Re: Newbie with terminal video problems

[Mushroom <p.hayes1@ntlworld.com>]

Hi,

Thank you for your response

>Stas Sergeev wrote:
>> Mushroom wrote:

>> or back to x I get some kind of weird lock with my
>> monitor going to non active mode and my machine
>> inaccessable. I am running Mandrake 9.0 and the problem
>> occurs both with dosemu 1.1.3.0
> Upgrading to the latest pre-release
> of dosemu will most likely fix the
> problem, 1.1.3.0 is quite an old.
> 
Have just tried applying the combined patchset seemed to go well until:
no rule to make plugin_ioselect.h needed by ioctl.o
Just guessing that this is the kind of reason people like me shouldn't be 
let loose on developers pre-releases.

>> The graphics card is a nvidia tnt 32Mb as such i have
>> used the plainvga
> At least for Radeons this problem was
> recently resolved.
I see that using svgalib has become an option with the later versions this 
may well sort it out.

>> I have read on one of the old lists that there maybe a bios issue. If
>> this is the case can someone tell me what may need changing and what it
>> does I have amibios simple setup utility 1.24k
> Video bios is the one that resides in
> a ROM of a video card. Your AMIbios setup
> utility have nothing to do with video bios.
This one caused hysterics from my brother - sorry the brain transplant is 
long overdue.

Paul