Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sjsca4!poffen
From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russell Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Wallpaper Question
Message-ID: <1990Oct1.164700.11791@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 1 Oct 90 16:47:00 GMT
References: <1990Sep29.161249.4464@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1990Sep29.173050.5871@kth.se> <4336@rex.cs.tulane.edu>
Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russell Poffenberger)
Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, San Jose, CA.
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In article <4336@rex.cs.tulane.edu> keating@rex.cs.tulane.edu (John W. Keating) writes:
>In article <1990Sep29.173050.5871@kth.se> palm@admin.kth.se (Christer Palm) writes:
>>In article <1990Sep29.161249.4464@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> scott@blueeyes.kines.uiuc.edu (scott) writes:
>>>If anyone can list a few of the more common reasons why a given .BMP file
>>>(which Windows Paint has absolutely no trouble reading, BTW) is flatly
>>>rejected as wallpaper without explanation, I'd be most appreciative.
>>
>>You need at least 1 M memmory to make it possible to use a wallpaper
>>Sheck your path to the BMP file you can find it in WIN.INI
>
>I too have this problem.  Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be just a
>problem with lack of memory.  I have a meg, and I can use BMP's as wallpaper.
>It's just that some don't seem to work.  (And they are at most 800x640, 16
>colours...  Also had the same problem with normal VGA, 16 colour BMP's.)
>Any ideas?
>
>Another piece of data.  I recently dloaded an 800x640 BMP that was supposed
>to work, yet didn't.
>
>And yet another, I'm using an ATI (Sssssssssssss!!!!) VGAWonder card, maybe
>their drivers have something to do with it.  ??
>

It probably is a memory problem. An 800 X 640 X 4 bitmap needs 256K bytes of
memory for the backing store. With only 1Meg of memory, after loading windows
and some apps, I would be surprised to find that much memory (256K) still free.


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