The dosemu HOWTO

edited by Mike Deisher, deisher@dspsun.eas.asu.edu

1. The preliminaries

1.1 What is dosemu, anyway?

1.2 What's the newest version of dosemu and where can I get it?

1.3 Where can I follow the development?

1.4 What documentation is available for dosemu?

2. Compiling and installing dosemu

2.1 Where are the installation instructions?

2.2 What does emu.c:349: parse error before `outfuntype' mean?

2.3 What does scan.o: Undefined symbol _yywrap mean?

3. Hard disk setup

3.1 How do I use my hard disk with dosemu?

3.2 Can I use my stacked/double-spaced/super-stored disk?

3.3 I get an error message about my config.sys file but it looks fine.

4. Serial ports and mice

4.1 Where are the (microsoft compatible) mouse drivers?

4.2 Why doesn't the mouse driver work?

4.3 Why does dosemu clobber COM4?

4.4 How do I use dosemu over the serial ports?

4.5 How can I switch between dosemu and a shell over the serial line?

5. Dosemu with multiple users

5.1 Can I use dosemu on a multi-user system?

5.2 How do I get Netware access from dosemu?

6. dosemu and X-windows

6.1 Can I run dosemu in console mode while running X?

6.2 Is it possible to run dosemu in an xterm?

7. Video and sound

7.1 Exiting from dosemu gives me a screen full of garbage.

7.2 How do I get dosemu to work with my Trident/Actix/other video card?

7.3 Why doesn't my soundcard software work with dosemu?

8. Other Hardware

8.1 How do I get my xxxxx device working under dosemu?

9. Problems and fixes

9.1 Why does dosemu lock up after one keystroke?

9.2 Why are my keystrokes echoed ttwwiiccee??

9.3 Why does dosemu give "divide overflow" errors after running for more than 24-hours?

9.4 Where did the debugging output go?

9.5 Why are characters < 128 highlighted and blinking?

9.6 Why will dosemu run in a term but not in the console?

9.7 How can I speed up dosemu?

9.8 My CDROM drive has problems reading some files under dosemu.

10. Contributing to the dosemu project

10.1 Who is responsible for dosemu?

10.2 I want to help. Who should I contact?