Re: COM int not reachable

2001-07-26 Thread Stas Sergeev
GØnter Knab wrote: > a dos program can't reach the COM1 int 4 under dosemu. This int seems > to be mapped to int 12. The program itself can't be configured to use > this int. Hmm. That seems strange since irq4 is always mapped to int12 in dos unless you manually reprogram the master PIC. So try

Re: Re: Re: question on dosemu

2001-08-27 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hans Lermen wrote: >> Stas Sergeev did send me a patch that solve the problem. > hmm, what patch are we talking about here? I have posted a potential fix to Andreas and it works. The explanation is that if we want to prevent calling int > 0xe0, we have to do it for ax=0x300 and not f

AW: Re: Re: question on dosemu

2001-08-27 Thread Stas Sergeev
Andreas Moroder wrote: > I changed my apllication to use the Yield function in the following asm > file, but it seem sto help nothing ( This function helps very much in win > NT ) > ;; Author: Sz,l Viktor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This is strange since this method _is_ supported by dosemu via hogthr

Re: mouse causes crash & dos4gw doesn't like keyboard

2001-08-27 Thread Stas Sergeev
Keith Duthie wrote: > The game is called Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriach. This problem could This is really great: this game crashes when moveing the mouse and it does *not* use dpmi. Previously I sought it is a dpmi problem, but now I see how I was wrong. Also now I think I understand where th

[patch] mouse driver update

2001-09-10 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. The purpose of this patch is to fix a crash when mouse moves under X. It prevents reentering to the mouse handler by using a standart PIC model of handling interrupts. This should work for every program including dpmi apps. I beleave that other internal drivers should also be changed to th

Re: Is the dosemu project maintained?

2001-09-12 Thread Stas Sergeev
George Petri wrote: > 1. To compile DOS programs > 2. To play games > Point 1 works fine but DosEMU has MAJOR problems with Point 2. > This is because sound support is pathetic and 16-bit SVGA support What about root console dosemu instead of xdos? SVGA support seems to work well under console. An

Re: problem formatting disk (a: or b:)

2001-09-22 Thread Stas Sergeev
Narendra wrote: > problem in formatting a removable disk (a or b) by using format in xdos. Do you really need to format it in dosemu? Why don't you just use mkdosfs instead? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: Dosemu and dpmi application

2001-10-02 Thread Stas Sergeev
Marcus Roeckrath wrote: > I discovered that if you run the old dosemu code with the new kernel it > works well *provided* that it is run by root. Suid root is not enough. I > cannot explain this, but this is actually happening... > I would also appriciate any hints. The answer is here: http://

Re: Dosemu and dpmi application

2001-10-02 Thread Stas Sergeev
Stas Sergeev wrote: > Marcus Roeckrath wrote: > > I discovered that if you run the old dosemu code with the new kernel it > > works well *provided* that it is run by root. Suid root is not enough. I > The answer is here: > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-msdos&

Re: dosemu sessions crashing after 30 mins of keyboard inactivity

2001-10-05 Thread Stas Sergeev
"David Milligan" wrote: > Some of our (and others) programmes appear to either "crash" or "pause" if > they are left running for around 30 minutes or more. Is this with dosemu-1.0.2? > This is especially apparent in our programmes which have a screen saver > feature. The screen saver routine is p

Re: DOSEmu require root access for console graphics, while Win2K doesn't???

2001-10-19 Thread Stas Sergeev
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As you may know, to have fast, fullscreen console graphics, DOSEmu must be > run as root or SUID root. > (please note that a small bug in 1.0.2 prevents you from running as root but AFAIK, it prevents from running SUID, but running _as_ root works. > Hans Lerman poste

Re: I've got problem

2001-10-20 Thread Stas Sergeev
slaanesh wrote: > I need help with dosemu-1.0.1-10. I installed dosemu, freedos and xdos Thing to try: install latest version dosemu-1.0.2.1 > on my computer. I set in dosemu.conf line "$_hdimage = bootdir" where i > put dos files ( /var/lib/dosemu/bootdir). However when i type dos or > xdos on

Re: dosemu and 2.4 (mandrake) kernels

2001-10-27 Thread Stas Sergeev
Russell Poyner wrote: > PS. I am contacting the vendor of avimark to try and decipher the > mysterious "Runtime error 200" message. This error message is magic and this question is asked very frequently. Try starting this program before starting your program: http://www.geocities.com/stssppnn/sdi

