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First post, by joe_pool_is

Posted on 2005-06-08, 19:54

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I have been unable to find any documentation on the [log] section in the dosbox.conf file (DOSBox 0.63). The closest explanation was found in the ChangeLog file. There are several settings that I am curious about:

int10
dma (direct memory access?)
fpu (floating point unit?)
paging
fcb (file control block?)
files
ioctl (I/O control)
exec
dosmisc
pit (programmable interval timer)
keyboard
bios
gui
misc
io

Obviously, some of the terms I understand, but what do the true/false values change in the way the program behaves? For example, I set the value for keyboard=false and mouse=false, but I still had use of my keyboard and mouse.

The reason I ask is that my program does not run correctly if all values are set to true, but runs sluggish when all are set to false. Randomly changing values will take a long time to process.

If it helps, most of these values are loaded in the file debug_gui.cpp. A segment of its code follows:

1void LOG_StartUp(void) {
2	/* Setup logging groups */
3	loggrp[LOG_ALL].front="ALL";
4	loggrp[LOG_VGA].front="VGA";
5	loggrp[LOG_VGAGFX].front="VGAGFX";
6	loggrp[LOG_VGAMISC].front="VGAMISC";
7	loggrp[LOG_INT10].front="INT10";
8	loggrp[LOG_SB].front="SBLASTER";
9	loggrp[LOG_DMA].front="DMA";
10	
11	loggrp[LOG_FPU].front="FPU";
12	loggrp[LOG_CPU].front="CPU";
13	loggrp[LOG_PAGING].front="PAGING";
14
15	loggrp[LOG_FCB].front="FCB";
16	loggrp[LOG_FILES].front="FILES";
17	loggrp[LOG_IOCTL].front="IOCTL";
18	loggrp[LOG_EXEC].front="EXEC";
19	loggrp[LOG_DOSMISC].front="DOSMISC";
20
21	loggrp[LOG_PIT].front="PIT";
22	loggrp[LOG_KEYBOARD].front="KEYBOARD";
23	loggrp[LOG_PIC].front="PIC";
24
25	loggrp[LOG_MOUSE].front="MOUSE";
26	loggrp[LOG_BIOS].front="BIOS";
27	loggrp[LOG_GUI].front="GUI";
28	loggrp[LOG_MISC].front="MISC";
29
30	loggrp[LOG_IO].front="IO";
31	
32	/* Register the log section */
33	Section_prop * sect=control->AddSection_prop("log",LOG_Init);
34	sect->Add_string("logfile","");
35	char buf[1024];
36	for (Bitu i=1;i<LOG_MAX;i++) {
37		strcpy(buf,loggrp[i].front);
38		lowcase(buf);
39		sect->Add_bool(buf,true);
40	}
41}