Wrong Characters in dosemu

Wrong Characters in dosemu

[Bastian Schäfer]

Hello,

I got a complicated problem with the combination vnc - Dosemu:
Picture the following.
Got a Dos Programm. It runs under Linux on the Server. You can print, and on
the server everything is fine. You can also print from the Client. This
works...
The DosBox runs with the msdos.sys, io.sys, command.com and some other
elements of the original MS-DOS 6.2

The Server runs VNC-Server. You can login the server from the client.
It is possible to run DOSEMU from the client on the Server. Also from many
Clients on one Server.

The problem is the following.
I can start DOSEMU two ways
dosemu  <return>
dosemu -X <return> to start it in a XTerminal to get the better looking
environment.

Both of these two ways work not properly.
If I start it the dosemu <return> way, the environment looks not so good,
and the Capitals 'A' and 'S' (<caps> + A and <caps> + S) can not be used
(not shown by typing).
This is on both, Server and Client as well. This seems to be a DOSEMU
Problem.

So I take the dosemu -X <return> to start dosemu in a XTerm.
On the server everything is OK (Well, it runs better than original DOS,).
But, if I type a '2' on the clinet (over vnc) I get a 'q' on the screen.
'.' and some other characters are not at their origin place and do not work.

The effect only occurs, when dosemu ist started in a XTerm. It is not a
error of the vnc. If I write '2' in the vnc XTerm I get '2'.

Do you know how to handle this effect?
Hope you can help me.

I already tried some parameters in the dosemu.conf, and global.conf and in
the XTerm setting File. No success.

Best Rgts, Bastian Schaefer

Re: Wrong Characters in dosemu

[Claudia Neumann]

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Hi Bastian!

Am Dienstag, 10. August 2004 10:16 schrieben Sie:
> Both of these two ways work not properly.
> If I start it the dosemu <return> way, the environment looks not so good,
> and the Capitals 'A' and 'S' (<caps> + A and <caps> + S) can not be used
> (not shown by typing).
> This is on both, Server and Client as well. This seems to be a DOSEMU
> Problem.
>
> So I take the dosemu -X <return> to start dosemu in a XTerm.
> On the server everything is OK (Well, it runs better than original DOS,).
> But, if I type a '2' on the clinet (over vnc) I get a 'q' on the screen.
> '.' and some other characters are not at their origin place and do not
> work.

I don't know anything about vnc, but dosemu and Xdosemu work well with 
my .dosemurc. Try this configuration (for german keyboard layout).

cu

Claudia

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##############################################################################
# This file is the system-wide dosemu.conf or the per-user ~/.dosemurc, 
# included by global.conf or dosemu.bin.
#
# Linux DOSEMU configuration for parser versions >= 3 (dosemu-0.97.0.1)
#
# ./doc/README.txt (chapter 2.) contains a description of the syntax
# and the usage of dosemu.conf.
#
# The commented-out values are defaults, here for documentation purposes
# only.
#
# Access rights are defined in
#
#      /etc/dosemu.users or /etc/dosemu/dosemu.users
#
##############################################################################



