Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 16:29:37 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: JP <jpdelprat AT teaser DOT fr>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: How to determine the physical address from a DPMI descriptor
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On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, JP wrote:

> My need is to create and lock a 2Mo continuous buffer (under Windows
> 95), and determine its physical address to give it to a video capture card.

I think section 18.7 of the FAQ should get you started.

> With DPMI functions (under Windows 95), I allocate my buffer then 
> lock it, but despite the call to dpmi_lock_linear_region, the buffer
> is still mixed and partially swapped out.

Did you remember to make your segment to have a size that's a multiple of 
4KB?