RE:Re: please explain to me why video/bios shadowing must be disabled to use graphics...

2002-09-21 Thread matt
I already did run it as root.. I tried lots of stuff before ultimately giving up. However, I do plan on playing around with dosemu again in the future. btw, i'm already subscribed to the list so you really don't have to forward a copy to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but if that's how your email client

Re: please explain to me why video/bios shadowing must be disabled to use graphics...

2002-09-20 Thread matt
I think it's been like this for a very very LONG time. I've been monitoring dosemu's progress using google groups and it apparently has been in production since like 93. I think the requirement for having to disable video/bios shadowing has been a part of dosemu for years if not since the

Re: please explain to me why dosemu doesn't do this or that...

2002-09-20 Thread matt
I hope my message was never seen as being *rude* because that's not what I intended. I wasn't asking why it didn't do this or that but was just wondering why disabling video/bios shadowing was sometimes necessary. At 04:36 PM 9/20/02 -0600, you wrote: I just thought I'd drop a little note to

please explain to me why video/bios shadowing must be disabled to use graphics...

2002-09-08 Thread matt
Awhile back I tried getting graphics to work in dosemu on some linux distros I was playing with at the time. Sadly, I was totally unsuccessful. I realized after reading the docs that one had to disable video/bios shadowing in order to use graphics. The problem is, my computer (HP8570C) *does