# Notes for editing this section:
#
#   In    $_xxx = (n)    n is a numerical or boolean value
#                  =     =
#   In    $_zzz = "s"    s is a string
#
# Please edit only between the brackets and quotes and keep the rest intact.
#        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
#
$_hdimage = "/home/praxis/.dosemu/drives/*"  
#			# List of hdimages or boot directories under
#                       # syshdimagedir (/var/lib/dosemu by default) 
#			# assigned in this order such as
#                       # "hdimage_c directory_d hdimage_e"
#			# Absolute pathnames are also allowed.
#                       # If the name begins with '/dev/', then partion
#                       # access is done instead of virtual hdimage such as
#                       # "/dev/hda1" or "/dev/hda1:ro" for readonly
#                       # Currently mounted devices and swap are refused.
#                       # Hdimages and devices may be mixed such as
#                       # "hdimage_c /dev/hda1 /dev/hda3:ro"
#                       # Note: 'wholedisk' is _not_ supported.
#$_hdimage_r = $_hdimage        # hdimages for 'restricted access (if different)
#$_vbootfloppy = ""	# if you want to boot from a virtual floppy:
#			# file name of the floppy image under DOSEMU_LIB_DIR
#			# e.g. "floppyimage" disables $_hdimage
#			#      "floppyimage +hd" does _not_ disable $_hdimage
$_floppy_a ="threeinch"	# or "fiveinch" or "atapi" or empty, if non-existant
#			# optionally the device may be appended such as
#			# "threeinch:/dev/fd0"
#$_floppy_b = ""		# ditto for B:
#
#
$_debug = "-D+Dd"	# same format as -D commandline option, ""="-a+cw".
#			# (but without the -D in front), normally written to
#			# ~/.dosemu/boot.log
#$_features= ""		# list of temporary hacks, see release notes in
#			# the file ChangeLog. e.g "0:1 2:0", which means
#			# to set feature_0 to 1 and feature_2 to 0.
$_mapping= "mapshm"		# preferred mapping driver, one of:
#			# auto, mapself, mapfile, mapshm
#$_timint = (on)		# emulate INT08 type timer interrupts
#$_mathco = (on)		# or off
$_cpu = "80586"		# CPU shown to DOS, valid values:  "80[345]86"
#			# or "emulated" for non-native CPU (386 in this case)
#
$_rdtsc = (on)		# if possible use Pentium cycle counter
#$_cpuspeed = (0)	# 0 = calibrated by dosemu, else given (e.g.166.666)
$_xms = (8192)		# in Kbyte
$_ems = (2048)		# in Kbyte
#$_ems_frame = (0xe000)
$_dpmi = (4000)	# in Kbyte (default is 0 if running suid-root)
#$_dosmem = (640)	# in Kbyte, < 640
#
#$_emusys = ""		# empty or 3 char., config.sys   -> config.XXX
#$_emuini = ""		# empty or 3 char., system.ini   -> system.XXX
#
$_hogthreshold = (10)	# 0 == all CPU power to DOSEMU
$_term_char_set = "ibm"	# Global code page and character set selection.
#			# "" == automatic, else: ibm, latin, latin1, latin2,
#			# koi8r
#
#                       # Character set used externally to dosemu
#$_external_char_set = ""
#                       # "" == use $_term_char_set one of else: 
#                       # "cp437", "cp737", "cp775", "cp850", "cp852", "cp857",
#                       # "cp860", "cp861", "cp862", "cp863", "cp864", "cp865",
#                       # "cp866", "cp869", "cp874",
#                       # "iso8859-1", "iso8859-2", "iso8859-3", "iso8859-4", 
#                       # "iso8859-5", "iso8859-6", "iso8859-7", "iso8859-8",
#                       # "iso8859_9", "iso8859-14", "iso8859-15", "koi8-r"
#
#                       # Character set used by dos programs
$_internal_char_set = "cp850"
#                       # "" == use $_term_char_set one of else: 
#			# "cp437", "cp737", "cp775", "cp850", "cp852", "cp857",
#                       # "cp860", "cp861", "cp862", "cp863", "cp864", "cp865",
#                       # "cp866", "cp869", "cp874"
#
$_term_color = (on)	# terminal with color support
$_term_updfreq = (4)	# time between refreshes (units: 20 == 1 second)
#$_escchar = (30)	# 30 == Ctrl-^, special-sequence prefix
#
#$_rawkeyboard = (1)	# bypass normal keyboard input on the Linux console, 
#			# maybe dangerous
$_layout = "de-latin1"	# one of: finnish(-latin1), de(-latin1), be, it, us
#			# uk, dk(-latin1), keyb-no, no-latin1, dvorak, po
#			# sg(-latin1), fr(-latin1), sf(-latin1), es(-latin1)
#			# sw, hu(-latin2), hu-cwi, keyb-user
#			# hr-cp852, hr-latin2, cz-qwerty, cz-qwertz, ru, tr.
#			# Or 'auto' (which tries to generate the table from
#			# the current Linux console settings)
#$_toggle = ""		# toggle alternate layout, one of "shift_shift",
#			# "ctrl_shift", "alt_shift". "" == disable toggling
#
#
#$_X_updfreq = (5)	# time between refreshes (units: 20 == 1 second)
$_X_title = "DOSemu"	# Title in the top bar of the window
$_X_icon_name = "DOS"	# Text for icon, when minimized
#$_X_keycode = (auto) 	# on == translate keyboard via dosemu keytables
#			# or 'off' or 'auto'
$_X_blinkrate = (20)	# blink rate for the cursor
#$_X_font = "vga"	# basename from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/*
#			# (without extension) e.g. "vga"
#$_X_mitshm = (on)	# Use shared memory extensions
#$_X_sharecmap = (off)	# share the colormap with other applications
#$_X_fixed_aspect = (on)	# Set fixed aspect for resizing the graphics window
