Sender: root AT delorie DOT com Message-ID: <381D8EDC.3DFD4A64@inti.gov.ar> Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 10:00:13 -0300 From: salvador Organization: INTI X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.38 i686) X-Accept-Language: es-AR, en, es MIME-Version: 1.0 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: HELP! RHIDE gives me a black screen! References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com 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 -- Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET). (Electronics Engineer) Visit my home page: http://welcome.to/SetSoft or http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/6552/ Alternative e-mail: set-soft AT usa DOT net set AT computer DOT org set AT ieee DOT org set-soft AT bigfoot DOT com Address: Curapaligue 2124, Caseros, 3 de Febrero Buenos Aires, (1678), ARGENTINA Phone: +(5411) 4759 0013