where/which conf ?

Greetings:

I've been trying to work with some video settings, but I'm confused
about which conf file to edit, and where that file should actually reside.

I'm using the binary distro of dosemu 1.0.2, it works very well, but
the documentation doesn't tell me enough about the configuration. Changes I make in either ~/mydos/conf/* or /etc/dosemu.conf are not acquired by the binary, so can anyone fill me in a bit better on where to start with my configuration ?

Btw, as an example, if I change the name of the xterm title in
dosemu.conf no change takes place when I run ~/mydos/bin/xdosemu. Ditto for CPU, mouse settings, etc.

Best regards,

== Dave Phillips

The Book Of Linux Music & Sound at http://www.nostarch.com/lms.htm
The Linux Soundapps Site at http://linux-sound.org

I have here ~/dosemu/xdosemu, but no ~/dosemu/bin/xdosemu. If I change something in ~/dosemu/conf/dosemu.conf (for instance, $_X_title = "DOS in a BOX") then it is reflected.

The same should be true for you with ~/mydos instead of ~/dosemu and please also check that ~/.dosemu/bindist_path contains ~/mydos written out.

Bart

My bad, it is ~/mydos/dosemu/xdosemu.

Definitely not working for me. I just tried it again, no joy.

It does.

Best regards,

== Dave Phillips

The Book Of Linux Music & Sound at http://www.nostarch.com/lms.htm
The Linux Soundapps Site at http://linux-sound.org

what does xdosemu report with -D+c in boot.log?

Bart

Running unpriviledged in low feature mode
kernel CPU speed is 801000441 Hz
Running on CPU=586, FPU=1
using stderr for debug-output
debug flags: +c
CONF: config variable parser_version_3 set
CONF: config variable c_system set
CONF: Parsing /home/dlphilp/mydos/dosemu/conf/global.conf file.
CONF: config variable version_3_style_used set
CONF: config variable version_3_style_used unset
CONF: config variable version_3_style_used set
CONF: opened include file /home/dlphilp/mydos/dosemu/conf/dosemu.conf
CONF: closed include file /home/dlphilp/mydos/dosemu/conf/dosemu.conf
CONF: entered user scope, includelevel 0
CONF: opened include file /home/dlphilp/mydos/dosemu/conf/dosemurc
CONF: closed include file /home/dlphilp/mydos/dosemu/conf/dosemurc
CONF: left user scope, includelevel 0
CONF: config variable skip_dosrc set
CONF: variable _X_keycode replaced by user
debug flags: -a+c
debug flags: -dARWDCvXkiTsm#pQgcwhIExMnPrSgZ
CONF: Disabling use of pentium timer
CONF: dosbanner on
CONF: timint on
CONF: CPU set to 586
CONF: 1024k bytes XMS memory
CONF: 2048k bytes EMS memory
CONF: EMS-frame = 0xe000
CONF: dosemu running on console
CONF: allowvideoportaccess on
CHIPSET: 0
CONF: VGA-BIOS-Segment c000
CONF: VGA-BIOS-Size 10000
SER: /dev/mouse port 0 int 0
MOUSE: /dev/mouse type 0 using internaldriver: yes, emulate3buttons: no
baudrate: 0
CONF: Keyboard-layout keyb-user
CONF: Keyboard-layout auto
device: /dev/fd0 type 2 h: 0 s: 0 t: 0 floppy A:
CONF: DPMI-Server on
CONF: not allowing speaker port access
CONF: IPX support off
CONF(LPT0) f: (null) c: lpr o: -Plp %s t: 20 port: 378
device: /home/dlphilp/mydos/dosemu/freedos type 4 h: -1 s: -1 t: -1
drive C:
CONF: config variable c_system unset
CONF: not enough privilege to define config variable c_user debug flags: +c
CONF: Keyboard-layout auto
CONF: Forceing neutral Keyboard-layout, X-server will translate
CONF: mostly running as USER: uid=500 (cached 500) gid=500 (cached 500)
CONF: reserving 640Kb at 0x00000 for 'd' (Base DOS memory (first 640K))
CONF: reserving 64Kb at 0xF0000 for 'r' (Dosemu reserved area)
CONF: reserving 128Kb at 0xA0000 for 'v' (Video memory)
CONF: reserving 64Kb at 0xE0000 for 'E' (EMS page frame)
TIME: using 9154 usec for updating ALRM timer
DOS termination requested

It seems that my changes should work. Any suggestions ?

Best regards,

== Dave Phillips

The Book Of Linux Music & Sound at http://www.nostarch.com/lms.htm
The Linux Soundapps Site at http://linux-sound.org

No, it seems like you have an extra level:
your dosemu directory is not ~/mydos but ~/mydos/dosemu
Hence editing ~/mydos/conf/dosemu.conf does not help but you need to edit ~/mydos/dosemu/conf/dosemu.conf

Is your bindist_path really ~/mydos or is it ~/mydos/dosemu ?

Bart