401 support
Organization: Universite de Sherbrooke -- Dept. d'Informatique
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 02:46:07 GMT

Hello everybody, and I hope IBM ! 

I am in a strong urgent need for MPU-401 MMPM drivers.
I do not care about sound card fiddling, but I sure know that IBM will
be missing the boat, if they do not release MPU401 drivers with the
2.1 release.   

In a message earlier I saw read that IBM had finalized the code for
the 2.1 GA release, if this is true, than have somebody working for
a MPU-401 driver.   

OS/2 is the best Multimedia suited platform.  I even think that
with a good DSP/16 bit DAC digitizing board, OS/2 should outperform
such products as Digidesign PRO-TOOLS for MAC System -7, (notice the 
minus sign :) .

So IBM, fulfill my dream, and get me a MMPM  MPU 401 driver, so I can 
play your MIDI files on a real synth (I just bought a Yamaha TG-100, good
sound for the buck )

-=Francois=-  Menaf00@DMI.USherb.CA (Universite de Sherbrooke, QC)

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From: linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee)
Subject: Re: c0000005 -- what does it mean?
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 10:35:52 GMT

hankedr@mail.auburn.edu (Darrel Hankerson) writes:

>In article <1jlgu3INNr5g@gap.caltech.edu> gah@cco.caltech.edu (Geln A. Herrmannsfeldt) writes:
>>At the end, it prints c0000005 and then stops completely.
>>
>>The only change made recently is a replacement of the
>>VGA card, but it has worked since then.  This is the

>Bingo. This is a well-known problem. Get the updated bvhsvga driver from 
>ftp-os2.nmsu.edu. 

What exactly does it solve?

Erik


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: steveg@iplmail.orl.mmc.com (Steve Gabrilowitz)
Subject: Re: Adding a SCSI drive to existing setup; help needed
Organization: Martin Marietta
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 16:28:03 GMT

In article <C1K0x3.FKt@ms.uky.edu>, sam@ms.uky.edu (Mike Mills) writes:

|> I just bought a 1.2gig SCSI drive and Adaptec controller.  I also have
|> a NEC CDR84 CD-ROM drive.
|> 
|> I would like to get all these working with minimum hassle.  However, when
|> I add "BASEDEV=154X.ADD" to config.sys, I can no longer boot OS/2.  Inspection
|> seems to indicate that the SCSI drive (which has an already formatted DOS
|> partition on it) is being "inserted" before my OS/2 partition, causing the
|> drive letter to get changed.  Now, I could boot from floppy, edit my config.sys
|> to reflect the new drive letter, and then things should work, right?  But
|> is there an easier way?  I'd like to put the scsi drives at any arbitrary
|> drive letter.

Apparently you have created a primary partition on the 1.2 gig drive, assuming
that you don't yet have any substantial amount of data on the thing yet the cure
is rather easy (you'll need to back up anything you have on it first):  use FDISK
to remove all partitions from the drive and then create an EXTENDED partition. 
This will mean that you won't be able to boot from that disk, but when added as a
second drive in the system it will appear after all the partitions on the first
drive instead of as D:

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: tom@dirac.physik.uni-konstanz.de (Thomas Kirchhoff)
Subject: Re: Using FDISK
Organization: Physics Department Uni Konstanz
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:46:33 GMT

To: 
To: 
Yes you can.
As long as you don't change the size and location of C partition,
changes to other partitions do not affect it.


thomas
tom@dirac.physik.uni-konstanz.de
From: covingc@ee.tamu.edu (Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Help! OS/2 / SCSI Install Problem
Date: 25 Jan 1993 02:43:10 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: ee.tamu.edu

I am trying to get OS/2 (2.0) up and running on my 486 PC Clone, but I
get an "internal processing error" (trap 000d, location ##0160:fff6453f-
000d:a53f) partway through diskette 1.  This goes away when I disconnect
my Seagate SCSI drive from the controller, a Compudyne -w- v3.40 ROMS 
(actually an OEM'd Always, but not sure of the model) but of course
OS/2 chokes when it can't find an OS already present on the system.
Does any of this sound familiar to anybody else, and what did you 
have to do about it?

Thanks in advance, 
Eric Covington
"Frustrated OS/2 novice"
covingc@ee.tamu.edu
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From: bblank@mailer.cc.fsu.edu (Bryan S. Blank(FIRN))
Subject: Help Me!
Keywords: OS/2 2.1 Beta
Organization: Florida State University
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 15:25:49 GMT

	Help!  I can't ftp the OS/2 Beta release, so could someone please
mail it to me?  I don't want it uuencoded.  Thank you very very much!  My
mail address is BBlank@mailer.cc.fsu.edu.  Thanks again!
	
