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From: pfeifer@hpavla.AVO.HP.COM (Mark Pfeifer)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: bug in Codeview for Windows while in Super-VGA mode
Message-ID: <16980009@hpavla.AVO.HP.COM>
Date: 18 Sep 90 19:52:25 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Avondale Division
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>/ hpavla:comp.windows.ms / karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) /  9:58 pm  Sep 17, 1990 /
>Seems that if you run CVW in 1024x768x16 (VRAM VGA) and your app opens a
>window, you'll get a garbaged window of alternating 10-pixel-wide-or-so
>green vertical bars and after leaving CVW your old windows are refreshed,
>but the background is still trashed, the mouse doesn't work, and a reboot
>or hard reset is necessary.
>
>Running in standard VGA resolutions it works OK.  I haven't tried 800x600
>but would guess it screws up too.
>
>
That happens to us, too.  800x600x16 is just as screwed up.  We have 1024i
cards, so it sounds like the driver, not the card (unless its something common
in the design :-)).  I have sent a fax to Video-7 Tech Support, and will let
know if they tell me anything interesting.

							Mark
							pfeifer@avo.hp.com