help with dosemu; getting very frustrated
Gregory Nowak
gnowak1 at uic.edu
Thu Mar 21 21:09:56 EST 2002
Hi Cheryl and all,
Once again, let me ask you how you got dosemu to run as root given the message that you have to run it as a normal user? My dosemu.conf has nothing special and resides in $home/dosemu/conf/dosemu.conf. I've attached it to this message anyway.
Greg
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 08:05:42PM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> Hey, Greg, that's outstanding!
> I only need to translate and edit, not emboss. well, I do some translating to
> .brf files but one thing at a time.
> Would you mind sending me a copy of your dosemu.conf so I can see what you did
> that made megadots work?
> As for making the com ports work as root, I put /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS1 in the
> respective com lines of /etc/dosemu/dosemu.conf. I'm not sure whether this was
> necessary or not, but I also put "emulated" in the "speaker" line. I didn't do
> anything with irq passing or "ports" though I had tried this at one point just
> as
> user. I am mostly using brltty right now instead of speakup, and it quits on me
> when i run dosemu as root but comes back when I exit dosemu. This is no big
> problem as far as dosemu, because asap works fine, but means I can't read my
> linux consoles while running dosemu as root. I can run dosemu just fine with
> brltty
> as a user.
> This is probably because brltty requires suid root permissions. This might not
> be a problem with speakup, especially if you follow Gene collin's advice on
> this. I also put a 'mode" line in my autoexec.bat to make sure the com ports
> would run at 9600 baud; they were showing up at 2400 in dosemu before I did
> that. running msd within dosemu gives you a good indication of what is being
> seen.
>
>
>
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# This file is /etc/dosemu.conf, included by <DOSEMU_LIB_DIR>/global.conf
#
# Linux DOSEMU configuration for parser versions >= 3 (dosemu-0.97.0.1)
#
# ./doc/README.txt (chapter 2.) contains a description of the syntax
# and the usage of dosemu.conf.
#
#
# Access rights are defined in
#
# /etc/dosemu.users
#
##############################################################################
# Notes for editing this section:
#
# In $_xxx = (n) n is a numerical or boolean value
# = =
# In $_zzz = "s" s is a string
#
# Please edit only beteen the brakets and quotes and keep the rest intact.
# ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
$_debug = "-a+c" # same format as -D commandline option
# (but without the -D in front)
$_features= "" # list of temporary hacks, see release notes in
# the file ChangeLog. e.g "0:1 2:0", which means
# to set feature_0 to 1 and feature_2 to 0.
$_mapping= "" # prefered mapping driver, one of:
# auto, mapself, mapfile, mapshm
$_timint = (on) # emulate INT08 type timer interrupts
$_mathco = (on) # or off
$_cpu = "80586" # CPU showing to DOS, valid values: "80[345]86"
# or "emulated" for non-native CPU (386 in this case)
$_rdtsc = (on) # if possible use Pentium cycle counter
$_cpuspeed = (0) # 0 = calibrated by dosemu, else given (e.g.166.666)
$_pci = (on)
$_xms = (1024) # in Kbyte
$_ems = (2048) # in Kbyte
$_ems_frame = (0xe000)
$_dpmi = (0x2000) # in Kbyte
$_dosmem = (640) # in Kbyte, < 640
$_hardware_ram = "" # list of segment values/ranges such as
# "0xc8000 range 0xcc000,0xcffff"
$_secure ="ngd" # secure for: n (normal users), g (guest), d (dexe)
# empty string: depending on 'restricted'
# "0": always insecure (not recommended)
$_odd_hosts = "" # black list such as "lucifer.hell.com billy.the.cat"
$_diskless_hosts="" # black list such as "hacker1 newbee gateway1"
$_emusys = "" # empty or 3 char., config.sys -> config.XXX
$_emubat = "" # empty or 3 char., autoexec.bat -> autoexec.XXX
$_emuini = "" # empty or 3 char., system.ini -> system.XXX
$_hogthreshold = (1) # 0 == all CPU power to DOSEMU
$_irqpassing = "" # list of IRQ number (2-15) to pass to DOS such as
# "3 8 10"
$_speaker = "native" # or "native" or "emulated"
$_term_char_set = "" # Global code page and character set selection.
# "" == automatic, else: ibm, latin, latin1, latin2
$_term_color = (on) # terminal with color support
$_term_updfreq = (4) # time between refreshs (units: 20 == 1 second)
