Re: dosemu graphics problem

[David Relson <relson@osagesoftware.com>]

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Hello Bart,

Glad to make your acquaintance and appreciate the info !!

On Fri, 3 Jul 2009 12:44:18 -0400 Bart Oldeman wrote:

> 2009/7/3 David Relson <relson@osagesoftware.com>:
> 
> > I have a DOS application that uses the Borland graphics library to
> > write to the screen.  The library uses direct hardware access, so
> > dosemu is run with the -s switch.  When "dosemu -s" is run from a
> > terminal window in Gnome, FreeDOS starts fine and the application
> > runs fine.
> 
> Just a clarification: dosemu with -s means direct hardware access *on
> Linux*. For video that means to run dosemu in a VC outside X
> (Ctrl-Alt-F2 or such), and in that case the DOS application interacts
> directly with the VGA hardware in the PC.
> 
> You don't need to run dosemu -s just because the DOS app thinks it
> does direct hardware access: it is all emulated if you run it in
> Gnome.

The ultimate goal is the embedded environment which uses an ICOP-6154
board with a 486SX and porting the DOS application to Linux.  Using
DosEMU and FreeDOS is intended as a temporary state.

When run without a GUI, i.e. X and Gnome, the application clears the
screen (to black) and that's about it.  

When run from a Gnome terminal border lines and bars are drawn, intro
text is displayed (from files identified by the file command as "raw G3
data, byte-padded"), date/time is displayed, etc.

I appreciate the "-D+v" suggestion.  Evidently the "osemu.confot ..."
text is from the following:

  ERROR: Port 0xac1c is not available (outw), "save_vga_state" failed.
  Adjust your dosemu.conf
  leavedos(46|0x2e) called - shutting down

Unfortunately I have no idea what port 0xac1c is.  Have you any
suggestions for finding out more.

The board _does_ have VGA support.  From the board's datasheet:

    XGI Volari Z9s Chipset, it
    VGA and TFT Flat Panel Interface Support
    Onboard 32MB VGA Memory, support resolution up to
    1280 x 1024, 16M colors

I've looked at /etc/dosemu/dosemu.conf and see the many options.  I've
changed $_cpu from 80586 to 80486 and $_chipset from vesa to
plaintext. Neither change helps the program run.

FWIW I've attached the complete boot.log (from command "dosemu -s" with
a default dosemu.conf).

> > As the goal is to run this application on an embedded system, it
> > would be proper to run "dosemu -s" from a terminal session rather
> > than Gnome.  When this is done, the following lines are output:
> >
> >    Running as root in full feature mode
> >    osemu.confot available (outw), save_vga_state failed.
> 
> You can run with -D+v and look at ~/.dosemu/boot.log for more info.
> But if the embedded system does not have VGA hardware it is not going
> to work.
> 
> SDL (dosemu -S) on a graphics framebuffer or if the app only uses DOS
> text mode, plain "dosemu" might do the job though.
> 
> Bart

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major = 4 minor = 1
CONF: config variable parser_version_3 set
CONF: config variable c_system set
CONF: Parsing built-in dosemu.conf file.
CONF: config variable version_3_style_used set
CONF: Parsing built-in global.conf file.
CONF: config variable version_3_style_used unset
CONF: config variable version_3_style_used set
CONF: opened include file /etc/dosemu/dosemu.conf
CONF: closed include file /etc/dosemu/dosemu.conf
CONF: mapping driver = 'mapshm'
debug flags: -a+cw
CONF: Disabling use of pentium timer
CONF: dosbanner on
CONF: timer freq=18, update=54925
CONF: CPU set to 586
CONF: JIT CPUEMU set to 0 for 586
CONF: 2048k bytes EMS memory
CONF: EMS-frame = 0xe400
CONF: DPMI-Server on (0x5000)
CONF: DPMI base addr = 0xffffffff
CONF: PM DOS API Translator on
CONF: No DJGPP NULL deref checks: off
CONF: dosemu running on console
CONF: VGA-BIOS-Segment 0
CONF: VGA-BIOS-Segment set to 0xc000
CONF: VGA-BIOS-Size 0
CONF: VGA-BIOS-Size set to 0x8000
CHIPSET: 12
CONF: time mode = 'bios'
SER: directory /var/lock namestub LCK.. binary No
MOUSE: no device specified, type 0 using internaldriver: yes, emulate3buttons: no baudrate: 0
CONF: Keyboard-layout keyb-user
CONF: **** Warning: floppy /dev/fd0 not accessable, disabled
CONF: fastfloppy = 1
CONF: IPX support off
CONF(LPT0) f: (null)   c: lpr -l  t: 20  port: 0
CONF(LPT1) f: (null)   c: lpr -l -P lpt2  t: 20  port: 0
CONF: not allowing speaker port access
CONF: Packet Driver enabled.
device: /root/.dosemu/drives/c type 4 h: -1  s: -1   t: -1 drive C:
device: /root/.dosemu/drives/d type 4 h: -1  s: -1   t: -1 drive D:
device: /root/.dosemu/drives/g type 4 h: -1  s: -1   t: -1 drive E:
CONF: cdrom MSCD0001 on /dev/cdrom
CONF: config variable c_system unset
Linux kernel 2.6.26; CPU speed is 499909000 Hz
CPU-EMU speed is 500 MHz
major = 4 minor = 1
CONF: running exclusively as ROOT: uid=0 (cached 0) gid=0 (cached 0)
DBG_FD already set
DOSEMU-1.4.0.0 is coming up on Linux version 2.6.26-gentoo-r4
CONF: reserving 640Kb at 0x00000 for 'd' (Base DOS memory (first 640K))
CONF: reserving 48Kb at 0xF4000 for 'r' (Dosemu reserved area)
CPU: Stack bottom 0xbf91c000, top 0xbf931000, esp=0xbf91f140
Registering HWRAM, type=v base=0xe0000000 size=0xffffff
CONF: reserving 16383Kb at 0xE0000000 for 'v' ((null))
Registering HWRAM, type=v base=0xe1000000 size=0x3fff
CONF: reserving 15Kb at 0xE1000000 for 'v' ((null))
Registering HWRAM, type=v base=0xe1004000 size=0x3fff
CONF: reserving 15Kb at 0xE1004000 for 'v' ((null))
Registering HWRAM, type=v base=0xe1008000 size=0x3fff
CONF: reserving 15Kb at 0xE1008000 for 'v' ((null))
Registering HWRAM, type=v base=0xe100c000 size=0x3fff
CONF: reserving 15Kb at 0xE100C000 for 'v' ((null))
Registering HWRAM, type=v base=0xa0000 size=0x20000
CONF: reserving 128Kb at 0xA0000 for 'v' (Video memory)
WARN: copying VBIOS file from /dev/mem
CONF: reserving 32Kb at 0xC0000 for 'V' (Video BIOS)
CONF: reserving 8256Kb at 0x100000 for 'x' (Extended memory (HMA+XMS))
ERROR: Port 0xac1c is not available (outw), "save_vga_state" failed.
Adjust your dosemu.conf
leavedos(46|0x2e) called - shutting down