Excerpt from Eric Auer: > High Definition Audio controllers are currently not supported.
> By the way: > > I think it works like these stupid win printers; it waits for > > windows to start it up. After all dos is dead isn't it - ha. > > I will have to search for this dossound. It might be the answer. > That is not the only problem. Winmodems and Win GDI printers etc. > often do not support "normal" command languages. Instead, there > is only a proprietary interface to some low level device. In the > Winmodem case, this is often a simple "soundcard". All the smart > things to turn data into tones and back have to be done by some > Windows (or Linux) driver, so just starting Windows is not enough > to "activate" the modem for DOS. For printers, your mileage may > vary - they may at least support plain text but that might indeed > depend on some Windows driver "activating" the printer at boot. What I have is Intel Hogh Definition Audio: works with FreeBSD and NetBSD current versions, but I haven't tried with FreeDOS. I've been unable to get my printer, HP LaserJet Professional 1212nf MFP working. Now I think it might be nonstandard implementation of PostScript or whatever command language. Why would HP have hplip when other printer manufacturers have no such thing? But can a laser or inkjet printer with standard interface work in FreeDOS? Considering that I can't boot FreeDOS with EMM386 or anything of that kind, I'm very reluctant to try anything too complicated with FreeDOS: leave that to FreeBSD, NetBSD, Linux or Haiku. Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
