Re: [Freedos-user] HP laptop touchpad
You may want to look through the BIOS and ensure something like "USB legacy support" is turned on. On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 6:28 PM Tom Messmer wrote: > > I appreciate all the suggestions, thanks everyone. > > > On Aug 6, 2019, at 5:59 PM, David McMackins wrote: > > > > I will throw in my own experience here in case it is relevant. > > > > I have a 1999 Sony Vaio with a built in trackpad. If I load ctmouse with > > no external hardware, the trackpad works fine. If then connect an > > external PS/2 mouse, that mouse will work fine too. If, however, I load > > ctmouse with both connected, then I get your symptom of erratically > > moving cursor as well as display glitching. > > > > > > Happy Hacking, > > > > David E. McMackins II > > www.mcmackins.org www.delwink.com > > > > On 8/6/19 2:19 PM, Tom Messmer wrote: > >> Hello, > >> I have an old HP Pavillion dv6000 laptop that I’ve installed Freedos on. > >> I’m a unix guy and have very little experience with dos, so bear with me > >> if you could. Everything installed nicely, and it certainly performs like > >> a champ, however the Cutemouse driver simply doesn’t work with the > >> touchpad. I’ve tried flipping various options with Cutemouse including > >> horizontal and vertical settings, etc with the same outcome: the arrow > >> cursor just flips out and zips around the screen at random. The bios on > >> this thing has zero options for the trackpad fyi. > >> > >> Is it possible to get a touchpad working with Cutemouse? Any assistance > >> would be greatly appreciated. > >> > >> ___ > >> Freedos-user mailing list > >> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > >> > > > > > > ___ > > Freedos-user mailing list > > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > > > ___ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] why isn't anyone answering my question?
I haven't used Clipper so I'll have to let someone else debug that one for you. However, I *sometimes* have had problems running programs that require a lot of I/O from the mapped drive. Not sure if QEMU just gets confused with a lot of I/O on the mapped drive, because it's basically emulating a FAT drive over a directory. Maybe that's the cause of the hang here? You might try copying (with XCOPY) the program files from the mapped drive to your C: drive, and run it from the C: drive. (Another way to do this is to put everything into a zip file, then just use UNZIP to extract that zip file onto your C: drive.) On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 12:22 PM kaye n wrote: > Jim Hall, thanks a lot for suggesting QEMU. I added a line similar to > your > > -drive file=fat:rw:/home/jhall/dos > > and I was able to access the desired directory in an NTFS partition of the > hard drive. > > However, in that directory is an old Clipper program and I could not get > it to run in the virtual Freedos. > > In drive C: there is an autoexec.bat and an fdconfig.sys file. > > I edited autoexec.bat by adding this line: > SET CLIPPER=F99 > > and I edited fdconfig.sys by adding this line: > FILES=99 > > It hanged and I had to close the QEMU window by clicking the X at the > upper right corner of the screen. > > PS: I don't know which key to press for firing my weapon in the Freedos > game Wing. > > Thank you for your time and thank you for making Freedos! > > On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 8:23 PM Jim Hall wrote: > >> Hi. My answer is in 2 parts: >> >> 1. FreeDOS cannot read NTFS. FreeDOS can read variations of the FAT >> filesystem, including FAT32. But cannot read NTFS or extfs. >> >> 2. An operating system running inside a PC emulator like VirtualBox >> cannot access the direct hardware of the machine. It can only access the >> virtual machine resources. So you cannot access the Linux disk directly, in >> this case. >> >> Most PC emulators have some way to make a directory (such as your Linux >> $HOME directory and/or a directory like /mount/ntfs) available to the guest >> operating system (FreeDOS) and make it look like a FAT drive. For example, >> I use QEMU and I make a directory called "dos" in my Linux $HOME available >> to FreeDOS *as though it were the D: drive* using this command line >> option: >> -drive file=fat:rw:/home/jhall/dos >> >> But I don't use VirtualBox, so I don't know how to do it there. I'm sure >> there's a menu item for it. >> >> >> >> On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 6:43 AM kaye n wrote: >> >>> My apologies. Wrong choice of words. I am aware that this is not a >>> paid support line. >>> >>> Anyway, here's my question. >>> >>> I have a desktop computer running a Linux distro. In this LInux distro I >>> have installed VirtualBox, and in this VirtualBox I have installed Freedos. >>> >>> The virtual Freedos is running fine. However I can't figure out a way >>> to allow the virtual Freedos to access the different partitions of the hard >>> drive (for example an NTFS partition that contains my personal data), as >>> well as any USB flash drive. >>> >>> Is this impossible if the Freedos installation is only virtual? >>> >>> Thank you for your time. >>> >>> On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 7:34 PM HTV04 . wrote: >>> What’s your question? On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 7:30 AM kaye n wrote: > Hello? Anyone there? > >>> >> ___ >> Freedos-user mailing list >> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >> > ___ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] why isn't anyone answering my question?
Jim Hall, thanks a lot for suggesting QEMU. I added a line similar to your -drive file=fat:rw:/home/jhall/dos and I was able to access the desired directory in an NTFS partition of the hard drive. However, in that directory is an old Clipper program and I could not get it to run in the virtual Freedos. In drive C: there is an autoexec.bat and an fdconfig.sys file. I edited autoexec.bat by adding this line: SET CLIPPER=F99 and I edited fdconfig.sys by adding this line: FILES=99 It hanged and I had to close the QEMU window by clicking the X at the upper right corner of the screen. PS: I don't know which key to press for firing my weapon in the Freedos game Wing. Thank you for your time and thank you for making Freedos! On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 8:23 PM Jim Hall wrote: > Hi. My answer is in 2 parts: > > 1. FreeDOS cannot read NTFS. FreeDOS can read variations of the FAT > filesystem, including FAT32. But cannot read NTFS or extfs. > > 2. An operating system running inside a PC emulator like VirtualBox cannot > access the direct hardware of the machine. It can only access the virtual > machine resources. So you cannot access the Linux disk directly, in this > case. > > Most PC emulators have some way to make a directory (such as your Linux > $HOME directory and/or a directory like /mount/ntfs) available to the guest > operating system (FreeDOS) and make it look like a FAT drive. For example, > I use QEMU and I make a directory called "dos" in my Linux $HOME available > to FreeDOS *as though it were the D: drive* using this command line > option: > -drive file=fat:rw:/home/jhall/dos > > But I don't use VirtualBox, so I don't know how to do it there. I'm sure > there's a menu item for it. > > > > On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 6:43 AM kaye n wrote: > >> My apologies. Wrong choice of words. I am aware that this is not a paid >> support line. >> >> Anyway, here's my question. >> >> I have a desktop computer running a Linux distro. In this LInux distro I >> have installed VirtualBox, and in this VirtualBox I have installed Freedos. >> >> The virtual Freedos is running fine. However I can't figure out a way to >> allow the virtual Freedos to access the different partitions of the hard >> drive (for example an NTFS partition that contains my personal data), as >> well as any USB flash drive. >> >> Is this impossible if the Freedos installation is only virtual? >> >> Thank you for your time. >> >> On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 7:34 PM HTV04 . wrote: >> >>> What’s your question? >>> >>> On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 7:30 AM kaye n wrote: >>> Hello? Anyone there? >>> >> > ___ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
