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* RE: two steps forward one step back
@  Dawes, Stephen
   ` Charles Hallenbeck
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 38+ messages in thread
From: Dawes, Stephen @  UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: speakup

Why won't dosemu help you with "CheckFree".  I know that Gene Collins
has used dosemu successfully in the past.  

As for the scanner, wouldn't a pci scsi card resolve the problem?  

Steve Dawes
PH:  (403) 268-5527. 
Mailto:  sdawes@gov.calgary.ab.ca 




-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Hallenbeck [mailto:chuckh@mhonline.net]
Sent: 2001 December 11 7:45 AM
To: Speakup Distribution List
Subject: two steps forward one step back


I am recovering from a catastrophic failure here, caused by an
accumulation of cat hair in my fans and a runaway heating problem. I
lost
a power supply, a processor, and a motherboard. On the theory that every
catastrophe is just a disguised opportunity, I upgraded my hardware
rather
than simply replacing it. I am now running an AMD Athlon processor at
1400
MHz with 256 MB ram instead of the 600 MHz Athlon with 64 MB ram I was
previously using.

That is the good news.

The bad news is - while the old motherboard had an ISA slot, the new one
does not. And while the old system ran DOS on a small partition, the new
system will not run DOS. Attempting to run DOS causes the loader to
switch
to rerunning Linux, but when that happens Linux hangs up when about 90%
through the boot process with no speech, no keyboard control, and no
error
messages left on the screen.

The reason I have preserved a DOS partiti9on is to support two legacy
apps
I have relied on. One is the Arkenstone Openbook software which runs
under
Windows 3.11. The ISA slot on the old system supported a scanner
interface
card for this ancient Scanjet Plus flat bed scanner, so without that
card
and without DOS/Win3.11, I guess I kiss Arkenstone goodbye.

The other legacy app is an old DOS version of "CheckFree" with which I
pay
my bills electronically. So I guess I kiss my bill paying goodbye.

I will probably move the Scanjet card and Arke;nstone software to an old
486SX which will also run the CheckFree program too, so all is not as
bleak as I made out. However, it seems too bad to ask a 486SX to do OCR
when a perfectly good Athlon XP 1600+ is spinning its wheels on email
and
web browsing trivia.

The only thing I can think to do is collar someone to help me sort
through
the menus of the CMOS setup program on my new system to see if there are
some settings that might sabotage my DOS. If anyone knows what I might
look for on the setup menus I would appreciate some suggestions.

Ain't computers fun?

Chuck


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* RE: two steps forward one step back
@  Dawes, Stephen
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 38+ messages in thread
From: Dawes, Stephen @  UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: speakup

If you are not using PCMCIA, then I would suggest recompiling the kernel
without PCMCIA support included in it.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Hallenbeck [mailto:chuckh@mhonline.net]
Sent: 2001 December 12 12:42 PM
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: two steps forward one step back



Hi Tony -
I just spent some time with a sighted friend slogging through the setup
program menus and have made some progress here. First of all the boot
sequence needed to be fixed. Now I can boot from a floppy okay.

Second, when DOS failed, the error message was from the memory manager
about a faulty device driver. Since I could now run DOS from a floppy I
simply remarked out the line that loaded my scanner interface card and
deleted the "exclude" phrase on the memory manager line. Now I can boot
into DOS on the HD just fine too.

I took the "auto" off the IRQ referring to my external modem serial port
and selected the "EISA/ISA" choice, but the modem already worked okay
anyway with "auto" there. It still works okay.

But I still have a problem sometimes when booting my Linux system. It
always boots up okay from a power off condition. And it also boots up
okay
if I do a "shutdown -r" command as root. But it will not load correctly
if
I do a "shutdown -h" as root and then hit the reset button (or do
alt-ctrl-del) to try booting back up. And I get the same failure when
running loadlin from DOS. Both these failures are new - they worked fine
before the CPU upgrade, and there have been no software changes or HD
modifications that could account for them.

The failures always occur at the same place - just after the lines that
show several components of PPP being registered, and immediately prior
to
a line referencing PCMCIA. At least when it DOES run to completion, the
PCMCIA line follows the PPP lines in the bootup message sequence.

I am convinced there must still be something to change in the setup
program, but I have not the foggiest clue as to what it might be.

When the boot failures occur, there is no speech, no keyboard entries
are
possible, and no error messages appear on the screen. The hard reset
button still works, and when it next boots properly there is no forced
disk check resulting from the hanging condition.

But at least my DOS works and I can pay my bills, even if I cannot put
this powerhouse to work on the scanner.

Thanks for all your suggestions.

Chuck


On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Tony Baechler wrote:

> Hi.  You could try making sure plug and play is off in BIOS.  This
might
> read something like "plug and play OS support" or something.  You
might
> also make sure that the serial port assignments are not set to
> "auto."  Just manually set them to the correct IRQ and set the BIOS to
> manual so it does not change them.  Good luck.
>
>
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* two steps forward one step back
@  Charles Hallenbeck
   ` John Covici
                   ` (3 more replies)
  0 siblings, 4 replies; 38+ messages in thread
From: Charles Hallenbeck @  UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Speakup Distribution List

I am recovering from a catastrophic failure here, caused by an
accumulation of cat hair in my fans and a runaway heating problem. I lost
a power supply, a processor, and a motherboard. On the theory that every
catastrophe is just a disguised opportunity, I upgraded my hardware rather
than simply replacing it. I am now running an AMD Athlon processor at 1400
MHz with 256 MB ram instead of the 600 MHz Athlon with 64 MB ram I was
previously using.

That is the good news.

The bad news is - while the old motherboard had an ISA slot, the new one
does not. And while the old system ran DOS on a small partition, the new
system will not run DOS. Attempting to run DOS causes the loader to switch
to rerunning Linux, but when that happens Linux hangs up when about 90%
through the boot process with no speech, no keyboard control, and no error
messages left on the screen.

The reason I have preserved a DOS partiti9on is to support two legacy apps
I have relied on. One is the Arkenstone Openbook software which runs under
Windows 3.11. The ISA slot on the old system supported a scanner interface
card for this ancient Scanjet Plus flat bed scanner, so without that card
and without DOS/Win3.11, I guess I kiss Arkenstone goodbye.

The other legacy app is an old DOS version of "CheckFree" with which I pay
my bills electronically. So I guess I kiss my bill paying goodbye.

I will probably move the Scanjet card and Arke;nstone software to an old
486SX which will also run the CheckFree program too, so all is not as
bleak as I made out. However, it seems too bad to ask a 486SX to do OCR
when a perfectly good Athlon XP 1600+ is spinning its wheels on email and
web browsing trivia.

The only thing I can think to do is collar someone to help me sort through
the menus of the CMOS setup program on my new system to see if there are
some settings that might sabotage my DOS. If anyone knows what I might
look for on the setup menus I would appreciate some suggestions.

Ain't computers fun?

Chuck


Visit me at http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh
The Moon is Waning Crescent (12% of Full)



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