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Re: Executor Under Windows 3.1



>>>>> "WILLIAM" == WILLIAM J MILLER <wjm@wwa.com> writes:

    WILLIAM> Basically, my friend just got Beta 1 of E/DOS (Licensed)
    WILLIAM> and I was setting it up for him.  He has a Gateway
    WILLIAM> Pentium 90 with an STB Trio 64 (I think).  Its an S3 VGA
    WILLIAM> (SVGA) BIOS.  Anyway, when run through Windows 3.1, some
    WILLIAM> rather interesting things happen.  It displays the splash
    WILLIAM> screen, and then when it would normally draw the Executor
    WILLIAM> interface, it puts lines flashing accross the screen.  It
    WILLIAM> never materializes into anything, and the only way to
    WILLIAM> breka out is to turn the power to the computer off.
    WILLIAM> CTRL+ALT+DEL doesn't work.

Interesting; sounds like a video driver problem.  He should try
installing UniVBE.  Does Executor work under plain DOS?

    WILLIAM> There is NO VESA 2 support installed.  Also, Executor
    WILLIAM> only sees 2.5 meg of DPMI memory.  THey have 8 megs of
    WILLIAM> RAM.

Much of that RAM may be tied up with SMARTDRV, Windows, other apps
running, etc.  He should also check his virtual memory settings in the
386/Enhanced section of the control panel to see how much DPMI memory
he is choosing to make available.

-Mat


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