Ä Running OS/2 (2:257/609) ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ OS2 Ä Msg : #137479 [870] Scn From : Mike Luther 1:117/3001 Fri 02 Feb 01 09:46 To : All Fri 02 Feb 01 23:44 Subj : My problem checklist for FP 15 ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ * Original Area: OS2HW * Original To : All (1:117/3001) For those interested: Here is my checklist of what's broke and fixed and so on for FP 13-15 that has been gleaned from the PUBLIC discussions. Yes, there is other stuff, but thats inside TESTCASE and so on. For what it is worth to you: * Fixpak 13 checklist: ^ = Fixed and Fixpack updated + = Fixed and more work coming ^ 1. Fails with GRADD or SDD video drivers. Matrox w/3.6 OK. Others OK. ^ 2. Trap E w/486 CPU. Fixed but left out. Patched TIMER01.SYS works. ^ 3. Bitmap printing fails. PMMERGE fixed. ^ 4. REXX code failures. PMMERGE fixed. Added look. ^ 5. Small Icons corrupt. PMMERGE fixed but more changes comming. ^ 6. Mouse and Windows session broken. ? 9. Comm 3&4 broken in DOS-VDM. Investigating now. Some say SIO works; some say SIO slows keyboard in DOS-VDM's. Apparently SIO fails with SMP and the COMM.SYS from the fixpack for Wseb works but SIO is now dead with SMP. ^ 10. Utility creation disks fail. Fixed in FP 14 - partly. 11. BOOTOS2 fails. No remarks - see above? ^ 12 Injoy PPP dialer trap E second dials. Fixed in FP 14. ? 13. Injoy FX firewall fails. No comment sen yet. 14. BA/2K/Pro & BA/Pro both fail. Vendor warns no FP13 use. 15. DOS no longer works SYS3170 errors. No comment seen yet. ^ 16. Huge memory leaks on some systems. Apparently fixed in FP-15. Has now got simple game code to demo it to IBM. 17. TCPIP 4.3 has to have Software Choice $215.00 Indelible Blue. However don't need 4.1 or greater to use the WRx86xx MPTS, just the 4.0 fixpacks which are in universal UN980 set now. Allegation: TCP/IP stack 4.02y and TCP/IP 4.0(x) need WR8425 and UN0980. TCP/IP stack 4.21 and TCP/IP 4.0(x) need WR8620 and UN0980. ^ 18. WRO8621 breaks everything. Allegation: Breaks Injoy 2-time w/COMM.SYS & SIO Said fixed in FP 14. ^ 19. SYSINIT W/ 100% CPU time on warm boots. Apparently fixed in FP-15 ^ 20. Warp 4 Peer traps Wseb. Re-install Wseb version. 21. Cron/2 and timers blow away new Kernal. No comment seen yet. 22. FAT32.IFS Win-95 partitions broken. May be fixed in FP-15. ************************** * Fixpack 14 checklist. p = Program patch from download from Boulder as master ZIP package. ^ = Fixed by update of fixpack. i = Official under investigation at IBM 3 = Was in problems of Fixpack 13 too.. 3p 1. Utility disks now creatable, but IDE Latest ZIP versions fix boot with them fails at IBMIS506.ADD this per user report. Same problem w/ IBM or DANI driver; Utility disks boot an breaks larger than 8GB drives. IDE box to prompt! ^ 2. FP14 Krnl fails w/486's, FP13 Krnl Scott says new Kernel fixes if you backlevel it. in file ZIP fixes this. ^ 3. Warpcenter crashes system when opens. ^ 4. FP14 fails on non-Intel systems. Irv is working on it. Never reaches desktop. Some of this traced to SDD drivers many others fail just after IBM1S5096 or DANIS. 3i 5. Mouse still stutters in WINOS2 / DOS. Scott notes many DOS bugs. 6. Selective Install fails & no backlevel. No comment yet. 7. Install any new printer locks system. Others have no problem. 8. Cannot install Java 1.1.8 3 Citations - No response. ^ 9. CD player misses drive letter. Readme fix does not work as control code now missing. 3i 10. Cannot access COMM ports in WINOS@/DOS Scott notes many DOS bugs. 3i 11. DOS apps are like molasses or fail Set DOS priority > 1; 2? WP7, Quatro pro, New Deal Office, REM RUN=D:\OS2\SMSTART.EXE APAR JR10024 is broken now, Matrox solution is back out to drivers won't fix it. FP 12; Suggests GRADD bad. 2 Citations is not GRADD. Scott notes many DOS bugs. i 12. DOS sessions open at a crawl. May be Norton Antivirus, Norman may improve it. Scott notes many DOS bugs. 3i 13. DOS won't open at all post ZIP fix. Scott requested trap data! on 486 - AMD586 equivalent. i 14. DOS sessions all drive CPU to 100% Scott notes many DOS bugs. If on closing appear to be related to SYSINIT still running in background. i 15. Entire OS/2 operation crawls. Latest 4 Citations - Scott notes poster notes video begins slow many DOS bugs. User posts corruption turing icons black, some replace DOSKRNL with pre- half and half. Keyboard gets slower FP13 and solves problem. and slower with CPU hung on 100% ^ 16. PMMAIL /other Icons fuzzy with SDD. Bug in PMMERGE or SOFTDRAW Faded Icons still there in SDD 32. affects all GRADD with use of 16 million colors. 3p 17. REXX code failure SYS1801 are back. Fix is in new file ZIP. Alternate solution is replace all the new REXX dll's with the old FP 12, install with fservice /r: /s: /sf:1. i 18. CPU monitor doesn't autostart. Scott says is faulty code. 19. Breaks Restore in DB2. Use BACKUP.EXE im FP 12. Suggested Backup.exe from FP12 only Produces SYS1210 errors - wrong opsys. Suggested fix won't work to floppies. 