From: Maurice Lombardi Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: GRX VESA driver Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 11:28:57 +0100 Organization: Universite Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 Lines: 32 Message-ID: <3A62D0E9.820F9E96@ujf-grenoble.fr> References: <3A5F2A19 DOT 119396F1 AT ma DOT tum DOT de> <93nghs$ou1$1 AT nets3 DOT rz DOT RWTH-Aachen DOT DE> <3A62CB89 DOT B3E420A5 AT ma DOT tum DOT de> NNTP-Posting-Host: knautie.ujf-grenoble.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: amazone.ujf-grenoble.fr 979554647 50950 193.54.234.27 (15 Jan 2001 10:30:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abus AT ujf-grenoble DOT fr NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Jan 2001 10:30:47 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [fr] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: fr,it,en To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Waldemar Schultz a écrit : > > Hans-Bernhard Broeker schrieb: > > > > Waldemar Schultz wrote: > > > I experienced a 'bug ?' in GRX 2.3.2 video handling: > > > > That's not a bug in GRX, it's a bug in your graphics card's VESA > > implementation and/or Windows driver. Sadly, this bug is so common in > > today's cards that it's easy to forget that any card's drivers indeed > > do get it right. > > > > If GRX is to blame for anything, then for not using a workaround for > > that common bug. > most probably you are right, as I could not reproduce the behaviour om my old > home computer with W95. But I still wonder how Allegro programmers did it to get > around. May me you can ask to your card maker for a driver update. I solved that way a bug when using rhide with a Matrox Mystique card (blank screen when switching back from graphics to text). Hope this helps -- Maurice Lombardi Laboratoire de Spectrometrie Physique, Universite Joseph Fourier de Grenoble, BP87 38402 Saint Martin d'Heres Cedex FRANCE Tel: 33 (0)4 76 51 47 51 Fax: 33 (0)4 76 51 45 44 mailto:Maurice DOT Lombardi AT ujf-grenoble DOT fr