Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sjsca4!poffen
From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russell Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: bug in Codeview for Windows while in Super-VGA mode
Keywords: codeview
Message-ID: <1990Oct2.183305.24679@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 2 Oct 90 18:33:05 GMT
References: <6577@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1990Sep18.165215.22281@jdyx.UUCP>
Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russell Poffenberger)
Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, San Jose, CA.
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In article <1990Sep18.165215.22281@jdyx.UUCP> david@jdyx.UUCP (David Mandell) writes:
>karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
>
>>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.
>
>I had the same problem some time back and reported it to Headland Tech.
>They have a new version of the drivers available (as of a few days ago)
>on their BBS (415-656-0503) that are supposed to work under CVW.  The
>drivers are in a file called win30.zip (I think) under the Misc. download
>section.
>
>I haven't yet had a chance to try the new drivers personally, so I can't
>vouch for them.
>

Well, I will try again, but somebody mentioned this a few days ago (that the
fixed drivers were available), so I went and downloaded them, and they were
unchanged, that is they still didn't work. (File sizes identical too). Either
that person didn't know what they were talking about, or Headland lied.

Anyway, I will try again.


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