From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Frantisek Rysanek" Subject: Re: DosEMU, Ghost: VGA screen garbled... Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:41:25 +0200 Message-ID: <4AAF6145.23874.2802263@Frantisek.Rysanek.post.cz> References: <4AAEE418.24404.972E06@Frantisek.Rysanek.post.cz>, <4AAF3850.8010105@hanzlici.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-reply-to: <4AAF3850.8010105@hanzlici.cz> Content-description: Mail message body Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org On 15 Sep 2009 at 8:46, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: > I probably not help You, but I just quickly tried run ghost (v7.5, > in DOSEMU devel svn1954 on Fedora11/i686 non-emulated mode). > When run in console, screen was garbled as You wrote. Under root, > "dosemu -s" switch screen to some mode unsupported by my monitor, > screen was black and I wasn't able switch to other virtual console > or X, I must reboot via remote SSH. > But, when I run ghost in xdosemu (from X terminal), all appears OK, mouse > was working too. > Thanks for your information :-) I tend to think that the "-s" switch merely calls "sudo" to get admin privileges => there's no point to using -s when dosemu is already run by the root. As for "it works in X but not in console", my explanation is that under XWindows, the dosemu VGA graphics runs entirely in an emulator, whereas at the text-mode console, dosemu tries to access the graphics hardware directly, which fails for some reason... Maintaining X in a diskless "boot anywhere" setup is not an option for me. Effectively it defies the purpose of my Linux+DOSEMU adventure, an important part of which is seamless simplicity :-) The one point I forgot to mention is that I've tried dosemu 1.4.0.0- release and yesterday's latest from SVN and both behave the same. I compile them for i486-pc-linux-gnu for maximum compatibility. Frank Rysanek