Re: nothing works

2001-11-01 Thread Stas Sergeev
Martin 'pisi' Paljak wrote: > time, no program that uses dos4gw.exe [whatever it is, I'm not a dos > professional] doesnt work. If i'm not mistaken this one provides some kind > of memory managment or something. Maybe there is a way to make them work > somehow? Definitely, there is. Everything (al

Re: Doom, Duke 3D, etc & p-mode POPF not trapped

2001-11-01 Thread Stas Sergeev
"Vlad Romascanu (LMC)" wrote: > it seems that in p-mode, if cpl > iopl, popf instructions are not trapped. No, if cpl > iopl, they *are* trapped, and otherwise they are executed. > under window$ nt this freezes the dos session (virtual interrupts are never > reenabled because popf is not trapped)

Re: Doom, Duke 3D, etc & p-mode POPF not trapped

2001-11-02 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hans Lermen wrote: > > it seems that in p-mode, if cpl > iopl, popf instructions are not trapped. > correct. > DPMI under DOSEMU runs in normal Linux user space, hence protected mode > with IOPL=0 and CPL=3. > In protected mode popf _never_ traps (except for stack fault), from > the Intel Programm

DMA-Sound support in dosemu

2001-11-17 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Yesterday I have looked into the sound code of dosemu and found it in not as miserable state as I expected after so many complains in this list. Now I already made some programs to work with sound: pv (mp3 player), iplay (stm player) some other utilities and some games. The fact that I don

Re: Writing plugin code

2001-11-20 Thread Stas Sergeev
Rodrigo Gallardo wrote: > When receiving commands from the DOS program, the emulation sets a > timer. After it expires, it tries to raise an interrupt (IRQ 6), so > the DOS programm will go on. In my timer handler, I call > pic_request(pic_irq_list[6]). I beleive you can do pic_request(PIC_IRQ6) i

Re: DMA-Sound support in dosemu

2001-11-20 Thread Stas Sergeev
Oliver Ob wrote: > > Now I already made some programs to work with sound: pv (mp3 player), > > iplay (stm player) some other utilities and some games. > > The fact that I don't have a sound card appears to be not a big problem: I > have > > pc-speaker, and that just required some more hacks. > wha

RE: DMA-Sound support in dosemu

2001-11-20 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. "Vlad Romascanu (LMC)" wrote: > For Doom and the like it should be easy to incorporate a workaround into > DosEmu (it's tougher to do in WinNT because NT's NTVDM.EXE does not > expose a proper interface for what is needed, but anyway). According to this, it would be easier to patch doom it

RE: DMA-Sound support in dosemu

2001-11-21 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. "Vlad Romascanu (LMC)" wrote: > No good; most of the games patched using cli2nop crash after a few seconds; > -- if the game uses sti/cli for mutual exclusion then keeping interrupts > enabled all the time won't guarantee any mutual exclusion. If DosEmu *does* > disable interrupts but for

Re: DMA-Sound support in dosemu

2001-11-23 Thread Stas Sergeev
Oliver Ob wrote: > Hi Bart, please be so kind as to What do you need? Sound support is incomplete anyway so not only Doom is silent. Enjoy Wolf for now:) > technically exlpain why "no sound" with DOS-DOOM Quoting http://www.jsiinc.com/dl/SoundFX.txt: --- Execution of an CLI or STI instruction cau

Re: virtual 8086

2001-11-23 Thread Stas Sergeev
pp wrote: > I got dosemu 1.0.2.1, and after trying to tun application I got such an error: > "Phar Lap err 35: The 386 chip is currently executing Phar Lap and other dos-extenders are used to work under dosemu if dpmi is enabled. > What should I do? Check $_dpmi option in your dosemu.conf, it is

RE: DMA-Sound support in dosemu

2001-11-25 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. "Vlad Romascanu (LMC)" wrote: > If interrupts have been > disabled for more than a certain amount of time (easy to detect from within > the emulated IRQ0 generator, maybe coupled with the CLI/STI trap handler), > DosEmu could force the enabling of interrupts. Then Doom should then get OK,

Re: Program hogs CPU

2001-10-07 Thread Stas Sergeev
Ross Boylan wrote: > I have tried various settings of hogthreshold, but I can't prevent a > certain program (GrandView) from grabbing all the CPU when it runs. > Is there something I can do about this? Currently there is probably nothing to do, but you can still try playing with nice(1). > The pr

