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From: ted@isgtec.com (Ted Richards)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Joel's new ATI VGA Wonder drivers (1.01)
Date: 6 Sep 92 23:35:35 GMT
Organization: ISG Technologies Inc. Mississauga Ont. Canada
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Thomas Wong (twong@civil.ubc.ca) wrote:
: Has anyone tried Joel's new ATI drivers, version 1.01, the one where
: you no longer need the atipat.exe program to patch the drivers for
: your video card? And has a bunch of fixes. I have been using the older
: driver (1.0) just fine except for the dots that appears occassionally
: on the desktop which the new driver fixes. So I tried the new driver
: but now I get the "twinkle" effects. I went into DOS full screen
: mode as suggested but still get the "twinkles" when I come back to
: desktop. Has anyone used it successfully? But I'm back to the old
: drivers for now. Thanks.

I have not used the new drivers per se, but I am using a pre-release
beta of them (I helped Joel test the new drivers).  They work fine for
me in DOS and windows full-screen sessions, provided I take the
following steps:

	1. I use the SVGA.PMI file included.  Just replace your
	   existing one with this, then reboot.

	2. Every time I boot OS/2, the FIRST thing I must do is to
	   open a full-screen DOS window.  I can then close it
	   immediately if I want.  This seems to guarantee that I
	   don't get the "twinkle" effect in DOS full-screens.

	   NOTE: having any DOS session auto-open (e.g. because it was
	   open when I shut down) doesn't seem to prevent the
	   "twinkling", even if the very next thing I do is open
	   a full-screen DOS session.

	   If the first thing I do is to open a windowed session (DOS or
	   OS/2) then I always get the "twinkle" effect.

I still get the "twinkle" effect in full-screen OS/2 sessions.  Nothing
seems to prevent that.  I presume this is a bug in the OS/2 screen
switching code.

I am using a 1Mb Wonder XL on a no-name 486/33 clone.

--
Ted Richards            ted@isgtec.com             [...!uunet.ca!isgtec!ted]
ISG Technologies Inc.   3030 Orlando Dr. Mississauga  Ont.  Canada   L4V 1S8
From: axpmw@acad2.alaska.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: TELIX w/OS2 ...Help!
Date: 11 Sep 92 13:44:30 GMT
Organization: University of Alaska

I have a 2400 bd modem and Telix (registered version v3.15 or greater)

My problem:  If I boot DOS all works fine,  Under os2 it can't find my 
    modem to initialize it. Os2's terminal thing can't find my modem.
    I've check which com port and the protocol ... I didn't change
    a thing in my TELIX settings... Clicking on the migrated telix
    or using dos full screen doesn't work. The program runs but my 
    modem can't be found.  Any ideas!?



-- 
Pam Woods                              Email:  Internet: axpmw@acad2.alaska.edu
University Of Alaska Anchorage                 Bitnet:   axpmw@alaska
Systems: Amiga3000/25/40Mb/Wb2.04
         486/8mg/120/33mhz/os2
From: gkendall@ncr-mpd.FtCollins.NCR.COM (Guy Kendall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: COM performance hints with 16550
Date: 11 Sep 92 22:22:09 GMT
Reply-To: gkendall@ncr-mpd.FtCollins.NCR.COM (Guy Kendall)
Organization: NCR Microelectronic Products Division

David, I wanted to thank you for your information on the 16550 and OS/2.
I am taking a copy home this weekend to digest. I am hoping this will help
me solve the problems I have been having for months getting DOS comm
programs to work, that caused me to quit using OS/2 (which I was not
happy about).

-- 
Guy W. Kendall - Applications Engineer            Guy.Kendall@ColoSpgs.NCR.COM
NCR Microelectronic Products Division               Voice: 719-596-5795 x465
1635 Aeroplaza Drive                                  Fax: 719-570-6045
Colorado Springs, CO 80916                            BBS: 719-596-1649
From: harbaugh@brahms.udel.edu (Alan Dale Harbaugh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: ActionMedia: where to get it
Date: 13 Sep 92 18:57:56 GMT
Organization: University of Delaware

