Please excuse me if this problem has been discussed before, but I am new to
this list and wasn't able to
find any reference to my problem in the archives.

First a little background on the machine I'm using:

Mandrake 6.1
Voodoo 3500 AGP video card
XFree86 that comes with Mandrake 6.1 -- using the SVGA server
16 bit color depth @ 1024 x 768 resolution
128MB RAM
Abit BP6 MB w/single Celeron 366 -- not overclocked (yet)
DOSEMU .99.13


The problem I experience is when I try to run 'xdos.'  I used to have the
VGA font problem, but that is fixed.  The problem
I have now is when I try to run xdos, I can't get any text to appear.  I
know xdos is working, because I can type commands
and see weird video corruption at the very top (1/10th) of the of the xdos
session.  If I run the DOS 'edit' command, the
screen then displays completely correct, but as soon as I exit, it goes
back to being all black except a little bit of the
video corruption at the top of the screen I was talking about earlier.  To
make matters even more interesting, there are
some programs that will actually "fix" this problem.  For example, there is
a CoCo 3 emulator I tried running from inside
xdos.  I know the command, so I can start it without actually having to see
the command I'm typing.  Once it starts running,
the display looks fine.  When I exit the emulator, the xdos session works
perfect.  I can see all the text just fine.  I do know
that the CoCo 3 emulator does require SVGA graphics, so maybe it
"initializes" something for my display that xdos
doesn't when it first starts.

I know this is not a lot to go on, but I'm hoping someone might be able to
help me with this problem.

Thank you!


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