Hoi Nik,
Hello, I'm new to freedos, I have installed this on a nice small laptop, a HP 2133 with VIA C7-M processor. It works nice, but the 386 memory manager crashes. I do not know how to solve this. Vriendelijke groet, Nik Kuster
That depends on WHICH manager in which version you use ;-) Please be more specific about your installation. I think it should be sufficient to load some type of HIMEM, such as HIMEM or XMGR. There also are FDXXMS and exotic HIMEM versions to support > 4 GB RAM with modified apps/drivers. If you are using JEMMEX or JEMM386, you could try to use the other if one of them crashes for you. Also make sure to read the documentation, the EMM drivers have lots of command line options which can help you to work around incompatibilities with specific systems. Actually the 386MAX driver source code (and DPMIONE DPMI host, 386SWAT debugger and QLINK linker) has been made open source by the author a while ago, but I do not know whether binaries are available as well? Because you may use 386MAX instead of JEMM386, if you like to try that: https://github.com/sudleyplace/ One problem can be that your BIOS reports the usable memory areas in some inconsistent way or just fails to report some un-usable area at all. In that case, you can use config options of the JE... drivers to force them to rely on one interface which works, ignoring others. Similarily, you can force them to exclude some areas, use specific methods for A20 manipulation (that is a thing you may also want to check if HIMEM style drivers crash). Likewise, you could tell the driver to treat your VIA C7 as a 486DX instead of as Pentium class CPU, in case some Pentium feature of the C7 needs to be used in a special brand specific way which the driver does not know about? That 9 inch ultra portable HP laptop looks cool :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_2133_Mini-Note_PC Groetjes, Eric _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
