Jim Morris wrote:
>
> Reinhard Karcher wrote:
>
> > as far as I know, 4 Bit Graphics is not supported in xdos. Perhaps we'll
> > get
> > an answer from an expert.
>
> I looked into this about 6 months ago, and you have hit the nail on the
> head. xdos does NOT support any 4-bit graphics modes. I think the guys
> that work on xdos decided that the planar video modes would be more
> trouble to emulate than they are worth. And having done VGA graphics
> programming quite a bit when it came out, they are probably right.
>
> The only answer for now is that if you have a program that runs in a
> 16-color graphics mode under DOS, then you need to run it use DOSEMU on
> a console, and not under X.
First of all: Thanks for the answers.
Still I have two questions:
1. How is it possible, that any X program using standard X-lib calls (I
suspect dosemu does this ;-) can almost crash the X-Server? Doesn't this show
that there must be a bug in X as well? Should I send this to any X-related
Mailing list and if yes do you know the address?
2. On the console, VPA doesn't run either. There it isn't a problem with
graphics (at least I don't think so.) But once VPA has established graphics
mode and writes text to the screen all digits save 0 simply disapear. (Better
are not drawn from the beginning.) VPA writes some text in another font
(probably with it own routines) and there it is all just fine. However, the
status display and some other information (important information) is written
with the system font (and thus I suspect, by calling dos or BIOS routines)
and there all characters except 1-9 don't make it to the screen.
Has any body run into this before? And, even more important, has anybody any
suggestions about how to fix it? (I have tried virtually all combinations of
the relevant settings in dosemu.conf, but to no avail)
Bye, Seb
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