Eric Auer schreef:
> Hi Rugxulo, Robert, kernel people,
>
Hello Eric,
> branch of the kernel? Rugxulo, KEYBUF should obsolete having a
> "keyboard extender" around. Kernel people, IDLEHALT does not
> obsolete FDAPM APMDOS but it gives you some energy-saving even
> without FDAPM. I hope both can be used in parallel w/o problems.
>
What's a keyboard extender exactly and what does it do?
> Sample kernel binary: www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~eric/ke2007jul21.zip
>
Only KERNEL2.SYS works for me, better than the Fastboot supporting
kernel I downloaded (I think) a while ago.
KERNEL.SYS in your archive hangs my machine at the HMA/BUFFERS message.
> 1. This should make Robert happy. The kernel now produces messages
> as "UMBs unavailable!" instead of ("Dutch") "UMB's unavailable!"
> Dutch is the only language where "plural's" are correct, I think.
>
Depends, normally the [s] is added, but some english terms like 'baby'
are plural with ['s].
Also depends what the kernel is trying to say:
*UMB ['s/is] unavailable
*UMBs unavailable
*UMBs are unavailable
> 3. Usage: keybuf=n[,m]
> where n is in 0xac-0xde or 0x106-0x1de range and m is <= 0x200
> Relocate keyboard buffer from the default location at
> 0x40:0x1e-0x3e to 0x40:n-m. The buffer must be more
> than 32 bytes and must not touch offsets 0x100-0x105.
> Default for m is "next multiple of 0x100 after n"....
> ...
> A reasonably safe choice should be "keybuf=0x140,0x1c0".
>
what's the benefit of this? a larger keyboard input buffer like Dos 7.10
(1024chars) ?
All in all I'd suggest finding out what changed which makes Bochs and my
system unhappy.
Thanks for having a usable FreeDOS system again. Now to make that DOS
Sioux webserver running from a Ramdisk :)
Slightly offtopic questions: are Japheth's drivers compressed by UPX or
do they support compression? 35KB disksize for a driver is a bit much.
A single binary '286 XMS driver' + '386 XMS driver' + '386
EMS/UMB/VCPI/VDS driver' + '386 XMS/EMS' driver would be fun :)
Bernd
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