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10. Using X

Please read all of this for a more complete X information ;-)

10.1 Latest Info

From Uwe Bonnes <bon@elektron.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de>:

xdos from dosemu version pre-0.60.4.2 with the patch from my last messages should now be more capable. In particular it should now understand the keys from the keypad-area (the keys the most right on a MF-Keyboard) and numlock and keyevents in the range of the latin characters, even when you run xdos from a remote X-terminal.

If it dosen't work for you as expected, please check out the following:

10.2 Slightly older information

From Rainer Zimmermann <zimmerm@mathematik.uni-marburg.de>

Some basic information about dosemu's X support. Sometimes it's even sort of useable now.

What you should take care of:

important changes to previous version (pre53_17):

10.3 Status of X support (Sept 5, 1994)

Done

ToDo (in no special order)

10.4 The appearance of Graphics modes (November 13, 1995)

Erik Mouw <J.A.K.Mouw@et.tudelft.nl> & Arjan Filius <I.A.Filius@et.tudelft.nl>

We've made some major changes in X.c that enables X to run graphics modes. Unfortunately, this disables the cut-and-paste support, but we think the graphics stuff is much more fun (after things have established, we'll put the cut-and-paste stuff back). The graphics is done through vgaemu, the VGA emulator. Status of the work:

vgaemu

vesa

X

As stated before, this code was written for Linux (tested with 1.2.13 and 1.3.39) and we don't know if it works under NetBSD. The mmap() of /proc/self/mem and mprotect() magic in vgaemu are very (i386) Linux specific.

Erik


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