Re: dosemu and dosbox fail

I don't normally do ubuntu.  Thanks for the generic suggestion though.


On Wed, 24 Mar 2021, stsp wrote:

> 24.03.2021 16:24, Jude DaShiell ?????:
>>  When trying to run dosemu I get an sdl error in connection with a mouse
>>  that can't be found.  I use a usb mouse not a serial mouse and defined it
>>  as pnp since a logitech IFeel mouse wasn't one of those available directly
>>  in the mouse daemon list.
>>  This error happens whether or not the mouse is connected.  Use of the -m
>>  switch on the command line when starting dosemu also makes no difference.
>>  Does this package require a serial mouse or is there an undocumented
>>  dependency that ought to have been installed along with dosemu when dosemu
>>  got installed?
>>  The difference in behavior with dosbox (which may be off topic for this
>>  list) is mostly identical failure except an error 13 gets thrown.
>>  Systems I have tried these packages on include slint 14.2.4 and debian 10.
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> Its quite difficult to help you with
> the info you provide (aka no info to
> use for any help).
> So just the generic suggestion:
> please get the latest packages from here:
> https://code.launchpad.net/~dosemu2/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
> Install them with all the needed
> dependencies, and it will work.
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