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Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 11:05:14 -0300
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Subject: Re: closing rhide crashes
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Peter Claessens wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> My subject says it all. Almost. When I close rhide when it has run in a
> dos box under win98, the screen turns all grey. From that point on
> there's nothing one can do to refresh the screen or whatever, although I
> suspect that the pograms are still running "under" the grey screen. I
> have to reboot every time though because I can't get rid of the grey.
>
> Does anyone know about this problem?

Are you using a Matrox board?

> Is it a rhide or a win 98 problem?

Don't know, I guess the problem is in W98, no matters what a DOS program
could do the OS should restore the video mode. I think the drivers of the
board have a huge bug in the BIOS service used to restore the saved state.

> Or my pif settings?

I doubt it.

If you are interested in fixing it, till now nobody with this problem
showed interest, just tell me.

SET

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