On 12/15/2015 10:46 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > Hi Eric, > > Nice to see you're still around fixing stuff :) > > There is one little inconvenience I experienced with MODE, that I > reported earlier this year while working on my Svarog86 distribution. > > It relates to MODE executing 'MODE MONO' without checking that it will > actually work (leading to screen loss on CGA systems). Here's the > original thread: > > http://freedos.10956.n7.nabble.com/FreeDOS-ODIN-and-8086-compatibility-td22460.html > On what kind of system are you testing this?
I just checked the source and there is a check to test for the presence of a monochrome card and even the presence of a two screen ([C,E,V]GA + monochrome) setup and it looks ok to me at a first glance, unless your system doesn't properly provide the 6845 CRT controller status, which is used for part of that test. I can't test this right now on real iron, as all my systems are in storage at this time, but it works (almost) ok both in vDOS as well as in a VirtualBox setup of FreeDOS 1.1 (though here it switches to a 40 column mode, but cursor and all is still visible/functional)... Ralf --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
