Hi Marcolino,
> I've restored an HP 2133 Mini-Note PC recently and i've > installed FreeDOS on it. > > Is there some driver compatible with this laptop? If you could tell us which components you cannot use at the moment because you are looking for DOS drivers, I could give a more specific answer. As https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_2133_Mini-Note_PC says, those laptops have 512 MB to 2 GB of RAM, between 4 GB SSD and 160 GB harddisk, 1280x768 or 1024x600 LCD, VIA Chrome 9 graphics (using a part of the normal RAM) and a VIA C7 CPU. Touchpad, keyboard, microphone, VGA webcam, WLAN, LAN, Bluetooth, USB, ExpressCard slot and microphone / headphone jacks etc. You can expect that WLAN, Bluetooth and webcam will not be supported in DOS. Your sound will probably only work with very few modern apps such as MPXPLAY media player. Most old games have drivers built-in, so sound drivers are not something provided by the operating system. It also means that they can only use very old sound cards. Using your RAM, SSD, harddisk, processor and keyboard is not expected to be any problem for DOS. For USB and LAN, various drivers exist, but I would have to know which controllers your computer has to be able to think about whether a DOS driver for those exists. > What am i able to do with FreeDOS besides playing old games? If you look at the mailing list archives, you will see that we had a thread earlier this month where people exchanged some thoughts and memories about what they are and have been doing with DOS :-) > Is there some way to emulate Graphics Cards? As you can already use DOS, my question would be why you want to emulate which graphics card. I can imagine that many DOS apps (in particular games) use graphics at 4:3 aspect ratio while your screen is roughly 16:10 so you will get black bars, distortion or fuzzy images. You probably have hotkeys, similar to EEE PC, which let your BIOS cycle between different methods to deal with screen size to graphics resolution mismatches. What are the abilities of your graphics system in DOS? Do VESA graphics modes work? How about VBE and linear framebuffers (LFB) in games? Is VGA compatibility okay? How about EGA or even CGA for older games? Either way, the extra acceleration features (for example for 3d or video) of your hardware are probably not used by DOS at all, so you neither have nor need drivers here. If you connect an external screen, you will probably be able to use the higher resolutions available there, but probably limited to 1080p and below given the age of the computer and the (graphics) BIOS which comes with it? Regards, Eric _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
