I've been playing with DOSEMU off and on trying to run
some old DOS programs. These programs run very well
within an X-term although they are limited in screen size
to the small DOS-in-a-box window. The graphics allow
easy readability and all the keyboard keys function
properly.
What I really want to do is run DOSEMU in the console,
which I know has problems, but I have managed to
change some settings in the dosemu.conf file which
surprisingly works:
$_video = "vga" # one of: plainvga, vga, ega, mda, mga, cga
$_console =
(1) # use 'console' video
$_graphics =
(1) # use the cards BIOS to set graphics
$_videoportaccess = (1) # allow videoportaccess when 'graphics' enabled
$_vbios_seg = (0xc000) # set the address of your VBIOS (e.g. 0xe000)
$_vbios_size = (0x10000)# set the size of your BIOS (e.g. 0x8000)
$_vmemsize = (1024) # size of regen buffer
$_chipset = "
s3"
$_dualmon = (0) # if you have one vga _plus_ one hgc (2 monitors)
I get a nice full screen just like I was running the program in
Win98. Unfortunately, when I exit dosemu to return to the
Linux console, the screen blanks.
Output from lspci indicates an s3 video card:
01:00.0
VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. [ProSavageDDR K4M266] (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: S3 Inc. [ProSavageDDR K4M266]
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 32 (1000ns min, 63750ns max), cache line size 08
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 5
Region 0: Memory at dfe80000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
Region 1: Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Expansion ROM at dfe70000 [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Capabilities: [80] AGP version 2.0
Status: RQ=32 Iso- ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA- ITACoh- GART64- HTrans- 64bit- FW- AGP3- Rate=x4
Command: RQ=1 ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA- AGP- GART64- 64bit- FW- Rate=x4
This is probably a shot in the dark, but does anyone have an
idea as to what I could do to correct this problem?
Note: I am running the framebuffer console device
TIA
