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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

Another problem on the DOS games/linux internet computers.  My partner set 
up a menu to choose games using 4DOS and when he loads 4DOS he loads 
a ramdisk.  This prevented BL2 ramdisk from booting and I had to exit from 
4DOS before starting BL2.  (I think he fixed this somehow by using emm386 
for upper memory and/or unloaded the ramdisk).  At least mice drivers and 
ramdisks can be unloaded before booting with loadlin.  I don't know of a 
way to unload himem.sys after it is loaded.


On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, sindi keesan wrote:

> We have three mice that don't work with drmouse (one is logitech, they are
> all serial) but work with ctmouse and mouse.com.  Also a serial trackball
> that won't work with drmouse.  So we tried ctmouse and mouse.com, which
> prevented BL3 from booting (it goes right into X).  We then tried a mouse
> which works with drmouse and again Xvesa comes out blank (you can't even
> switch terminals, the othe terminals go blank too).
>
> The fix is to put in the booting file one of the following, if you load a
> mouse driver whenever you boot into dos and then boot with loadlin:
>
> ctmouse /u
> mouse /u
> drmouse /u
>
> I loaded all three drivers in DOS then unloaded them all in the boot.bat
> file and Xvesa is working again.
>
> Presumably the conflict is due to Xvesa using a mouse driver that wants
> the same RAM as the DOS ones.