Re: [Freedos-user] Odd behaviour involving mouse

2009-12-27 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Marcos, in case you used an USB mouse with BIOS PS/2 over USB support: Try a PS/2 mouse or a DOS USB driver instead of BIOS legacy. 4. Holding down keyboard keys while screen refreshes, as suggested by Larry (doc...@yahoo.com): shift, ctrl and alt keys cut screen refreshing

Re: [Freedos-user] Odd behaviour involving mouse

2009-12-27 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
Hi Eric, in case you used an USB mouse with BIOS PS/2 over USB support: Try a PS/2 mouse or a DOS USB driver instead of BIOS legacy. My mouse is not USB. It is a real old one, with a flat plug with two rows of holes. 4. Holding down keyboard keys while

[Freedos-user] freedos - Modern sata dvd dual layer not found

2009-12-27 Thread jcdole
Hello. I bought december this month an ACER ASPIRE 7736G laptop. I made an install of freedos 1.0 from bootable cd following screen instruction without any problem. I tried different cdrom driver (XCDROM.SYS, GCDROM.SYS). I get this message : No CD-ROM drive to use; GCDROM not loaded.

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos - Modern sata dvd dual layer not found

2009-12-27 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 27-12-2009 19:44, jcd...@free.fr schreef: No CD-ROM drive to use; GCDROM not loaded. Any idea. Note : After booting with freedos bootable cd, I can access to the cd-rom drive( elterito is loaded in memory ). Could you try the UIDE cd-rom driver please? it's the most recent work of

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos - Modern sata dvd dual layer not found

2009-12-27 Thread jcdole
Hello. As I said to eric auer Done as suggested. But some problem still here. Regards JC DOLE in FDCONFIG.SYS !DOS=HIGH,UMB !DOSDATA=UMB DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\HIMEM.EXE DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\EMM386.EXE NOEMS X=TEST DEVICEHIGH=C:\FDOS\BIN\XDMA.SYS

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos - Modern sata dvd dual layer not found

2009-12-27 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 27-12-2009 23:42, jcd...@free.fr schreef: Hello. As I said to eric auer Done as suggested. But some problem still here. Then I give up as well. I assume your drive is internal, and connected to SATA like your subject mentions. Does it run in IDE compatibility mode or in AHCI?

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos - Modern sata dvd dual layer not found

2009-12-27 Thread jcdole
Hello. As I said to eric auer Clean up as suggested. But the problem still there. in FDCONFIG.SYS !DOS=HIGH,UMB !DOSDATA=UMB DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\HIMEM.EXE DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\EMM386.EXE NOEMS X=TEST DEVICEHIGH=C:\DRIVERS\UIDE.SYS /D:L633C

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2009-12-27 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
Hi, Eric, I kind of missed the start of the thread - about which software are we talking? Why does it take several seconds to refresh the screen? While the mouse is moving? While it is not moving? Both? Included at the end of this message is my original post

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2009-12-27 Thread dos386
and AUTOEXEC.BAT now contains: lh C:\FDOS\BIN\KEYB.EXE br,850 IIRC I already had suggested to empty it (except CTMOUSE) ;-) everything from FreeDOS also works under the MS kernel, and Desi-III is equally fast. IIRC I had already suggested EDR-DOS or (DR-DOS) kernel. Also the FAT=16 FreeDOS

Re: [Freedos-user] Odd behaviour involving mouse

2009-12-27 Thread dos386
My mouse is not USB. It is a real old one, with a flat plug with two rows of holes. Serial mouse ;-) Again, try to save more low memory under FreeDOS. -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos - Modern sata dvd dual layer not found

2009-12-27 Thread dos386
made an install of freedos 1.0 from bootable cd following screen instruction without any problem. Nevertheless, you should update a few things: HIMEM, EMM386, CTMOUSE, ... Also, throw away XDMA.SYS, it shouldn't be needed and might actually cause problems. NO. XDMA 3.1 is good (3.3 is

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos - Modern sata dvd dual layer not found

2009-12-27 Thread jcdole
Hello. | Does it run in IDE compatibility mode or in AHCI? I don't know. | But this IS IMPORTANT to know . None of existing DOS drivers supports AHCI. But How to get this information ? ! ! ! ! = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Acer France support, Acer europe support does not give much