Hallo Herr Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel,

am Montag, 14. April 2025 um 21:20 schrieben Sie:

> Hi Eric,

>> Am 14.04.2025 um 21:14 schrieb Eric Auer via Freedos-devel 
>> <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>:
>> 
>> If I understand you correctly, then JEMM386, but not JEMMEX,
>> clears the ext keyboard flag at 40:96, but should not.

> the flag gets cleared even before the first driver is loaded, 
how do you know this?

> depending on what gets selected in the FreeDOS boot menu (probably more which 
> keys get pressed to achieve the selection).
following the MENUDEFAULT, no keys should be pressed.

> The following is a complete config.sys which triggers it (no JEMM386 etc.)

> !MENUCOLOR=7,0
> MENUDEFAULT=3,5
> MENU 1 - Load FreeDOS with JEMMEX, no EMS (most UMBs), max RAM free
> MENU 2 - Load FreeDOS with JEMMEX (more compatible)
> MENU 3 - Load FreeDOS with JEMM386 (Expanded Memory)
> MENU 4 - Load FreeDOS low with some drivers (Safe Mode)
> MENU 5 - Load FreeDOS without drivers (Emergency Mode)
DEVICE=C:\EXTKBD2.EXE

reports 40:96 cleared?
no EMM386 involved? nowhere?

this would be hard to believe.

time to modify the kernel to report keyboard state before/after every device 
driver


Tom



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