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 for any other

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

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 pretty

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)

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 causes

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: 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

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

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 Video

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

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 under

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 protected

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 necessary

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 there a

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 only needs

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 command

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 it

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 use

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 DOSEmu

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 that

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: 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 it?

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 source

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 able

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 Eric's

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 patch

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 map.

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

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: 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

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: 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 to 0

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

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: 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:

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, then

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

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

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 and

Re: foxpro on novell 3.12

2002-06-24 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Scott Andreas wrote: We run an foxbased application that crashes after 2 min. I'm running the app inside a secure terminal via ssh...its so cool, well after about two minutes the app crashes and dumps... Me and Bart were busily resolving tonns of the foxpro+IPX issues in a latest

Re: Using Linux+dosemu to install Windows

2002-07-27 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: The only good thing here is that the amount of progs that works on 486 but not on 386 is very minor... But how annoying when you run into one :-). I really don't think it is a major advantage to have an ability to pass the first stage of NT install... :)

Re: Using Linux+dosemu to install Windows

2002-07-28 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Bart Oldeman wrote: functionality. Then you can safely remove the BUG stuff I think. Yes, that looks like the proper fix to me. We probably have to contact Alberto to find out if his tests are passed with that patches because my testcase for the BUG includes only FoxPro... Would you

Re: 1132 - segfault when doing lredir

2002-07-30 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Per Jessen wrote: It is not totally reproducable - it varies. Timing problem ? Try using a standalone lredir. Compile the lredir.c from src/commands (not from src/plugin/commands) and see if it also suffers. If it is, compile it with debug info and try to locate the problematic place

Re: [PATCH][1.1.3.2] keystroke - option P not working (unicode keyboard)

2002-08-03 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Per Jessen wrote: attached is a patch for the \P on the keystroke config option not working with the unicode keyboard It's a very late night here and I have looked neither in the code nor in the problem, but somehow it happened that I don't like your patch (sorry). I'll have a look

Re: [PATCH][1.1.3.2] keystroke - option P not working (unicode keyboard)

2002-08-04 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Per Jessen wrote: let me know - it works here. Good :) If you don't like the added debug output, well ... :-) I don't like it because you have a single string duplicating many times. Just putting it right before the switch() would be OKey I think. Also for 'A' you are adding that

Re: Keystroke configure and -I commandline options

2002-08-15 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Oscar A. Valdez wrote: Do the keystroke configure and -I commandline options still work on Dosemu 1.0.2? Still works fine on 1.1.3.2. I've been trying them without luck. How exactly you are doing that? The example from the docs works for me. Try passing the options directly to

Re: Howto setup modem for dosemu

2002-08-18 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Larry Alkoff wrote: I would not have thought that the modem wouldn't run if the device was not locked. Well, it is just a polite behaveor (not a bug), but in fact it is possible to use the device without locking it. There are reasons against doing this however. was trying to avoid

Re: Problem with the mouse

2002-09-02 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. mat.hieu wrote: Sim city or Dune ( I found abandonwares, it's pretty good !) but when I click with any buttons, the pointer goes to the upper left corner and I can't click on anything. This problem is reported too frequently but I still can't reproduce it. I don't know how could you

Re: DOSEMU, Slang and UK keyboards

2002-09-02 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Chris Wilson wrote: Are there any plans to introduce proper keyboard layout support under slang? Yes, upgrade to 1.1.3.2 and apply the keyboard patches from dosemu.sourceforge.net/stas to try out the new keyboard engine. It would be better to provide patches for both, your patch is for

Re: Problems of visualization of the ASCII table.

2002-09-09 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. I configured dosemu with the IBM characters table. That's fine, but some characters are not correctly displayed... My program uses a C library called vl850 (a graphical library in MS-DOS) . The problem occurs when I execute my program and the graphical characters of the ASCII table

Re: Serial Ports as non-root user

2002-09-09 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. I cannot run it setuid, due to the dosemu script which disallows this. dosemu 1.2.0.1 Such version doesn't exist yet (1.2 is only planning). Downgrade to something more real, like 1.1.3.2 and don't expect to get any help for the not-yet-written software:) - To unsubscribe from this

Re: nwserv

2002-09-10 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Szabo Atti wrote: If they run two sessions on the text console I suspect it is a grafical console in fact. It is done that way that when dosemu is switched out of a graphical console, it gets frozen until it switched back. Being frozen for too long, it lost connection. Try setting

Re: MSM DPMI error

2002-09-19 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Grigory Batalov wrote: I have a legacy DOS system, MSM (Micronetic M-System). It crashes under dosemu-1.1.3.4 with or without latest Stas' patches. Is this because a lot of my patches are already in, or not? I mean, with what dosemu version it used to work? Now we have not more than one

