Neue Projekte in ecomstation.ru

2001-12-13 17:12:06 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [www.ecomstation.ru]

Gleb Mazursky Preasentiert Wacom Graphire tablet OS/2 Treiber (Serial model)

VIA device driver 2.10B

2001-11-03 20:12:12 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [www.os2.org, Andreas Dafferner]

Es gibt neue VIA audio device driver und Sound sollte jetzt moeglich sein mit OS/2!
http://downloads.viaarena.com/drivers/audio/68mu210b.zip

Crystal Drivers

2001-10-19 19:57:57 -- Igor Vanin [VOICENWS, Steven Douglas Taylor]

If you have trouble with crystal soundchips with drivers from the manufactures like AOpen aw 320 soundcard for OS/2. Download the drivers for these cards and others here. These drivers are sometime better with addition features.

Moderator comments:
These are not new drivers on the Cirrus site (last updated in July 2000), but there has been a lot of discussion on some forums about audio drivers, so this tip may be of help to people having problems with getting these cards to work right under OS/2.

URL: http://www.cirrus.com/drivers/audiodrv/index_new.cfm?pg=2&OpSysID=5.

AC 97 and VIA chipset

2001-10-17 00:23:03 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [www.os2.org, Roderick Klein]

VIA is working on a new version of drivers

Some people have contacted me about this driver, asking what the status was. Well VIA released a driver about 1 or 1/2 half years ago. This driver worked in a few cases but was for the rest a disaster (sorry if developers read this). For eComStation I'm working on collecting drivers and getting a license to include them. The VIA driver also has my attention and I have contacted VIA and past along the bugs which where documented in the patch on hobbes. I also had a lot of cases where there was no sound. Or system sounds where played to fast. Also with playing a video file I got a trap. I past al this information along. Last week I was told they where working on a new version.

All I can say, lets hope it has improved and keep an eye on www.via.com.tw. When it will be released I don't know. BTW: Does somebody out there have a VIA motherboard with a BUILD ON nic chipset from VIA. I have drivers that need testing.

http://www.via.com.tw

More adaptec drivers.

2001-10-15 02:48:53 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS]

IBM has beta drivers for the Adaptec AIC7870.ADD, AIC78U2.ADD and AICU160.ADD on their testcase site.

From the readme.txt "These are BETA TEST ONLY drivers to resolve issues with long chkdsk and with geometry problems with Adaptec SCSI cards and ZIP drives. Use at your own risk!"
ftp://testcase.boulder.ibm.com/ps/fromibm/os2/newadaptec.zip

As the readme states, use these at your own risk. Also be aware that rarely does anything stay on IBM's testcase site for more then 2-3 days, so if you think you want these get them now.

I have installed the beta AIC7870.ADD driver on a system with a builtin 7870 UW-SCSI controller and have had no problems in the past 3 hours. I have done some very limited testing concerning the slow CHKDSK on boot problem. Hopefully the followingt table is readable. Both partitions tested are HPFS.

Driver for C-Media CMI8738 audiocard was updated (0.1.3)

2001-10-02 16:24:28 -- Igor Vanin [VOICENWS, Timo Maier]

This is a port of the open source C-Media PCI Linux audio driver.
URL: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/cmedia013.zip.

Driver is based on Sander van Leeuwen's Soundblaster Live! project. Although the driver is almost feature complete, it should still be considered beta software.

Features:

• One playback stream
• One record stream
• Full duplex
• Support for the IOCTL90 mixer interface (designed by Joe Nord of Crystal Semiconductor and supported by the Crystal OS/2 audio drivers) - experimental four channel output

Chuck McKinnis hat den Network Interface Card Pak aktualiesiert

2001-10-01 21:26:46 -- Igor Vanin [VOICENWS, Klaus Staedtler]

Das NICPAK package ist eine Sammlung von verschiedenen NIC (Network Interface Card) Treibern und ein Tool zum Erkennen und installieren dieser.
URL: http://pws.prserv.net/mckinnis/nicpak/index.html.

