Michael, Eric, & All: I went into this round of tests with this configuration, and cut back progressively as I describe below:
LASTDRIVE=Z BUFFERS=30 FILES=40 DOS=HIGH,UMB DOSDATA=UMB DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\HIMEM.EXE DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\EMM386.EXE NOEMS X=TEST VDS SHELL=C:\command.com C:\ /E:512 /P=C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SET DOSDIR=C:\FDOS SET PATH=C:\NET;C:\;C:\FDOS\bin;C:\DOSSHELL;C:\PKZIP SET TEMP=C:\FDOS\TEMP SET TMP=C:\FDOS\TEMP CTMOUSE I do not find any combination of options for EMM386 that will work: adding NOALTBOOT, removing VDS, removing NOEMS. If I do not load EMM386 at all and just run HIMEM (keeping DOS=HIGH,UMB and DOSDATA=UMB), GEM Draw, Doodle and Paint all reboot while loading. If I then also remove DOSDATA=UMB, all three programs either reboot or hang while loading. If I then also remove DOS=HIGH,UMB, all three programs will load, but all three hang while quitting. If I then also remove HIMEM, Draw both loads and quits, Doodle loads but hangs while quitting (except that the mouse pointer is still active), and there is insufficient memory to load Paint. If I then also remove CTMOUSE from AUTOEXEC and operate GEM in mouse-free keyboard mode, the results are yet slightly worse: all three programs hang while loading. I could add that I removed the ISA sound and network cards for this round of tests. Only the PCI video card was installed (though I let stand legacy IRQ reservations in the BIOS setup). I am working with OpenGEM 5, downloaded from http://gem.shaneland.co.uk/downloads/complete/OPENGEM5.zip. This is the same version of GEM that runs fine under the same version of FreeDOS (with the same updates) on a 486 SX2-50 machine. As I said in an earlier post, I went into this problem with a computer that was running all my DOS games fine in the original more-complex configuration, and also served fine as a DOS network client, so there is some odd interaction between GEM/GEM Apps and FreeDOS at a low level on this machine. This despite the fact that GEM has always had such minimal requirements for hardware and operating system support. --John Hupp ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Devore To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 11:44 AM Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] OpenGEM 5 freezes/hangs/locks on FreeDOS 0.9 SR2 I'm in the middle of working full-time on two different projects, but I might be able to take a look at this in a week or two. Probably not sooner and possibly later. I'll need a download link for the problematic GEM, though. If it's kernel, I likely won't be able to help further. You might also try EMM386 NOALTBOOT option. I know GEOS needs that option, not that it has anything to do with GEM. Except for starting with a "GE", so maybe that's it. ----- Original Message ----- From: Eric Auer To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 11:50 AM Subject: emm386 idea hi, you should try without the noems option and/or without the vds option... eric _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user