Sender: mckee AT rtp DOT gtegsc DOT com Message-ID: <335E4EAB.AEA@rtp.gtegsc.com> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 14:02:19 -0400 From: David McKee Organization: GTE (My views are my own) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" CC: djgpp , solyom AT eik DOT bme DOT hu Subject: Re: Help! Allegro dies when the mouse moves References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote: > > David McKee wrote: > > Dr. Andras Sólyom wrote: > > > > > > I think this has been answered many times in the past, but I was not > > > interested in it then... I have Allegro 2.2 I have no problem with it on > > > my 100 MHz Pentium system (40Mbyte mem.20Mbytes free HDD), but on a 486 > > > DX2 66Mhz system (16 Mbyte memory, 50Mbyte free HDD) most of the demos > > > locks up the machine after the graphics detection screen. > > > The same Djgpp 2 distribution is installed on both machine and I > > > compiled the demos on the target machine (it should not make any > > > difference). Can anyone tell me what could be wrong? Thanks. > > > > > > Andras > > > > I had a similar problem with example 26, where I reclassed everything > > and turned it into a beginning c++ style basic example (its the > > starship through the star field). I was using my 486 33Mhz at the > > time and whenever I made the ship go "up" it crashed Allegro and > > simify only returned more address numbers and not function names. > > > > at any rate, as soon as I put in a 486Dx2/66 the program worked > > without a problem. > > As Shawn doesn't replayed yet I'll make my guess: Both of you tried the > programs under different video boards. I don't think that Allegro can be > affected by the processor speed (at least not crashing!) but the video board > can make that. Another thing to check is if the machine where Allegro dies can > run another PMode + Graphics programs. > > SET Salvador I think you are right 'cause I just remembered that I had to change the clk timer for the bus to get the 486-66 to work and that may mean that the clock was on the "hairy edge" for the 33Mhz I was using....hmmm. -- David T. McKee: ======================Signature Block==================== "The unexamined Life is not worth living..." Plato --------------------------------------------------------- "Look at the Fish!" Louis Agassiz --------------------------------------------------------- It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; To search out a matter is the glory of kings. Pr 25:2 --------------------------------------------------------- There is nothing so sacred as it cannot be looked into... =========================================================