Hullo All, I have been noting some of the problems I have been having with the Linux version of RPCemu 0.7, and can also provide some guidance on a few issues. Firstly, I am running on an i686 machine (Athlon 32 bit) using Fedora Core 6, and ROS 4.39 rom images.
Some Notes: ----------- Formatting (or re-formatting) the hard drive supplied on the web site. I'm not sure how one is meant to use the file hform.adf supplied. I tried !Hform v2.56 but it throws an error if you choose disc type 'other'. !Hform v2.51 works OK, but you need to select the default sectors (63) and heads (16) then enter the number of cylinders required. As stated in the Readme.txt file, the number of cylinders needs to be about double the required disc size in MB. Make the parking cylinder the same number as the number of cylinders, and select LBA flag=0, choose format not initialise, and you can select the default LFAU (256). Basically select the defaults offered after setting the cylinders and parking cylinder. I also chose to make it bootable and to have long filenames. I have a 1 GB disc working OK. The HostFS file system only works if you rename the HostFS directory (from within Linux) to hostfs. As supplied in the archive (as dir HOSTFS) it will not work as RPCemu is looking for dir 'hostfs'. Do not attempt to set your screen to more than 1024x768. This limit seems to be hardwired into the code. I have been moving files from my RPC to the hostfs dir on Linux using !Sunfish (NFS via ethernet), which seems to be a sound method of getting files/data from the RPC to Linux-RPCemu. Problems: --------- The keyboard behaves badly. If I open an !Edit window and begin to type text it isn't long before a character is endlessly repeated, as if I am holding down the key. Quitting !Edit and restarting doesn't stop it, as it is continuing in any new !Edit window that is opened. The repeating character pops up wherever keyboard entry is expected (e.g. filer rename). Also some characters (e.g. ":") are never seen, or lost somewhere. The CD-ROM drive does nothing. Insert a CD-ROM and select the CD-ROM icon and it reports "drive empty". I have not found any way of getting RPCemu to recognise that there is a CD in the drive. Choosing the IOCTL option (CTL-END -> Settings -> CDROM) and then select the CD-ROM icon causes RPCemu to dissappear. No error messages, nothing...just gone. Tinkering with the configuration options can leave the system locked. The only thing to do is kill the process from within Linux. This seems to be a difficult one to see any pattern. Sometimes it happens, sometimes not. That's it, for the moment. Hopefully the notes will be helpful, and that the problem reports will help. I am really not competent to try to track down problems in a system like this. I hope there is someone who is doing some work on the Linux version. We already have quite sound emulators for Windows, so effort really is needed on the Linux version. As I said before, if it helps, I am willing to put some effort into documentation, but it needs to be a bit more robust first. If there is any additional specific information that anyone needs re my system etc, or more detailed steps to reproduce errors, I will provide whatever I can. Cheers, -- Regards, Terry Duell _______________________________________________ Rpcemu mailing list [email protected] http://www.riscos.info/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rpcemu