In article <BuForD.9C7@well.sf.ca.us> shiva@well.sf.ca.us (Kenneth Porter) writes:
=>Where can one buy the Intel ActionMedia II cards quickly and cheaply? 
=>I'm looking for AM1224IS ActionMedia II Delivery Board for ISA w/ 4MB
=>VRAM, AM0920 ActionMedia II Capture Module, and AMSDKOS2 ActionMedia II
=>OS/2 SDK.
=>
=>I welcome any accounts of experiences with any of these products.
=>
=>Ken

Hi Ken,
  You can call NB Engineering (410-721-5725) for a price.
  I don't happen to have them with me at the moment.
                      Alan

---
Alan Harbaugh                 |  You can send me email, but I probably
NB Engineering                |  won't be around to read it for a couple
410-721-5725                  |  of weeks.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: wallick@cs.ucf.edu (? wallick )
Subject: Stacker
Keywords: Stacker, HPFS
Organization: University of Central Florida, Orlando
Distribution: US
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 19:37:50 GMT


This may have already been covered in detail, however, I need some advice.

I understand Stacker will be available for OS/2 in the fall.  Will
this be a stacker volume for the HPFS or a driver so OS/2 can read
a stacked DOS volume??

Replies to the net or email please  wallick@eola.cs.ucf.edu
the brave can try email to harris.swallick@ic1d.harris.com.

Tanks in advance (Rumble, Rumble)
Steve Wallick
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Does OS/2 support v32bis/v42bis modems
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 04:19:19 GMT
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange

In article <BuE8LD.9y8@news.cso.uiuc.edu> djr48312@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (X X) writes:
> I plan on betting a 14.4k modem with v42bis and want to use the entire
> 54,600 baud if possible.  Havent installed os/2 yet, but this could
> make my choice on whether I buy the product or not.  If it does not
> are there some kind of driver I will need?

OS/2 won't have any problems - especially if you use an OS/2 comms program
like TE/2. But Telix or something like it should be fine.
 
It is much more likely that your machine itself will object to 57,600.....if
you are using an exteranl modem, you will want a 16550 UART (I think they are
called PC16550 these days.....).
 
Add:

call=c:\os2\mode.com com?:57600,n,8,1,rts=HS,buffer=auto

to the end of your config.sys. Also be aware that OS/2 does not allow
interrupt sharing. No two ports can have the same IRQ whether they are active
or not.
 
If you are using COM3 or COM4, add (3,aaa,i) to the com.sys driver statement
in the config. (a = address and i = IRQ).
 
like this:   device=c:\os2\com.sys (3,aaa,i) (4,aaa,i)
 
COM ports should also be consecutive: 1,2,3 is ok. 1,2,4 is not.
 
That's about it.

I use a Supra V32bis modem and it works just fine.
 
Steve
 

-- 
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Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz         | for the Mixed-Member Proportional 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: db3l@ans.net (David Bolen)
Subject: Re: Does OS/2 support v32bis/v42bis modems
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 01:41:23 GMT
Organization: Advanced Network & Services, Inc. - Elmsford, NY

In article <BuE8LD.9y8@news.cso.uiuc.edu> djr48312@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (X X) writes:

>I plan on betting a 14.4k modem with v42bis and want to use the entire
>54,600 baud if possible.  Havent installed os/2 yet, but this could
>make my choice on whether I buy the product or not.  If it does not
>are there some kind of driver I will need?

I'm not positive what you mean by "driver".  If you mean basic COM support,
the base OS/2 COM driver will have no problem supporting a rate of 57.6K.
If you are talking about application programs, such as terminal emulators,
then yes, you will need to get such a program.  OS/2 communication programs
shouldn't have a problem with 57.6K, but I'm not so sure about the DOS Box(es)
so if you have to use a DOS COM program, that might be a problem.

Also - you probably have a specific modem in mind, but not all v32bis
modems (the v32bis=14.4K, v42bis is compression) support local DTE rates
of 57.6K yet.  For example, the USRs don't, although the Telebits do.  Of
course, with a base of 14.4K, even with terrific compression I don't think
you'll be getting up to a 57.6K rate until the v.fast stuff comes out, so
the local DTE of 38.4K on the USRs isn't that bad.