Re: MSM DPMI error

2002-09-19 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Grigory Batalov wrote: I have full logs (-D9+M) if someone is interesting: OK, AFAICS it have nothing to do with 1.1.3.4 - this bug was always there and I wonder why nobody noticed it before (oh, about a year ago Bart forwarded me something similar from djgpp-devel, IIRC). Try this

Re: MSM DPMI error

2002-09-19 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Grigory Batalov wrote: can you give some common hints to improve performance of such DPMI programs as MSM? No unless I have this program handy, and even then most likely still no, but you can try:) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-msdos in the body of a

Re: Seg fault after quitting FoxPro 6 app

2002-09-19 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Oscar A. Valdez wrote: A friend reports a segmentation fault after quitting a FoxPro 2.6 application for the second time. Dosemu: 1.0.2.1 Update your dosemu! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-msdos in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: Seg fault after quitting FoxPro 6 app

2002-09-19 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Bart Oldeman wrote: Isn't 1.0.2.1 the latest 'stable' version, whilst 1.1.3 is unstable' ? Yes. Well, no:) Consider this: 1.0.2.1 had enough *known* bugs for too long. Version that have known bugs (in contrast to unknown, which are always present) can't be called stable or recommended

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

2002-09-21 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Bart Oldeman wrote: your problem is mostly not video shadowing I tried this privately already - doesn't work:) but just that DOSEMU does not support this video card and does not open up enough ports. Note however that this must not be the case for VGA modes. And esp. if the person

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

2002-09-23 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. phrostie wrote: not support this video card and does not open up enough ports. what ports? could you expand on this part? i have a S3 For S3 cards you must not worry about this issue at all. Setting $_chipset=s3 worked for my S3 Trio flawlessly both for VGA and VESA modes. Don't

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

2002-09-23 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Bart Oldeman wrote: Well VGA only uses standard ports so the only problem is to pass the VBIOS initialization in the first place, that is executing the code at c000:0003 Where does it do that? I have found only init_vga_card(), but that doesn't seem to be the place. Also I searched the

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

2002-09-23 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Bart Oldeman wrote: c000:0003 Where does it do that? I have found only init_vga_card(), but that doesn't seem to be the place. Also I searched the +g log for c000:0003 and found nothing... src/base/bios/bios.S, line 507, F800:4200. init_vga_card() pushes f800:4200 on the stack

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

2002-09-24 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. phrostie wrote: last night i was going thru the different runtime options, but regardless of what i try i still can't seem to get any of my VGA stuff working again. Then create a log of video events (-D9+v option to dosemu) and see what's going wrong. And upgrade your dosemu:

Re: Source installation

2002-09-26 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: the application I want to use uses this ncurses-analog terminal mode, and youo use {CTRL,ALT,SHIFT,}-Fx for various configuration options... Yes, I saw the thread about just this, and using 1.1.3.2 didn't help. Set $_rawkeyboard=(1) then. The thread you've

Re: MSM DPMI error

2002-09-26 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Grigory Batalov wrote: Stas, can you give some common hints to improve performance of such DPMI programs as MSM? It works quite slow (taking all CPU power). Just recalled something: when I upgraded to kernel 2.4 from 2.2, I noticed a DPMI speed-up of 20 times! IIRC you are still using

Re: Doom again, IPX this time

2002-09-26 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Stian Sletner wrote: it booted up and got to the usual map01 starting point, but I couldn't move at all, I tried moving the mouse and waiting like 10 minutes to see if there was any reaction at all, but there wasn't. Now you may want to try 1.1.3.4. As for dosemu's IPX, it is still a

Re: Clipper application crash.

2002-10-03 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Giuliano Pellegrini wrote: I use DosEmu ver 1.0.0 Sure you could find even older dosemu? :) ERROR: general protection at 0xbb2f: 66 ERROR: SIGSEGV, protected insn...exiting! I have try to change in the file /etc/dosemu.conf these directives: $_xms = (8192) # in Kbyte

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

2002-10-03 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. phrostie wrote: an update i did finally get dosemu working. What update you did and where was the problem at the end? keen 4 and above still lock up. Update your keen. See this: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-msdosm=103211907106200w=2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: Problems with Dosemu-1.1.3-Patchset 5

2002-10-14 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Bart Oldeman wrote: could you check dosemu.map to see where 0x401ace06 is? It might just be out of DOSEMU's scope; in that case it might be a DPMI page fault Current buggy fault handler (to be fixed with my fault handling patch) have this: if (in_dpmi) return dpmi_fault(scp). So,

Re: Problems with Dosemu-1.1.3-Patchset 5

2002-10-14 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Bart Oldeman wrote: but for now you told there is another buffer overflow in mfs, isn't it? No, that's what *you* suspected. I was referring to this: --- Silly buffer overflow indeed but I never imagined network redirectors working in such a way --- Yes, this is fixed in Patchset 5,

Re: DPMI: Interrupt vector overwritten

2002-10-16 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. John Elliott wrote: They cause dosemu to abort if DPMI function 0x300 is used to call interrupt 0xE0 or higher; What exactly interrupt from this range do you want to execute? is this correct, Of course it is not. If your program installs the realmode handler for that ints, it will

Re: Failed to install timer services.

