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- From: jliukkon@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Juha-Matti Liukkonen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: Unable to load drivers in UMB
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.215627.2933@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 21:56:27 GMT
- References: <1992Aug14.020418.1@draco.rutgers.edu>
- Distribution: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- Lines: 23
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- In <1992Aug14.020418.1@draco.rutgers.edu> zhhu@draco.rutgers.edu writes:
-
- >I have a 386/25MHz machine on which I was not able to load the MOUSE driver
- >into the upper memory area. The Microsoft mouse driver has a size of 55kB
- >While the resident part is only 16.7kb. There are 28.4kb free UMB, but I
- >have been not able to load the Mouse driver into that UMB. I tried both
- >Devicehigh or Loadhigh, and even specified the size in Devicehigh command.
- >Non of them worked. Would some wise gentlmen advise me what is wrong?
-
- EMM386 is what's wrong. It's not smart enough to understand the resizing
- after initialization; I'd strongly suggest that you get QEMM386 or a
- similar product. Another very good one is shareware UMBDRVR, but it
- doesn't give you EMS. Either way, you'll get pretty certainly some 100K
- more UMB space as well. I have both QEMM and UMBDRVR, and it's nice to
- have Stacker, mouse & the rest of 'em up high. 623K free conventional
- memory is a handy thing to have! (BTW, UMBDRVR doesn't even slow down
- your computer, and even QEMM has considerably less overhead than
- EMM386.)
-
- --
- Juha Liukkonen, aka jliukkon@cc.helsinki.fi
- University of Helsinki, Dept. of Paranormal Investigations
- "Trust me, I know what I'm doing." - Sledge Hammer
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