Experemental patch: prevent from hogging CPU

2001-10-08 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. The complain that dosemu hogs CPU when program is idle, appears to be very frequent in this ML, so I decided to post my experemental patch here in hope that someone who have this problem, will test it. I beleave that the problem is that dosemu doesn't release time slices when the program p

Re: Slow printing

2001-10-09 Thread Stas Sergeev
"Steve K. Sears" wrote: > Got it down to 35 seconds before it starts to print by following your > suggestion. Still don't know why it takes that long to process a 2K > ASCII file. > I thought maybe dosemu was hogging all the resources (from reading > previous threads), When dosemu hogs CPU, it ac

Re: Does cmdline.com still work?

2001-12-01 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Sergey Suleymanov wrote: > I've used cmdline.exe and anything work fine. But now > cmdline.com (link to generic.com ) doesn't do his work. Has > something broken? Seems like that. The forgotten braces and other wierd things indicates that the code was never executed since porting to coopth

Re: Print Screen key on Dosemu (again)

2001-12-12 Thread Stas Sergeev
Pablo Bacherer E. wrote: > Is it really so difficult to make the print screen key work on dosemu (as > expected)? Yes, sometimes it turns out to be really a bit difficult to get working a thing that is not implemented yet:) > I've unsuccessfully tried with Dosemu 1.0.1 under the following conditi

Re: German keytable?

2001-12-13 Thread Stas Sergeev
Peter Eser wrote: > ...I send it again (Stas), first time it was not at the whole mailgroup > In earlier releases I worked as normal user with suidroot, but that > seems to be forbidden now. What's your problem? You've been (privately) suggested to upgrade to 1.0.2.1 because it is a fix for your p

Re: I can't execute two consecutive commands in dosemu, xdosemu seems OK

2002-01-05 Thread Stas Sergeev
Chris Elvidge wrote: > E.g. after invoking ./dosemu > dir -> directory listing > dir -> linux shell prompt This is already a second report of this bug. With first reporter we came to a conclusion that Scroll() is called with an invalid screen address for some reasons. Could you please make a V

Re: PCI sound cards that work in dosemu?

2002-01-05 Thread Stas Sergeev
"John C. Alden" wrote: > What PCI sound cards work OK within dosemu? The idea is to emulate a classic SoundBlaster's DSP (and DMA) and output a sound to /dev/dsp, so that you will be able to use *any* sound card that is supported by Linux kernel, while the dos prog will think that it uses SB (you

Re: DMA-Sound support in dosemu

2002-01-10 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. pesarif wrote: > I got dropped from the list for a while (don't know why so I rejoined), did I > miss any other of your patches? If so, please send them to me. No, I haven't posted any more due to a complete lack of interest. But I have just uploaded a latest version to http://www.dosemu

Re: Two questions: Number Pad and Terminal/Console

2002-01-12 Thread Stas Sergeev
"Edward Mendelson" wrote: > To run WordPerfect for DOS, I wanted the Number Pad Plus and Minus keys > to work they work under ordinary DOS. By commenting out the $_X_keycode = > (off) Why don't just change it to $_X_keycode=(on)? > Shift-F1 gets interpreted by WPDOS as Shift-F3, Shift-F2 gets

Re: Problems with Novag's universal chess board

2002-01-13 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. "Bernhard Bialas" wrote: > 1). I get only connection (by starting the driver) when I start DOSEMU > from the console as root.When I start as normal user, the driver fails > to start and I dosemu hangs.What I can do to get the communication from > xdos? (looking in the ChangeLog) I am un

Re: sound questions

2002-01-13 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. "Peter Jay Salzman" wrote: > also, someone on the list sent me email saying that he thinks the sound > code in dosemu is completely broken, as in, dosemu can't utter a peep > right now. but he wasn't sure. But why can't you just check it out? > is this pretty much the situation for > do

Re: MSDOS 6.22 running with/in Dosemu.