--
-- David
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From: bokkie@uctvax.uct.ac.za
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: new Tseng4000 drivers ...
Date: 11 Sep 92 07:02:44 +0200
Organization: University of Cape Town


> >board and my screen is transformed into static.  Since, my screen is
> >completely illegible, it is impossible to delete the offending
> >line and I'm forced to re-install OS/2.  I even tried using the

I have had similar problems while installing SVGA drivers, and
found this 'trick' very useful:
        While the system is up, edit you CONFIG.SYS by adding
        the following as the *last* line:
                CALL=CMD.EXE
        Then, any time you boot up the system, *before* you get
        into the presentation manager, you get the command prompt.
        This is in text mode, so no matter what you have done to
        the display drivers, the screen will be legible.  Then
        you can do your stuff patching the damage (you can edit
        your CONFIG.SYS, etc., but some things you *can't* do this
        way, eg. run CHKDSK /F ) and when you have finished, either
        re-boot (CTRL+ALT+DEL) or type EXIT which brings up the PM
        as usual.

Good luck.
Frank Bokhorst.
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Some suggestions for OS/2
Date: 4 Sep 92 23:01:01 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <gershon.715551885@husc10> gershon@husc10.harvard.edu (Ethan Gershon) writes:
>>I think the IBM employee written SE20BOOT program that just floated
>>across comp.binaries.os2 might do the trick for you.
>
>I am still playing with this program trying to get it to work.

One thing that I noticed:  All the target disks must be formatted and
erased before using them.  If the SE20BOOT program doesn't find enough
space on the target, it fails with a cryptic warning that doesn't mean
much. 

>>Definitely available from BBSes, ftp-os2.nmsu.edu (via anonymous ftp),
>>and the like, but I see your point.  It comes down to a question of
>>whether the disk space is worth it.
>
>I think a small collection, as well as .ico files of the icons the system
>uses (or are these there and I simply missed them?) would be nice. .ico
>files tend to be short...

It's simple to provide.  Just ship one disk with lots of icons.  You
can choose whether to install them or not from the Selective Install.
Of course, 21 disks is pretty big already!
-- 
   |)  David Charlap           "TELEPHONE, n.  An Invention of the devil which
  /|_  dic5340@hertz.njit.edu   abrogates some of the advantages of making a
 ((|,)                          disagreeable person keep his distance."
  ~|~                              --- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel)
Subject: Actual Cost of Using IBM BBS?
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 92 17:29:39 GMT
Organization: DAFCO: OS/2 Software Support & Consulting

I just got a packet from IBM describing the IBM BBS. Included was a
list of charges involved in using the BBS. I find the charges
confusing. Can someone lay out what its costing them to use the BBS?
Thanks.
-- 
Dave Feustel N9MYI <feustel@netcom.com>
 
( New .sig under construction. Watch this space! )
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: kaz@iastate.edu (Jimmy Buffet)
Subject: Colorado Memory Systems tape backup
Summary: Colorado Tape backup software faulty under OS/2
Keywords: Colorado Memory Systems Tape Backup OS/2
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 15:43:02 GMT

Hello...

My tape backup software (JUMBO from CMS) does not work properly in OS/2.
The software will not operate in a multitasking environment for some
reason (I had the same problem in Windows).  Does the ibm2flpy upgrade
apply to all tape backup units?  I assume that's ps/2 specific, and
I think my problem is the software, not the drive.  Any help would
be appreciated.  Thanks in advance!

Jeff "Kaz" Kaczmarek
 
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: CHKDSK can't find root
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 01:29:32 GMT

In article <wefB7ZK00Vp8IDxoNC@andrew.cmu.edu> pd2n+@andrew.cmu.edu (Peter W. De Bonte) writes:
>I'm starting to get rather tired of constantly booting off the
>installation floppies to reconstruct the root directory of my OS/2 boot
>partition whenever I bump the switch on my computer or loose power or
>whatever.
>Does anyone know if there is work being done to prevent this from
>happening in future versions or is it just an accepted annoyance?

It has been "fixed" -- at least if I catch the drift of your question.
Enable autochecking in your OS/2 CONFIG.SYS per the instructions in a
recent post (or look in the FAQ List).

-- 
Timothy F. Sipples      | The OS/2 FREQ. ASKED QUESTIONS LIST is avail. from
sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu | 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp, in /pub/os2/all/faq.
Dept. of Econ., Univ.   | Or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP").
of Chicago, 60637       | Family Values Means a Job
From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Some suggestions for OS/2
Date: 15 Sep 1992 05:44:09 GMT
Organization: UT Health Science Center Houston

In article <20335@plains.NoDak.edu> person@plains.NoDak.edu (Brett G Person ) writes:
>Heck, even unix (copyright at&t) doesn't
>make me haul out the boot tape to fix the file system. 

