From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mushroom Subject: Re: Newbie with terminal video problems Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2002 09:58:38 +0000 Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: References: <3DE8CC4C.9000201@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org 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