2002-01-13 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. "John Goley" wrote: > I think I remember you saying on list that you go Dosemu > 1.0.2.1 running ^^ > Trying version 1.0.2 with freedos on my new P4 1.7 ghz machine wouldn't > work at all. This was fixed in 1.0.2.1 and in 1.1.2, so upgrade. - To unsubscribe from this list: send th

Re: some thoughts about dosemu

2002-01-13 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. > ERROR: general protection at 0xfadf: 66 > ERROR: SIGSEGV, protected insn...exiting! > shouldn't dosemu catch segmentation violations and perhaps print a more It does, else you would have been seeing "segmentation fault (core dumped:)". This is just an evil dos4gw trying to enter protecte

Re: DMA-Sound support in dosemu

2002-01-14 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. pesarif wrote: > I did all your patches at that URL (sound + serial) and got: > i.e. the serial patches required "fuzzing" and the DPMI patch failed. Using > dosemu 1.0.2.1. What I am doing wrong? At least one thing: serial patches have nothing to do with sound stuff, so it is not neces

Re: DMA-Sound support in dosemu

2002-01-18 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. pesarif wrote: > Liero and OMF2097 sound stutters a bit (the kind of sound stuttering you hear > when a system is under a heavy load). OK, as I said before, OMF's problem is fixed. LIERO's problem is now also fixed, get a new patch: http://www.dosemu.org/~stas/snd-patch5-1.1.2.diff.gz Lie

Re: VLM.EXE crashes with dosemu-1.0.2

2002-01-20 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. "Sergey Suleymanov" wrote: > Grigory>Hi! I'm testing dosemu-1.0.2. VLM.EXE from Novell > Grigory> Netware client crashes when I try to use it. > I guess, you need suid root dosemu.bin to vlm.exe work. One small addition: you need suid-root *and* dosemu-1.1.2, because AFAIK suid-root

Re: DMA-Sound support in dosemu

2002-01-21 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. pesarif wrote: > > OK, as I said before, OMF's problem is fixed. LIERO's problem is now also > > fixed, get a new patch: > Thanks, I'll test out your patch. I worked around clicking in many progs by increasing the minimal OSS buffer size. It adds latency, but it is better than clicking. So

RE: DMA-Sound support in dosemu

2002-01-21 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. "Vlad Romascanu (LMC)" wrote: >> Liero was setting a very small transfer size, so sometimes it >> happened that >> it was not able to handle interrupt until another one is >> arrived, hence >> stuttering. I worked around the problem by pausing DMA between the >> interrupt request and ack

RE: DMA-Sound support in dosemu

2002-01-22 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. "Vlad Romascanu (LMC)" wrote: >> Just to be more specific: I am only pausing DRQs, which doesn't always >> mean pausing DMA, but for single mode it does. > OK. On SB-16 DMA *transfers* will pause What exactly it does to pause DMA? OK, atleast my code must be correct for SBPro (which is wh

Re: DosEmu error

2002-01-25 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. "Julius Chrobak" wrote: > Caldera Dr-Dos. If I want to run it now it writes this: > Phar Lap err 35: The 386 chip is currently executing in virtual 8086 > mode under the control of another program. You must turn off this other > program in order to use 386|DOS-Extender to run in protect

Re: mouse in xdosemu

2002-01-25 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. "John Goley" wrote: > mouse doesn't work like it is suppose to. It will not work at all if I just > "left" mouse click on the menus. Nothing happens. But if I hold down > the right mouse button and then click "hard" with the left button then it > will work sometimes. What is wrong? Is th

RE: DMA-Sound support in dosemu

2002-01-25 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hi. "Vlad Romascanu (LMC)" wrote: > However, even if the transfer was "block" it will still pause on > terminal-count if DREQ is deasserted, no? >From manual: "The difference between Block and Demand is that once a Block transfer is started, it runs until the transfer count reaches zero. DRQ onl

Re: DMA-Sound support in dosemu

2002-01-25 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. pesarif wrote: > I've just tested out your patch. Thanks:) > In general, it's perfect :) except that most programs still can't detect it This is improved in the devel version of dosemu, but don't expect perfection anyway. > and there's no music :( Upgrade your soundcard with a midi daug

RE: DMA-Sound support in dosemu

2002-01-25 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. "Vlad Romascanu (LMC)" wrote: > you (the SB) can always deassert DRQ and the DMAC > will actually check DRQ when reaching terminal-count, no? Yes (even in auto-init I think, my docs are incomplete though), but how to stop block DMA xfer when TC is not yet? I mean I can issue a "Pause" comm

Re: nvidia cards?

