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From: harold@wam.umd.edu (James B. Harold)
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Subject: Re: How do I get large BMPs as desktops?
Keywords: BMP desktop
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Date: 15 Apr 91 16:44:39 GMT
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  I'm not graced with 1024x768x256 mode, but I had the same problem
with 1024x768x16 mode on my ATI VGAWonder+.  I also solved the
problem by making the BMP slightly smaller (e.g.,1020x760).  When
that worked I assumed that the problem was with the driver.  It
looked as though the BMP wasn't being placed correctly--that it
was appearing a few pixels below the top edge of the screen.  I
thought that if that were the case, maybe the bottom edge of the
BMP was overwriting another section of memory, causing the UAE.

This all makes me a bit suspicious of the memory
limitation diagnosis.  And yes, I'm running in Enhanced mode.
Comments? Who out there hasn't had these problems?

                      James Harold
                      harold@lpf.umd.edu