[Freedos-user] vim/rhide weird behavior [freedos vm, linux host]

[Aaron Paden]

Is anyone getting this? When I launch vim or rhide, I'll get repeating
characters and eventually the text mode will change as if I'm holding
down shift — not caps-lock. For example "a" will become "A" but "\"
will also become "|". Basically, the shell becomes unusable and I have
to kill the vm.

This is not necessarily specific to freedos, and it's not vm-specific.
I've got freedos 1.1 running in qemu and 6.22 in virtualbox, and I
observe the same behavior. I do remember using both applications just
fine in dosbox, however.

Speaking of QEMU, and this isn't really related, but is there a "for
dummies" version of how to get internet working on qemu? Preferably
without mucking about with networking on the host. Are there drivers
for e1000, which qemu emulates by default?

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Re: [Freedos-user] vim/rhide weird behavior [freedos vm, linux host]

[Rugxulo]

Hi,

On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 3:40 PM, Aaron Paden  wrote:
>
> Is anyone getting this? When I launch vim or rhide, I'll get repeating
> characters and eventually the text mode will change as if I'm holding
> down shift — not caps-lock. For example "a" will become "A" but "\"
> will also become "|". Basically, the shell becomes unusable and I have
> to kill the vm.

I haven't used those editors in a while, but I have sometimes seen
keyboard errors (e.g. TDE, also DJGPP compiled) under VBox. Hence in
that scenario, I tend to avoid that one and use something else (e.g.
e3-16 or VILE or whatever).

> This is not necessarily specific to freedos, and it's not vm-specific.
> I've got freedos 1.1 running in qemu and 6.22 in virtualbox, and I
> observe the same behavior. I do remember using both applications just
> fine in dosbox, however.

VBox is based upon QEMU, so it could be a common bug.

It could also be a number of things, e.g. host-OS related.

> Speaking of QEMU, and this isn't really related, but is there a "for
> dummies" version of how to get internet working on qemu? Preferably
> without mucking about with networking on the host. Are there drivers
> for e1000, which qemu emulates by default?

I recently whipped up a simple floppy .img for use with VBox and QEMU.
It has packet drivers for both NE2000 and PC-Net. mTCP (e.g. DHCP,
FTP) and things like (DJGPP-built) Links2 and Wget work fine. While a
bit simplistic and rough around the edges, I assume that would show
you exactly what you need to do.

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/unofficial/metados/

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