From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Willem Stumpel Subject: Re: 1.2.0 binary install Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 16:16:13 +0100 Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40128C3D.9000600@my.home> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-reply-to: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org Bart Oldeman wrote: > But.. DOSEMU isn't as important anymore as it used to be and > some distributions no longer have it. Shame on them! I suppose it is inevitable as newer generations of computer users have never heard of DOS. > If another DOS is used; yes it's a bit of a waste of bandwidth > but that's the price you pay. And anyways many programs (think > about mozilla!) are much much larger than the 2MB DOSEMU rpm. No, I am not worried about the bandwidth, it's probably more my feeling that the dosemu C drive should be set up in a user's home directory with its own DOS in it. > 1.2.0 is in sid now. Thanks for the tip! This must have happened in the last few days. Pity that the Debian version does not have this handy ~/.dosemu/drives directory. In the RPM, apparently, there is a drives directory, but it is in /etc. I think it should be in the user=B4s home directory. > So -- perhaps your DOSEMU for dummies page should point to the > RPM instead? I closed the page quite a while ago but received a resurrection request recently, so the old version is back temporarily. I think I am going to make a new version now I know how to make the binary distribution work (see below). And of course I will point to the RPM and also the .deb. > About the font problem. I honestly don't know what is going on. > Between rc1 and rc2 I added some attempts to desperate get xset > +fp ... working but apparently there's still something broken, > but only for some people; for me it can find the font just > fine. Seems to depend on the X server configuration. But I > honestly don't know... I just can't reproduce. I also messed about a lot with xset, xfontsel, xlsfonts but nothing helped. But I could finally make it work by changing Xfonts/fonts.dir in the binary distribution (it is generated the first time that xdosemu runs). Replaced the line vga.pcf vga with vga.pcf -dosemu-vga-medium-r-normal--17-160-75-75-p-80-ibm-cp437 No idea why this is necessary. I haven't a clue about how X works. Of course I don't know if this breaks other (non-Debian?) setups, but if it does not, fonts.dir should perhaps be included in the distribution. Regards, Jan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html