X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <013f01c104aa$3c4ec070$14822a40@dbcooper> From: "Patrick Moran" To: References: <200107041111 DOT HAA04917 AT delorie DOT com> Subject: Re: multitasking gives blank screen Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 10:47:16 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.3018.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com ----- Original Message ----- From: "flox" To: Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 5:12 AM Subject: Re: multitasking gives blank screen > Hi! > > >I wonder how this works, but if it does, we should try to > >find out *why* TASKMGRīs menu system works after _TASKMGR > >has been run. Sounds like an uninitialized variable or some- > >thing similar to me... > > > >I have never encountered exactly the same problem as described by > >Richard, but sometimes I am having similar problems with black > >screens or strange fonts when starting TASKMGR or creating > >new tasks. And it seems others have similar problems as well. > > > >So, I would like to ask all the others also experiencing these > >problems to try locate Chris Wilsonīs OpenDOS utilities (or ask > >me via private mail for the _TASKMGR.EXE utility) and check out > >Richardīs proposed workaround. I would like to know if this works > >for you or not. If it does, this may help to track down a spurious > >though nasty bug in TASKMGR. > > I had two problems with TASKMGR: > 1) If switching to the menu, it sometimes (not often) > 2) Problems with the mouse in the menu. But not only CTMOUSE, also logitech mouse driver. But this seems to be > a problem with VESA, I think. If only 80x25 it works ok. > (I cannot use drmouse, it doesn't find my mouse). It is best not to load the mouse in the autoexec. Load it in eacg task you need it in. Do Not allow the mouse to load high. Use DRMOUSE /? for switches, you can force it to find your mouse. Read the DOSBOOK on MOUSE. Get a copy of the Novell DOS 7 TIDs and TIPs, get the NWSLICE utilitity, it allows you to change ticks and other things while using Taskmgr. You can get these files at my Yahoo Group. Pat Yahoo DR-DOS Club http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/drdos Yahoo DR-DOS Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dr-dos Subscribe to DR-DOS Group dr-dos-subscribe AT yahoogroups DOT com > > Bye, flox > ------------------------------- > Club Dr-DOS - www.drdos.org > SEAL and other DOS programs - www.seal.de.vu > Ostbahnkurti - http://www.archlab.tuwien.ac.at/~hase/franz/konzert_kal.html > > Cold cold black night > No one round to teach you right > No one round to keep you warm > All alone out in the storm > Lots of whiskey, wine and gin > To forget the mess you're in > _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com