From: "Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH]" <cp1v45 AT americasm01 DOT nt DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Fine on "tabletop" system crashes on laptop
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 14:28:38 -0400
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Stefan Viljoen wrote:

> I have written a program that uses Allegro in the 640x480x16bit color mode
> on a 266mHz
> PII system with 128 megabytes of RAM. The program transfers well to a
> laptop, but keeps
> crashing if I try to run it in a W95 DOSbox on the laptop. If I exit to pure
> DOS however, and
> run it with CWSDPMI doing the DPMI serving, it works 100%. The laptop is a
> 150mHz
> Pentium with 32 megabytes of RAM.

    That sounds like a bad video driver.  Some video card drivers don't support
DOS SVGA programs.  There's not much you can do about it other than:
1)  Getting a driver-update (if one exists)
2)  Complaining to the manufacturer of the driver.

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     -Rolf Campbell (39)3-6318