Problems with Dosemu

Bob Hauck

Right, I don't see that message anymore. In fact, this disappearance shows that the problem lies elsewhere.

xdosemu doesn't seem to be available from Synaptic as a debian package, Google or at worst alien are my friends...

I installed everything related to dosemu using Synaptic. Trying again and again dosemu, I finally could read what the terminal has been displaying elusively and then get a copy - it's a bit long, I'm sorry. Here it is:

Last configured at Sat Mar 11 01:44:14 UTC 2006 on linux This is work in progress. Please test against a recent version before reporting bugs and problems. via the SourceForge tracking system at

DPMI-Server Version 0.9 installed

FreeDOS kernel version 1.1.28 (Build 2028) Dec 09 2002 21:55:55 Kernel compatibility 7.10 - WATCOMC - FAT32 support

(C) Copyright 1995-2002 Pasquale J. Villani and The FreeDOS Project. All Rights Reserved. This is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; you can redistribute it and-or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. C: HD1 Pri:1 CHS= 0-1-1 start = 0MB,size = 392 DOS=UMB,HIGHY,N?Y LASTDRIVE=HY,N?Y FILES=20Y,N?Y SHELL=C:-COMMAND.COME:1024PY,N?Y Kernel: allocated 41 Diskbuffers = 21812 Bytes in HMA DEVICEHIGH=C:-DOSEMU-EMS.SYSY,N?ERROR: cpu exception in dosemu code outside of VM86()! trapno: 0x0e errorcode: 0x00000004 cr2: 0x468a5b2d eip: 0x468a5b2d esp: 0xbfa3ffb5 eflags: 0x00210282 cs: 0x0073 ds: 0x007b es: 0x007b ss: 0x007b Page fault: read instruction to linear address: 0x468a5b2d CPU was in user mode Exception was caused by non-available page ERROR: Fault handler re-entered! signal=11 trapno=0xE ERROR: cpu exception in dosemu code outside of VM86()! trapno: 0x0e errorcode: 0x00000004 cr2: 0x468a5b23 eip: 0x0805f160 esp: 0x083dd860 eflags: 0x00210202 cs: 0x0073 ds: 0x007b es: 0x007b ss: 0x007b Page fault: read instruction to linear address: 0x468a5b23 CPU was in user mode Exception was caused by non-available page

I hope you will find something valuable.

Hmm. I think I'll have to study man xfontsel. Without any argument, I get Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset , and a xfontsel window is opened. In fmly, I don't see anything close to VGA. I installed. :) Still nothing related in xfontsel, but as the package is installed, I think it's OK now.