Has anyone got dosemu working on an Acer 370 (Chips & Tech
65550, 1 meg or more of video ram working fine in X and even in
inferior windows environments at anything up to 800x600 from a PCI bus)
I'm using SuSE 6.1, 2.2.5 kernel, dosemu 0.98.6, booting dos 7 (for
want of a better name).
I have simple enough dos programs which just can't find vga modes
undern dosemu on this laptop. The results are wierd, but I think I've
tracked it down to this. I have one program simply complaining that I
don't have a vga card. Nothing fancy is being tried here. These
programs would probably run from a '286 pc, maybe even ax XT! The
program C:\vgaon (in dosemu) exits at once with the line.
vgaonERROR: VIDEO BIOS NOT MAPPED!!!!
One odd thing about this machine is that Dos, which normally defaults
to 640x480, actually uses the 800x600 of the screen. So something is
telling lies somewhere :). The Bios does not appear to be AMI, or
AWARD, the two I am familiar with. It gives me the following notice
for 1/2 second after reboot:
Chips & Technologies 65550 PCI & VL Accelerated Bios
Video BIOS Version 1.2R1.6
DECOMPILATION OR DISASSEMBLY PROHIBITED
Copyright (C) Chips & Technologies Ltd. All Rights Reserved
{Imagine how many reboots it took to read that lot ;-) }
During the bootup, the top line says
BIOS Version 2.0
which I take to be their proprietary system Bios. I have no options
about copying the BIOS into ram. But there is absolutely no upper
memory available to me. MEM /C /P returns no upper memory in total,
used, or free, without drivers, and 393,216 bytes of it with them
(all reserved), and such commands as "dos = high,umb" is ignored. Upper
memory (but not high memory) even disappears from the total
(33,554,432) memory without drivers. The curse of the seven snotty
orphans on Microsoft anyhow - they're to blame for the op system :-(
It otherwise tries to work in Dosemu. I did get
the idea for setting
$_term_char_set = "ibm"
from the dosemu list (Thanks Nathan) but I'm still complaining :-(
Any ideas?
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Regards
Declan Moriarty
