HIMEM.SYS & Wfw 3.11 problems

HIMEM.SYS & Wfw 3.11 problems

[Julius Schwartzenberg]

Hi,

I'm having a problem with recent Subversion revisions of Dosemu, I get a 
message from HIMEM.SYS which states: ERROR: HIMEM.SYS has detected 
unreliable XMS memory at address 00110000h. XMS Driver not installed.

My boot.log:
http://haar.student.utwente.nl/~julius/boot.log

When I disable the memory test and I double click on the top left button 
in Wfw 3.11's Program Manager, Dosemu crashes with:
ERROR: EMU86: error 2

This is in boot.log:
http://haar.student.utwente.nl/~julius/boot2.log

I guess this is a new bug in Dosemu? Could anyone still solve this? Let 
me know if I can help with it.

I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 AMD64. (The version included with Ubuntu 9.10 does 
not have this bug, but it has a problem with higher resolution graphics 
in Wfw 3.11.)

Regards,
Julius

Re: HIMEM.SYS & Wfw 3.11 problems

[Reinhard Karcher]

Am Dienstag 02 Februar 2010 22:22:44 schrieb Julius Schwartzenberg:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having a problem with recent Subversion revisions of Dosemu, I
>  get a message from HIMEM.SYS which states: ERROR: HIMEM.SYS has
>  detected unreliable XMS memory at address 00110000h. XMS Driver not
>  installed.
> 
I don't use HIMEM.SYS. It is not needed, as the default dosemu.conf 
provides both XMS- and EMS-memory.

Reinhard

Re: HIMEM.SYS & Wfw 3.11 problems

[Julius Schwartzenberg]

 > Am Dienstag 02 Februar 2010 22:22:44 schrieb Julius Schwartzenberg:
 > > Hi,
 > >
 > > I'm having a problem with recent Subversion revisions of Dosemu, I
 > >  get a message from HIMEM.SYS which states: ERROR: HIMEM.SYS has
 > >  detected unreliable XMS memory at address 00110000h. XMS Driver not
 > >  installed.
 > >
 > I don't use HIMEM.SYS. It is not needed, as the default dosemu.conf
 > provides both XMS- and EMS-memory.

But as far as I'm aware, I need to use HIMEM.SYS to be able to run 
Windows. Also this used to work fine before. I'll see if I can find out 
in which revision it regressed.

PS: It seems I'm missing a lot of e-mail from the mailing list. I didn't 
get this e-mail either. I wonder whether the list is operating correctly.

Re: HIMEM.SYS & Wfw 3.11 problems

[Julius Schwartzenberg]

Julius Schwartzenberg wrote:
>  > Am Dienstag 02 Februar 2010 22:22:44 schrieb Julius Schwartzenberg:
>  > > Hi,
>  > >
>  > > I'm having a problem with recent Subversion revisions of Dosemu, I
>  > >  get a message from HIMEM.SYS which states: ERROR: HIMEM.SYS has
>  > >  detected unreliable XMS memory at address 00110000h. XMS Driver not
>  > >  installed.
>  > >
>  > I don't use HIMEM.SYS. It is not needed, as the default dosemu.conf
>  > provides both XMS- and EMS-memory.
> 
> But as far as I'm aware, I need to use HIMEM.SYS to be able to run 
> Windows. Also this used to work fine before. I'll see if I can find out 
> in which revision it regressed.

I just did some regression testing.
The first regression (the HIMEM.SYS error message):
last revision without: 1928
first revision with: 1929

The second regression (Dosemu crashing when double clicking on the top 
left menu button in Program Manager):
last revision without: 1962
first revision with: 1963

Note, to test for the last regression I had to add /TESTMEM:OFF to get 
HIMEM.SYS to load.

Regards,
Julius