Hi, Ever since successfully :-) configuring dosemu, I've had a couple of strange problems crop up that are only happening in the root account. Since I only edited dosemu.conf and dosemu.users and ran dos and xdos I can't figure out what is causing these things. I also verified several RPM packages for missing or changed files to no avail. I'm trying to avoid re-installing as that seems like an overkill solution. Phenomena are: 1) cannot run dos in root account at all. Hangs even when I take the non-root-user permission out of dosemu.users Runs great in user account -- even foxpro 2.6 extended version and a business graphics package. :-) 2) printtool (RH tool to configure the printer) starts and instantly aborts. I also notice that the /dev/print item does not point to lp2. Just checked again and noticed that the printer device is GONE from /dev :-X But I just printed something with lpr and had no problem! <??> (I have not edited /etc/printcap directly and it looks fine to me.) 3) Console mode dialogs in the root account -- such as setup, linuxconf (char mode versions) are corrupted on the screen. But, oddly, they're fine in the non-root account (where it does no good to run them really). :-X I'm referring here to the Okay, Cancel, Quit boxes, borders, etc. They have ugly numbers and characters instead of the nice boxes with shadows that they normally have. I think this has something to do with ansi but I can't find anything pertinent with apropos on ANSI, ansi, console, etc. I do have ansi.sys running in the dos config.sys but this happens in a linux tty console session even when I haven't started dos since last rebooting. All of the above started happening -- at least I noticed them -- at the same time -- just after successfully configuring dosemu. Any clues on how I might fix any of these would be greatly appreciated! One additional problem with dosemu: I can't get dos to talk to my modem on com1 even though configured correctly for ttyS0 in dosemu.conf and the same program in real DOS works. I'm suspecting a uugetting setting in inittab which allows users to dial-in. Any suggestions on how to handle this would be great as well. thanks, jamie faunt -- ____________________________________________ The Faunt School of Creative Music Accelerated Music Mastery _________________________ http://www.pacificnet.net/~faunt/ phone:818-506-MUSE fax: 818-508-0429
