On Sat, 1 May 1999, David Hodges wrote:
> > dosemu 0.66, I managed to successfully install such programs as warcraft and
> > the old, classic game doom and run them on my machine. Now, however, it
> > installs the program, but every time I try and run a setup or the program
> > itself, it gives me this error message:
> >
> > ERROR: general protection at 0x1696f: 66
> > ERROR: SIGSEGV, protected insn...exiting!
>
> I think I better put this in the frequently asked questions list.
> You need to change the line
> $_dpmi = (off)
> to
> $_dpmi = (4096)
> (or more) to run programs such as Doom that use DPMI
>
> (I believe it's off by default because DPMI programs can theoretically do
> naughty things (but probably not accidentally so it's only a problem if you
> don't trust the program you're running))
Yes, but this is only true if DOSEMU runs suid-root.
If DOSEMU runs non-suid (low feature) its save to allow DPMI.
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DOSEMU now can run most of DOS-applications under X, even when not running
suid-root, so 'low feature' mostly applies on not being able to access
hardware ports / RAM directly and to get real IRQs passed.
Hans
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