From: loschen@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Subject: Re: Diamond SS24X, Win 3.1, Mouse cursor
Reply-To: loschen@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
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In article <1993Apr16.145322.16378@nlm.nih.gov>, dabl2@nlm.nih.gov (Don A.B. Lindbergh) writes:
>In article <1993Apr15.204845.24939@nlm.nih.gov> dabl2@nlm.nih.gov (Don A.B. Lindbergh) writes:
>>
>>Anybody seen mouse cursor distortion running the Diamond 1024x768x256 driver?
>>Sorry, don't know the version of the driver (no indication in the menus) but it's a recently
>>delivered Gateway system.  Am going to try the latest drivers from Diamond BBS but wondered
>>if anyone else had seen this.
>>
>
>As a followup, this is a co-worker's machine.  He has the latest 2.03 drivers.
>It only happens using the 1024x768x256 driver.  Sometimes it takes a minute
>or so for the cursor to wig out, but it eventually does in this mode.  I
>susect something is stepping on memory the video card wants.  I excluded
>a000-c7ff in the EMM386 line and in system.ini  The problem persisted.
>Perhaps it is something specific to the Gateway machine or it's components.
>It is a 66mhz DX/2 Eisa bus with an Ultrastore (24xx?) controller.  Ah well,
>I was hoping this was some kind of 'known problem' or somebody had seen it
>before.  Perhaps a call to Gateway is in order, but I do find folks here
>usually are far more in the know.
>
>--Don Lindbergh
>dabl2@lhc.nlm.nih.gov

I haven't seen this particular problem, but another place you might
check is if your BIOS is doing video shadowing--Diamond wants that
turned off.  That might cause a memory conflict as well.  Good
luck.  Hope this helps, Chris Loschen, Brandeis U.
