On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:24:24 +0100 Richard <R.Gregory@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I had this problem when running Norton Ghost, it asked a question at > startup that needed the sequence <Tab><Tab><Enter> before proceeding > with the command line options. The available DosEmu options didn't > work, so I wrote a kernel module that simulated key presses. This was > for a 2.4 kernel and a hack, I'm no kernel hacker. That looks quite similar to the problem I'm having. > In my case Ghost was running in a console on the front display. To get > an idea of Ghosts progress, I found the memory at 0xA0000 showed a > cross-section of the 4 colour screen. It looked like it was interlaced, > though I couldn't figure out how. For my purposes it was enough to save > the screen. It is possible the text version is also available in a > constant memory location. I haven't really followed screen mapping with 32 bit mapping, so I have no idea where the screen would be. But as this program must run at hour-intervals, and shouldn't even interfere with the normal ops, I guess there is no other way to run it except with DOSemu on stdin/out. I'm starting to think that it will be easier to capture the entire serial stream, and reverse engr it, protocol and all. I did some preliminary captures but it seems quite complicated. It's really complicated because the machine is 35 km from here, so I can't really test easily. Thanks John -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
