hi, i'm trying to use dosbox 0.61 under suse 9.0. installed from rpm.
the stuff freezes. here is a piece of strace's output:

ead(5, "5\nzh_CN:\t\t\t\t\t\tzh_CN.eucCN\nzh_CN."..., 4096) = 3402
read(5, "", 4096) = 0
close(5) = 0
munmap(0x400cf000, 4096) = 0
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/locale.dir", O_RDONLY) = 5
fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=28777, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x400cf000
read(5, "#\t$Xorg: locale.dir,v 1.3 2000/0"..., 4096) = 4096
read(5, "_LOCALE\t\t\tfo_FO.ISO8859-1\niso885"..., 4096) = 4096
read(5, "k_UA.ISO8859-5\nmicrosoft-cp1251/"..., 4096) = 4096
read(5, "-8/XLC_LOCALE\t\t\tis_IS.UTF-8\nen_U"..., 4096) = 4096
close(5) = 0
munmap(0x400cf000, 4096) = 0
access("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/C/XLC_LOCALE", R_OK) = 0
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/C/XLC_LOCALE", O_RDONLY) = 5
fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=772, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x400cf000
read(5, "# $Xorg: C,v 1.3 2000/08/17 19:"..., 4096) = 772
read(5, "", 4096) = 0
close(5) = 0
munmap(0x400cf000, 4096) = 0
brk(0) = 0x9cf4000
brk(0x9d17000) = 0x9d17000
uname({sys="Linux", node="kortegep", ...}) = 0
open("/home/korte/.Xdefaults-kortegep", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
write(3, "5\1\4\0\6\0`\3h\0\0\0\10\0\10\0007O\6\0\7\0`\3\5\0`\3\f"..., 196) = 196
read(3, "\1\1-\0\0\0\0\0\10\0@\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\0\0\230E\315"..., 32) = 32
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x400df7e0, [INT], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x40385aa8}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGTERM, {0x400df7e0, [TERM], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x40385aa8}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
write(3, "5\1\4\0\t\0`\3h\0\0\0\20\0\20\0005\1\4\0\n\0`\3h\0\0\0"..., 276) = 276
read(3, "\1\0015\0\0\0\0\0\10\0@\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\0\0\230E"..., 32) = 32
stat64("/dev/sound", 0xbfffec30) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/dev/dsp", O_WRONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 5
close(5) = 0
gettimeofday({1083308487, 58819}, NULL) = 0
pipe([5, 6]) = 0
clone(child_stack=0x9cf07b0, flags=CLONE_VM|CLONE_FS|CLONE_FILES|CLONE_SIGHAND) = 2986
write(6, "`5\315\t\5\0\0\0\n\0`\3H+\30@5\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\f\0\0\0\210"..., 148) = 148
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, NULL, [RTMIN], 8) = 0
write(6, "\340\"\16@\0\0\0\0\20\361\377\277PU\27@(\343\316\t\0\0"..., 148) = 148
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, NULL, [RTMIN], 8) = 0
rt_sigsuspend([]

...and wait 'till end. help wanted.