Re: dosemu 1.1.3.9 user report

2002-12-17 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Stas Sergeev wrote: Nope... The fact that you got any sound at all from Duke3D without an immediate hang, is something very unusual. To get a sound from Duke3D and no hangs, this patch is a mandatory: http://dosemu.sourceforge.net/stas/dpmi_sti4a.diff Also read the comments about an

dosemu 1.1.3.9 user report

2002-12-16 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
According to top, 1.1.3.9 takes up 99 % CPU even when just displaying the C: prompt. 1.1.3.7 does this also; but 1.1.3.0 and 1.0.2.1 do not. They hardly use any CPU when just displaying the prompt (or waiting for a keystroke in a text-mode program). Wolfenstein 3D: 1.0.2.1, 1.1.3.7, 1.1.3.9 play

Re: dosemu 1.1.3.9 user report

2002-12-16 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hi jan, IIRC, there was talk about important dosemu related patches that are present in the most recent kernels. i think it was said that the patches have been in the ac kernels for awhile, but have just recently made it into the vanilla 2.4 kernels. i have no idea what the patches do, but you

Re: dosemu 1.1.3.9 user report

2002-12-16 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Peter Jay Salzman wrote: IIRC, there was talk about important dosemu related patches that are present in the most recent kernels. i think it was said that the patches have been in the ac kernels for awhile, but have just recently made it into the vanilla 2.4 kernels. Generally that

Re: dosemu 1.1.3.9 user report

2002-12-16 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Stas Sergeev wrote: Hello. And hello to you too! Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: According to top, 1.1.3.9 takes up 99 % CPU even when just displaying the C: prompt. Sure with such a hogthreshold value. Since 1.1.3.8 you don't need to set most of the options manually, so just delete the

Re: dosemu 1.1.3.9 user report

2002-12-16 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: hogthreshold = 0 --- 99 % CPU hogthreshold = 1 --- quiet behaviour hogthreshold = 800--- 99 % CPU Correct. hogthreshold commented out altogether --- quiet behaviour Mmm.. not very intuitive, this.

Re: dosemu 1.1.3.9 user report

2002-12-16 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: OK.. used the new dosemu.conf (everything commented out), set hdimage to dos to make it boot on my system, then only changed hogthreshold. Tried it (1.1.3.9) with hogthreshold = 0 --- 99 % CPU hogthreshold = 1

Re: mouse grabbing gotcha (was: dosemu 1.1.3.9 user report)

2002-12-16 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
omg. getting dosemu has been bad for me. i just spent the last 3 hours playing non-stop redneck rampage. :) so far, it has been nearly flawless. it runs better under dosemu on a celeron 550 than it does under microsoft on a celeron 450 (my girlfriend has a dual boot that i used to compare).

Re: mouse grabbing gotcha (was: dosemu 1.1.3.9 user report)

2002-12-16 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: btw, for gaming purposes (and i guess this is general, but is more appropriate for gamers), placing the line: exec xdosemu in .xinitrc, restarting X, and using ctl-alt-+ to cycle through video modes till xdosemu fills the entire screen gives