I have a Lenovo Intel Celeron laptop of a "newer" model (Lenovo
ideaPad 100s 14IBR). This laptop appear not to have a proper upper
memory area and handling. I use FreeDOS 1.2 and Breadbox Ensemble from
Blueway Softworks. DOS is configured so I do not use any UMB, since the
upper area seemes "swampy" regarding upper memory. I have a very slim
DOS config, and I use XMGR.SYS as the XMS manager. Everything works fine
in FreeDOS. As far as I have tested most things works fine in Breadbox
Ensemble, too, except for zipping and unzipping files (GeoZip and Geozip
by RaBe soft), which gives a KR-07 error. Zipping and unzipping files
works just fine in FreeDOS.
I have installed Breadbox 4.12 From Breadbox, too, it will also give KR-07 when unzipping files.
I have turned Sound off in Breadbox Ensemble, to eliminate one source of generating a KR-07 error.
I
have 2 GB of RAM in my laptop and most of it is used by XMGR.SYS, about
1,5 GB. I suspect that Geos have problems handling that amount of RAM,
since I have no problem with XMGR.SYS in computers with lesser RAM and unzipping works there, too. Is
there a workaround? I have tried to find info about the XMS manager in
Breadbox Ensemble, but I could not find any.
Any hints?Hans