2002-10-16 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Michael wrote: I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas on what might be causing this error i'm getting with a old game i've got.(Broken Sword 1) When i run the main executable it yields Failed to install timer services... exiting Fill in the bug-report on SF and upload the game there

Re: please explain to me why video/bios shadowing must be disabledto use graphics... -- Victory!!!

2002-10-17 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hi. Bart Oldeman wrote: Doing the reset call from within DOS brings everything back in a sane state. Just wondering, why this reset is needed so badly? Just a very rough guess: proper initialization of certain BIOS variables in the range 0x400-0x4ff (0040:-0040:00ff) ? Exactly! Plus

Re: Dosemu crashes with program do_vm86

2002-10-23 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Peter Forst wrote: can someone explain me about the following error-message Dosemu somehow happened to execute an invalid code, which caused a GPF in vm86(). The dosemu craches while starting an application from our, via novell/ipx mapped network drive. Does this happen when starting

Re: please explain to me why video/bios shadowing must be disabledto use graphics... -- Victory!!!

2002-10-17 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Bart Oldeman wrote: slower than xdos... why ioperm() doesn't allow 0x3ff ports?.. Once upon a time Linus decided that a 128 byte per-process i/o bitmap is ok, but 8192 bytes is excessively large. Yes, and there was a reason then, which was that ISA had 10-bit IO space most likely, but

Re: Bug in the latest version

2002-10-27 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Lars BjÛrndal wrote: I've noticed that if I use dosemu-1.0.1, the mem-command gives, in the line largest executable program size 617K, 1.1.3.5, the same command and config gives 611K. Why, do you think? I can recall only one change in a memory allocation algo of that times, which is

Re: Bug in the latest version

2002-10-27 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Hartmut Figge wrote: Looking in the folder, in which ancient batch files resides, shows e.g. push.bat, which contains the line 'loadfix push'. That cured the problem with the 'corrupte file' and was the only way, to use that game. I don't agree. loadfix works around the exepack bugs by

Re: Bug in the latest version

2002-10-28 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Bart Oldeman wrote: a) the DOS time is the same as in the previous PIC call. PIC schedules the next activation time and then works in polling mode to see when that time is reached. Even when it reached, there are no guarantees that it is possible to fire the int right away, so it can

Re: IPX networking

2002-10-28 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Sergey Suleymanov wrote: When I run dosemu without root privs, it says: (here 333 is internal net of the native NetWare server) ERROR: IPX: Failure adding route 0333 through 0111:0001 Is this ok? Doesn't look healthy to me. Does this patch help? Patch is

Re: Bug in the latest version

2002-10-29 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Lars BjÛrndal wrote: Thank you! Now, wp.exe works perfect! Fine. Now we know that was just another exepack bug, not fixable by loadfix btw. The note should even be added in FAQ I think, because nobody knows how many bugs will we chaise in a future thanks to an exepack (and UPX!) authors.

Re: pre-release 1.1.3.6 ...., dosemu-devel.

2002-11-03 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Bart Oldeman wrote: I can see also this misterious dosemu-bugs list which even I haven't seen, also made itself public. No it's not public. You only see it if you are logged in. Yes, now I see. So you have killed an idiocy only partially:) submit-bug-report script in dosemu that

Re: NDIS emulator

2002-11-07 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Cezar Cichocki wrote: I'm looking for NDIS emulation for DOSEMU. Not available natively:( Must be implemented. I've tried PKTDRV/PDETHER mix and it works however it's unable to load ODINSUP (PDETHER provide Ethernet_II only frames and ODINSUP requires also 802.2 and 802.3). Quote from

Re: Doom again, IPX this time

2002-11-15 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Stian Sletner wrote: haven't had a chance to test this until now. Just tried with 1.1.3.7, Right:) but I can't get past trying to load PDETHER. It says: FATAL: Packet Driver not found on software interrupt 60 hex. Check if $_pktdriver=(on) and that dosemu is running with root perms.

