From: inu574f@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au (Mark Cosham) Subject: Re: DOSEMU - new-user-type questions (LONG) Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1993 00:23:49 GMT
s4ucwg@fnma.COM (Chip Gregory) writes:
>I am running SLS 1.03 on a 386 33mh with a trident
>8900c. I have a 125 mb hardrive configured as c:,
>a 1.44 mb 3" as a:, and a 5" as b:. The hardrive is
>partitioned as 32 mb DOS as hda1, 8mb swap as hda2,
>and the rest as hda3 (ext2). I boot native DOS (5.0)
>from c:. I boot linux from a:. I am NOT using LILO.
>Notes/Questions:
>1.) I first configured DOSEMU to run from an "hdimage"
>file. I did not like having my DOS partition as drive D.
>I then configured it to run from a "diskimage" file.
>My disk image is drive A, I skipped my 3 inch, my 5 inch
>is drive B, my DOS partition is drive C (EMU), and my
>linux / is drive D (EMU).
>Any way to boot DOSEMU and keep a: as a:, b: as b:, etc.?
Either boot from the hard disk for DOS, or use a program like stacker's
sswap, or creative use of the DOS subst command with a hdimage boot.
>2.) Quicken 6.0 fails when I start it up. I found that if
>I start it as "q > q.msg" it comes up ok. Quicken wants to
>remind me to do backups and this messages seems to cause
>problems for DOSEMU. The Quicken graphs are close - with
>the labels a little screwed up. I have NOT tried to work on
>graphics parameters. I specified "trident and 1024" in the
>config. I also got XMS to work and am loading everything high
>(DOS, doskey, and mouse). EMS gave me an error "Can not set
>line A20" or something like that.
The only way to have EMS is to let DOSEMU supply it - it works fine.
Edit the /etc/dosemu/config file.
>Recommendation of XMS versus EMS?
>Ideas on EMS error about line A20?
>3.) DOS edit doesn't work. It comes up. I can type stuff
>in the edit area, but when I pull down a menu, a get a DOSEMU
>debug message "ERROR: InsKeyboard could not put key in buffer".
It is well known that dos's EDIT doesn't work - use another editor.
>???
>4.) Telix came up, initialized my modem, and I dialed myself
>on the phone and properly registered a busy signal. After I
>exited Telix, it seemed my keyboard buffer was screwed up.
>Almost as if "local echo" stayed on - very strange.
>Any ideas?
>5.) Automap (a very detailed graphic depiction of the US with
>roads, geographical highlights, etc.) worked well. It was very
>slow, but everything seemed ok, including the mouse, (it must have
>it's own mouse driver).
I've found graphics rather slow under DOSEMU too. (I've got a tgva8900c
too).
>6.) I do not understand the mouse or the ports parameters. I
>know the doc says that the mouse doesn't work. I tried the MS
>mouse driver, and it could not find the mouse. I tried the Artec
>driver, and it loaded, but I do not think it actually loaded
>properly. I ran the Artec test program and screams came out of
>the speaker but no mouse activity.
You need to make sure that you've set up the mouse in the
/etc/dosemu/config file. It does appear to work, but apparently, it's
not reliable.
>???
>Thanks in advance,
>- Chip
Mark Cosham
(486DX33, 8Mb ram, 1Mb tvga8900c, ~10Mb swap space)
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