[Freedos-user] EMM386 causes Ctrl-Alt-Del to fail with some video cards

2006-04-14 Thread John Hupp
Hello, all. Here is another issue arising from my check-out of the new Service Release 2. I find that loading EMM386.EXE can cause Ctrl-Alt-Del to fail. I boot fine, then press Ctrl-Alt-Del from the DOS prompt. Thescreen goes black, but the video and system BIOS boot messages never

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 causes Ctrl-Alt-Del to fail with some video cards

2006-04-14 Thread Michael Devore
At 06:15 PM 4/14/2006 -0400, you wrote: Hello, all. Here is another issue arising from my check-out of the new Service Release 2. I find that loading EMM386.EXE can cause Ctrl-Alt-Del to fail. I boot fine, then press Ctrl-Alt-Del from the DOS prompt. The screen goes black, but the video

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 causes Ctrl-Alt-Del to fail with some video cards

2006-04-14 Thread chris evans
It probally general protection fault interaction between the vesa 3.0 video driver and the memory mapped regions that video card wants to access. Have EMM386 exclude the memory area a000-h. --chris http://nxdos.sourceforge.net/ John Hupp wrote: Hello, all. Here is another issue arising