On 15 Sep 2009 at 13:53, Richard wrote: > > dosemu.bin -V -s -d > Thanks for that gem, Richard :-) Thanks for pushing me in the right direction. I thought I didn't need "-s" if I was logged in as root (because I noticed that that way, DOSEMU asks for /usr/bin/sudo). This is not entirely true, there's more to "-s" than just the sudo. It effectively tells DOSEMU "don't be shy, feel free to do all the stuff that you need the root privileges for". I.e., without -s, DOSEMU probably doesn't even pass the direct VGA HW accesses through to the VGA hardware. That's why the screen appeared as a videoRAM dump containing pixels, but displayed in text mode. Precisely what it was :-)) -V looks like a "video mode sanitizer", can't say if it has any effect in my case or not... -d = "detach". I can see that the dosemu command returns to the shell immediately, but only after it has "forked a demon", that in turn attaches to the first free virtual console. It also switches you straight to the newly picked console that dosemu has attached to, so you don't quite notice, until you try switching consoles using CTRL+ALT+Fx :-) Without "-d", dosemu merely stays attached to the virtual console it was started from. There's one thing I haven't tested yet: if the "detached" state also means "nohup" :-) I have no use for that feature anyway. I don't know if it's due to -V or essentially a result of -s alone, but my LCD display now shows significant pauses of "no signal" (two seconds or so) as the VGA modes change. => Everything seems to be working allright :-) Frank Rysanek -- 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
