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From: drowelf@nospamvnet.net                            28-Aug-99 07:08:03
  To: All                                               28-Aug-99 10:43:14
Subj: WinOS2 Video Problem at 1024x768x65K

From: "Eric A. Erickson" <drowelf@nospamvnet.net>

I've got a Toshiba Tecra 8000 that uses the NeoMagic 2200 chipset. Now
all works fine at 1024x768x16M colors, but the video response is a little
slow, 
so I cranked it down to 65K colors. OS/2 Video is much snappier at this 
level, but the WinOS2 stuff will no longer start. Both seamless and full
screen sessions just hang with no display output. I tried using the 'Win /B'
trick to find out what the problem is, but the BootLog shows normal loading
of stuff, until the display.drv driver where it appears to die. I checked out
the Win.Ini and System.Ini and can not see anything wrong there. 

I'm preplexed. Although 16M colors looks great the video perf is not that
great 65K works much better. 

Any help out there?
Elvish Software Foundry, Inc.    		- Internet:  drowelf@vnet.net
IBM Certified OS/2 Warp Engineer 	- IBMLink:   HONE81(ESFISA1)
IBM Certified OS2/ Warp Developer & Associate Visual Age C++ Developer
'Already where I want to be Today 	- Voice/Fax: (281)-398-2625 <-Newe'


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From: jaj01@earthlink.net                               28-Aug-99 19:37:08
  To: All                                               29-Aug-99 10:42:25
Subj: FIXED!!-> Can't access any HELP files!

From: "James A. Jones" <jaj01@earthlink.net>

I finally found out what was preventing OS/2 Warp 4 from accessing any
HELP or INF files. Somehow, HPMGRMRI.DLL was missing from the \OS2\DLL
directory. This is the "Help manager resource dll" that works along with
HELPMGR.DLL. I have no idea how it could have been deleted. Good thing I
had another Warp 4 system running on my other machine, or I would have
never found it. Thanks to all who offered suggestions!

P.S. If you ever want to secure a Warp 4 system to prevent users from
accessing any help files, INF files, tutorial, or Regedit2, HPMGRMRI.DLL
is the file to delete.

-- 
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"Bill Gates is a white Persian cat and a monocle away
from becoming another James Bond villain."
"No Mr Bond, I expect you to upgrade." -Dennis Miller
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From: donnelly@tampabay.rr.com                          29-Aug-99 04:43:01
  To: All                                               29-Aug-99 15:49:07
Subj: Re: FIXED!!-> Can't access any HELP files!

From: donnelly@tampabay.rr.com (Buddy Donnelly)

On Sun, 29 Aug 1999 00:37:17, "James A. Jones" <jaj01@earthlink.net> a 
Úcrit dans un message:

> I finally found out what was preventing OS/2 Warp 4 from accessing any
> HELP or INF files. Somehow, HPMGRMRI.DLL was missing from the \OS2\DLL
> directory. This is the "Help manager resource dll" that works along with
> HELPMGR.DLL. I have no idea how it could have been deleted. Good thing I
> had another Warp 4 system running on my other machine, or I would have
> never found it. Thanks to all who offered suggestions!

Nice of you to post the fix, and glad you worked it out, but next time, 
when you email people to get help with this, you should make sure your 
return mailbox works, and you should read these groups to check for 
feedback that was posted when the email bounced.

admin@earthlink.net says "jaj01@earthlink.net" isn't a valid email.

And I'm not sure it needs to be cross-posted like it was, but I'll keep it 
just like it is so you're more likely to read this. 

Good luck,

Buddy

Buddy Donnelly
donnelly@tampabay.rr.com


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From: bunzel@fh-muenchen.de                             29-Aug-99 17:59:12
  To: drowelf@nospamvnet.net                            29-Aug-99 16:52:16
Subj: Re: WinOS2 Video Problem at 1024x768x65K

To: "Eric A. Erickson" <drowelf@nospamvnet.net>
From: Martin Bunzel FH <bunzel@fh-muenchen.de>

You can change the settings in your system.ini for win-OS/2 for the
display

fdisplay.drv
and sdisplay.drv

to the old 1024x768x16M colors.

One of the is the one form full screen mode. He'll have to work as he
did in the old 1024x768x16M colors sessions. You can also rechange the
colors for all to 16M and look at the settings in the system.ini (it's
in the [Winos/2-install drive]\os2\winos2 directory.)