20. NS 4.61 Broken with S3 video driver No comment yet. IBMS332.DLL. p 21. FFST technology SYS3175 err ors. REM RUN=D:\OS2\SMSTART.EXE First Failure support, Fix is in new file ZIP. 22. Breaks Codestore with VAC++ 4 Irv has requested data. 23. WSOD and FP14 lock on load of Works well on some boxes Lotus Notes, 123, and SSuite 1.5 not on others. Video as well as Lotus Approach. driver bug? 3 24. Power panel Thinkpad control broken. Disable APM.SYS/VAPM.SYS 25. Colorworks is broken. Appears is GRADD/SDD prob. 3i 26. FAT32.IFS Win-95 partitions broken. IBM is working on it. 27. CDIFS fails on some installs. Irv working on it. i 28. FDISK in FP14 (13) corrupts FAT 32 IBM has found problem & fix enabled hard disks -autosaves over it. will be in FP15. 29. F5 hardware detect @ boot locks system. No comment yet. 30. Fails to recognize > 64MB in some MB's Use DANI's driver for now. 31. Fails with Matrox G400 AGP video card No comment yet. and 500 Mhz Celerons up with both 231/236 video card BIOS drivers from Matrox. Earlier Matrox video cards do not fail in the same system. 32. SmartSuite fails in several ways, bot No comment yet. still works fine with FP10 and FP12. 33. Kills various sound cards with Wave No comment yet. files w/ latest Netscape. 34. VA C++ 4.0locks on open with Natrox No comment yet. AGP G400 Max video card. ************************** * Fixpack 15 checklist - Public comments data only. Test kernels were coming every several days, now slower. things will *NOT* make it into the CD-ROM. These already known flaws will only be addressed after the CD-ROM ships and FP-15 is released. Part of this has happened via kernel changes. * = Fixed by testing pre-release ^ = Fixed by update of fixpack. i = Official under investigation at IBM 3 = Was in problems of Fixpack 13/14 too. * 1. New 4.5 kernel again can't see > 64 MB Scott - IBM will not on some motherboards. Newer BIOS use Dani's function. Use revisions tear up previous work. only IBM testbed boards. Dani's code may break new kernel too .. sorry. * 2. Trap/shutdown problem resoved - maybe. Scott posted. * 3. Funny video and cmd line and winos2 Scott posted. issues in krnl0905 and 0915 resolved. * 4. Various SES issues fixed. Scott posted. Additional new mouse driver posted by Irv.. * 5. Reserved drive letter error fix is Scott posted. expected in new distribution. * 6. PMVIEW, MMOS2, etc. will report the Scott posted. CD-ROM in the right place in non-LVM enabled systems (Most all of us!) * 7. CMSETUP doesn't trap in new release. Scott posted. * 8. Various other trap and hangups fixed. Scott posted. * 9. DOS and WIN apps will longer get their Scott posted. 128 byte command lines sucked up in the new release. * 10. Alt F3 combo AltF1/F2 trace will work. Scott posted. * 11. Alt F2 always enable w/altf2on.$$$ file. Scott posted. * 12. FP but not Convenience pack will have Scott posted. suppress Rev date w/altnorev.$$$ file. ^ 13. DOS and WIN-OS2 sessions block total May be fixed w.new kernel CPU action for long periods of time. Worked with W0919 beta, broken now. ^ 14. W1003 has a fix for memory leak in Irv posted. stuff like SYSLEVEL.. ^ 15. Path destruction in DOS-VDM's is fixed Scott posted. per W1004 kernel release. i 16. Netstat -r spurious route mung left Reported as fixed in on shutdown by IBM is still corrupting latest kernel update DOIP and Injoy dialer even yet. on testcase. i 17. Mouse and Windows session broken. Irv reports still on it. Don't use SDD with Matrox cards. i 18. RSU method has files wrong and fails Working on it now. May for some with various pre-exists. be fixed in latest RSU. Disk install works but RSU fails. 19. w41002 and w41003 don't work w/Oracle No comment seen yet. database OS/2 clent. FP14 does. 20. FP15 kernel breaks REXX scripts again. No comment seen yet. 21. JFS and LVM are still broken. No comment seen yet. 22. Greek fonts destroyed in WordPro No comment seen yet. version 1.5.1 now. 345 23. Comm I/O still broken in DOS-VDM. No comment seen yet. SIO still suggested as alternative. 345 24. Icons in PmMail are washed out No comment seen yet. Adding "SET ENH_STRETCH=N" to your CONFIG.SYS may fix it. An SDD problem too. 345 25 BOOTOS2 still fails. Ken says may not fix it. Request for Open Source was made. No answer was posted. 26. Path strings truncated and corrupt No comment seen yet. by new compiler. CONFIGTOOL. E and EPM are all broken by it. 27. USB drivers don't work. No comment seen yet. 28 Bidi parallel printer driver fails. No comment seen yet. Suggested re-install bidi parallel port driver. 29 PMview associations broken by change of PMview vs. PMview2000. Author say rename Object PMview, run the MAKEDEFV and reboot. Your mileage may vary, fuel's getting expensive these days... Mike @ 117/3001 --- Maximus/2 3.01 * Origin: Ziplog Public Port (1:117/3001)