						--Bryan


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Subject: Re: os/2 2.1 beta - my 2 cents worth
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 13:10:47 GMT
Keywords: os2 beta

In article <agLqXB8w165w@tcscs.UUCP> zeta%tcscs@src.honeywell.com writes:
> gah@board8.uucp (Gregg Hungerford) writes:
> 
> >    I also finally discovered why NOT to use hpfs. The multimedia drivers
> > crashed the system during the os2 boot. I couldn't access the hpfs partition
> > from my dos/windows partition, so I couldn't remove the drivers and had
> > to start over from scratch. Anyone know any other recovery?

You boot from the floppies and restore the backup copy you made of the
config.sys.....you DID make a copy, didn't you :-) 
 
I got this crash when trying to use the September version of the SB drivers
with the MMPM/2 in the 2.1 beta......NO NO NO NO....don't do it. 
 
Use only the (December) SB drivers supplied with the 2.1 beta. Also, use
only the MMPM/2 supplied with the beta. If you have the old MMPM/2.....it
is now junk.

One last point, the MMPM/s install 'forgets' to copy the AUDIOIF.DLL file from
floppy to \mmos2\dll. Your SoundBlaster won't work without it.
 
Steve
 
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Organization: Sophomore, H&SS general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:44:53 -0500 
From: Matthew Edward Patton <mp52+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: SoundBlaster on OS2

Well there I was playing my games on os2...when it hit me.  I thought
this game had digitized voices.  Sure enough, I rebooted with dos and
ran the game, and wala, digitized voices appeared.  Not to mention the
volume of the output was several dB higher than under os2. I am using
the sbo9 beta drivers on Hobbes.  Anyone else notice this problem?  Are
there official drivers due anytime soon?  To tell the truth games are
not nearly as much fun without the voices.  BTW, I also discovered that
games run much faster with extra extended ram.

Thanks

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From: ucgadkw@ucl.ac.uk (Dominik Wujastyk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.1 beta bugs
Keywords: beta 2.1 bug
Date: 25 Jan 93 10:12:26 GMT
Organization: Bloomsbury Computing Consortium

sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:

>Please report it on CompuServe, if you have an account.  Use the
>command GO OS2USER and post to message area 16.
I don't have an account, unfortunately.

Thanks for your very helpful comments, as always!

Dominik
From: pang@titan.ucs.umass.edu (H.K. Pang)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: many replies, but none seem to work so far..
Date: 23 Jan 1993 23:41:31 -0500
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
NNTP-Posting-Host: titan.ucs.umass.edu

this is a continuation of my previous post.. i think i should provide  some
info about my system:
386/25, 8meg ram, ATI 1024 VGA card w/ Joe A's generic 800x600x16 video driver,
OS2 2.0 with SP.
any idea?


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From: dean2@tbone.biol.scarolina.edu (Dean Pentcheff)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Minimization flakiness??
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.misc
Date: 29 Jan 1993 02:33:34 GMT
Organization: Department of Biology, University of South Carolina, Columbia
Reply-To: dean2@tbone.biol.scarolina.edu (Dean Pentcheff)
NNTP-Posting-Host: tbone.biol.scarolina.edu

I've been running the TCP/IP package, which puts lots of windows on the
desktop as it boots (one for each of the control or daemon programs).
Our users were not really able to figure out how to minimize them when
they booted, so I figured I'd do us all a favor and have them come up
minimized from the start.  So...  I edited the ".cmd" files that kick
them off so that each "start ...." command was changed to "start /min
....".

Worked fine on one machine.

Went to the other machine, made the same changes, but on this machine,
minimization seems to quit halfway through the boot process.  The first
few networking processes are properly minimized, but after that, other
network processes come up as regular windows.  Running a command
explicitly as "start /min some_command_name" from an OS/2 window causes
a non-minimized command to run.

Apparently, "start /min" begins to fail to minimize early on in my boot
sequence (and never heals).

Any ideas on what might cause minimization to cease?

Thanks!

-Dean
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From: jbodnar@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (John Bodnar)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: nec p2200 drivers?
Date: 23 Jan 1993 07:29:04 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
Distribution: world
Reply-To: jbodnar@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (John Bodnar)
NNTP-Posting-Host: flubber.cc.utexas.edu

According to "stephen dawson" <stephen.dawson@canrem.com>:
>Does anyone know if there are any printer drivers for the
>NEC Pinwriter P2200 dot matrix printers?
>
>Ones for WINOS2 sessions are included, but not for OS/2 itself. I'd
>hate to have to stay with Word any longer.

No P2200 drivers for OS/2 yet.  Do like I do and use the Epson 24 pin 80
column drivers that come with OS/2.  These are about as compatible as you
can get, and I haven't had any really nasty problems with them.

