{"id":210,"date":"2003-07-27T21:54:40","date_gmt":"2003-07-28T00:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=210"},"modified":"2006-10-21T17:17:21","modified_gmt":"2006-10-21T20:17:21","slug":"puzzled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=210","title":{"rendered":"Puzzled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">R<\/span>unninga couple of (graphical) Java apps I ended up with the following error: &#8216;Could not get display mode&#8217;. DXDiag insisted that Netmeeting was still running (so it couldn&#8217;t test DirectDraw).\n<\/p>\n<p>Netmeeting? I haven&#8217;t used it since, a lifetime ago. In comes a weird <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;249867\">knowledgebase item from Microsoft<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;NetMeeting 3.01 automatically disables Direct3D functionality when it starts. When you quit NetMeeting properly, it restores Direct3D functionality.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>Solution? Start NetMeeting. Then close NetMeeting. You want to bet that NetMeeting actually sets a <em>DirectX<\/em> bit somewhere in the registry? And guess what. This also fixed my  icons-appear-in-lower-colour-resolution&#8217; problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Runninga couple of (graphical) Java apps I ended up with the following error: &#8216;Could not get display mode&#8217;. DXDiag insisted that Netmeeting was still running (so it couldn&#8217;t test DirectDraw). Netmeeting? I haven&#8217;t used it since, a lifetime ago. In &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=210\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}