Re: [Freedos-user] Some driver updates

2017-11-03 Thread Mateusz Viste
On Sat, 04 Nov 2017 00:17:18 +, Dimitris Zilaskos wrote: > Jack's drivers are required on a number of dos-era systems else FreeDOS > will not even install/boot. If it won't install nor boot, then how would you use any drivers in the first place? Any bug reports? > Being unable to use

Re: [Freedos-user] Some driver updates

2017-11-03 Thread Dimitris Zilaskos
Hi, Jack's drivers are required on a number of dos-era systems else FreeDOS will not even install/boot. Being unable to use FreeDOS is annoying but a working system is needed and the wishes of the owners of the respective intellectual property have to be respected. Cheers, Dimitris On Fri, Nov

Re: [Freedos-user] Some driver updates

2017-11-03 Thread Ralf Quint
On 11/3/2017 7:19 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote: > > just as a tiny side note: > > I am only aware of 2 persons THAT CONSISTENTLY SHOUT. > Jack and the american president. > +1 :-P Ralf --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

Re: [Freedos-user] Some driver updates

2017-11-03 Thread Tom Ehlert
> Also, did you know that UMBPCI is actively maintained > and more reliable in finding out which areas can be > used for UMB etc. than JEMM / JEMM386? So it can be > a good idea to use explicit EMM options based on what > UMBPCI detected: This avoids more conflicts than the > easier method of

Re: [Freedos-user] Some driver updates

2017-11-03 Thread Tom Ehlert
Dear Eric, > Hi :-) Quick news from Jack's drivers: He has a closed > source update for XMGR (more fail-safe 386 XMS move) > and UHDD: The new UHDD has the interesting feature of > read-ahead for cache sizes of at least 20 MB. It is > a simplified version without I/O overlap and DOS RAM > search

Re: [Freedos-user] Some driver updates

2017-11-03 Thread Mateusz Viste
On Fri, 03 Nov 2017 12:23:55 +0100, Eric Auer wrote: >>> Quick news from /dev/null 's drivers: [etc. rant etc.] > > In short, you said "nag nag nag" ;-) While it's obviously true that Rugxulo have some ranting issues, I don't see any reason to promote proprietary software on the FreeDOS list

Re: [Freedos-user] Some driver updates

2017-11-03 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Rugxulo, >> Quick news from /dev/null 's drivers: [etc. rant etc.] In short, you said "nag nag nag" ;-) The features might still be interesting to test. Nobody suggested to include any closed source in any distro. Eric