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Re: DEVIL editor won't work with my VESA - help.

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From: Randy.... Randy Hester
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 01:21
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In article <3l70qc$g...@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, dre...@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu says...
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>I am trying to use the DEVIL editor but every time I run it it stops its
>initialization and says it can initialize my graphic display.  I have a VESA
>system but I can't find the recommended 'vesa.com' command the docs say I
>should try if this happens.  I have a Cirrus Logic SVGA card and none of the
>disks it came with looks like a memory resident driver.  Any help would be
>greatly appreciated.  L8R...Sean
>
>dre...@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
>
I had a similar problem.  The way I fixed it was to call a vesa driver just before 
I ran DEVIL.  I used a generic vesa driver that came with a graphics viewer 
program called DISPLAY.  It a really nice freeware viewing program that handles 
most formats and has a ton of features.  Anyway there was a vesa driver in the 
DRIVER subdirectory of the DISPLAY program.   I think the latest version is called 
DISP187A.ZIP and DISP187B.ZIP  Install these using the -d option of PKUNZIP, this 
will restore the directory structure of the program.  Then I set up a batch 
program called START.BAT that contained the following two lines:

SET GO32=DRIVER C:\DISPLAY\DRIVERS\VESA111.VDR
DEVIL

Vesa111.vdr was the video driver from DISPLAY that worked with my board, though it 
should work with most VESA compatible cards.  Good luck.

Regards,

Randy Hester
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From: Randy....@dlep1.itg.ti.com (Randy Hester)
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Subject: Re: DEVIL editor won't work with my VESA - help.
Date: 28 Mar 1995 01:21:44 GMT
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