2002-02-01 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. "bascule" wrote: > hi, i've joined this list to see if i can get some help on getting dosemu to > work - or rather to play 'monkey isalnd 2', i run mandrake 8.1 plus > cooker enhancements i.e. bits if it are bleedin edge:-) dosemu version is > 'dosemu-1.0.1-8mdk', Have you tried Mandrak

Re: nvidia cards?

2002-02-02 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. "bascule" wrote: >> is to use a self-compilled (with debug info) latest version of dosemu. > i tried compiling the latest mandrake src.rp, it didn't run, i'll > recompile and post the error I mean sources from ftp.dosemu.org/pub/dosemu/Development And, if you need sound, then patches from

Re: random reboots

2002-02-09 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Jacob Perkins wrote: > Whenever I run dosemu-freedos 1.0.2.1 it will eventually > cause my > computer to reboot. I'm running Gentoo Linux with kernel > 2.4.17 with preempt patch. Due to an obvious bug in the latest 2.4 kernels, dosemu can easily cause the system to panic. Generally i

Re: Bug Report: (CRASH) Exception Caused By Non-Available Page (During Runtime)

2002-02-10 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Megas of Vecanti wrote: > I doubt that it's 2.4-specific, then-Since I've seen this page fault > happen even back when I was running 0.98 on 2.2 kernels! You are right, it is not:( > I'll probably try Mr. Sergeev's kernel patch, though. No need: I explicitly stated in brackets that it do

Re: Bug Report: (CRASH) Exception Caused By Non-Available Page (During Runtime)

2002-02-10 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. "Stas Sergeev" wrote: > BTW, your program (MegaZeux) uses DPMI, right? In this case > you are out of luck, I suppose, as there is currently no > active DPMI maintainer AFAIK. > And if it doesn't use DPMI, it is worth to have a look at. Hmm, it doesn't s

Re:

2002-02-21 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Boris wrote: > That sound patch from stas works great. Thanks :) > -Their seems to be abit of a bug in it though. I would be happy if there is only one bug, but in fact there are many more right now (development stage). I was updating the patch rather frequently, but now I am slightly out

Re:

2002-02-21 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Boris wrote: > -The third is that when tring to run doom1,doom2, It loads the data, > but > *always* halts when setting up the "I_StartupTimer(). Almost forgot: several month ago I have already implemented one of the possible workarounds (not the best one though) and it works. Revisit my

Re:

2002-02-24 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. > file-->save-->1.txt, It says "Edit was unable to find the > path 'C:\1.txt". > I can't seem to create new files. I can open up an > existing file and save > it. It just has problems saving new files. Any ideas on > how to fix that? I wonder if a log (something like -D9+dRW) can shed som

Re: emu serial port help

2002-02-24 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. gobo wrote: > trying to access com1 (3f0 - 3ff)under dosemu. i've > given dosemu access to that address range. dosemu emulates serial ports, so no need to use a direct access. Have you tried a $_comX settings in dosemu.conf? > no matter > what i try, i can't get to the ports. You can't u

Re: Sound+dpmi patch

2002-02-25 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Boris wrote: > So is something wrong with the DPMI part of dosemu that > haults Doom2? This patch simply measures a time period of a disabled interrupts and re-enables them in case of a timeout (timeout is set in a $_features, my recommendation is 200 usecs). Doom2 needs this because it us

Re: cdrom question

2002-02-27 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Peter Jay Salzman wrote: >C:\>mscdex /D:MSCD0001 /L:E >Not enough drive letters available > can someone help me resolve this error message? Have you tried something like LASTDRIVE=Z adding in your config.sys? > i never really used > DOS, so i don't grok things very well. For mos

Re: cdrom question

2002-03-06 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > unfortunately, the system freezes up for something like 30 seconds when > the cdrom is first accessed (or when i do a DIR in a cd directory that > hasn't been cached yet). Are you using a redirector to access your cd, or dosemu's cdrom.sys? With cdrom.sys this ta

Re: Cannot get raw serial port access ...

