Hi!
I recently pulled a Dell Inspiron 1150 from my local landfill. This is a Windows XP-era laptop... Intel Celeron 2.6 GHz, and I installed 2 GB of RAM. I was able to install FreeDOS... but...
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/test/report.html Well, if JEMMEX and JEMM386 do not run out of the box, have you tried reading their documentation? Maybe there are some command line options for JEMMEX or JEMM386 to *manually* configure them in an Inspiron-friendly way. If that does not work, you should *at least* try to get some form of HIMEM working. HIMEMX, QMGR, FDXMS, FDXMS286, any XMS and HMA will be better than none, because that will help you to have more DOS RAM free and you can use most caches and ramdisks when you have XMS :-) Even XMS drivers may need *manual* configuration, because some hardware and/or BIOS variants can fail to offer or properly setup auto-detectable A20 gates or memory maps.
I can only get sound from the 'bell', I can't play MP3s.
The problem is that most classic games expect SoundBlaster era soundcards. Your laptop has something more modern, so you have to use VSBHDA, SBEMU or similar for games and old media players. Some newer media players for DOS can work directly with AC97 or HDA compatible sound hardware such as the hardware I expect your laptop to have. As usual, you will have to read the docs carefully to select the right ingredients and configuration to get sound to work. Regards, Eric PS: You can use PCISLEEP to find what sound the Dell has. _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
