Thanks Eric, I bought this machine on the internet for €10, hardly used. I will try the configuration options in the JE driver.
Besides, I'm a dos user for 20-25 years, mostly DR-DOS. I have a compaq contura, 486 dx, 16mb, 100mhz, modified win311 for workgroups, pretty fast. Groet Nik Op zo 27 nov. 2022 om 15:31 schreef Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de>: > > 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 >
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