New project in ecomstation.ru

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

Gleb Mazursky presents Wacom Graphire tablet OS/2 driver (Serial model)

Controlador de dispositivo VIA 2.10B

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

Nuevo controlador de dispositivo VIA para audio y sonido sera habilitado bajo OS/2!
http://downloads.viaarena.com/drivers/audio/68mu210b.zip

Controladores para Crystal

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

Si tiene problemas con los controladores de chips de sonido de Crystal para los fabricantes como las tarjetas de sonido AOpen aw 320 para OS/2, descargese estos controaldores para estas tarjetas u otras aqui. Estos controladores son bastante mejores y con funciones aЯadidas.

Comentario del moderador:
No hay nuevos controladores en el sitio de Cirrus (la ultima actualizacion es de julio del 2000), pero ha habido muchas discusiones en algunos foros sobre los controladores de audio, por lo que este truco puede ayudar a la gente que ha tenido con estas tarjetas bajo 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

Mas controladores adaptec.

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

IBM tiene controladores beta para las Adaptec AIC7870.ADD, AIC78U2.ADD y AICU160.ADD en el sitio "testcase".

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 has updated the Network Interface Card Pak

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

The NICPAK package is a collection of various NIC (Network Interface Card) drivers and a tool for detecting and installing them.
URL: http://pws.prserv.net/mckinnis/nicpak/index.html.

Fixed driver for Ensoniq sound cards

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

Alex Strelnikov published driver for Ensoniq sound cards: 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) ha escrito:
No hay muchas novedades en esta versión 0.75. Se ha reactivado el soporte para Joystick y algunos bugs menores han sido solucionados. Esta disponible para su descarga en http://www.xs4all.nl/~sandervl/sbliveos2.075.zip. No ha sido testeado a fondo, por lo que en caso de problemas agradecería se pusieran en contacto conmigo.

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).

Do you have a sound card in you eCS machine?

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

New survey on www.ecomstation.com site: "Do you have a sound card in you eCS machine?"

sb live driver needs DOS support, please HELP!!!

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:)

New version of JJSCDROM

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.

IBM updates drivers

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