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From: Shawn Hargreaves <ShawnH AT Probe DOT co DOT uk>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Problems with Allegro in Windown with RSXNTDJ
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 09:30:21 +0100
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Tor Egil R. Strand writes:
> I've posted a question about this to the Allegro mailing list 
> many weeks ago, but I didn't get any answer.

That usually means that nobody knows the answer. It might also mean
that they just aren't interested in your question, but when you ask
technical things on a list that has a lot of people who are happy
to deal with tech-support issues, not getting a reply is a pretty
sure indication that nobody knows what your problem is.

> All Allegro programs (compiled by me or by someone else) end 
> with a "Fatal error: unable to set GFX_SAFE" in Windows (DOS is fine).

I'm confused: do you mean that they give up straight away, or that
they run normally but then produce this error when you quit from
the program?

In any case, I'm afraid I can't help you with this problem. Everything
works fine for me, so it must be related to some interaction between 
the Allegro code and your video drivers, which is impossible to debug 
without having access to a machine that demonstrates the problem.

It would be great if you could find some time to debug this yourself.

> Part 2:
>
> This problem occurs with other GFX-modes than GFX_SAFE (also with GFX_SAFE
> when I have hardware accelration turned on for my Matrox-card).

Now I'm really confused: if you can't run programs due to the first
problem, how do you even get as far as this being another problem?
In any case, my above comments apply here as well.


	Shawn Hargreaves.

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