dos emulation in console mode

harrygraham · 07-28-2002, 07:27 PM

I'm back to Mandrake 8.1 again. Fickle, fickle, fickle... I want to run some of my old, small dos programs under Linux, but the booting process in Mandrake somehow changes the monitor to a higher resolution. The text works, but it scrambles the low res graphics. Does anyone know how to change the console to 640 X 480 so I can use it for dos-emu? Xdos works, but the hot keys of the dos program conflict with X. (BTW, if I can get rid of that blocky penguin too, this would be a bonus).

Many thanks

Thymox · 07-28-2002, 07:58 PM

If you edit your lill.conf file you should be able to specify the console resolution. Type man lilo.conf for more info.

harrygraham · 07-28-2002, 09:00 PM

Well, you were right. Lilo was the culprit. But the hot keys still conflict with Linux. I'll let you know if I find a solution.

Thanks