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From: dhf@tatum.mitre.org (David H. Friedman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: 4DOS and Windows 3.0
Message-ID: <1991Feb19.144635.7059@linus.mitre.org>
Date: 19 Feb 91 14:46:35 GMT
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. I just installed 4DOS on my 386box, and generally I'm very happy with it.
I was interested in something I saw in the COMPAT.DOC file re running in a
window under Win3, namely that occasionally it comes up with colors set to
black on black, and that this is supposedly due to a bug in some Win3 video
card drivers, and is not a fault of 4DOS.
  Well, it happened to me once: the 4DOS window came up all black, and after
a second or two I got dropped out of Windows altogether. My video board is
a TVGA using the Trident 8800 chipset and 256K, and I'm using the version of
the Trident drivers that came out sometime in mid-'90 distributed as the
file V2KW30.LZH (I think that's right). My question is: does anyone know for
a fact whether the above-mentioned bug occurs in this version of the driver,
and is there a corrected version available?

dhf@linus.mitre.org