I'll be posting this to the OpenGEM list next, but some recent issue there seemed to implicate the FreeDOS kernel, so I'm starting here.
I just loaded OpenGEM 5 (full version) on a pure FreeDOS 0.9 SR2 machine (Pentium 100, 16MB, Mustang socket 7 motherboard). The only installation hitch I noticed is that a message flashed by at the outset - something about TZ environment variable not found, I believe. But the installation did not stop and seemed to finish without error. OpenGEM starts fine and displays the desktop, but freezes whenever I try to run an application. One of the Help files loaded fine however. If I F5 to bypass FreeDOS startup files and then start OpenGEM, it loads but the mouse does not work. However the pointer will move in response to the arrow navigation keys. (I believe it will load CTMOUSE on its own.) This FreeDOS installation is as loaded by the SR2 CD, except that I updated the KERNEL to 1.1.35 Build 2035b-cvs, 2006-04-18 and COMMAND to 0.84-pre XMS_Swap, downloaded 2006-04-18 in cmdxms.HEAD.zip. My normal DOS configuration follows below. --John Hupp ------------------------------------------------------------------ CONFIG.SYS ---------------- SWITCHES=/F COUNTRY=001,858,C:\FDOS\BIN\COUNTRY.SYS SET LANG=EN LASTDRIVE=Z BUFFERS=30 FILES=40 DOS=HIGH,UMB DOSDATA=UMB SET DIRCMD=/OGN /4 DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\HIMEM.EXE DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\EMM386.EXE X=TEST VDS DEVICEHIGH=C:\CDROM\OAKCDROM.SYS /D:FDCD0001 SHELL=C:\command.com C:\ /E:512 /P=C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT AUTOEXEC.BAT ------------------- SET PROMPT=$P$G SET DOSDIR=C:\FDOS SET PATH=C:\NET;C:\;C:\FDOS\bin;C:\DOSSHELL;C:\PKZIP SET NLSPATH=C:\FDOS\NLS SET HELPPATH=C:\FDOS\HELP SET TEMP=C:\FDOS\TEMP SET TMP=C:\FDOS\TEMP SET CODEPAGE=858 SET WATTCP.CFG=C:\FDOS\BIN SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T4 IF EXIST C:\FDOS\BIN\MOUSE.EXE CTMOUSE LH LBACACHE.COM LH C:\SHSUCD\SHSUCDHD.EXE /F:?C:\GAMES\SKY\CD.ISO SHSUCDX /Q+ /D:?FDCD0001 /D:SHSU-CDH C:\ESSUTIL\ESSCFG.EXE /A:220 /I:5 /D:1 /E:5 /B:330 /J:E ! C:\ESSUTIL\ESSVOL.EXE /V:8 /L:8 /W:8 /M:0 /C:8 /S:8 /A:8 DOSSHELL /G:M2 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