Martin

Eric A. Erickson schrieb:
> 
> I've got a Toshiba Tecra 8000 that uses the NeoMagic 2200 chipset. Now
> all works fine at 1024x768x16M colors, but the video response is a little
slow,
> so I cranked it down to 65K colors. OS/2 Video is much snappier at this
> level, but the WinOS2 stuff will no longer start. Both seamless and full
> screen sessions just hang with no display output. I tried using the 'Win /B'
> trick to find out what the problem is, but the BootLog shows normal loading
> of stuff, until the display.drv driver where it appears to die. I checked
out
> the Win.Ini and System.Ini and can not see anything wrong there.
> 
> I'm preplexed. Although 16M colors looks great the video perf is not that
> great 65K works much better.
> 
> Any help out there?
> Elvish Software Foundry, Inc.                   - Internet: 
drowelf@vnet.net
> IBM Certified OS/2 Warp Engineer        - IBMLink:   HONE81(ESFISA1)
> IBM Certified OS2/ Warp Developer & Associate Visual Age C++ Developer
> 'Already where I want to be Today       - Voice/Fax: (281)-398-2625 <-Newe'

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From: bunzel@fh-muenchen.de                             29-Aug-99 18:05:15
  To: drowelf@nospamvnet.net                            29-Aug-99 16:52:17
Subj: Re: WinOS2 Video Problem at 1024x768x65K

To: "Eric A. Erickson" <drowelf@nospamvnet.net>
From: Martin Bunzel FH <bunzel@fh-muenchen.de>

You can change the settings in your system.ini for win-OS/2 for the
display

fdisplay.drv
and sdisplay.drv

to the old 1024x768x16M colors.

One of the is the one form full screen mode. He'll have to work as he
did in the old 1024x768x16M colors sessions. You can also rechange the
colors for all to 16M and look at the settings in the system.ini (it's
in the [Winos/2-install drive]\os2\winos2 directory.)

Martin

Eric A. Erickson schrieb:
> 
> I've got a Toshiba Tecra 8000 that uses the NeoMagic 2200 chipset. Now
> all works fine at 1024x768x16M colors, but the video response is a little
slow,
> so I cranked it down to 65K colors. OS/2 Video is much snappier at this
> level, but the WinOS2 stuff will no longer start. Both seamless and full
> screen sessions just hang with no display output. I tried using the 'Win /B'
> trick to find out what the problem is, but the BootLog shows normal loading
> of stuff, until the display.drv driver where it appears to die. I checked
out
> the Win.Ini and System.Ini and can not see anything wrong there.
> 
> I'm preplexed. Although 16M colors looks great the video perf is not that
> great 65K works much better.
> 
> Any help out there?
> Elvish Software Foundry, Inc.                   - Internet: 
drowelf@vnet.net
> IBM Certified OS/2 Warp Engineer        - IBMLink:   HONE81(ESFISA1)
> IBM Certified OS2/ Warp Developer & Associate Visual Age C++ Developer
> 'Already where I want to be Today       - Voice/Fax: (281)-398-2625 <-Newe'

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From: "operagost"@e-mail.com (remove t...               29-Aug-99 22:29:20
  To: All                                               30-Aug-99 03:42:11
Subj: Re: NetGear NIC

Message sender: "operagost"@e-mail.com (remove the - )

From: Stephen Eickhoff <"operagost"@e-mail.com (remove the - )>

I avoided Netgear (aka BayNetworks) like a leper because they are the
only network hardware manufacturer I have ever seen which does not
advertise OS/2 compatibility. However, I did find in the specs for the
FA310TX (I believe that's your card) that NDIS 2.0 and Netware drivers
are available:

http://netgear.baynetworks.com/support/support.shtml/#nc

Good luck. Buy a Linksys next time.

