Hello
Sometimes I need to use the good old dos environment for tasks such as
printing some old Word Perfect documents. When I now try to run Dosemu,
I get errors. This may happen because of a software upgrade or a
hardware change, I'm not sure. I cannot remember when dosemu last
worked. Now, I wonder what's the easiest way to get a working dos
environment: Is it possible to get Dosemu to work, or should I try to
use a virtual machine? I'm not sure if that's an easy way either.
Currently I'm running Fedora 20, and teh Dosemu package is
dosemu-1.4.0.8-18.20131022git.fc20.x86_64. When running 'dosemu -s', I
get the following errors:
Running as root in full feature mode
ERROR: SDL: No available video device
ERROR: PORT: conflicting devices: VGAEmu VGA Controller & extra stuff
for port 0
x3c0
ERROR: PORT: conflicting devices: VGAEmu CRT Controller & video port io
for port
0x3d4
ERROR: PORT: conflicting devices: VGAEmu Input Status #1/Feature Control
& extra
stuff for port 0x3da
ERROR: PORT: conflicting devices: VGAEmu Mono/Hercules Card Range 0 &
video port
io for port 0x3b4
ERROR: PORT: conflicting devices: VGAEmu Mono/Hercules Card Range 1 &
extra stuff for port 0x3bf
lshw says the following about the installed video card:
*-display:0 UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
product: 82Q963/Q965 Integrated Graphics Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 02
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: msi pm vga_controller cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:fea00000-feafffff
memory:d0000000-dfffffff ioport
:ecb8(size=8)
*-display:1 UNCLAIMED
description: Display controller
product: 82Q963/Q965 Integrated Graphics Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.1
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:feb00000-febfffff
I don't use GUI, and therefore, I boot with the following kernel
parameters: console=tty0 nomodeset vga=normal
I've treid to remove these parameters, and then dosemu starts, but I
get "Not in text mode" from BRLTTY.
What's my best bet, do you think, to get a working dos system?
Thanks and regards,
Lars
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