Hello,

I am trying to run an old DOS game, and having difficulty as soon as it tries to go into VGA mode. I get the following error, the game load halts, and I'm still in XDOSEMU:

C:\BAM>bammain
DOS/4GW Professional Protected Mode Run-time  Version 1.97
Copyright (c) Rational Systems, Inc. 1990-1994

BLOOD & MAGIC Copyright (C) 1996 by Tachyon Studios Inc..
Developed by Tachyon Studios for Interplay Productions.
BLOOD & MAGIC, FORGOTTEN REALMS and the TSR LOGO are Trademarks
owned by TSR, Inc and are used under license.
Compiled Jan 03 1997 12:37:00
18631k free after platform initialization


VGA card not found.
        at line 51, file XMODDISP.CPP

C:\BAM>

I tried using root account, and get the same error. I also tried the <ctrl>-<alt>-f trick, but no difference. Initially I had an .RPM installed (RH8.0 built from .src.rpm) - but then I uninstalled it, got the .tgz and did make/make install and used the FREEDOS b9r4 .tgz file. It made no difference, I get the same error. The only thing I haven't tried is compiling using something other than the default configure (like giving suid priviledges).


I can find no information at all on this error, or even simply on "XMODDISP". I tried searching the mailing list archives for the past few years, but also came up empty. One odd thing I noticed is that apparently the XMS default is 8MB; however the game states 18MB+ free (I set XMS to 32768 in dosemu.conf but game output unchanged). I did get a log using "-D XcvQZihx", and it is at the following link (but gives no obvious indication to me that a problem occurred):

http://ixnei.home.comcast.net/log.txt

Any ideas? FWIW, I did get the SNDSETUP for this game working fine for digital sound - but still need to do some work for the midi part (adlib/midi port 0x388 conflict - need to play with modprobe/modules.conf/etc).


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