Lucky wrote:

> HiI am having a problem with finding the OS/2 device driver for
> NetGear FX310 TX PCI 10/100 Ethernet card.Can anybody help me on
> that? Thanks in advance  Lucky

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From: drowelf@nospamvnet.net                            29-Aug-99 20:57:21
  To: All                                               30-Aug-99 05:29:12
Subj: Re: WinOS2 Video Problem at 1024x768x65K

From: "Eric A. Erickson" <drowelf@nospamvnet.net>

On Sun, 29 Aug 1999 17:59:25 +0200, Martin Bunzel FH wrote:

>You can change the settings in your system.ini for win-OS/2 for the
>display
>
>fdisplay.drv
>and sdisplay.drv
>
>to the old 1024x768x16M colors.
>
>One of the is the one form full screen mode. He'll have to work as he
>did in the old 1024x768x16M colors sessions. You can also rechange the
>colors for all to 16M and look at the settings in the system.ini (it's
>in the [Winos/2-install drive]\os2\winos2 directory.)
>
>Martin

That did not work too well. Setting the colors to 65K and the
WinOS2 Settings to 16M results in corrupted WinOs2 Display.

Elvish Software Foundry, Inc.    		- Internet:  drowelf@vnet.net
IBM Certified OS/2 Warp Engineer 	- IBMLink:   HONE81(ESFISA1)
IBM Certified OS2/ Warp Developer & Associate Visual Age C++ Developer
'Already where I want to be Today 	- Voice/Fax: (281)-398-2625 <-Newe'


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From: drowelf@nospamvnet.net                            29-Aug-99 21:01:22
  To: All                                               30-Aug-99 05:29:13
Subj: Re: dos/windows/some os/2 apps won't run after changing motherboard!

From: "Eric A. Erickson" <drowelf@nospamvnet.net>

On Sat, 14 Aug 1999 17:21:56 +0100 (BST), Trevor Hemsley wrote:

>On Sat, 14 Aug 1999 14:32:48 GMT, luistino wrote:
>
>->I believe os2 should be re installed after a memory upgrade also.
>
>Unnecessary. I have still got the same install of OS/2 running on one of
>my machines that was originally on a 486/66 and has migrated through
>Pentiums, K6's, Cyrix and Pentium Pro processors. Never been reinstalled.
>Memeory has gone from 8Mb to 128MB. 
>
>
I agree that a re-install is unneccessary. I've got two machines that have
been 
upgrade several times of the years, with never a re-install. One has gone
AMD 586 (64Meg)  -> Pentium Pro (128Meg) -> AMD K6-III 450Mhz (256Meg)
and the other 
AMD 486 (32Meg) -> AMD K6 266 (64Meg) -> AMD K6 266 (128Meg)

Only thing installed was various fixpaks over time.
Elvish Software Foundry, Inc.    		- Internet:  drowelf@vnet.net
IBM Certified OS/2 Warp Engineer 	- IBMLink:   HONE81(ESFISA1)
IBM Certified OS2/ Warp Developer & Associate Visual Age C++ Developer
'Already where I want to be Today 	- Voice/Fax: (281)-398-2625 <-Newe'


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From: bunzel@fh-muenchen.de                             30-Aug-99 20:42:15
  To: drowelf@nospamvnet.net                            30-Aug-99 16:56:28
Subj: Re: WinOS2 Video Problem at 1024x768x65K

To: "Eric A. Erickson" <drowelf@nospamvnet.net>
From: Martin Bunzel FH <bunzel@fh-muenchen.de>

...don't know if it works for all adapters and for Win-OS/2
window-settings. In full screen mode, it should be possible to run a
different display setting.

Martin

Eric A. Erickson schrieb:
> 
> On Sun, 29 Aug 1999 17:59:25 +0200, Martin Bunzel FH wrote:
> 
> >You can change the settings in your system.ini for win-OS/2 for the
> >display
> >
> >fdisplay.drv
> >and sdisplay.drv
> >
> >to the old 1024x768x16M colors.
> >
> >One of the is the one form full screen mode. He'll have to work as he
> >did in the old 1024x768x16M colors sessions. You can also rechange the
> >colors for all to 16M and look at the settings in the system.ini (it's
> >in the [Winos/2-install drive]\os2\winos2 directory.)
> >
> >Martin
> 
> That did not work too well. Setting the colors to 65K and the
> WinOS2 Settings to 16M results in corrupted WinOs2 Display.
> 
> Elvish Software Foundry, Inc.                   - Internet: 
drowelf@vnet.net
> IBM Certified OS/2 Warp Engineer        - IBMLink:   HONE81(ESFISA1)
> IBM Certified OS2/ Warp Developer & Associate Visual Age C++ Developer
> 'Already where I want to be Today       - Voice/Fax: (281)-398-2625 <-Newe'

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