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Date:	Mon, 01 Nov 1999 10:00:13 -0300
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To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: HELP! RHIDE gives me a black screen!
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Brad Porteous wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have installed Rhide 14b and the latest version of DJGPP, but whenever I
> start up Rhide in DOS the screen goes black and the program hangs.
> When using Windows 95 (since I am forced to), the black screen screen hang
> still appears, but I can "force" my way in by Alt-Tabbing to the Desktop,
> and then back to Rhide. However, this occurs in other places, such as each
> time I compile a program, pressing Alt-F5 to view the output, exiting to DOS
> within RHIDE, or just exiting RHIDE. This is most annoying! The common thing
> I can see that it always happens when entering a new DOS window for the
> first time. This does not happen with Turbo Pascal 7.0 or Turbo C++ 3.0
> IDE's. I haved tried other versions of RHIDE but with no success. PLEASE
> HELP!
>
> PC: P2 233 Asus LX Motherboard, Matrox Millenium 2 video card.
> Rhide: 14b (and RHIDE 1471 and 147s)

Upgrade your video BIOS, old Matrox Millenium boards have bugs in the VGA BIOS
(save/restore video mode just makes the screen black when restoring). All the
users I know that had this problem solved it after upgrading Windows drivers and
Video BIOS.

SET

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