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From: D. Gwyn Jones Fileshare 2 development, Products Group.
DGJ at NWB, GBHFFWHF at IBMMAIL, e-mail: dgj@mfltd.co.uk
Subject: TP75x FAQ points
Hi, I've just been added to the tp750 mailing list. I'm not sure if I should
be sending this information to that list rather than you, but I have some
useful information plus some questions to add to the FAQ.
I've had a Thinkpad 755c for a couple of months now with a 540Mb HD, 20Mb RAM
and I use an external mouse, keyboard and SVGA monitor without a dock
station. I primarily use OS/2 2.11, but also have PC-DOS 6.x and Windows 3.1x
installed.
I have two "Portable Add-ons" PCMCIA cards:- a Data/Fax Modem card and a Token
ring card. I successfully use the Token ring card on OS/2 with LAN Requester,
Comms Manager, NetWare Requester and FTP PCTCP all co-existing.
Here are some points I'd like to raise in reference to the FAQ:
3.19 PCMCIA cards.
In our company, we have got lots of different PCMCIA LAN cards working,
but the experience has not been nice. They all seem to present their
own individual installation problems.
I can use my modem and LAN cards OK seperately, but if they are both
plugged in, the Token ring card doesn't work. EasyPlaying seems to
think its not active. I'm stuck!
I've given up trying to get my DOS CONFIG.SYS set up right for using the
Token ring card from DOS. The only way I can get it to work is to remove
all memory drivers and other obviously unneccesary drivers.
5.x OS/2 Display drivers.
I'm using the standard SVGA driver that comes with OS/2 2.11 which
works fine except that there is slight picture interference whenever
the hard disk is being accessed. I suspect the OS/2 driver because
the phonomenon doesn't occur on native DOS or Windows.
5.11 Cursor tracking speed.
I've also noticed that setting mouse tracking speed and keyboard repeat
rate to maximum doesn't go far enough. However, starting a WIN-OS/2
session and changing the keyboard rate for WIN-OS/2 has a system wide
affect. This isn't the case for mouse tracking though. Plus, if WIN-OS/2
is started within PM rather than in a full screen, the OS/2 pointer gets
used (along with its tracking speed).
I've noticed that starting and exiting EasyPlaying seems to reset the
desktop settings so that the OS/2 keyboard rate again takes affect.
7.3 Sound emulation.
Why am I getting the error "SYS0047 The system cannot write the AUDIO1
device"? This is mostly in an OS/2 DOS session.
4.7 DOOM sound.
How do I get Adlib sounds from DOOM under OS/2? I can't find any Adlib
option in DOOM's setup program.
I'd appreciate any help you can offer and am happy to give any PCMCIA help
required. Please let me know if I should to send this to the tp750 mailing
list. Thanks.
Regards, Gwyn. Micro Focus Ltd Tel. (44) (0)1635 565294
26 West Street Fax. (44) (0)1635 565567
Extension 5294 Newbury RG13 1JT U.K.
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