Thanks for the explanining things. I haven't messed around much with the X version of dosemu except when playing around with ZZT (I seem to recall all the characters were squished probably because it wasn't running in full screen). I was never trying to be rude or anything and I hope I didn't come off as such. I do appreciate the work that you and the dosemu team have done and look forward to "full screen support in X" and "vgaemu on console" support in the future. Thanks again, later...
At 10:29 PM 9/20/02 +0100, you wrote: >1st note: you do not need to (and never needed to) disable shadowing if >you use graphics in xdosemu, which is quite usable nowadays, but in >certain cases too slow, for some graphical programs not perfect and not >full screen (your apps run in the "DOS in the BOX"). > >Only on the linux console, IF your graphics card is supported by DOSEMU >and IF you run DOSEMU as root or suid-root you *might* need to have to >turn off vbios shadowing. There are quite a few graphics cards out there >that DOSEMU does not support, and moreover suid-root is discouraged. > >On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Why was it programmed this way? > >Nothing really intended - DOSEMU basically mmaps the contents of >/dev/mem to 0xc0000-0xc8000 or some such, if it has permission to do so. >Otherwise console graphics don't work. > > > Why does one have to disable video/bios shadowing? > >I guess because the RAM that is used for the shadowing at boot time >might be overwritten by Linux and things get messed up. This is highly >system dependent; that's why I said *might*. > > > Is this the only programming solution that had to be done or could > there have also > > been another way that probably would've been a lot more challenging to > > implement but would've allowed people to run there graphical games without > > any requirements to disable video/bios shadowing in the first place? > >yes, that's called "vgaemu" and is what you use when you run graphical >applications in xdosemu - no need for a graphics card specific video >BIOS, so shadowing is irrelevant. > >simply run them in xdosemu or wait for "vgaemu on console or fullscreen >X" support, that does not need the systems BIOS or root privileges. > >Bart > >- >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
