Mail Archives: opendos/1997/01/21/23:04:34
On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Gene Buckle wrote:
> Well, I've got 634k with QEMM and I've got all my drivers (a lot of them)
> loaded into UMB's and I've got the HMA reserved for DESQview so DOS loads
> into UMB's instead of high. It gives me more mem that way. But after I
> got the CD-ROM, and UniVBE, and a couple other new drivers that are
> needed, my memory has shrunk down again. I loaded into the HMA now, cause
> I don't really use DV anymore, but MSCDEX REFUSES to load HIGH!!!!!!!!
> I've got 64k of contiguous UMB memory and MSCDEX is only using 12k! It
> WONT load into UMB's! However if I unload a few other drivers, then
> MSCDEX will load HIGH. I guess it needs like a meg of startup memory or
> something before it shrinks to 12k. Also QEMM has the VIDRAM program
Change the driver loading order, sometimes a driver requires more space to
set itself up before loading, I think MSCDEX is one of them. It's got
several "overlay's" embedded into it, when it loads, it reads it command
lines, checks out the hardware, then sets the driver up. A lot of
'generic application' drivers are like that.
(generic application: A driver which will support several different types
of hardware configurations.)
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