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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: Sean Cross <secross AT whidbey DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 13:18:56 +0000
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Subject: Re: Screen goes black when exiting rhide.
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Sean Cross <secross AT whidbey DOT com> wrote:

> Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:
> > 
> > Sean Cross <secross AT whidbey DOT com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello, When I am running djgpp/rhide and when i exit rhide i get nothing
> > > but a black screen
> > > which i have to reboot to get a screen back.
> > > I like looks of the "ide", reminds me of turbo-C.
> > > Has anybody else ran into this problem using rhide?
> > > I run rhide on a pentium 200mmx overclocked to 290mhz
> > 
> > Ugh! are you using an hyper-fan for this CPU? ;-))), Does your mother have CPU
> > temperature sensing (normally on ATX ones)? If yes did you taked a look to the
> > temperature of your CPU?
> 
> just a cheap 15$ ball bearing fan (that needs to be replaced soon :)
> runs on my ASUS TX-97 motherboard between 60-68 degrees celcius (within
> specs)
> MMX's seem to run remarkably cool even when overclocked.

Interesting, is a little bit hot, but if you say is ok ... The PII I'm using 
right now is working at 37 C aprox.

> > > with 32megs of
> > > sdram, Matrox millenium 2 with 8 megs.
> > 
> > Is something in the board, you aren't the first that report it. Looks like a
> > broken VESA support to me.
> 
> Could be, I made a rhide.bat file that runs rhide, 
> apon exit of rhide the batch file runs "mode co80" which gets my screen
> back
> but the userscreen is still not working within rhide.
> I will problay just move djgpp/rhide to another Dos box with a generic
> gfx card (trident 8900c).

I think you'll have better luck with it.

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