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Date: 15 Apr 00 09:37:51 MDT
From: Joseph Morris <b52g AT usa DOT net>
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: TASKMGR
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> aven AT ukgateway DOT net (Alex Venn) wrote:
> In article <01bfa3d7$38e82fa0$ca5eb7d4 AT default> you write:
> > Hi!
> > 
> I have some questions about the taskmanager:
> > 
> > If I load programs, which use the sound card or VESA (textmode and
> > graphicmode),  taskmgr cannot restore it after switching. I read that
> > you can use Win VXD driver. I tried it, taskmgr didn't show any error,
> > but it doesn't go.
> > 
> > Is there any chaunce to run such programs on taskmgr?

> As I understand it, while VXD drivers can be used, they have to be 
> written for the job. I don't think that standard Win ones will work, but 
> I'd be happy to be corrected.

IIRC, the DRI guys used the VxD format because it was a well-understood method
of doing what they wanted.  They could just as well ahev used a proprietary
format, but I guess that would have needed them to write too many custom
development tools.

> I'm not aware of one having been written for the screen, but there is 
> one for sound which works OK and comes with the ASM source. I can't 
> recall where it came from, but I think it was called sbvxd.zip.
> I don't have much use for sound, but if you ever come across a VESA 
> screen VXD which works I'd be interested (and even more so in a serial 
> port buffer one).

> Alex.


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