Sorry about this late reply.. um.. How am i suppose to know how the HP8570C does shadowing? It just does it and there's no way to turn it off through bios setup. I've tried getting graphics to work in dosemu before in the past but everytime i tried to run a game such as wolf3d the thing went black which forced me to switch terminal screens and log back in to kill the dosemu process. I then realized that I probably needed to disable video/bios shadowing.This is what most people seem to suggest when someone asks the question "how do i get graphics to work" (It's also mentioned in the docs included with dosemu). The HP8570C is 3 years old (i bought it back in 99 - was state of the art back then heh :P) so there's no new bios updates for this system. I have the latest and final bios update for it. I realize the problem with wolf3d might have been related to other issues but even old games such as ultima1 or 4 didn't work. I only got ZZT to work (since it's a old text based game that uses pc speaker sound only) but the fonts were screwy since it was using the default terminal font and I never did figure out how to fix that. Oh, I also got QBasic to work too but it appears to be really slow so i'm afraid even games like wolf3d would be coming to a halt on this 450 mhz system. Seems you need like a ghz system to even handle those games if something such as QBasic would act quite slow. Of course, I was doing these tests on a distro that was set up to work on top of the dos partition so perhaps a real linux setup would be 10x faster *shrug*. I intend on messing around with dosemu again in the future with a distro running on top of it's own partition and not dos. I was really hoping there was another solution to getting graphics to work in dosemu without having to really disable video/bios shadowing in the first place.
At 07:08 PM 9/9/02 -0700, you wrote: >On Mon, 9 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Awhile back I tried getting graphics to work in dosemu on some linux > >distros I was playing with at the time. Sadly, I was totally unsuccessful. > >I realized after reading the docs that one had to disable video/bios > >shadowing in order to use graphics. The problem is, my computer (HP8570C) > >*does not* have any setting in the bios that lets you do this. > >So how does the HP8570C do shadowing? Perhaps there is a bios upgrade >possible that would allow it. Something like is available on vectra. > >Cheers, Pat > > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in >the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
