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Hi,

I was upgrading my kernel to a recent 3.15 version and am now unable to run dosemu with DPMI support - no vpa ; at the startup of dosemu I get this message:

ERROR: DPMI initialization failed, disabling

If I boot the system with a 3.14 kernel all is good. I compiled the 3.15 with the .config of the 3.14 kernel after doing a make oldconfig.

Has anyone else run into this problem?

Cheers, Sirko

I was upgrading my kernel to a recent 3.15 version and am now unable to run dosemu with DPMI support - no vpa ; at the startup of dosemu I get this message:

ERROR: DPMI initialization failed, disabling

64-bit kernel perhaps? Maybe it's related to this discussion: http://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/11/542 (I haven't read it in full, but they talk about breaking 16-bit apps).

If your processor is fast enough to run in 64 bits, it's also fast enough to run DOSBOX, and that one should do DPMI just fine.

--Stefan

Right on the money. DOSBOX does the trick just fine.

Cheers, Sirko

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I was upgrading my kernel to a recent 3.15 version and am now unable to run dosemu with DPMI support - no vpa ; at the startup of dosemu I get this message:

ERROR: DPMI initialization failed, disabling

64-bit kernel perhaps? Maybe it's related to this discussion: http://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/11/542 (I haven't read it in full, but they talk about breaking 16-bit apps).

If your processor is fast enough to run in 64 bits, it's also fast enough to run DOSBOX, and that one should do DPMI just fine.

--Stefan