Re: The first dosemu-1.2.0 release candidate is available!

Ralph Alvy
2003-10-02T22:10:55Z

Bart Oldeman wrote:

> Hi,
>
> please have a look at
> http://www.dosemu.org/stable
> the version number is set to 1.1.99.1 (close to 1.2.0).
>
> Some notes:
> The -bin tarball and dosemu-freedos tarball (now updated to Beta9) work
> like they did for 1.0.2.1
> Alternatively, all-in-one RPMs (including FreeDOS) are available.
> All the binaries are now dynamically linked and require glibc 2.2 (for
> instance RH 7.0 or newer, SuSE 7.2 or newer, and Debian 3.0 or newer
> should work) and X libraries.
>
> The built-in command shell (comcom) is no longer used by default; FreeCOM
> is used instead.
>
> For those of you who have followed development, the 1.2 branch was forked
> off version 1.1.5.3 and incorporates everything in 1.1.5.7 + some more,
> but without the more experimental LFN support, filename NLS translations,
> and bitmap fonts in text mode in xdosemu.
>
> Some of the changes that happened since 1.1.5.7 are:
> * mouse support in xterms and putty
> * better support for keys in terminals
> * new (hopefully clearer) layout of dosemu.conf
> * the xterm and xdosemu title bars now show the DOS command that is
> executed
> * fixes to work with NPTL (as present in Red Hat 9)
> * various DPMI fixes
> * fix copy/paste to xdosemu
> * updated various parts of the documentation (HOWTO, EMUfailure)
> -- yes, I'm aware they aren't high quality but at least they are no
> longer wrong and reflect the current DOSEMU.
> * fix Turkish keyboard
>
> I'll get a full list of user-visable changes (wrt DOSEMU 1.0) and an
> announcement ready for 1.2.0 proper.
>
> Please let us know if there are any release critical bugs present --
> regressions vs. 1.0.2.1, doesn't run at all, the RPM is braindead, or
> similar.
>
> Bart

I decided to rename all directories that contain dosemu and freedos (from my
old 1.1.5 installation, and install the new RPM. I notice the following
error when attempting the new xdosemu:

ERROR: X: Unable to open font "vga"ERROR: , trying "vga"...
ERROR: X: Unable to open font "vga"ERROR: , trying "9x15"...

Everything else seems to be working. Just can't get VGA working over here.
I'm booting dosemu from an MSDOS directory that's installed in

/usr/share/dosemu

like this

/usr/share/dosemu/msdos