2002-03-17 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Bryan J. Smith wrote: > Tried this under both DOSEmu 1.0.2 and 1.1.1. Try 1.1.2 (or, better, even 1.1.2.9) > 1. Run as su'ed root (so I can access /dev/ttyS0) > 2a. Set $_com1 = "/dev/ttyS0" > 2b. Set $_ports = "device /dev/ttyS0 range 0x3F8,0x3FF" > If I don't do #1, I get an error on

Re: Slow loading

2002-03-19 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Johan Gill wrote: > I have Dosemu 1.1.3 installed, under which I run Msdos 6. > I am trying to run Star Trek 25th Anniversary, CD version on this > setup, > with all sound disabled. It works, but it loads REALLY slowly, about 10 > minutes to get it going. How comes? $_hogthreshold now b

Re: Printing Problem

2002-03-20 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Suporte wrote: > Problem: > The Dosemu starts to send the report for the spool of Linux(lpt1) before > the application finishes to generate the report, with this, the report > is printed in parts without control. > How to leave printer_timeout infinite? ==> This resolve? You mentioned tha

Re: Dosemu Crash

2002-03-20 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Dosemu List wrote: > I use dosemu-1.0.2.1 from Debian...really nice product ! You may want to upgrade to dosemu-1.1.3 > Mar 19 15:14:47 costes kernel: invalid operand: > Mar 19 15:14:47 costes kernel: CPU:0 > Mar 19 15:14:47 costes kernel: EIP: > Mar 19 15:14:47 costes kernel

Re: Dosemu Crash

2002-03-21 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Dosemu List wrote: >> This seems like a problem with the latest >> 2.4 kernels. > I have the dosemu 1.1.3 with the patch for 2.4 kernel but now the > system is block > when I have a pb and I am oblige to do a kill . Do you mean dosemu gets blocked, not the whole system I guess, else how c

Re: 1.1.3 doesn't compile

2002-03-22 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Witold Filipczyk wrote: > And now a few programs, that don't work as they should: > R80 - Spectrum emulator - any keypress cause exit with General > Protection Fault. Yes, DPMI gets broken in 1.1.3 somehow:( It must (and hopefully will) be fixed, but I've no idea when:) Try the attached p

Re: dosemu: versions: still com ports

2002-03-22 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. > I am wondering about the versions of dosemu. Somebody suggested I use > dosemu-1.1.3. However, while i did find a redhat package with this > version number, You are definitely confusing something - pre-packaged dosemu-1.1.3 must not exist. Could you provide a link to where you've seen i

Re: dosemu-1.1.3 and Novell vlm.exe

2002-03-25 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Grigory Batalov wrote: > Ok, DR-DOS 7.03 works little better, vlm is working. But dosemu > crashes when I start FoxPro 2.6/DOS: > DPMI: realmode hlt: 0xfc920 > DPMI: switching from real to protected mode > DPMI: Free Mem Blk. for handle 0003 > MAPPING: free, cap= DPMI, addr=0x404ad0

Re: Slow loading examined

2002-03-25 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Johan Gill wrote: > This is the symptom: Dosemu seems to lock up for some time when the > game > is supposed to read from CD. Refreshing of the Dosemu X window stops > for at least half a minute. Try starting xdos from within gdb and interrupt it with ^c when it locks. Then you can do a

Re: Sherlock - an old DOS game

2002-03-26 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Jim Hartley wrote: > I have an old DOS game called Sherlock which I would like to run under > Dosemu. It does not work, just hangs up Just started it under xdos (dosemu-1.1.3), and it works perfectly. Console dosemu currently doesn't work for me, but I am sure that if the program works und

Re: Sherlock - an old DOS game

2002-03-27 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Jim Hartley wrote: > So what's the trick? You say "xdos" ... does that mean I use "xdosemu" > to run it? Yes. "xdosemu" is a link to a startup script called "dosemu", but it makes sense which one to start. xdos is a link to a binary called "dos", which was used in older dosemu versions an

Re: Dosemu general protection error

2002-03-27 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. > I'm running MSDos 6.2 on dosemu 1.0.2. The program asm5600.exe, which > runs in native dos, causes the below error message when run in dosemu. Just tried under PC-DOS 7.0, dosemu-1.1.3: Motorola DSP56000 Assembler Version 5.3.20 Copyright Motorola, Inc. 1987-1994. All rights reserved.

Re: dosemu-1.1.3 and Novell vlm.exe

2002-03-27 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Grigory Batalov wrote: > I. Dosemu-1.1.3 and freedos still crashes while loading vlm: > ERROR: general protection at 0x20360: 50 > Program=do_vm86.c, Line=389 Make sure you have enough XMS/EMS/DPMI memory configured. >> It would be better to apply them together with >> this one, but then

Re: Printing Problem

2002-03-28 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Suporte wrote: > send directly for the LTP1, the dosemu close job and sends a piece of > the archive for the spool of the Linux. > Because the Dosemu does not wait that the application finishes the > execution of the report to order job for the spool of the Linux? > What I can modify in so

Re: Installing dosemu-1.0.2.tgz?

