> in short: > everyhing works now, and there weren't any real problems, one > couldn't solve by following a short how-to. Your drivers are > great! :)
Thanks. Glad you got it working. > And I discovered the USBHUB program, which made me find mouse and > keyboard behind the hubs (keyboard internal hub). Now both > basically work, even with the switch in between, to switch them > between two PCs. That's good news, too. I've personally never had a keyboard with a built-in hub, though I know they exist. Yet another "detail" that makes USB so complicated. Also, FWIW, in other OS's (which aren't severely limited in memory the way DOS is) drivers for all hosts and devices are simply loaded by default all the time, whether you actually want them to be or not. In DOS, automatic "real-time" hardware detection and driver installation isn't built into the OS, besides the fact that you don't really want to waste precious memory loading drivers for devices you won't ever use. > The problem with the double letters was solved by unloading KEYB. > DOS7-KEYB doesn't work yet, I believe it wants to have it's own > KEYBOARD.SYS file. USBKEYB typing methods didn't change anything. Interesting. Usually, KEYB fixes things instead of breaking them. > Still Freedos Edit crashs upon startup when the usb drivers are > loaded. I believe I have to check my JEMM config before I try > anything else. Something to experiment with, I suppose. I'm not sure if I've ever tried FD EDIT with the USB drivers or not. I'll try to remember to experiment with that. > I asked to the list if I may put the USBDOS how-to on the Freedos > wiki. > It will contain a lot of screen prints, so for further details on > my setup you may have look on it, as soon as it's on-line. Sounds like a good plan. > There is still one topic: > The PC once came up with a setup where the devices had been > attached to one of the offboard Via hosts. Can this be true or > has it been a misinterpretation/mistake by me? It sounds like some sort of misunderstanding on your part. There's no way I know of that a physical port can be "moved" to a different host controller. > If the setup changes with every boot up, without changing where > the devices are physically plugged... Then my autoexec.bat config > might not work all the time. You shouldn't need to do that. > Do the drivers return any batch readable output? No directly, no. > My idea was to return the number of devices found using > ERRORLEVEL. Then you may try different hosts automatically in a > batch file. No way to do that directly with the way the program works today. I am working on ways to reduce the memory requirements for the drivers (putting as much as the driver as I can into EMS or XMS). I hope to eventually get the memory requirements low enough that it might make sense to just load all of the drivers (at least all of the host controller drivers), and not need to worry about these kinds of things any more. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
