Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!hpfcso!hpfinote!pnl From: pnl@hpfinote.HP.COM (Peter Lim) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Wallpaper Question Message-ID: <18950039@hpfinote.HP.COM> Date: 1 Oct 90 00:06:29 GMT References: <1990Sep29.161249.4464@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: Hewlett Packard CICD Lines: 47 > > 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? > My believe is that it is a combination of lack of memory and CPU type. I've played with Windows 3.0 on a 640 K 8088 machine. Using CGA :-); well, I can get one or two of the supplied bitmap files to stick as wallpaper (I think the biggest is 320 x 100 size monochrome). Then, I've played with it on a 286 with 4 MB of RAM, using a paradise VGA with 512 K video RAM and 640 x 480 256 color driver. I can't seem to get any 256 color bitmap to stick in that machine. Even very small ones. I've also played with it on my 386 machine with 10 MB RAM, ATI VGA Wonder 512 K. I ran it in 800 x 600 16 color mode (WHEN ARE THEY RELEASING THE #@%$! 256 COLOR DRIVER ??!!!). And so far, I've successfully made 800 x 600 x 16 color bitmap stick as wall paper. The bitmap files are as big as 500 K. > Another piece of data. I recently dloaded an 800x640 BMP that was supposed > to work, yet didn't. > May be your one mag is the problem. Are you running a 386 ? > And yet another, I'm using an ATI (Sssssssssssss!!!!) VGAWonder card, maybe > their drivers have something to do with it. ?? > If you run 386, did you have the display=vddvga.386 line in your system.ini instead of display=*vddvga ? Don't know if that will help. Regards, ## Life is fast enough as it is ........ Peter Lim. ## .... DON'T PUSH IT !! >>>-------, ########################################### : E-mail: plim@hpsgwg.HP.COM Snail-mail: Hewlett Packard Singapore, : Tel: (065)-279-2289 (ICDS, ICS) | Telnet: 520-2289 1150 Depot Road, __\@/__ ... also at: pnl@hpfipnl.HP.COM Singapore 0410. SPLAT ! #include