#$_X_aspect_43 = (on)	# Always use an aspect ratio of 4:3 for graphics
#$_X_lin_filt = (off)	# Use linear filtering for >15 bpp interpolation
#$_X_bilin_filt = (off)	# Use bi-linear filtering for >15 bpp interpolation
#$_X_mode13fact = (2)	# initial size factor for video mode 0x13 (320x200)
#$_X_winsize = ""	# "x,y" of initial windows size (defaults to float)
#$_X_gamma = (1.0)	# gamma correction
#$_X_vgaemu_memsize = (1024) # size (in Kbytes) of the frame buffer for emulated vga
#$_X_lfb = (on)		# use linear frame buffer in VESA modes
#$_X_pm_interface = (on)	# use protected mode interface for VESA modes
#$_X_mgrab_key = "Home"	# KeySym name to activate mouse grab, empty == off
#$_X_vesamode = ""	# "xres,yres ... xres,yres"
#			# List of vesamodes to add. The list has to contain
#			# SPACE separated "xres,yres" pairs
#
#
#
#$_aspi = ""		# list of generic SCSI devices to make available
#			# for the builtin aspi driver (format of an entry
#			# is 'device:type:mappedtarget' such as
#			# "sg2:WORM sg3:Sequential-Access:6 sg4:CD-ROM" or
#			# "sg2:4 sg3:1:6 sg4:5" (which are equal)
#
$_com1 = "/dev/ttyS0"		# e.g. "/dev/mouse" or "/dev/ttyS0"
#$_com2 = ""		# e.g. "/dev/modem" or "/dev/ttyS1"
#$_com3 = ""		# ditto                "/dev/ttyS2"
#$_com4 = ""		# ditto                "/dev/ttyS3"
#			# Note: all "/dev/ttyXX" may be suffixed by the IRQ
#			# used (instead of the default one), such as
#			# "/dev/ttyS2 irq 5" or "/dev/ttyS3 irq 9"
#
$_ttylocks = "/home/praxis/dosemu/lock"# Lock directory (e.g. "/var/lock")
#
$_mouse = "ps2"		# one of: microsoft, mousesystems, logitech, mmseries
#			# mouseman, hitachi, busmouse, ps2, imps2
$_mouse_dev = "/dev/mouse"	# one of: com1, com2, com3, com4 or /dev/mouse
#$_mouse_flags = ""	# empty list or one or more of:
#			# "emulate3buttons cleardtr"
#$_mouse_baud = (0)	# baudrate, 0 == don't set
#
$_printer = "lp"	# list of (/etc/printcap) printer names to appear as
#			# LPT1, LPT2, LPT3 (not all are needed, empty for none)
$_printer_timeout = (1)# idle time in seconds before spooling out
#
#$_sound = (on)		# sound support on/off
#$_sb_base = (0x220)
#$_sb_irq = (5)
#$_sb_dma = (1)
#$_sb_dsp = "/dev/dsp"
#$_sb_mixer = ""         # or "/dev/mixer" if you allow that dosemu 
#                        # changes the volume
#$_mpu_base = (0x330)
#
#$_joy_device = "/dev/js0 /dev/js1"     # 1st and 2nd joystick device 
#                       # e.g. "/dev/js0" or "/dev/js0 /dev/js1"
#                       #      (or "" if you don't want joystick support)
#			# 
#$_joy_dos_min = (1)	# range for joystick axis readings, must be > 0
#$_joy_dos_max = (150)	# avoid setting this to > 250
#$_joy_granularity = (1) 	# the higher, the less sensitive - 
#			# useful if you have a wobbly joystick
#                       #
#$_joy_latency = (0)    # delay between nonblocking linux joystick reads
#                       # increases performance if >0 and processor>=Pentium
#                       # recommended: 1-50ms or 0 if unsure
#  
#
# NOTE: IPX needs root privileges unless you setup /proc/net/ipx_route 
# in advance.
#
#$_ipxsupport = (off)	# or on
#
# NOTE: Network/packet driver support needs root privileges
#
#$_pktdriver = (off)	# 'on' for Packet Driver
#$_novell_hack = (off)
#$_netdev = "eth0"	# network device for Packet Driver
#$_vnet = (off)		# 'on' for packet-multi
#			# (used by dosnet, dsn0 overrides $_netdev)
#
# NOTE: all the settings below here are only valid in a system-wide dosemu.conf
# and cannot be changed by ~/.dosemurc. For these settings to take effect,
# DOSEMU must be run with root privileges.
#
#$_secure ="ngd"	# secure for: n (normal users), g (guest), d (dexe)
#			# empty string: depending on 'restricted'
#			# "0": always insecure (not recommended)
#$_odd_hosts = ""	# black list such as "lucifer.hell.com billy.the.cat"
#$_diskless_hosts=""	# black list such as "hacker1 newbee gateway1"
#
#$_ports = ""		# list of portnumbers such as "0x1ce 0x1cf 0x238"
#			# or "0x1ce range 0x280,0x29f 310"
#			# or "range 0x1a0,(0x1a0+15)"
#$_irqpassing = ""	# list of IRQ numbers (2-15) to pass to DOS such as
#			# "3 8 10"
#$_hardware_ram = ""	# list of segment values/ranges such as
#			# "0xc8000 range 0xcc000,0xcffff"
$_speaker = "emulated"		# or "native" or "emulated"
$_pci = (on)          # on: give access to the PCI configuration space
#
# The following settings apply to direct console video only and are
# ignored by xdosemu.
#
#$_video = "vga"	# one of: plainvga, vga, ega, mda, mga, cga
#$_console = (1)	# use 'console' video
$_graphics = (0)	# use the cards BIOS to set graphics
$_videoportaccess = (1)	# allow videoportaccess when 'graphics' enabled
#$_vbios_seg = (0)	# set the address of your VBIOS (e.g. 0xc000, 0xe000)
#$_vbios_size = (0)	# set the size of your BIOS (e.g. 0x10000, 0x8000).
#			# 0 for $_vbios_seg/$_vbios_size means autodetection
#			# (NOTE: DOSEMU must run in full feature mode for this)
#$_vmemsize = (1024)	# size of regen buffer
#$_chipset = "plainvga"		# one of: plainvga, trident, et4000, diamond, avance
#			# cirrus, matrox, wdvga, paradise, ati, s3, sis,
#			# svgalib
#$_dualmon = (0)	# if you have one vga _plus_ one hgc (2 monitors)