Bug#1791: dosemu troubles

[Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca]

Package: dosemu
Version: 0.60.3-0

  Michael E Deisher writes, replying to a private mail of mine
  Michael> I hope you don't mind me entering your comments (and my additional
  Michael> comments) as another debian bug report.

Maybe we should have kept it private for an iteration or two to keep the
noise/signal ratio low. Oh well..

  Michael>  Same here.  Quicken is really the only dos app I'm interested in
  Michael> and it's dead-dog slow under xdos.  I haven't tried playing with
  Michael> the "hogthreshold".  That might help, though.

Quicken's speed is now _very_  acceptable on the VC after once I chose
"rawkeyboard on" for "keyboard" in /etc/dosemu.conf. Still terrible under xdos.

  Dirk> using dos on the console and with TERM=linux, I have weird problems
  Dirk> with the keyboard. Cursor keys sometimes work, sometimes they
  Dirk> don't. Activating numlock helps.

This is now settled. Was due to "rawkeyboard off"

  Michael>  Strange.  I have not experienced this one.  My problems on VCs
  Michael> are the following:
  Michael>
  Michael> o no cursor o when I switch back to a running X session, the X
  Michael> session dies and xdm starts another, which dies, etc., etc.

Hm, fine here with a nonameS3-805 video card.

  Dirk> #serial { mouse com 1 device /dev/mouse }
  Dirk> #mouse { logitech internaldriver }
  Dirk> #serial { com 4 device /dev/modem }

  Michael> That's strange.  James just told me something about needing to
  Michael> comment these out, too.  I didn't realize that it was required to
  Michael> get xdos to work (I thought he was talking about running on the
  Michael> VC).  On my system xdos works, even when I have a mouse enabled.

I don't have to comment them out or in. For xdos, they are irrelevant. For
dos under a VC, I need serial { mouse com 1 device /dev/mouse }

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