Hi,
I have just got dosemu-0.98.1-2 istalled and working (I know 0.98.8 is the
latest version and will check it out soon), and have some problems. I am running
linux 2.0.36-0.7, from the Redhat 5.1 distribution, and have dos 6.22 with
windows 3.1 on /dev/hda1.
First what works:
1. I could get dos and xdos to work. This took some doing especially as the
"setup-hdimage" script was missing in my installation (Redhat 5.1 distribution).
However, I tinkered and got things to work. (Basically I violated rule 0 and put
/dev/hda1 as my first hdimage, booted off it and then transferred the system
to the freedos image. It worked, which justifies all :^)
2. I could get even a graphics program that used ega graphics to run under xdos.
What does not work:
1. The graphics program uses CTRL-BREAK as the escape key it listens to.
Unfortunately I can't get this to do anything in xdos. I tried setting
rawkeyboard to "1" but that did not help. Any ideas how I can get this key
combination to work? (I cannot change the DOS program, for which I have only
the executable).
2. The program has a choice of ega and cga under which it works. The CGA mode
does not work, complaining that the video mode cannot be set under the current
screen. (I am running 1024x768 with 8 bit colour as my linux screen). Any ideas
how I can get CGA to work? Strange as it may seem, I require that mode :^)
3. The colours are completely messed up. The ega graphics should have been white
on black, and showed up as blue on black and hardly visible. The rest of the
screen was completely mangled as well. However, everything cleared up once the
ega mode was exited.
4. The "dexe" facility also seems to be missing in my distribution. What I
finally did was to have autoexec.bat look for an "autorun.bat" in a lredir'd
partition and if it existed, to execute it. For my current purposes, it is
satisfactory, but hardly elegant. What did _not_ work was an attempt to ask
dosemu to startup on an alternate "autoexec" file via
xdos -I '$_emubat=101" '
(I tried various combinations of single and double quotes and escaping the $
and so forth, but no luck). What is the proper way to ask dosemu to boot off of
an alternate set of files? [Note that I ran as a priveliged _user_, i.e., gave
my user account "c_all" permission.]
Thanks to anyone who can help/advise.
hari ramachandran
Institute for plasma research
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ps: Information on my system:
Celeron 350 MHz, SiS 6215 SVGA card.
pps: Changes in my dosemu.conf:
$_video = "vga" # tried ega and even cga, but no use
$_console = (1) # no observable effect
$_graphics = (1) # no observable effect
$_chipset = "plainvga" # The SiS chipset is not supported by dosemu
$_hdimage = "hdimage.first" # this is the default, actually.
The graphics settings did not do anything to solve the problem, though the rest
of the screen looks slightly less wierd with these settings.