$_escchar = (30) # 30 == Ctrl-^, special-sequence prefix
$_rawkeyboard = (0) # bypass normal keyboard input, maybe dangerous
$_layout = "auto" # one of: finnish(-latin1), de(-latin1), be, it, us
# uk, dk(-latin1), keyb-no, no-latin1, dvorak, po
# sg(-latin1), fr(-latin1), sf(-latin1), es(-latin1)
# sw, hu(-latin2), hu-cwi, keyb-user
# hr-cp852, hr-latin2, cz-qwerty, cz-qwertz.
# Or 'auto' (which tries to generate the table from
# the current Linux console settings)
$_keybint = (on) # emulate PCish keyboard interrupt
$_X_updfreq = (5) # time between refreshs (units: 20 == 1 second)
$_X_title = "DOS in a BOX" # Title in the top bar of the window
$_X_icon_name = "xdos" # Text for icon, when minimized
$_X_keycode = (auto) # on == translate keybord via dosemu keytables
# or 'off' or 'auto'
$_X_blinkrate = (8) # blink rate for the cursor
$_X_font = "" # basename from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/*
# (without extension) e.g. "vga"
$_X_mitshm = (on) # Use shared memory extensions
$_X_sharecmap = (off) # share the colormap with other applications
$_X_fixed_aspect = (on) # Set fixed aspect for resize the graphics window
$_X_aspect_43 = (on) # Always use an aspect ratio of 4:3 for graphics
$_X_lin_filt = (off) # Use linear filtering for >15 bpp interpolation
$_X_bilin_filt = (off) # Use bi-linear filtering for >15 bpp interpolation
$_X_mode13fact = (2) # initial size factor for video mode 0x13 (320x200)
$_X_winsize = "" # "x,y" of initial windows size (defaults to float)
$_X_gamma = (1.0) # gamma correction
$_X_vgaemu_memsize = (1024) # size (in Kbytes) of the frame buffer for emulated vga
$_X_lfb = (on) # use linear frame buffer in VESA modes
$_X_pm_interface = (on) # use protected mode interface for VESA modes
$_X_mgrab_key = "Home" # KeySym name to activate mouse grab, empty == off
$_X_vesamode = "" # "xres,yres ... xres,yres"
# List of vesamodes to add. The list has to contain
# SPACE separated "xres,yres" pairs
$_video = "vga" # one of: plainvga, vga, ega, mda, mga, cga
$_console = (0) # use 'console' video
$_graphics = (0) # use the cards BIOS to set graphics
$_videoportaccess = (1) # allow videoportaccess when 'graphics' enabled
$_vbios_seg = (0xc000) # set the address of your VBIOS (e.g. 0xe000)
$_vbios_size = (0x10000)# set the size of your BIOS (e.g. 0x8000)
$_vmemsize = (1024) # size of regen buffer
$_chipset = "s3" # one of: plainvga, trident, et4000, diamond, avance
# cirrus, matrox, wdvga, paradise, ati, s3, sis
$_dualmon = (0) # if you have one vga _plus_ one hgc (2 monitors)
$_vbootfloppy = "" # if you want to boot from a virtual floppy:
# file name of the floppy image under DOSEMU_LIB_DIR
# e.g. "floppyimage" disables $_hdimage
# "floppyimage +hd" does _not_ disable $_hdimage
$_floppy_a ="threeinch" # or "fiveinch" or "atapi" or empty, if not existing
# optionally the device may be appended such as
# "threeinch:/dev/fd0"
$_floppy_b = "atapi:/dev/hdb" # dito for B:
$_hdimage = "pcdos7" # list of hdimages under DOSEMU_LIB_DIR
# assigned in this order such as
# "hdimage_c hdimage_d hdimage_e"
# If the name begins with '/dev/', then partion
# access is done instead of virtual hdimage such as
# "/dev/hda1" or "/dev/hda1:ro" for readonly
# Currently mounted devices and swap are refused.
# Hdimages and devices may be mixed such as
# "hdimage_c /dev/hda1 /dev/hda3:ro"
# Note: 'wholedisk' is _not_ supported.
#$_hdimage_r = $_hdimage # hdimages for 'restricted access (if different)
$_aspi = "sg0:WORM:0" # list of generic SCSI devices to make available
# for the builtin aspi driver (format of an entry
# is 'device:type:mappedtarget' such as
# "sg2:WORM sg3:Sequential-Access:6 sg4:CD-ROM" or
# "sg2:4 sg3:1:6 sg4:5" (which are equal)
$_com1 = "/dev/ttyS0 0x03f8 4" # e.g. "/dev/mouse" or "/dev/ttyS0"
$_com2 = "/dev/ttyS1 0x02f8 3" # e.g. "/dev/modem" or "/dev/ttyS1"
$_com3 = "/dev/ttyS4 0xc400 5" # dito "/dev/ttyS2"
$_com4 = "" # dito "/dev/ttyS3"
$_ttylocks = "/var/locks" # Lock directory (e.g. "/var/lock")
# default ("") is /usr/spool/uucp
$_mouse = "ps2" # one of: microsoft, mousesystems, logitech, mmseries
# mouseman, hitachi, busmouse, ps2, imps2
$_mouse_dev = "/dev/mouse" # one of: com1, com2, com3, com4 or /dev/mouse
$_mouse_flags = "" # list of none or one or more of:
# "emulate3buttons cleardtr"
$_mouse_baud = (0) # baudrate, 0 == don't set
$_printer = "lp" # list of (/etc/printcap) printer names to appear as
# LPT1, LPT2, LPT3 (not all are needed, empty for none)
$_printer_timeout = (20)# idle time in seconds before spooling out
$_ports = "" # list of portnumbers such as "0x1ce 0x1cf 0x238"
# or "0x1ce range 0x280,0x29f 310"
# or "range 0x1a0,(0x1a0+15)"
$_ipxsupport = (off) # or on
$_novell_hack = (off)
$_vnet = (off) # 'on' for packet-multi (used by dosnet)
$_sound = (off) # sound support on/off
$_sb_base = (0x220)
$_sb_irq = (5)
$_sb_dma = (1)
$_sb_dsp = "/dev/dsp"
$_sb_mixer = "/dev/mixer"
$_mpu_base = "0x330"
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