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From: baldwin@usna.MIL (LT Justin D. Baldwin <baldwin@usna>)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Screen Blank Utility
Summary: Try tweaking the parameters a little
Keywords: screen blank utility burnout burndev
Message-ID: <326@usna.MIL>
Date: 23 Dec 89 13:07:12 GMT
References: <6686@lindy.Stanford.EDU> <1338@mitisft.Convergent.COM>
Reply-To: baldwin@cad.usna.mil (J.D. Baldwin)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Canoe U.
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In article <1338@mitisft.Convergent.COM>, Philip Burton writes:
>I just tried to use Burndev v.31, but found it works ONLY with text-mode
>applications.  With my Multi-sync (still connected to my EGA until I get a
>VGA card) the screen turns to multi-colored garbage with Ventura Publisher.  

I assume you mean version 2.31.

Try installing BURNDEV.SYS in your config.sys file with the option H+ (hard-
ware mode on).  Maybe your system is just weird, but no one in this depart-
ment has ever had such a problem.  Though I don't use Ventura, I do use 
TP, Quattro, PaintShow, AutoCad, WordPerfect, Cyrus, NCSA Telnet (in TEK4014
mode) and a wide variety of other text- and graphics-based applications.  I 
have never had the problem you describe, or indeed any problem with getting
the screen to blank in hardware mode--though I've had a few weird results
installing it in the default software mode.  Also, the hardware mode is
less of a memory pig.

>Also, burndev doesn't respond to mouse actions.

Nothing to be done about that.  I find that I can live with hitting the 
"Alt" key once in a while to reset the burnout timer.  In Quattro, I
set the timer to 0 in a batch file on invocation (disabling the blanking),
and reset it to five minutes on exit.  The same could be done for all
heavily mouse-based applications.
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