Still, I'm not real thrilled with the speed of printing in OS/2, and since
it looks as if I may come into posession of an IBM Laser Printer 4019 real
soon, I may be saying good bye to NEC for good :-)
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From: antony@werple.apana.org.au (Antony Suter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Diamond Stealth (generic S3) drivers!!
Date: 28 Jan 1993 16:54:49 +1100
Organization: werple public-access unix, Melbourne
NNTP-Posting-Host: werple.apana.org.au

Just a couple more notes.

Ive found out that for my monitor to behave under OS/2 i need to boot
dos and run windows (with the 800x600x256 driver loaded) before booting
OS/2. I guess this could be fixed another way or I could buy a better
monitor.

Also, theres a chance that the patch wont work for you. If it doesnt,
dont panic (HHGTTG :-). They can be patched again! I mean its all just
a question of what string to patch into the *.dll files instead of
"Orchid Technology". SVGA.EXE and VSVGA.SYS are patched a different way.
Its a pity Orchid are a company and not friends to people who dont own
there video cards. We all live in the same world.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: dkennett@fraser.sfu.ca (Daniel Kennett)
Subject: OS/2 2.1b Install HELP!!!!!!!!!!
Summary: HELLP!!!!!!!
Keywords: Help
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 04:57:34 GMT

Hullo,
	I  _NEED_ HELP! =)
	I just finished downloading all 27 OS2 2.1b disks from hobbes, I have unzipped them (the 3.5 version) and ran loadskf.exe on each disk image.  My problem lies in installation.  HOW DOES ONE DO IT???? I cannot, for the life of me find a install.exe file or anything similar! SYSINSTX.com just gives me an error, and I can't find anyother files that seem to do the trick elsewhere!
	AM I JUST A TWIT? or am I missing something very obvious?

	<yes I HAVE read all the files that accompanied it....>

	If this is an FAQ I am sorry.

	Thanks in advance.

		-Daniel-
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From: etorrem@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (engelbert.jgm.torremans)
Subject: OS/2 2.1 Beta BUG REPORT
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 13:04:47 GMT


All,

After installing OS/2 2.1 beta I discovered the following bugs:

1. The IBM1FLPY.ADD driver does not allow access to DD floppies.
   Replacing the beta driver with the driver form june 2, 1992 fixed
   this and I have again access to my 720k diskettes.

2. The OS2LDR program, I guess it is the OS2LDR program, does not
   determine the correct amount of display memory on my video card.
   According to the results from the SVGAHard program (from Joel
   Armengaud) included with the generic 800*600@16 display driver
   I have only 256k instead of 512k on my Trident 9000 card.

	The complete results form the program are:
		SVGAHardware.Adaptertype=2   (this is OK)
		SVGAHardware.Chiptype=2      (this is OK)
		SVGAHardware.memoryy=262144  (should be 512k)
		
   This error probably also causes the 800*600 support for the Trident
   9000 card not to work. I installed the "old" 16 bit drivers for 
   800*600@16 from Trident according to the instruction that came with
   the CSD and I now have 800*600 and seamless.
   INstalling the SVGA display support that came with the beta resulted
   in a system crash.

   I hope somebody from IBM reads this so they can fix it before the
   final release.

   Thanks,

   Engelbert Torremans
   AT&T-NS-NL
   Huizen
   The Netherlands
   Email: etorrem@cbnewsj.att.com or etorrem@hvlpa.att.com
From: eric@tgm.CAM.ORG (Eric Trepanier)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Poor D/L Performance @2400BPS
Date: 27 Jan 93 19:06:35 GMT
Organization: Me? Organized?

nheu@wimsey.bc.ca writes in article <C1G135.n2E@wimsey.bc.ca>:
> 
> 
> Help!  Telix 3.15 running in a background windowed DOS session
> can't maintain a download at 2400BPS.  It starts with a decent
> CPS but eventually drops to about 30 CPS and fails.
> ...
> I've tweaked the DOS settings as per the FAQ (COM_HOLD on etc..)
> and it still fails.
> ...
> WHAT'S WRONG?  I don't want to install beta com drivers or anything...
> please tell me how to get this to work with the basic OS/2 package.
>       -Norm

Norm,

I think that you should seriously consider trying the latest SIO/VSIO
drivers, *especially* if you use DOS/WIN Comm pgms.  They worked wonders
for me.  With them, I now get better performance at 14.4bps, and with
*no tweaking* of the DOS settings (that's right, I can just use the default
DOS settings) than I got at 2400bps using the OS/2 COM/VCOM drivers,
at all possible combinations of DOS settings.

Cheers,

Eric
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 I believe I'll have another beer."
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