OS2 system bug reports, fixes and work-arounds.

Hi all,

does this ring any bells? Whenever I activate voice navigation (wich is all the
time) I can’t get the CD-player on line. It reports the audio device is locked and
generates an exception (at best) or even freezes Warp 4, forcing me to press
reset (really nice with 6G of HPFS HD-space).
So why doesn’t the Warp 3 CD-player have this problem. I copied it from the
Warp 3 partition, and it’s playing like a dream. So, what is wrong with the Warp 4
CD-player??

Maurice.
cyb…@globalxs.nl

I am running OS/2 Warp Connect V3, and am trying to install fixpack 26.
This is on a PC that has previously had fixpack 17 (or 10, I’m not sure
which one) installed on it.  I think that same fixpack was tried to be
re-applied at a later time and I’m wondering if that has screwed
something up.

When running A:\SERVICE from the first corrective service diskette, I
receive a message:  "CSF0094 – A Previous installation of service is
still pending.  The system must be rebooted to allow process to complete
before applying additional service."  Rebooting the system does not
change anything.

I think that fixpack that has already been installed was attempted to be
re-applied at a later time and I’m wondering if that has screwed
something up.

I have tried booting with the CSF diskettes and applying the fixpack
that way, instead of running A:\SERVICE.  The fixpack fully installed,
but OS/2 would not boot, so I had to restore my system (I of course
backed it up before trying to install a fixpack).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  I’m trying to resolve a problem
on my company president’s laptop.

Please send any replies to jemm…@ibm.net.

Thanks in advance,

Rob Jemmett

It’s not uncommon for my drive object to get stuck doing something
and not allow me to move/delete files.  I move and delete lots of data
each few days…this is getting on my nerves.

I could use OD’s navigator, but it’s still a hassle to have the drive
object hanging all the time.

The only thing that seems to fix it is to reboot.

Does anyone recognize this trap 000d error message?  I was
running Microsoft Word for Windows 6.0c in a seamless Win-OS/2
session (Warp 4), and trying to access a file with the open file
window, when the system halted and gave me a trap d error message
in full-screen text mode (had to reboot).  The system is a Compaq
Presario 9500 series, P100 chip, 24meg ram, S3 trio 64+ chipset
w/ 1meg and drivers from the Warp 4 install.  I’ve had this
machine for some time now and ran Warp 3 on it without ever
getting this trap.  I’ve been running Warp 4 on it now for about
2 months and have used WinWord many times without a problem.  Any
help/insights (or even an English translation of what all this
means) would be greatly appreciated.

***** Trap message follows *****

TRAP 000d  ERRCD=40cc  ERACC=****  ERLIM=********
EAX=9bc10183  EBX=00000000  ECX=ffff0000  EDX=ffe10001
ESI=00120000  EDI=fe0c5a84  EBP=00008f7c  FLG=00010202
CS:EIP=0140:00008b47  CSACC=009b  CSLIM=0000eb83
SS:ESP=0030:0000594e  SSACC=1097  SSLIM=00004d93
DS=0098  DSACC=0093  DSLIM=000009ad  CR0=8001001b
ES=0030  ESACC=1097  ESLIM=00004d93  CR2=17b0be60
FS=03b8  FSACC=0093  FSLIM=00000023
GS=0000  GSACC=****  GSLIM=********

The system detected an internal processing error at
location ##0160:fff54c70 – 000d:ac70.
60000, 9084

05860525
Internal revision 9.023, 95/11/07

***** End of trap message *****

Again, thanks for any and all help on this.

- Scott

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Scott R. Eliason        scott-elia…@uiowa.edu
University of Iowa      http://www.avalon.net/~seliason

I just finished up an interesting week attempting to upgrade
an old 486-33.  I installed a clone 486 VLB motherboard,
Number 9 VLB video (S3 based), and second IDE hard drive.
Warp 4 installed fine.

First Goose:  Attempting to install the IBM-supplied S3 drivers.
The system would die (monitor goes into power save) with any
resolution above VGA.

