Re: TP75x FAQ points

[DGJ@mfltd.co.uk]

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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: Re: TP75x FAQ points
Thanks for the reply.

To be honest, I haven't had a lot of luck with EasyPlaying. All I've found it
useful for is saying if cards are active and associating application with
cards. It seems to indicate both cards are fine seperately (with drivers
loaded in my CONFIG.SYS), but when both are inserted together, it says the
Token ring card is no longer active (and I can't use it), although the modem
card seems fine. I may be using EasyPlaying wrong, but something's stopping
the card working regardless.

As for DOS, I have to do work on DOS from time to time which requires LAN
access, and I've had trouble getting a working config.sys while including
the drivers supplied with the card (plus the PCMCIA drivers). Is there an
easy(ish) method of narrowing down which areas of memory need excluding?

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From: ychou@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Sean Chou)
Subject: Re: TP75x FAQ points
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>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 forwarded it to the mailing list but I'll try to answer what I can.

>     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!

Have you tried to use both the LAN card's card services and the modem's
card services (separately from EasyPlaying).  Also, are you using
EasyPlaying with both the modem and LAN card successfully when they're
not together?

You may want to look at the newer versions of OS/2 when they are
released.  WARP II had revised EasyPlay drivers (actually, I think
they changed the name).

>     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.

Why use DOS at all if you have OS/2? :)

You have to exclude specific regions of memory for the Token ring
card to work.  I don't know what regions that may be however, but
have you looked at the documentation...actually, what PCMCIA drivers
are you using under DOS?

>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.

I've never heard of that, but I'm new to TP755's.  I had a 750C which
I sold off about a month ago.

>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

Yes, this is something we've all complained about.  There seems to be
no way around that unless someone patches the mouse driver.

>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.

It could be the application is trying to access hardware directly.
What application gives this to you and what device are you emulating?

>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.

It's probably not worth it since the sounds are pretty bad.  Better
to press id software to hurry up and finish the native OS/2 version.
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