Re: [Freedos-user] Fwd: Announcement: New DOS USB Drivers

2009-07-03 Thread Ray Davison
Alain Mouette wrote: > Tom Ehlert escreveu: >> unlikely. while O/UHCI is certainly fast enough for >> keyboards/mice/printers(?), noone want to have different USB ports in >> he same computer > > Ok > >> plug your USB stick/external disk/DVD-ROM into an OHCI/UHCI port, >> and you will be VERY dis

[Freedos-user] Two non-bug reports.

2009-07-03 Thread Shane Baggs
To all the developers: Thank you for Kernel 2038! I'm writing this because I came across two cases where programs didn't act the same under FreeDOS as they do under other versions of DOS, but in fact FreeDOS was running fine and there was no bug at all. First non-bug: LFN-EN utilities

[Freedos-user] Could the MDADEBUG TSR be used to find this FreeCOM bug?

2009-07-03 Thread Shane Baggs
I've posted before about the four machines I'm running FreeDOS on -- One is exceptionally well behaved with FreeDOS 1.0 and another is exceptionally quirky. In particular, I've been experiencing the FreeCOM bug where the command prompt returns without executing the command. Nobody knows fo

[Freedos-user] Minor nit: Norton Utilities slow with FDAPM APMDOS; FDAPM APMOFF fixes.

2009-07-03 Thread Shane Baggs
Norton Text Search (ts.exe) prints about four characters a second when FDAPM APMDOS is running. Setting FDAPM APMOFF fixes this. This may also affect other Norton Utilities. I suspect it's because FDAPM hooks an interrupt for power saving use that Norton was already using for something. In

[Freedos-user] I got EDWIN from a Garbo mirror and it works when I'm CDed into its directory.

2009-07-03 Thread Shane Baggs
I picked up a copy of EDWIN from this Garbo mirror ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/garbo/pc/editor/ (2 weeks or more behind, but that shouldn't matter for an old DOS program.) It works on my quirkiest PC, even when booting off the original FreeDOS 1.0 CD as a live CD. One thing I will note is that

Re: [Freedos-user] Fwd: Announcement: New DOS USB Drivers

2009-07-03 Thread Blair Campbell
> Re-phrasing: all I have seen hav EHCI, but over randomly U/OHCI. Do you > agree with this? I understood that one of the two types was mainly Intel/VIA only > > Alain > > -- > _