The Linux DOSEMU HOWTO

edited by Mike Deisher, deisher@dspsun.eas.asu.edu

1. The preliminaries

1.1 What is dosemu, anyway?

1.2 What's the newest version of dosemu and where can I get it?

1.3 Where can I follow the development?

1.4 What documentation is available for dosemu?

2. Compiling and installing dosemu

2.1 What does emu.c:349: parse error before `outfuntype' mean?

2.2 What does scan.o: Undefined symbol _yywrap mean?

2.3 What does sh: -c: line 2: syntax error mean?

2.4 Can I use dosemu on a multi-user system?

3. Hard disk setup

3.1 How do I use my hard disk with dosemu?

3.2 Can I use my stacked/double-spaced/super-stored disk?

3.3 I get an error message about my config.sys file but it looks fine.

4. Serial ports and mice

4.1 Where are the (microsoft compatible) mouse drivers?

4.2 Why doesn't the mouse driver work?

4.3 How do I use dosemu over the serial ports?

4.4 Why does dosemu clobber COM4?

5. dosemu and X-windows

5.1 Can I run dosemu in console mode while running X?

5.2 Is it possible to run dosemu in an xterm?

6. Video and sound

6.1 Exiting from dosemu gives me a screen full of garbage.

6.2 How do I get dosemu to work with my Trident/Actix/other video card?

6.3 Why doesn't my soundcard software work with dosemu?

7. Problems and fixes

7.1 Why does dosemu lock up after one keystroke?

7.2 Why does my ethernet driver lock-up dosemu?

7.3 Why are my keystrokes echoed ttwwiiccee??

7.4 Why does dosemu give "divide overflow" errors after running for

7.5 Where did the debugging output go?

7.6 Why do I get a segmentation fault error when I start dosemu?

7.7 Why are characters < 128 highlighted and blinking?

7.8 Why will dosemu run in a term but not in the console?

7.9 How can I speed up dosemu?

7.10 My CDROM drive has problems reading some files under dosemu.

8. Contributing to the dosemu project

8.1 Who is responsible for dosemu?

8.2 I want to help. Who should I contact?