From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alain Mouette Subject: Re: DOSEMU VGA graphics on a FrameBuffer (Was: Re: DosEMU, Ghost: VGA screen garbled...) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:58:46 -0300 Message-ID: <4AB7CCE6.7060809@pobox.com> References: <4AAEE418.24404.972E06@Frantisek.Rysanek.post.cz>, , <4AB3DB56.2060102@pobox.com> <4AB6ABC5.20163.44CC0F@Frantisek.Rysanek.post.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4AB6ABC5.20163.44CC0F@Frantisek.Rysanek.post.cz> Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: dosEmu-list Frantisek Rysanek escreveu: >> >> I am interested in making a simple linux, with something like BusyBox, >> only to run dos programs... >> > While I was looking for some solutions to my problem, I noticed > there's vgaemu - the emulator that's used to display VGA graphics in > a window under XWindows. > > BTW, what graphics hardware do you have in mind? Have you met some > framebuffer graphics device coupled to an x86 CPU, that is not VGA > compatible? Okay, I know the VGA compatibility can have glitches... > If you did have some such VGA-incompliant graphics device, you might > face other challenges, such as getting a Linux kernel framebuffer > graphics driver for that, or direct support (driver) in SDL... I am not thinking of VGA graphics, but VESA... First of all because I use 800x600. There are very good drivers that autodetect all existing video hardware. That is basicaly what I have in mind. My point is that Dosemu works very well in grahic mode under X, *better then any other simulator* so my idea is just to use that as a basis for a dos system. Thare is also a few advantages: Linux network support and better filesystem. I have noticed that compiling a program under dosemu is *faster* that with plain DOS on the same machine !!! Alain > Good luck with your DOSEMU mini-distro. I suggest that you include a > bootloader option to boot plain DOS (FreeDOS?) straight on bare metal > :-) > > Frank Rysanek > -- > 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 > >