2002-04-22 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Felix Karpfen wrote: > My remaining question is, are there benefits from overwriting the > installed (already-working) dosemu-1.0.2 by the compiled version? The benefit is that you can compile something more modern instead of your 1.0.2, which is known to be buggy. And also you will be abl

Re: dosemu-1.1.3 and Cyrillic_er

2002-04-23 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Sergey Suleymanov wrote: > Grigory> looks like 'P') when in X. Some time ago I got patch from > Grigory> Sergey Suleymanovor for dosemu-1.0.2 that fixes problem for > Grigory> 1.0.2 version. Maybe such patch exist for 1.1.3? > Just for 1.1.2 + Eric's patch. I think that this Er

Re: dosemu-1.1.3 and Cyrillic_er

2002-04-23 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Sergey Suleymanov wrote: > Stas> And where is this glorious patch of yours? Having a proper > Stas> keymap could be very handy. > Well, here is it. (for 1.1.3) Thanks, it works. But one thing is strange: when I use a native X switch (Xkb) to switch to Cyrillic, everything works O

Re: dosemu-1.1.3 and Cyrillic_er

2002-04-23 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Stas Sergeev wrote: > Sergey Suleymanov wrote: >> Stas> And where is this glorious patch of yours? Having a proper >> Stas> keymap could be very handy. >> Well, here is it. (for 1.1.3) > Any ideas why this happens with BackSpace? Well, turning off

Re: dosemu-1.1.3 and Cyrillic_er

2002-04-24 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Sergey Suleymanov wrote: >>> Any ideas why this happens with BackSpace? > Stas> Well, turning off X_keycode "fixes" the problem. Can live with > Stas> this:) > Hmm, can't reproduce that :(. 3592 in both modes. Well, I have investigated a little more and found that the attached p

Re: dosemu-1.1.3 and Cyrillic_er

2002-04-24 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Grigory Batalov wrote: > Why do you prefer that patch than koi8-r from extra_charsets plugin? > It seems working for me. It works for me as well except for typing cyrillic since there is no "ru" keymap without this patch. How are you getting it to understand the cyrillic typing using a

Re: dosemu-1.1.3 and Cyrillic_er

2002-04-25 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Sergey Suleymanov wrote: > Stas> altgr table is enough. > Actually only these are needed at all. ;) But in fact this means that the problem is still there. The problem is that normally altgr map is similar to the alt map, so the special keycodes in it are mapped as for the alt ma

Re: dosemu-1.1.3 and Cyrillic_er

2002-04-25 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Grigory Batalov wrote: >> Grigory> Also I set $_external_char_set = "koi8-r" >> Grigory> $_internal_char_set = "cp866" in ~/dosemu/conf/dosemurc and >> Grigory> it works. >> As the Alt+keypad sequences. >Is it bad? =) Are you sure that you are using a *system* switch (xrus,

Re: sound in dosemu ?

2002-04-28 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Thomas Weidner wrote: > what do i need to get sound in old dos games working ? You need this: 1. dosemu-1.1.3 sources 2. New SB (Pro) emulator from this page: http://dosemu.sourceforge.net/~stas/ > Do i need a dos soundblaster > driver ? No, you don't need any because old SB cards are su

Re: sound in dosemu ?

2002-04-28 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Justin Zygmont wrote: > I tried that When? Are you using the latest revision (16) of the patch? > but the sound would only work for about 5 seconds, then > freeze up dosemu. Have you applied only SB patch, or also some other patches? Does it lock dosemu hard (so that Ctrl-Alt-PgDn doesn't

Re: MS-DOS and clipper

2002-04-30 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Bill Giannakopoulos wrote: > when i > am typing wrong the the program and dosemu is crach. > Do you have any idea what to do?? You have to provide an URL to your program and the exact instructions of how to reproduce the crash with the latest dosemu, which is currently 1.1.3. - To unsubs

Re: Need advise on how to proceed in debugging ...

2002-05-01 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Bryan J. Smith wrote: > 1. I'm having a bit of difficulty trying to figure out how to enable > debugging. There are a lot of debug options. You may enable the debug logging with -D9+xxx option, where xxx specifies the type of events you are going to log. So, to enable a file access loggin

Re: Strange dosemu behavior.