Geänderter Treiber für Ensoniq Soundkarten

2001-09-19 14:44:26 -- Igor Vanin [www.os2.ru]

Alex Strelnikov veröffentlicht Treiber für Ensoniq Soundkarten: es1371, ct5880 и ev1938.
URL: http://ftp.os2.ru/pub/os2/drivers/audio/es1371.zip.

www.os2.ru presents collection of drivers for network cards

2001-09-18 20:56:43 -- Igor Vanin [www.os2.ru, os2ok]

www.os2.ru published some drivers here: ftp://ftp.os2.ru/pub/os2/drivers/, http://os2.ru/catalog.

SBLive 0.75

2001-09-10 17:32:14 -- Igor Vanin [VOICENWS, Timo Maier]

Sander van Leeuwen (sandervl@xs4all.nl) schreibt: In 0.75 ist nicht sehr viel neu. Joystick unterstБtzung wurde reaktivert und einige kleine Fehler behoben. Die neue Version kann hier runtergeladen werden: http://www.xs4all.nl/~sandervl/sbliveos2.075.zip. Ich habe es nicht ausgiebig getestet, das heisst, wenn Sie Fehler finden lassen Sie es mich wissen.

Installing Tekram DC-390U3D SCSI-controller in OS/2 environment

2001-09-06 17:30:56 -- Igor Vanin [www.os2.ru, OS2OK]

New article about Tekram DC-390U3D scsi-controller on site www.os2.ru.
URL: http://os2.ru/articles/hardware/other/tekram.phtml.ru (russian language).

Haben Sie eine Soundkarte in Ihrer ECS-Maschine?

2001-09-04 21:50:56 -- Igor Vanin [www.ecomstation.com, Eugene Gorbunoff]

Neue Umfrage auf der www.ecomstation.com site: "Haben Sie eine Soundkarte in Ihrer ECS-Maschine?"

2001-08-31 17:42:08 -- Igor Vanin [Paulo Dias]

i send a mail to Sander, the author of the sb live driver for os/2, and asked for dos support, which he promptly sayed NO! :P i can't blame i'm since he doesn't have any time left. since i'm no programmer, i would like to know if you guys are interested in adding DOS support to the driver. i know the generic winos/2 audio project promisses to add support some day, but that's too vage and i need dos support because i use quickviewer for dos to see opendivx movies (that warpmedia currently doesn't support) and some other media formats and also for mame:) since sb live drivers are open sourced, how hard can it be? any reply would be greatly appreciated:)

2001-08-28 19:12:17 -- VOICENWS, Klaus Staedtler, Timo Maier

JJSCDROM.dmd is a modified version of OS/2 CD-ROM / CD-RW / DVDs device manager driver (OS2CDROM.DMD), based on the latest OS/2 DDK on-line source code.

Takayuki 'January June' Suwa has updated JJSCDROM.DMD so it can be used together with UDF.IFS and CD-RW Writers. Hopefully some more writers will work than with the original os2cdrom.dmd.

Download JJSCDROM from Hobbes

Here a small part of the readme (part History).

• build JJ20010825 - August 25th,2001.
  1. Rebuilt. Now based on DDK_000821 source, thus CD-RW / DVD writing and formatting, and USB connection support are also included.
  2. Added NEC-46x multisessioning method enforcing feature.
  3. Included GNU-diff'ed informations files from the original DDK on-line source code.
  4. Included symbol informations file for debugging.
• build JJ20010827 - August 27th,2001
  1. Added new 'multisession handling control' IOCtl, category IOCTL_CDROMDISK (0x80) function CDROMDISK_MS_CTRL (0x4a).
  2. Added bit 28-29 to IOCTL_CDROMDISK - CDROMDISK_DEVICESTATUS device status.
  3. Added new bit FEATURE_MSCTRL_SUPPORT (0x00008000) to feature IOCtl category IOCTL_CDROMDISK2 (0x82) function CDROMDISK2_FEATURES (0x63).
  4. Included lxLite'd version.

2001-08-19 23:02:57 -- VOICENWS

IBM has updated several device drivers

1. com.sys with PCI Support to Version 1.1 buildlevel is 10.042.
2. USB Bootable Diskette Driver.
3. Driver for the Crystal CS4616, CS4624 and CS4280 based Soundcards to Version 3.10 The driver is intended for IBM Thinkpads but might work with other Soundcards too
4. all Printerdrivers (Laserjet, Omni, Plotters, Postscript) for these Languages: BR, CN, CX, DE, EN, ES, FR, IT, JP, TW
   for downloading select the subdirectory according to your preferred language