I've run two Unix systems, Microport System V/AT and NCR Tower XP, and both
have required me to boot from the distribution media to fix errors on the
disk.

I have no problem at all with a system making me boot from a different device
to correct problems on the normal boot drive.
-- 
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu      | adequately be explained by stupidity.
 "Keep in mind that Amateur Radio As We Know It Today will cease to exist
            at midnight tonight." -- Dave Newkirk, WJ1Z
Organization: University Of Toronto Computing Services.
Date: Thursday, 10 Sep 1992 17:27:18 EDT
From: <SIKORSKI@vm.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Joel's new ATI VGA Wonder drivers (1.01)
 <1992Sep8.150942.23431@njitgw.njit.edu>

In article <1992Sep8.150942.23431@njitgw.njit.edu>, dic5340@hertz.njit.edu
(David Charlap) says:
>
>Odd.  I don't have any twinkling at all.  The 1.01 drivers are
>perfect.  They do everything with no problems.  And BitBlt operations
>seem a bit faster as well.
>
>I have an ATI VGA-1024 (512K on board) using the 800x600x256 driver.
>
Even odder I tried using these drives and my system does not even
boot. After processing the config.sys and I am about to get the
switch to the WPS I get a black screen and nothing else. My only
recouse at this point is to reboot the system and remove the
1.01 driver.

I am running with the ATI 1 Meg XL on a Commodore 386 33 DX.
The 1.00 driver works fine.

--
================================================================
Ted Sikorski Univ. of Toronto.
Ted@vm.utcs.utoronto.ca
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.apps
From: ruggiero@antwrp.antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov (Knic)
Subject: Re: MathCAD 3.1 under Win-OS2
Organization: Compton Gamma Ray Observatory Science Support Center
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 01:45:36 GMT

I've had the same problem someone give us a clue.....

		Knic
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: TELIX w/OS2 ...Help!
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 02:09:32 GMT

In article <1992Sep11.094430.1@acad2.alaska.edu> axpmw@acad2.alaska.edu writes:
>I have a 2400 bd modem and Telix (registered version v3.15 or greater)
>My problem:  If I boot DOS all works fine,  Under os2 it can't find my 
>    modem to initialize it. Os2's terminal thing can't find my modem.
>    I've check which com port and the protocol ... I didn't change
>    a thing in my TELIX settings... Clicking on the migrated telix
>    or using dos full screen doesn't work. The program runs but my 
>    modem can't be found.  Any ideas!?

How is your modem configured?  Which COM port?

Have you read the FAQ List?

-- 
Timothy F. Sipples      | The OS/2 FREQ. ASKED QUESTIONS LIST is avail. from
sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu | 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp, in /pub/os2/all/faq.
Dept. of Econ., Univ.   | Or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP").
of Chicago, 60637       | Family Values Means a Job
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jld@datascope.com (Jay L. Davis)
Subject: Re: OS2 and Soundblaster
Organization: Datascope Corp.
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 21:26:52 GMT

In article <9209031148.AA23388@tortoise.cis.ohio-state.edu> brown-sh@news.cis.ohio-state.edu (shawn c brown) writes:
>	I'm thinking about upgrading my machine to OS2.  Is it just some
>games that have trouble with Soundblaster (in OS2 mode) or do they all not
>work???
>

Most work with the only problem being that music will sometimes get slurred
if the program access the disk drive. Actually, the slur occurs when the
cache is trying to catch up (and actually doing disk acceses).

The games that have had problems are those with digitized speech and
those which try to take over the whole machine (like Ultima 7). With
speech some work, some don't. In most cases you can disable the speech
option if it is a problem (or just dual-boot to DOS).

I hoping for a fix for these problems so I never have to boot into DOS.

