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- >>>>> "WILLIAM" == WILLIAM J MILLER <wjm@wwa.com> writes:
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- WILLIAM> Basically, my friend just got Beta 1 of E/DOS (Licensed)
- WILLIAM> and I was setting it up for him. He has a Gateway
- WILLIAM> Pentium 90 with an STB Trio 64 (I think). Its an S3 VGA
- WILLIAM> (SVGA) BIOS. Anyway, when run through Windows 3.1, some
- WILLIAM> rather interesting things happen. It displays the splash
- WILLIAM> screen, and then when it would normally draw the Executor
- WILLIAM> interface, it puts lines flashing accross the screen. It
- WILLIAM> never materializes into anything, and the only way to
- WILLIAM> breka out is to turn the power to the computer off.
- WILLIAM> CTRL+ALT+DEL doesn't work.
-
- Interesting; sounds like a video driver problem. He should try
- installing UniVBE. Does Executor work under plain DOS?
-
- WILLIAM> There is NO VESA 2 support installed. Also, Executor
- WILLIAM> only sees 2.5 meg of DPMI memory. THey have 8 megs of
- WILLIAM> RAM.
-
- Much of that RAM may be tied up with SMARTDRV, Windows, other apps
- running, etc. He should also check his virtual memory settings in the
- 386/Enhanced section of the control panel to see how much DPMI memory
- he is choosing to make available.
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- -Mat
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