First post, by calmofthestorm
Hi, I have a problem with DOSBox crashing solid under Mandrake 10.2. WHen I say "crash solid" I mean that the entire system freezes and nothing can seem to get out (I try CTRL+F9 , ALT+ENTER, my computer's power button (which normally does clean shut down) ). The games I've observed this on are Colonization and Master of Orion, but both of these games worked fine under DOSBox on Fedora Core 3 and Windows XP.
This occurs under 0.61 RPM for Mandrake, 0.63 RPM for Fedora Core 3 (installed on Mandrake), and when I build it myself from the tar.
The crash is fairly difficult to reproduce consistantly, sometimes it happens just as I start playing the game, other times I'll have played for an hour or two before it occurs. All of the sudden, everything just freezes. It seems to happen more often if in the middle of the game I just walk away (IE make no input) for 10 minutes or so but that doesn't always cause it.
System specs
Dell Inspiron 9100 Laptop
Pentium 4 3.0 GHz hyper-threaded
512 MB RAM
ATI Radeon 9700 Mobility (using the 9600 M10 drivers that Mandrake likes)
Integrated sound (SigmaTel 9750 chip on the Dell Intel Chipset)
G
Mandrake 10.2 (Mandriva)
Using OSS sound
I'd appreciate anything you can tell me; it strikes me as a bit odd that one program can crash the entire system.
Thanks,
Alex