dosbox-0.65-1

[Eric Donkersloot]

On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 15:59 +0200, 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.

Still working with the kernel-2.6.16-1.2122 kernel, so something has
been changed in the present kernel that causes dosbox to cripple an
entire system. Maybe we should look at the changelogs.

> 
> > 
> > Bob Goodwin
> > 
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Eric Donkersloot
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
eric.donkersloot at gmail.com