---Jay Davis


Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jld@datascope.com (Jay L. Davis)
Subject: Re: Northgates (and others) won't install OS/2 2.0!
Organization: Datascope Corp.
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 21:34:47 GMT

In article <laird.715527671@stable.ecn.purdue.edu> laird@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (Kyler Laird) writes:
>(I thought I'd keep this public since I think it is potentially
>important to many people.)
>
>My BIOS is up to date; I called it in to the distributor (Washburn
>and Co.?).
>
>I removed my SCSI, FAX, and 8MB daughter board (leaving me with 8MB)
>before installing (the nth time).  This left me with the FDD/IDE HD
>interface (Western Digital?) and a VGA video card (swapped an Orchid
>Prodesigner II, Sota VGA/16, and no-name ET3000).  The serial and
>parallel ports are on the motherboard (but can be disabled).
>
>I also tried the ST506 fix (just for kicks).
>
>These changes did not help at all.
>
>--kyler

OK. I have a Northgate 333 with 8MB, Prodesigner II VGA, and a
200 Meg IDE drive. No problems. So what is different? I will think
about it. Something doesn't make sense.

---Jay Davis
From: shyguy@ocf.berkeley.edu (David S. Shy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: available seamless window?
Date: 7 Sep 1992 08:50:20 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: plague-ether.berkeley.edu

ok, i just want to get some termnologies straight....

seamless windows is the ability to run windows programs in their
own little window session right?  say if i run word for windows,
i'll see win-os2 load up and then there will be a window in win-os2
where word is being run.  now, if i jump back to the os2 desktop
and double click (like i did on word) on wingif, then another win-os2
session will be loaded into memory where i'll see wingif being loaded
up in a window.  now, seamless windows means that there will be two
separate win-os2 sessions for two windows programs right? (like in my
example...)

if what i just described above is correct, then why is everyone complaining
about seamless windows not available on 3rd party drivers?  i'm using 
a tseng et400 based board w/ the driver, proii8.zip running everything at 
1024X768X256 (os/2 and windows) and i can do the above just fine????

is there something i'm not seeing here or ignorant of?   or is my definition
of seamless windows just plain wrong???

btw:  if what i describe is correct, why is the 2nd and 3rd windows programs
so slow in loading up when I do it?  (i remember a couple hundred posts
back, someone said that the 2nd and 3rd loads should be faster because
the essentials were already in memory.)

david shy
shyguy@ocf.berkeley.edu
From: jreynold@nmt.edu (John Reynolds)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Why I love OS/2. (Kids, try this at home!)
Date: 14 Sep 92 14:23:27 GMT
Organization: New Mexico Tech


>As soon as the WPS starts, it starts up a second process which monitors the
>first (or it could be the other way around) and if it detects it dying then
>it simply reruns it. This is why the WPS will simply reappear when you kill
>it. 
>

Ok. Now that I know how/why the WPS restarts itself, someone tell me what
*this* crash is, because it doesn't sound like the WPS crashing. Several
times, I have been working with OS/2 (typical programs running are, a windoze
app or two, a couple of 4os2, or 4dos windows, and maybe asteroids :-), when
I come out of the win-os2 session I can see (just for a split second) that
the DOS colors are fubar on the screen (I have my global dos-autoexec.bat
type an ANSI file on dos-box start ups). When I see that that happens, if
I try and start _any_ app that relies on starting another dos session, OS/2
will hang. Although, pulse, pmclock, and pmeyes still seem to be doing
what they're supposed to. And when I do c+a+del, I hear the file system
being sync'ed. What is this bizarre lockup? I've got 16Mb of ram in my 
machine, and not many apps going on at once.....

Rest of setup: Gateway 486/33T, ATI Ultra, Meg 15" mon., 200Mb ide drive.

Could someone please shed some light on this crash. I've been told by people
that it's the WPS that is hosing me, but now I'm confused. By the way, Ctr-ESC
and all mouse/keyboard input was *useless*.

Thanks

-Jr



-- 
Windows...It's like a stale cookie.
OS/2..."It's like butter" (SNL quote)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: hoppie@kub.nl (Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers)
Subject: Minimized DOS/OS2 Session Icon
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 92 07:22:15 GMT
Organization: Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands

Second try for this one:

(How) Can I change the minimized DOS/OS2 window icon to something other 
than the default DOS/OS2-window-sign? I've both attached an icon to a
DOS program and put (the same) icon file in the .EXE dir with the same
name, and the icons in the folder and the system menu button are
correct. But the minimized icon (with the "painting border") stays the
old plain DOS/OS2 window :-(

Jeroen