akm@cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal) (10/06/90)
Hi, I just set up my debugging monitor, which happens to be a Herc. clone. My main monitor is a Paradise, running in 800x600. I have good and bad news. The good news is that the Herc/VGA combination works. The *great* news is that if you pop up a dos window, and do a mode mono The display switches to the monochrome monitor. The VGA still has a small window representing the dos window, but you can size it and make it small. This is a boon to me because I use the SDK, and, of course compilaation etc are dos tasks, so they can be switched to the dos screen. I've run a whole bunch of dos tasks on the mono screen, and they all work just fine. My problem and the bad news is that I loose the cursor on the mono screen. It sits resolutely in the little window on the VGA screen. I've played around with lots of settings in the 386 enhanced options, but I can't get the cursor to display properly on the Mono monitor except when the dos application is in full screen mode, which makes it eat up the whole vga screen also. It is a *little* hard to edit without a cursor... If there is anyone who knows how to get the cursor back, I'd be really grateful. kartik Anant Kartik Mithal akm@cs.uoregon.edu Network Manager, (503)346-4408 (msgs) Department of Computer Science, (503)346-4156 (direct) University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1202 -- Anant Kartik Mithal akm@cs.uoregon.edu Network Manager, (503)346-4408 (msgs) Department of Computer Science, (503)346-4156 (direct) University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1202
pnl@hpfinote.HP.COM (Peter Lim) (10/09/90)
> > My problem and the bad news is that I loose the cursor on the mono > screen. It sits resolutely in the little window on the VGA screen. > I've played around with lots of settings in the 386 enhanced options, > but I can't get the cursor to display properly on the Mono monitor > except when the dos application is in full screen mode, which makes it > eat up the whole vga screen also. > Roughly the same problem here. I have ATI VGA Wonder and a Hercules compatible card. Haven't tried editing in the mono monitor environment. But under 4DOS, the cursor is always on the top left corner of the mono screen. When running Xtree, the high-light cursor is displayed in the right place. ... will try editing soon. I do have another problem while playing with EXCEL 2.1d. After running CVW, EXCEL behaves funny. When I run EXCEL via a .XLW workspace file, the worksheets came up empty ! But all the data is still there. Just can't see it that's all. No problem if I run EXCEL by clicking the EXCEL application icon. Anyone has similar experience ? Other program works fine ! Regards, ## Life is fast enough as it is ........ Peter Lim. ## .... DON'T PUSH IT !! >>>-------, ########################################### : E-mail: plim@hpsgwg.HP.COM Snail-mail: Hewlett Packard Singapore, : Tel: (065)-279-2289 (ICDS, ICS) | Telnet: 520-2289 1150 Depot Road, __\@/__ ... also at: pnl@hpfipnl.HP.COM Singapore 0410. SPLAT ! #include <standard_disclaimer.hpp>
pnl@hpfinote.HP.COM (Peter Lim) (10/10/90)
Just tried mode mono and did some editing. Yeap ! I can't see the
cursor so it is damn hard to do any editing at all. May be I should
get a pure MDA card instead of a hercules card ???
Regards, ## Life is fast enough as it is ........
Peter Lim. ## .... DON'T PUSH IT !! >>>-------,
########################################### :
E-mail: plim@hpsgwg.HP.COM Snail-mail: Hewlett Packard Singapore, :
Tel: (065)-279-2289 (ICDS, ICS) |
Telnet: 520-2289 1150 Depot Road, __\@/__
... also at: pnl@hpfipnl.HP.COM Singapore 0410. SPLAT !
#include <standard_disclaimer.hpp>akm@cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal) (10/10/90)
In article <18950041@hpfinote.HP.COM> pnl@hpfinote.HP.COM (Peter Lim) writes: >> My problem and the bad news is that I loose the cursor on the mono >> screen. It sits resolutely in the little window on the VGA screen. >Roughly the same problem here. I have ATI VGA Wonder and a Hercules >compatible card. Haven't tried editing in the mono monitor environment. >But under 4DOS, the cursor is always on the top left corner of the >mono screen. When running Xtree, the high-light cursor is displayed >in the right place. ... will try editing soon. > (I run 4dos too). Seems to me that the cursor gets initialized to the top left hand corner of the monochrome card at boot time, and never gets moved from there. (Assuming that you go to windows straight after booting). Essentially, I find that any application that wants to move the cursor ends up moving it on the VGA screen, under the virual display that windows sets up for the dos session. However, applications like XTREE that *don't* use a cursor (as defined by the hardware(?)) can be used effectively. One such application is quick help. So I now use qh in the second monitor. Works like a charm!! kartik -- Anant Kartik Mithal akm@cs.uoregon.edu Network Manager, (503)346-4408 (msgs) Department of Computer Science, (503)346-4156 (direct) University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1202