Bug#1791: dosemu troubles
Package: dosemu
Version: 0.60.3-0
Hi Dirk,
I hope you don't mind me entering your comments (and my additional
comments) as another debian bug report. Hopefully, documenting these
problems will prevent a lot of redundant bug reports.
On Wed, 1 Nov 95 16:14 EST, Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca said:
> Hi Mike
> sorry to bother but I am fighting dosemu to no avail.
> using xdos, I get the following error in the rxvt from which I start xdos
> ERROR: video error(0x3 page>7: 43)
> xdos works but is awfully slow (eg in Quicken it takes a second until the
> cursor responds to pressing the cursor keys)
Same here. Quicken is really the only dos app I'm interested in and
it's dead-dog slow under xdos. I haven't tried playing with the
"hogthreshold". That might help, though.
> using dos on the console and with TERM=linux, I have weird problems
> with the keyboard. Cursor keys sometimes work, sometimes they
> don't. Activating numlock helps.
Strange. I have not experienced this one. My problems on VCs are the
following:
o no cursor
o when I switch back to a running X session, the X session dies and
xdm starts another, which dies, etc., etc.
> on the console, I have a very hard time to set the mouse up. It's
> an old logitech 3button that I used for years. If I remember
> corrrecly, I used it dosemu 0.52 with no problems. I tried the
> internal driver that I use under X11, the logitech driver I used
> for years and a new logitech driver I just grabbed from Simtel.
There are some mouse drivers on tsx-11 under the dosemu directory.
You might try those, too.
> Thanks for providing the Debian package and I hope you don't mind me
> bombarding you with these unsollicited questions.
I'm pretty stressed with school so don't expect too much from me. :-/
:-)
> #serial { mouse com 1 device /dev/mouse } <-- I tried various combinations
> #mouse { logitech internaldriver } <-- of these settings, xdos
> #serial { com 4 device /dev/modem } <-- works these commented out
That's strange. James just told me something about needing to comment
these out, too. I didn't realize that it was required to get xdos to
work (I thought he was talking about running on the VC). On my system
xdos works, even when I have a mouse enabled. The fact that
performance is so hardware-dependent sure makes supporting dosemu an
interesting job! :-/
I'm cc'ing this to James. Hopefully, the additional information will
help.
--Mike
PS: James, the above comments all apply to the dosemu 0.60.3 package I
compiled for Debian.
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