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From: Shawn Hargreaves <ShawnH AT Probe DOT co DOT uk>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Vsync!
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 09:52:31 +0100
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Knutte writes:
> The thing is that i do work when I compile using watcom....  

Your Watcom code is probably using some other way to detect the
retrace, perhaps just reading the VGA hardware registers directly
(in which case it won't work on some modern cards that don't have
those registers).

> should I use Autodetect on initialization,... ? Will it help 
> if I take for instance VESA instead ?

Allegro has a lot of different graphics drivers. Try them all:
if one doesn't work, there is a good chance that another one
will. This is what the config file is for.


	Shawn Hargreaves.

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