Date: Wed, 6 Sep 1995 10:13:56 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: PLAZAS_CHRISTIAN@mercury.csg.peachnet.edu (Christian) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pcemu problems..please help Message-ID: <199509061713.KAA00240@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <FAF1F794177@mercury.csg.peachnet.edu> from "Christian" at Sep 6, 95 08:23:51 am
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> I just installed pcemu and it seems to work fine except for one > itty bitty problem. I can't see any text!!??? When I start it up I > get a pcemu window and the inside or background of the window is > black, as it should be, but there is no text...all I see is a > flashing dos-like cursor. When I do a simple command like "dir" > (blindly) the cursor moves up as if it were scrolling a directory > listing. Is there something I am missing? I read all the relevant > documentation and there is nothing in there about setting or changing > the text color. I also installed the font that came with the emulator > but that doesn't seem to help. The system is a 486dx33 with 16Mb of > RAM and is running XFree86 3.1.2 with the fvwm as my window manager. > Oh one thing I did notice is that in the original 720k DriveA file > that came with the emulator I was able to see the text in the readme > file that was red or yellow. Another question I have about the > emulator ....Is it possible to access a novell 3.12 or 4.1 network > through the emulator, and if so is there anything out of the ordinary > that I have to do to get this to work...? I'll take a guess at this one. I reported an X bug quite some time ago that was similar to this one; it had to do with X acting incorrectly on XDrawImageString, which you use to draw the background and foreground simultaneously. This operation blew up when the font ascent and descent were 0 (Sun's X server assumes that the ascent and descent should be calculated from the bounding box in this case -- I think this is the correct fix for the bug). Check the ascent/descent in the font source and insure that it matches the bounding box. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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