Hallo, and a happy new year.
I have the following problem with dosemu (Yes you have read the subject
right):
I have a program (VGA-Planets Assistent) that tries to switch to graphics
mode 18 (at least that is shown in the Debugoutput, but its also very likely)
that is 640x480 with 16 colors as far as I know. However, if I run it in
dosemu under ConsoleGraphics, everything is ok except that all digits but 0
the program writes to the screen disappear. The program runs fine, though. It
just doesn't display 1-9.
On the other hand, if I run the same program under xdos, everything goes
wild. The xdos window starts to flicker violently. You can see shapes of what
should have been drawn in the window but all distorted. Just as if the vgaemu
calculates where to place the dots but gets them wrong by 3 to 5 pixels.
Worse: The mouse curser gets replaced by a 64x64 stripe pattern and will only
occasionally revert to the original cursor. However, other programs are
affected as well. XV for instance partly stops redrawing the background of
its main window. No wait. I think this is also a fault of the X-Server, I
have BackingStore and SaveUnder.
But the worst of all: If I exit X now (after exiting dosemu gracefully) my
console is in a very wierd state: All font data is overwritten.
Below is a list of the programs involved:
dosemu 0.98.[1234] both with and without MITSHM
I think earlier versions had the same or other problems. I never got VPA to
run under X properly and on console only in 0.60.4 (I believe).
XFree86 3.3.2 and 3.3.3
S3-Server: 1280x1024x8 (Last is depth)
S3-Server: 800x600x24
VGA16-Server: 640x480x4
All with the same result. Though, if I remember correctly my console wasn't
crashed by the VGA16-Server. But since the other symptoms are the same this
may have been luck.
MSDOS 6.22
VPA 3.51e
I hope this not a known bug as well.
If you need further information, debug output, gdb-session logs ... just tell
me. I am able to do the debugging myself with help of someone who knows the
internals of dosemu and guids me to the correct places.
Bye, Seb
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