Re: [Dosemu-devel] Issue with dosemu after upgrade to Fedora 22?

[solarflow99 <sol...@gm...>]

I suspect its just a bug with the 64 bit version, some programs,
usually games have experienced problems running in 64 bit.

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 12:14 AM, Michael D. Setzer II
<mi...@ku...> wrote:
> On 15 Sep 2015 at 16:51, solarflow99 wrote:
>
> Date sent:              Tue, 15 Sep 2015 16:51:46 -0700
> Subject:                Re: [Dosemu-devel] Issue with dosemu after upgrade to
> Fedora 22?
> From:                   solarflow99 <sol...@gm...>
> To:                     "Michael D. Setzer II" <mi...@ku...>
> Copies to:              dosemu-devel <dos...@li...>
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>> is this 64 bit?  are you using the RPM?
>>
>
> This is the 64bit version on a Lenovo ThinkCenter I7 computer. Was working
> with the Fedora 21, but did the fedup update to Fedora 22, and if upgraded to
> the Fedora 22 rpm.  Changing the $_cpu_emu = "full" seems to have fixed it,
> but not sure what changed it no longer work. Could be the upgrade to 22, or
> it could just be the new kernels that 22 is not running. Tried the vm option,
> but it gave the same error, but changing to full worked.
>
> Did download and compile the dosemu2, but ran into some issues. Had to
> add bison and flex that was no problem, and it compiled and installed, but
> when I ran the dosemu, it was coming up with a message about no os found,
> and to install freedos. The freedos was already installed, and it was working
> with the regular dosemu to load and come up with the c: prompt, just the
> running of bc program caused it to get the error. Where the regular dosemu
> would show the mapping of the z: to the freedos directory, there was nothing
> on that with the dosemu2?
>
>
>
>> On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 6:52 AM, Michael D. Setzer II
>> <mi...@ku...> wrote:
>> > During my C++ course last semester I had used dosemu to show the
>> > students the old borland c++ compiler with linux using Fedora 21 and
>> > dosemu to run the bc program and it worked great. Updated to Fedora 22
>> > over the summer, and course wasn't offered this semester, but earlier today
>> > went in to check it out, and it kept crashing?
>> >
>> > dosemu would start just fine, but when I ran the bc program it was giving this
>> > error?
>> >
>> > ERROR: SS selector invalid: 0x002B, type=0 np=0
>> >
>> > Tried a number of options in config file, but found that this one finally made it
>> > work again.
>> >
>> > $_cpu_emu = "full"
>> >
>> > Not sure if it was a change to the Fedora 22, or the newer kernels or what.
>> > Tried a number of other options, but this was what stopped the error, and
>> > had the program come up. Went back to the original config file, and just
>> > changed this one to make sure that it was what made the difference.
>> >
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