| Re: [AD] This Allegro app can freeze under Windows 2000 |
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On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 14:56 +0100, Andrei Ellman wrote:
> Attatched is a test-program that can freeze the system under Windows
> 2000. When running, move the mouse around. Eventually, the program
> should lock-up and appear inactive. To get out of it when this happens:
> Press CTRL-ALT-DEL, wait a few seconds and the "Windows security" dialog
> should appear. Press ALT-T to go to the task-manager, and ALT-E to end
> the task (if the "applications" tab of the task manager is not the
> active tab, press CTRL-TAB to cycle through the tabs). However sometimes
> when the task is ended, the machine reboots. I strongly recommend you
> save all unsaved data in your open applications before you try this.
>
> The values of TERECTW, TERECTH and TEDRAWSOMETHINGITERATIONS might have
> to be tweaked to get the freeze to occur.
>
> I am using a 600MhZ Athlon with a Matrox Marvel G400TV Graphocs card.
> The freeze only happens under Windows 2000. I have so far not been able
> to reproduce it under Windows 98.
>
What if you remove the show_mouse and acquire_mouse stuff? I always
thought it is broken except under DOS.
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Elias Pschernig