Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 14:08:52 +0300 (IDT)
From: Adrian Oboroc <oboroc AT usm DOT md>
To: Hez Carty <hcarty AT ccpl DOT carr DOT lib DOT md DOT us>
Cc: Robert Hoehne <robert DOT hoehne AT mathematik DOT tu-chemnitz DOT de>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: RHIDE screen problems
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On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, Hez Carty wrote:

> Robert Hoehne wrote:
> 
>   On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Hez Carty wrote:
> 
>   > strange problem.  If it helps, I'm loading Univbe 5.3 from my
>   > autoexec.bat, and my video card has a Cirrus Logic 5446 chip.
>   Thanks in
> 
>   Have you tried RHIDE without Univbe?? (I know that this piece of
>   software is buggy because it does not handle all the standard
>   BIOS functions correct, and I use the specification from R. Brown's
>   Interrupt List).
> 
>   And the next hint can be to use the '-G 1' switch for RHIDE, that
>   means,
>   run RHIDE like:
> 
>   rhide -G 1 ....
>  
>   I tried booting clean, with only proper environment variables set, but
> the b\problem was still there.  I'm really getting a little confused now
> as to what could be causing the problem.  Any more ideas? Please? :-)

I have similar problems, and I use CL5446 too. I don't use UniVbe. -G 1
switch does not resolves the problem. Since problem appears only on that
specific videocard I think that RHIDE use some VBE functions wich are not
implemented in video-bios. All other programs works perfectly, so hardware
isn't too buggy.

Another problem: then I exit from RHIDE while debugging graphics program,
wich works in 640x480x256 videomode, it does not restore text mode, and
all I have is a nice black screen until reboot. I use v1.2.