This seems to be a minor (but annoying) bug in FreeDOS 1.1: The german keyboard does not work after the install. If I install the US keyboard, there is no problem.
Description: I have installed FreeDOS 1.1 with german language and keyboard. If I boot (after a fresh install) with bootmenu option 1 (Load FreeDOS with JemmEx) keyb will crash with the error message: Keyboard layout : C:\FDOS\bin\keyboard.sys:GR [858] (3) Critical error: cannot allocate memory. DOS reported error: 8 The rest seems to boot okay, but of course I have the wrong keyboard layout afterwards... If I choose bootmenu 2 (Load FreeDOS with EMM386) instead of 1, everything works fine and I have all my umlaute back ;-). Solution: Today I have solved this problem by removing "X = TEST" from the JemmEx line in FDCONFIG.SYS. So the line looks like this: 1?DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\JEMMEX.EXE NOEMS I=TEST NOVME NOINVLPG Bootmenu 1 boots OK now, with keyb not crashing. Now my question: What do I lose by removing "X=TEST"? Will the system become more unstable? I experienced this with my VirtualBox installation of FreeDOS. Is it possible, that this is only relevant in VirtualBox? Does anyone else know this "bug"? Thanks! regards Ulrich ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Mar 27 - Feb 2 Save $400 by Jan. 27 Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev2 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
