jankomEarthlink wrote: > Hi Frantisek, > > Thanks for your help. > > (1) I'm almost there. Your rpm 1.2.2-1 did install, and it did go through > initial steps, got to a black screen, but no prompt and the CPU is system > loaded 100%. I had to kill xterm to stop it. But this may be due to > lingering dosemu installations from my compiled 1.4 version, so I'll do > some cleanup later. > > (2) Do I understand correctly that you say compiled 1.4 on i386 (or for > that matter i586, i.e. any 32 bit PC processors) does not work? It did not > work for me, as indicated in the original posting: compile OK, but dosemu > command starts nothing. At least I could stop it with Ctr-C. > > One step at the time... > > Janos 1) I tried 1.2.2 under both, X and console, and it seems working well, without any significant CPU load (perhaps only case when I saw 100% CPU load with dosemu was screensaver from some DOS program. In other cases CPU load was always less thas ~ 10-20% per core). 2) I was able compile and build dosemu-1.4.0.1 (well, as there was wery little official dosemu releases, I maybe made our own numbering ;) and this version work for me at Fedora 3, both in X and console. There is difference betveen dosemu 1.2.x and 1.4.x: 1.2 had disk C: etc. in ~/dosemu/, while 1.4 has all in ~/.dosemu/ (and disk C: is in ~/.dosemu/drive_c/ subdir). 1.4 further maps (via lredir) DOS binaries and dosemu commands to drive Z: (which is /usr/share/dosemu/drive_z/ ). Due to this difference, it is perhaps best start with deleted/renamed ~/.dosemu/ and ~/dosemu/ dirs, or with new user account. If you want to use my 1.4.0.1 version, You maybe have to install svgalib package - it can be downloaded from my web too. This dosemu-1.4.0.1 is from Fedora 11 era, thus it is cca 4 years old. And although there was not any official releases since this, dosemu was significantly evolved by Bart, Stas and others - but as I wrote, I was not able compile this actual development version (market as 1.4.0.8+, IMO) at Fedora 3 (although at Fedora 19 it compile fine - perhaps it is because too different gcc versions - 3.4/FC3 vs. 4.8/FC19). > On 03/30/2014 02:49 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: >> jankomEarthlink wrote: >>> Thank you both for your interest in helping me. >>> >>> This is an old Fedora-3 installation that I have mangled up and use it as >>> a sandbox to learn the inner workings of linux. I have managed to compile >>> the programs I need and while doing so I learned a lot. Now the specifics: >>> >>> 2.6.20 kernel on i686, AMD machine with nvidia graphics. >>> >>> When I did ./configure it went OK, no warnings or errors. Compiled also >>> without problem. It is a challange for me to figure out, with some help, >>> why it is not booting up into the virtual dos window. >>> >>> By the way, "dos" is also and old thing, but I still have some favorite >>> applications (not games) that I would like to use from within my linux. >>> >>> I do have a modern installation as well, xubuntu 12.04, kept current. >>> There I use dosbox installed the easy way, directly from distro. >>> >>> This is my story... >> Hello Janos, I tried (after years :) run again my FC3/i386 distro and >> found there dosemu-1.2.2 RPM package, which I build at that time. >> You can download if at: >> http://www.hanzlici.cz/packages/fedora/dosemu/fc3/dosemu-1.2.2-1.i386.rpm >> >> Unfortunately I have no dosemu-1.2.2 source RPM. >> >> I further tried to build under FC3 some newer dosemu version, and >> successfuly compile dosemu-1.3.2 (from ~ Fedora 5 times) and >> dosemu-1.4.0.1 (from ~ Fedora 11 times). Compiling newer versions >> fails on dosemu commands (in i86 assembler) build, and as I'm bad >> programmer, no know how solve this. >> Both these versions You can download from my web at >> http://www.hanzlici.cz/packages/fedora/dosemu/fc3/ >> (along with their source RPMs) >> >> HTH, Franta Hanzlík -- 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
