From: V01D Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Ptr to video memory when in pmode and using a Linear Frame Buffer Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 08:47:53 -0800 Organization: Polytec Lines: 22 Message-ID: <36D57EB9.218D6A5E@yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.166.41.118 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: 919961323 BAF4VYGAI2976D0A6C usenet87.supernews.com X-Complaints-To: newsabuse AT remarQ DOT com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com I got super frusterated with this ... i heres my simple line that works for everyone else but not me ... unsigned char* vidmem; vidmem=(unsigned char*) (vbeinfo.physbaseptr+__djgpp_conventional_base); vbeinfo is a structure with all the vbe info .. previously retrived, i am sure of the correct data because i can do a get info command and retrive all the right values from it .. whenever i try doing vidmem[x+y*xlen] = color; it crashes on me error code 255 .. im not sure what im doing wrong anymore .. iv looked at other code that iv written eirlier, and i cant see any differences :( iv looked at other peoples code, and still no differences ... i am loading __djgpp_nearptr_enable(); and ending with __djgpp_nearptr_disable(); ... if you have any ideas i would love to hear em :) -V01D