Installing dosemu

Installing dosemu

[Eric Van der Velden]

Hi,
I didn't succeed installing dosemu on my Linux machine.
I have dosemu-1.2.2.tgz  tar -x, so I have dosemu-1.2.2/ dir. In that 
dir. I have put the dosemu-freedos-bin.tgz file (I hope that is correct).
In dosemu-1.2.2/ I only did 'default things': ./configure; make; make 
install.
When I run dosemu (/usr/local/bin/dosemu), and give only <enter>'s ,I get
1.  HMA can't be enabled
2.  UMB's unavailable
3.  FreeCOM: XMSSwap-In: XMS copy error
4.  Cannot terminate permanent FreeCOM instance.

Bye.

Configuring cursor shape

[Alain]

Hi,

Can configure the cursor shape in DOSEMU? Now I am getting a very thin 
horizontal line at aprox. 1/3 from the top. It is very difficult to see.

This is my rc file (all comments striped off):

$_lfn_support=(1)
$_cpu = "80586"
$_rdtsc = (on)
$_xms = (20000)
$_hogthreshold = (3)
$_external_char_set = "iso8859-1"
$_internal_char_set = "cp850"
$_layout = "keyb-user"
$_X_updfreq = (2)
$_X_fixed_aspect = (off)

thanks,
Alain

Re: Configuring cursor shape

[Claudia Neumann]

Am Dienstag, 26. Juli 2005 21:13 schrieben Sie:
> Can configure the cursor shape in DOSEMU? Now I am getting a very thin
> horizontal line at aprox. 1/3 from the top. It is very difficult to see.

In dosemu or xdosemu? Normally, the cursor in xdosemu is the mouse cursor of  
the Window manager you are using i.e. KDE. You configure this cursor in KDE. 
The (blinking) cursor in dosemu depends upon the font you boot your linux 
with. Can be configured in grub (vga=normal or vga=5) or lilo. The cursor in 
input fields in xdosemu depends upon the $_Xfont = "vga" 
in /etc/dosemu/dosemu.conf or $HOME/.dosemurc. If you have installed vga11x19 
try $_Xfont = "vga11x19".

cu

Claudia

Re: Configuring cursor shape

[Alain]

Hi Claudia,

I made some tests with $_Xfont = "vga" The problem is that it has no
codepage 850 ! And the xreen is too big with 50 lines, 34 works grat, 43
would be fine but does not work.

I have to work in graphics mode, and let the dos display driver set the
caracters.

The cursor works ok with 80x34 which is a little better because it uses
480rows, but I cannot find a command line tool to set this mode (I could
write one if someone tells me the bios modes)

Is there a VGA font for codepage 850?

Alain

Claudia Neumann escreveu:
> Am Dienstag, 26. Juli 2005 21:13 schrieben Sie:
> 
>>Can configure the cursor shape in DOSEMU? Now I am getting a very thin
>>horizontal line at aprox. 1/3 from the top. It is very difficult to see.
> 
> 
> In dosemu or xdosemu? Normally, the cursor in xdosemu is the mouse cursor of  
> the Window manager you are using i.e. KDE. You configure this cursor in KDE. 
> The (blinking) cursor in dosemu depends upon the font you boot your linux 
> with. Can be configured in grub (vga=normal or vga=5) or lilo. The cursor in 
> input fields in xdosemu depends upon the $_Xfont = "vga" 
> in /etc/dosemu/dosemu.conf or $HOME/.dosemurc. If you have installed vga11x19 
> try $_Xfont = "vga11x19".
> 
> cu
> 
> Claudia
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Re: Configuring cursor shape

[Claudia Neumann]

Am Donnerstag, 28. Juli 2005 03:55 schrieben Sie:
> I made some tests with $_Xfont = "vga" The problem is that it has no
> codepage 850 ! And the xreen is too big with 50 lines, 34 works grat, 43
> would be fine but does not work.

Mmh. I am working with codepage 850 an 43 lines. My $HOME/.dosemurc:

$_term_char_set = "ibm" 
#$_external_char_set = ""
$_internal_char_set = "cp850"

Did you install the dosemu Xfonts in /usr/X11R6/lib/R11/fonts/misc? Can you 
find this font with i.e. xfontselect?

cu

Claudia

Re: Configuring cursor shape

[Alain]

Hi Claudia,

I tested what you said. One point is that I am using DosEmu 1.3.2 and I 
get thei message:
---------------
ERROR: WARNING: $_term_char_set is obsolete. Use $_external_char_set and 
$_internal_char_set instead.
---------------
So I tested with the same result:

$_external_char_set = "iso8859-1"
$_internal_char_set = "cp850"

In fact it makes absolutely *no*difference*. If I use $_X_font="vga" I 
don't ge Codepage 850 (ã - atilde) AND the cursor is placed 1/3 from the 
top. If I don't use $_X_font="vga", I get DOS's internal font that are 
ok, with the bad cursor.

I searched for the font vga and I can find it as:
/usr/share/dosemu/Xfonts/vga.pcf.gz
In this directory I have all my dosemu fonts, this is my alias.font that 
is that directory:
vga          -dosemu-vga-medium-r-normal--17-160-75-75-p-80-ibm-cp437
vga8x19      -dosemu-vga-medium-r-normal--19-190-75-75-c-80-ibm-cp437
vga11x19     -dosemu-vga-medium-r-normal--19-190-75-75-c-100-ibm-cp437
vga10x24     -dosemu-vga-medium-r-normal--24-240-75-75-c-100-ibm-cp437
vga12x30     -dosemu-vga-medium-r-normal--30-300-75-75-c-120-ibm-cp437
vgacyr       -dosemu-vga-medium-r-normal--17-160-75-75-c-80-ibm-cp866
vga10x20     -dosemu-vga-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-ibm-cp866
vga-ua       -dosemu-vga-medium-r-normal--17-160-75-75-c-80-ibm-cp1125
vga10x20-ua  -dosemu-vga-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-ibm-cp1125
All these fonts work, none has latin characters.

Alain
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