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From: | "Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH]" <cp1v45 AT americasm01 DOT nt DOT com> |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: Fine on "tabletop" system crashes on laptop |
Date: | Mon, 12 Jul 1999 14:28:38 -0400 |
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Stefan Viljoen wrote: > I have written a program that uses Allegro in the 640x480x16bit color mode > on a 266mHz > PII system with 128 megabytes of RAM. The program transfers well to a > laptop, but keeps > crashing if I try to run it in a W95 DOSbox on the laptop. If I exit to pure > DOS however, and > run it with CWSDPMI doing the DPMI serving, it works 100%. The laptop is a > 150mHz > Pentium with 32 megabytes of RAM. That sounds like a bad video driver. Some video card drivers don't support DOS SVGA programs. There's not much you can do about it other than: 1) Getting a driver-update (if one exists) 2) Complaining to the manufacturer of the driver. -- -Rolf Campbell (39)3-6318
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