2002-05-09 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there any way I can get some debug output? Debugging output can be enabled with -D option (consult `man dos`), and with -o option you have to specify the file to which the logging being written. Also try to start the game under console suid-root dosemu since

Re: Sound in Doom

2002-05-27 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Stian Sletner wrote: > I know this has been discussed before, Sure. > I searched the archives but > couldn't deduce a clear answer. Very strange... > Is sound in Doom definitely out of the question, both now and in the > foreseeable future? Doom, Duke3d and the like games are *already* f

Re: Mouse Clicking Problem

2002-06-07 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Thomas Neidhart wrote: > i have some problems getting the mouse to work under dosemu-1.0.2. And you are lucky that you don't have many other problems with that particular version. > First i had the problem that the mouse movement was just not smooth, > but with > setting hogthreshhold t

Re: Mouse Clicking Problem

2002-06-08 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Thomas Neidhart wrote: > i tried dosemu-1.1.3.1 and it got somewhat better: Good:) > The mouse clicking problem is also getting > better, > although from time to time it occurs again. Please produce the -D9+Xm log. > But upgrading to 1.1.3.1 also created some new problems. With DPMI pr

Re: Mouse Clicking Problem

2002-06-09 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Thomas Neidhart wrote: > i have tried all patches from you, and with them the programs don't > crash anymore. Very good. These patches are aimed to fix the 1.1.3 DPMI breakage and, while they don't currently cover the whole issue, they are getting there (addressing many other problems at

Re: Changes between 1.01 and 1.02

2002-06-10 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. > Now I examined the dosemu 1.0.3 1.0.3 is a non-existant version. Do you mean 1.0.2, or 1.1.3, or is it something SuSE-specific? > I'm using symlinks c/d pointing to mounted real dos drives in > /var/lib/dosemu > in dosemu 1.0.1. Has this possibility gone in 1.0.2? It is still there.

Re: Dosemu packet driver, IPX

2002-06-12 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Kara Van Horn wrote: > When I tried adding WINPKT.COM (as > mentioned in the docs) to my IPX stack (WINPKT replacing PDIPX, > followed by > VLM), and specified a packet driver address as 0x60, it said there was > not one at that location. Make sure that $_vnet is *off* and then: E:\TEMP

Re: What's up with Space Quest 2?

2002-06-12 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Johan Gill wrote: > I have dosemu-1.1.3.1 with mouse and dpmi_iret patches applied. According the log, it doesn't seem to use DPMI, so dpmi_iret patch might not affect. > When I try running Space Quest 2, dosemu exits. How good is it without any patches? Does it work on dosemu-1.0.2.1? It

Re: What's up with Space Quest 2?

2002-06-12 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Johan Gill wrote: > It also crashes on 1.1.3. I don't remember exactly what went wrong with > 1.0.2.1 since it was a while ago. OK, I have downloaded something called the Space Quest, which turned to be a game dated 1987 with CGA graphics, by Sierra. If this is the game you mentioned, the

Re: unable to boot as user

2002-06-14 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. > At last I was able to track down the problem. It turned out to be that > one should have the real floppy accessible in order to boot from the > image. In my case, ordinary users have no access to /dev/fd0. > I suggest the change below. Your patch doesn't seem to attack the root of the pr

Re: Interrupt divide by zero

2002-06-14 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. > the > aplication I try to run is a Multi-user mode application that run on > DOS sessions Such programs might not work under dosemu. I am afraid you expecting way too much. > Error [35]: General Protection Fault in ZIMRTMU.EXE at 0377:011C Make sure that this program works on either W

Re: Mapping Control and Shift Function Keys

2002-06-16 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Stephen Lee wrote: > I forgot to mention that Dosemu is run under Redhat 7.2 No, you forgot to mention the version of dosemu you are using. > My Foxpro application recognizes the F1-F12 keys fine but not the Shift > or the Control Fkeys. I ran a keyboard scan program in the DOS session >

Re: unofficial prerelease 1.1.3.2 for testing

2002-06-16 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Bart Oldeman wrote: > Please test the improved joystick support from Clarence Dang: it looks > very nice, but I don't have a joystick. He claims it works faster if > you enable pthreads (see compiletime-settings), but I experienced DPMI > crashes that way (DJGPP gcc immediately nukes DOS

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