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2. Known bugs

2.1 Things YOU may help changing

This is a list of currently known bugs in Dosemu0.53pl58, currently in the process of adaptation to 0.64.4

- Some documentation is known to be well out of date.

- Sound Card emulation does not work yet

- Some video BIOS will start very slowly with the serial ports enabled.

- If you are having troubles with EMS, try moving your page frame or disabling umb_max if it is set to 'on'.

- Programs (like MFT.EXE from QEMM) may crash due to inadequate timer resolution. A fast machine will have less problems

- Quattro Pro for DOS is rumored not to work (anyone with a copy willing to look into why?)

- Windows 3.1 will not run very well. We do NOT recommend running it.

- There may be periodic "internal stack overflows" using the mouse, especially under Windows (correct, all?)

2.2 Problems probably solved

Here reported problems with older versions are listed. The current version should have solved them, but this has to be validated. Please report if you had problems in the listed areas and these problems are now solved.

- If you seem to be getting corrupt files, try switching away from Linux v1.1.50-v1.1.65, since there are known disk access bugs.

- DPMI emulation is known to be somewhat buggy.

- There are known problems with xdos (e.g. it may not work at all for you.)

- xdos sessions accessed from remote, non-Linux X-sessions (e.g. SUN stations and others) may not work correctly.

- The internal mouse driver is known to have problems.

- Running a protected mode 'make' and a protected mode compiler (e.g. Borland's) may not work. Try switching to a real mode make.


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