Re: [Freedos-user] what cd rom drivers does freedos use?

2024-01-26 Thread Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user
Forcibly demand? What an interesting choice of term..why not did the job for which i contracted them? On Fri, 26 Jan 2024, Rugxulo via Freedos-user wrote: Hi Karen, On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 10:18 PM Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user wrote: As many may recall I run msdos 7.1 instead of

Re: [Freedos-user] Using HDMI monitor and USB keyboard/mouse on FreeDOS

2024-01-26 Thread Bill Gee via Freedos-user
Hi Louis - I am very familiar with the Dell 9020 system. In my last job before I retired, I provided tech support to about 250 of them. Currently I own one which is running AlmaLinux and handling my surveillance cameras. Yep, I could get a 9020 from eBay for maybe $100 to $150. Finding

Re: [Freedos-user] Using HDMI monitor and USB keyboard/mouse on FreeDOS

2024-01-26 Thread Louis Santillan via Freedos-user
The quality of the VGA to HDMI adapter isn't great but it works. In particular, on an HB8088 with an NEC v20 CPU & Chips 451 VGA there's large banding and the signal seems to ripple on dark black. On a Dell Optiplex 9020 with a Core i7-4790 the banding and ripple are reduced (probably a better

Re: [Freedos-user] Using HDMI monitor and USB keyboard/mouse on FreeDOS

2024-01-26 Thread Felix Miata via Freedos-user
Bill Gee composed on 2024-01-26 12:59 (UTC-0600): > Go back to the original set of questions that started this ... My > FreeDOS machine is plugged into a KVM switch which supports only VGA and > PS2. In the near future - 6 months or so - that KVM must be upgraded to > support HDMI displays

Re: [Freedos-user] Using HDMI monitor and USB keyboard/mouse on FreeDOS

2024-01-26 Thread Bill Gee via Freedos-user
Hi Felix - Go back to the original set of questions that started this ... My FreeDOS machine is plugged into a KVM switch which supports only VGA and PS2. In the near future - 6 months or so - that KVM must be upgraded to support HDMI displays and USB keyboard/mouse. In order to continue

Re: [Freedos-user] Using HDMI monitor and USB keyboard/mouse on FreeDOS

2024-01-26 Thread Felix Miata via Freedos-user
Bill Gee composed on 2024-01-26 12:18 (UTC-0600): > But that is, in fact, what happens with the adapter I have. > https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08GZ159FJ > I plugged it into an HDMI monitor and the VGA output of my FreeDOS > machine. When I booted the computer, the monitor said "No signal". I

Re: [Freedos-user] Using HDMI monitor and USB keyboard/mouse on FreeDOS

2024-01-26 Thread Bill Gee via Freedos-user
Hi Felix - But that is, in fact, what happens with the adapter I have. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08GZ159FJ I plugged it into an HDMI monitor and the VGA output of my FreeDOS machine. When I booted the computer, the monitor said "No signal". I tried a few different ways to power it, just

Re: [Freedos-user] Using HDMI monitor and USB keyboard/mouse on FreeDOS

2024-01-26 Thread Felix Miata via Freedos-user
Bill Gee composed on 2024-01-26 06:13 (UTC-0600): > That adapter on Amazon does look interesting. Too bad it is not > currently available. The specs show it supporting 480 and 720 > resolutions, so it might work. The adapter I got only mentions 1080. > I looked all over eBay. Everything I

Re: [Freedos-user] what cd rom drivers does freedos use?

2024-01-26 Thread Bret Johnson via Freedos-user
Karen: Do you know which of the two CD-ROM drivers you are having trouble with? It takes two drivers to install a CD in DOS. One is the hardware-specific driver that may come with the CD hardware itself, but there are also several of them (like OAKCDROM.SYS) that will work with different

Re: [Freedos-user] Using HDMI monitor and USB keyboard/mouse on FreeDOS

2024-01-26 Thread Bill Gee via Freedos-user
Hi Louis - That adapter on Amazon does look interesting. Too bad it is not currently available. The specs show it supporting 480 and 720 resolutions, so it might work. The adapter I got only mentions 1080. I looked all over eBay. Everything I found was for 1080 only. ===

Re: [Freedos-user] what cd rom drivers does freedos use?

2024-01-26 Thread Rugxulo via Freedos-user
Hi Karen, On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 10:18 PM Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user wrote: > > As many may recall I run msdos 7.1 instead of freedos for several personal > reasons. Do the volunteers (engineers?) who help you set up your systems forcibly demand MS-DOS 7.1 exactly? We've discussed this