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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Questions: HPFS/Paradise
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.223615.21403@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 22:36:15 GMT
- References: <0096723F.3B730C20@vms.csd.mu.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <0096723F.3B730C20@vms.csd.mu.edu> 2609cowend@vms.csd.mu.edu writes:
- >A few questions, these may be FAQs, if so, put me in my rightful place...
- >1. What's the deal with the Western Digital drivers with my 1B card?
- >Will SuperVGA still be a dream for me with the proper release of 2.1, or
- >am I going to have to live with 16 colors until I get a new video card?
- >Will there be a fix or special drivers on Hobbes?
-
- OS/2 2.1 will include 256 color drivers for all modes (640x480,
- 800x600, and 1024x768) for most SuperVGA adapters, including Western
- Digital. (Notable exception: S3-based adapters, unless something
- changes.) So, no, you won't have to go fishing for a driver. The
- drivers will support seamless Windows, in fact.
-
- >2. Is there ANY WAY I can make modifications to the config.sys in my HPFS
- >formatted partition from DOS or the OS/2 install disks? Config.sys crashed
- >when I installed the SIO/VSIO drivers, and there was no way I could modify the
- >config.sys, having to reinstall the entire system. Is there _any way_ I can
- >get around this, or make a floppy-based boot disk with the HPFS system?
-
- Yes. The first two diskettes in your OS/2 set constitute a bootable
- pair (see the FAQ List for details). Just place an OS/2 text mode
- editor (like tedp090.zip, available via anonymous ftp from
- ftp-os2.nmsu.edu; check file /pub/os2/00Index for location) on a
- floppy disk, and use that in an emergency.
-
- (I'll try to cover this better in future releases of the FAQ List.)
-
- >3. Are the multimedia applets _supposed_ to stutter, or is that just my system?
- >Windows sound support works marvelously now, but the OS/2 applets sound awful
- >on my SoundBlaster...
-
- No, they shouldn't. Your SoundBlaster isn't sharing in interrupt
- (like IRQ 7), is it?
-
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- of Chicago, 60637 | [Read the List, THEN post to ONE OS/2 newsgroup.]
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