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Date:      Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:33:27 +0200
From:      Philipp <trashavenue@gmail.com>
To:        perryh@pluto.rain.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DOSBox: whole screen turns black
Message-ID:  <20110714163327.da269603.trashavenue@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4e1e8ebf.62Yd3qvZ4PbEXkLO%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
References:  <20110713205716.ad2c747f.trashavenue@gmail.com> <4e1e8ebf.62Yd3qvZ4PbEXkLO%perryh@pluto.rain.com>

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On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 23:37:51 -0700
perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote:

> It sure sounds as if the video signal coming out of the graphics
> card is beyond the monitor's range.
> 
> That's not supposed to happen with recent xorg, unless the monitor
> is misreporting its capabilities when the graphics card interrogates
> it or something (related to DOSBox?) is issuing an xrandr for an
> unsupported mode.
> 
> What kind of monitor?

I changed the BIOS settings to fixed video memory allocation (128 MB)
but it doesn't help.

By the way: I had the same problem with the parole media
player on Xfce 4.8 (but then moved to GNOME).

Any further suggestions?

Philipp



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