Re: msdos 6 disk with errors

2002-11-16 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. julius junghans wrote: i tried to run msdos 6 with this tutorial http://www.geocities.com/sunil_tt/dos.txt Not the best instructions: boot sector can be omitted as dosemu can create the boot sector on startup, so you need only a system files. The boot.blk is not even documented for that

Re: msdos 6 disk with errors

2002-11-16 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. julius junghans wrote: but dosemu exits with : ./dosemu: line 386: 2712 Segmentation fault Check your system log for Oopses. This was a long-standing bug of the 2.4 kernels. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-msdos in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: Com port question

2002-11-17 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Bernie Gardner wrote: slow to keep up. Is there a way to speed up the com port? Probably no - emulation is an emulation. It works quite fast in a FIFO mode (buffering), but when there is no buffering and each operation must be performed immediately, if falls down with a perforance. You

Re: Com port question

2002-11-17 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Ged Haywood wrote: I do not think FIFO buffering will help a program which manipulates the DTR line directly, as the UART is not actually sending data in the normal way - it's just being used as a 1-bit data latch. Right, that's what I implied to actually. It works quite fast in a FIFO

Re: segfault: 1.1.3.7

2002-11-27 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Peter Jay Salzman wrote: linux 2.4.19 (linus, not ac) Not possible, Linus is no longer maintains the 2.4 kernels. -ac is recommended for dosemu users as Alan Cox kindly applied all the dosemu- related patches in 2.4.19, while Marcelo have done that only in 2.4.20-pre (and not so kindly,

Re: DOSEMU does not pick up all packets

2002-11-28 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Stian Sletner wrote: I experimented some more with this, since it seemed to be the right thing to do, the dosnet stuff is IP oriented after all, and shouldn't be necessary to achieve this, I would think. Dosnet have nothing to do with IP. It's goal is to emulate an Ethernet network on a

Re: DOSEMU does not pick up all packets

2002-11-28 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Stian Sletner wrote: The incoming IPX packets _are_ to broadcast address, but DOSEMU does not pick them up because (I assume) they originate from the same interface, eth0. Well, all the outgoing packets have the PACKET_OUTGOING type. They are not intended to be received on the same

Re: Game problem Re: Freshly installed dos-6.22 with disk image doesnot work

2002-11-29 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote: After setting up doom2 to no sound, it works. You haven't applied the necessary patches from here: http://dosemu.sourceforge.net/stas/ so what is to expect. Supaplex uses a kind of split screen, the lower part contains time and other status info, the upper

Re: Freshly installed dos-6.22 with disk image does not work

2002-11-29 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Ged Haywood wrote: Don't use setup-dosemu script for now as it removes some important options from compiletime-settings. What options are important that it removes? Just compare the fresh compiletime-settings file with the one created by setup-dosemu to see which ones. I compiled

Re: DOSEMU does not pick up all packets

2002-11-29 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Stian Sletner wrote: I thought I had a clever idea, ifconfig'd up a virtual interface eth0:0 and set $_netdev = eth0:0, but that made dosemu crash so it probably How exactly the crash looks like? I'm having problems compiling the dosnet module in RH8. It was already reported that

Re: Changing an app to use linux framebuffer

2002-12-01 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Simon Bridger wrote: I want to use it in a console window. Unfortunately I get a message telling me there is no vesa driver. Known problem:( This largely depends on your video card however. Get a card where the extended registers are accessable via the VGA registers - and you have VESA.

Re: Newbie with terminal video problems

2002-12-01 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Mushroom wrote: Yes - the problem remains as it was. I'll try playing with some more settings but it doesn't seem promising. OK, I think all the problems we have with video, are because dosemu is trying to POST the video bios not accordingly the PCI specs. I intended to introduce a

Re: DosEmu in RedHat 7.2

2002-12-01 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Michael Lee wrote: Has anyone had success using dosemu in redhat 7.2 (kernel 2.4.18)? Yes. However, the kernel upgrade is recommended as there was some dosemu-related work done in 2.4.19 and 2.4.20. downloading the latest (1.0.2.1) dosemu from sourceforge and compiling that. No,

Re: Terminal Video Problem Solved (and sound too!)

2002-12-02 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Mushroom wrote: OK, try the attached patch. That's fixed it!!! Great! Hmm, that was just too easy, there is still something fishy about that. Do you have $_pci option disabled or enabled? If it is enabled, could you try to undo the patch, set $_pci=(off) and reproduce the problem? Oh,

Re: Changing an app to use linux framebuffer

2002-12-02 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Simon Bridger wrote: Slow is a nuisance, but it isn't terminally slow. The showstopper is the mouse behaviour. What happens is this. When the mouse reaches the edge of the autotrax screen, autotrax pans, and moves its own mouse cursor back to the middle of the screen. If only this is a

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