dosbox-0.65-1

Bob Goodwin bobgoodwin at wildblue.net
Wed Jun 21 14:34:46 UTC 2006


Eric Donkersloot wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 09:34 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>   
>> Eric Donkersloot wrote:
>>     
>>> On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 09:26 +0200, Eric Donkersloot wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I've installed dosbox-0.65-1 on my machine at home, but running it kills
>>>> the system, everything seems to hang and I have to reboot my box. I
>>>> can't find anything in the logs and SELinux is disabled by the way. Any
>>>> ideas ?
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> An older version of dosbox didn't do the trick. Maybe it's kernel
>>> related ? Or a problem with SDL maybe ? Has anybody got dosbox working
>>> with the latest kernel ?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Eric
>>>   
>>>       
>> I just yum installed dosbox on this updated fc5 system and tried it 
>> twice, each time the computer "froze" completely and I had to kill power 
>> at the UPS and reboot!  I haven't needed dosbox in a couple of months 
>> but I believe it works on an FC4 box here.  I will be interested to hear 
>> your solution to the problem.
>>     
>
> It works fine with the 2.6.15-1.2054 kernel, so the problem is kernel
> related. I will try to test some other kernels as well.
>
>   
>> Bob Goodwin
>>     

    I am using the latest kernel: 
    uname -a            Linux box1 2.6.16-1.2133_FC5 #1 Tue Jun 6
    00:52:14 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

    I'll try one of the others later ...

    Bob





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