Debian bug report logs - #1791 dosemu troubles Package: dosemu ; Reported by: Michael E. Deisher . ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs: From qed.econ.queensu.ca!edd Wed Nov 1 14:41:07 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0tAlqF-000CwhC; Wed, 1 Nov 95 14:41 PST Received: from post.QueensU.CA (knot.QueensU.CA) by pixar.com with SMTP id AA24779 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Wed, 1 Nov 1995 14:40:38 -0800 Received: from miles.econ.queensu.ca (free2-slip225.tele.QueensU.CA [130.15.126.225]) by post.QueensU.CA (8.6.12/8.6.10+ASH) with SMTP id RAA18709; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 17:40:46 -0500 Received: by miles.econ.queensu.ca id (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.33); Wed, 1 Nov 95 17:40 EST Message-Id: Date: Wed, 1 Nov 95 17:40 EST To: "Michael E. Deisher" , debian-bugs@Pixar.com Cc: Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca, macleajb@ednet.ns.ca Subject: Re: Bug#1791: dosemu troubles In-Reply-To: <9511012144.AA06325@ganges> References: <9511012144.AA06325@ganges> From: Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca Package: dosemu Version: 0.60.3-0 Michael E Deisher writes, replying to a private mail of mine Michael> I hope you don't mind me entering your comments (and my additional Michael> comments) as another debian bug report. Maybe we should have kept it private for an iteration or two to keep the noise/signal ratio low. Oh well.. Michael> Same here. Quicken is really the only dos app I'm interested in Michael> and it's dead-dog slow under xdos. I haven't tried playing with Michael> the "hogthreshold". That might help, though. Quicken's speed is now _very_ acceptable on the VC after once I chose "rawkeyboard on" for "keyboard" in /etc/dosemu.conf. Still terrible under xdos. Dirk> using dos on the console and with TERM=linux, I have weird problems Dirk> with the keyboard. Cursor keys sometimes work, sometimes they Dirk> don't. Activating numlock helps. This is now settled. Was due to "rawkeyboard off" Michael> Strange. I have not experienced this one. My problems on VCs Michael> are the following: Michael> Michael> o no cursor o when I switch back to a running X session, the X Michael> session dies and xdm starts another, which dies, etc., etc. Hm, fine here with a nonameS3-805 video card. Dirk> #serial { mouse com 1 device /dev/mouse } Dirk> #mouse { logitech internaldriver } Dirk> #serial { com 4 device /dev/modem } Michael> That's strange. James just told me something about needing to Michael> comment these out, too. I didn't realize that it was required to Michael> get xdos to work (I thought he was talking about running on the Michael> VC). On my system xdos works, even when I have a mouse enabled. I don't have to comment them out or in. For xdos, they are irrelevant. For dos under a VC, I need serial { mouse com 1 device /dev/mouse } -- Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgement sent to Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca : Extra info received and forwarded. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Information forwarded to debian-devel@pixar.com : Bug#1791 ; Package dosemu . Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs: From enws428.EAS.ASU.EDU!deisher Wed Nov 1 13:44:25 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0tAkxM-000BEnC; Wed, 1 Nov 95 13:44 PST Received: from asuvax.EAS.ASU.EDU by pixar.com with SMTP id AA20790 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Wed, 1 Nov 1995 13:43:49 -0800 Received: from ganges (enws428.EAS.ASU.EDU) by asuvax.eas.asu.edu with SMTP id AA05800 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for debian-bugs@pixar.com); Wed, 1 Nov 1995 14:42:37 -0700 Received: by ganges (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA06325; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 14:44:07 -0700 Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 14:44:07 -0700 Message-Id: <9511012144.AA06325@ganges> From: Michael E. Deisher To: Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca Cc: macleajb@ednet.ns.ca, debian-bugs@pixar.com In-Reply-To: (Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca) Subject: Re: dosemu troubles Package: dosemu Version: 0.60.3-0 Hi Dirk, I hope you don't mind me entering your comments (and my additional comments) as another debian bug report. Hopefully, documenting these problems will prevent a lot of redundant bug reports. On Wed, 1 Nov 95 16:14 EST, Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca said: > Hi Mike > sorry to bother but I am fighting dosemu to no avail. > using xdos, I get the following error in the rxvt from which I start xdos > ERROR: video error(0x3 page>7: 43) > xdos works but is awfully slow (eg in Quicken it takes a second until the > cursor responds to pressing the cursor keys) Same here. Quicken is really the only dos app I'm interested in and it's dead-dog slow under xdos. I haven't tried playing with the "hogthreshold". That might help, though. > using dos on the console and with TERM=linux, I have weird problems > with the keyboard. Cursor keys sometimes work, sometimes they > don't. Activating numlock helps. Strange. I have not experienced this one. My problems on VCs are the following: o no cursor o when I switch back to a running X session, the X session dies and xdm starts another, which dies, etc., etc. > on the console, I have a very hard time to set the mouse up. It's > an old logitech 3button that I used for years. If I remember > corrrecly, I used it dosemu 0.52 with no problems. I tried the > internal driver that I use under X11, the logitech driver I used > for years and a new logitech driver I just grabbed from Simtel. There are some mouse drivers on tsx-11 under the dosemu directory. You might try those, too. > Thanks for providing the Debian package and I hope you don't mind me > bombarding you with these unsollicited questions. I'm pretty stressed with school so don't expect too much from me. :-/ :-) > #serial { mouse com 1 device /dev/mouse } <-- I tried various combinations > #mouse { logitech internaldriver } <-- of these settings, xdos > #serial { com 4 device /dev/modem } <-- works these commented out That's strange. James just told me something about needing to comment these out, too. I didn't realize that it was required to get xdos to work (I thought he was talking about running on the VC). On my system xdos works, even when I have a mouse enabled. The fact that performance is so hardware-dependent sure makes supporting dosemu an interesting job! :-/ I'm cc'ing this to James. Hopefully, the additional information will help. --Mike PS: James, the above comments all apply to the dosemu 0.60.3 package I compiled for Debian. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgement sent to Michael E. Deisher : New bug report received and forwarded. 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