Yup. It's xdos.  I just tried running dos on the console and the app
does 'nothing' when it starts up - just a blank screen.  Do I need to
shut down X first?  I just switched to an alternate console with
C-ALT-F1.

-Tom
Bart Oldeman wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Tm Serkowski wrote:
> 
> > I have a DOS application I'd like to run that operates in graphics
> > mode.  The dosemu that came with my Openlinux produced the message:
> > *** Sorry, video mode (0x12) is not fully supported. You may get ***
> >  *** better results using a recent developer release of DOSEMU.  ***
> >
> > I upgraded to 1.0.0.0 and now don't get the message, but graphics result
> > is the same:
> 
> I assume you're talking about xdos. It does not work correctly with planar
> (mostly 16 color) graphics modes such as 0x12 (640x480x16) right now.
> 
> Try to get dosemu working on the console if you need the application.
> 
> Bart

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