Re: dosemu 1.1.3.9 user report

[Stas Sergeev <stssppnn@yahoo.com>]

Hello.

Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> IIRC, there was talk about important dosemu related patches that are
> present in the most recent kernels.   i think it was said that the
> patches have been in the ac kernels for awhile, but have just recently
> made it into the vanilla 2.4 kernels.
Generally that patches are needed if
you have a "Segmentation fault" crash
without a "(core dumped)" when dosemu
is not in DPMI mode.
Also if you are going to do some weird
thing like starting WinNT installer
under dosemu, you'll need one of those
patches.
Another one is required if you have
problems using a direct hardware access
under dosemu (this one was even considered
a security-related by RedHat:
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-158.html
)
There were also some other work, but in
general (unless the specified sympthomes
are matched) kernel upgrade may not be
necessary to get one or another program
to work under dosemu.