First Goose cooked: installed the OS/2 drivers that came with the
card.  Worked great; instructions were clear and detailed to a
fault.  Have since updated to newer versions from www.nine.com.

Second Goose: The modem and the mouse would not play nicely
together.  After checking DejaNews, the IBM tech files, etc.,
I did the following:
Put the mouse on COM3:, IRQ5, via the RODENT.SYS driver.
Put the modem on COM2:, IRQ3, via SIO.
Disabled COM4:  (thanks, S3…)

No matter what combination of these things I tried, anything
sent out to the modem would freeze until I moved the mouse!
(By rolling the mouse back & forth, I was able to connect to
a bbs, but it got tiring…)

Figuring on a hidden conflict, I replaced the #9 with a standard
ISA VGA card.  This time, the entire *desktop* would freeze until
I moved the mouse. (that made for an interesting shutdown…)

Second Goose cooked: in a final desperate act, I replaced the
486 VLB motherboard with another (practically identical) one.
Everything now works perfectly.

The interesting thing is, I went with the first motherboard because
it had a much better manual, and the workmanship was a little
better.  The board that works has cheesier connectors, a cryptic
little manual printed on newsprint, and one less ISA slot…

–Gene

I’ve recently installed OS/2 Warp version 3 on a new system equiped with an
Acer Magic S22 sound card.  It appears to use Opti’s 924 chipset.

Acer provided support for OS/2 in the form of a driver available at their
Acer Open compoenet web site.

I installed the drivers and after some experimentation it appeared to work
properly.

However, after editing OS/2′s config.sys file I noticed that the system
failed to properly boot the soundcard’s drivers.  I tried de-installing and
re-installing the soundcard’s drivers and the install reported a msg.
stating that the no Opti chip was detected, and although it proceded to
install support files for the card subsequent reboots failed to load the
card.

I did not edit any lines in config.sys related to the soundcard.  So I
don’t know how it was possible to effect changes to it under OS/2.

The card works fine under alternate partitions running PC DOS 7.0 and MS
Windows ’95.

I tried Opti’s own drivers for 924-chip-based cards and these appear to be
identical to Acer’s own drivers.

If anyone has this type of soundcard running successfully under Warp 3
please let me know what was involved and if you have encountered any
problems.

If anyone is running Warp 4, and perhaps has experience using this type of
Acer card, I would like to know if version 4 provides greater hardware
support and if it any built-in support for this card.  Knowing this would
help me determine if I should consider what would for me right now a costly
upgrade to Warp 4.

Thanks for any help.

After I installed Netscape my DOS programs would cause the system to run very slow
and unresponsive, like the DOS box was eating away all the resources.

Several people referred to the fact that the Netscape PIP install replaced system
modules clock01.sys and clock02.sys with new ones. So I restored the originals  
and my DOS programs run like before. Did not test Netscape PIP up to now.

Thanks to you.
Regards, Jaap Borggreve

Some time ago (3 weeks?) I posted a problem here with the REXX SysSleep function
after installing Netscape. I initialized it as follows:

call RxFuncAdd ‘SysSleep’, ‘RexxUtil’, ‘SysCls’

The result was that sometimes it did not work and cancelled with an ‘invalid function
call’.  But sometimes it did work, I don’t know why. The intermittent problem occurred
after I installed Netscape 2.2.

I have changed the initialization as follows (straight from the manual):

call RxFuncAdd ‘SysLoadFuncs’, ‘RexxUtil’, ‘SysLoadFuncs’
call SysLoadFuncs

Now it always works properly.
Regards, Jaap Borggreve

Is anyone else having this problem?

When marking a number of files for decoding in Emtec news, all seems to work
fine, until 2 files in the batch load, then it stops.  I then have to press
the stop button and then GO again.  This gets me 2 or maybe 3 more files and
then I have to do it again.  I think something similar was happening in
Neologic news just before I put EmTec on also.  Anyone have a fix for this ?
Thanks.

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