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Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 20:40:49 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Tomislav Vujec <tvujec AT fly DOT cc DOT etf DOT hr>
To: Tilmann Haeberle <til AT zentrum DOT phys DOT chemie DOT tu-muenchen DOT de>
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: GRX20.beta3 problem

On Thu, 21 Sep 1995, Tilmann Haeberle wrote:
> GRX20 itself just works fine, within and without windows.
> But when I use 256 color modes (640x480 or 1024x768) with VESA or ati28800
> drivers, and task switch to windows, most icons are black, as well as most
> buttons within the windows (minimize, maximize and so forth). This 
> happens also, when I switch to windows only after finishing the application 
> and switching back to text mode.
> The problem does not happen, when I use 16 color modes.
> It does not exist on two other systems having an WD6000 VL, 
> and Tseng ET4000 adaptor, respectively.
> It does also occur on an ELSA Winner 1000 (VL).

	I notice the same problem with BC 3.1 & svga.bgi, so I presume it
is a Windows bug.
	But for your info, at that time I was running win 3.1 on Diamond
Speedstar Hicolor in 800x600 with 256 colors, and my DOS app was also in
that mode.

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