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- From: point@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at (Juergen Schober)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: EGS/2410 default resolution modes
- Date: 10 Jan 1996 20:37:09 GMT
- Organization: Graz University of Technology, Austria
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- felix daske (felix_daske@mindlink.bc.ca) wrote:
- : > I can't seen to be able to select anything but 1024*1024 with the
- : >"A2410config" program. If I try to set it to 800*600 I get an instant
- : >crash. I had this all set up two months ago, but screwed up my files
- : >somehow.
- :
- : I have reread your description and my responses (beginning on the next line)
- : and am not sure that I fully understand your problem. However, I am leaving
- : my remarks in as they might help.
- :
- : yes, this is a problem with the author's default resolution selection of 1024
- : X 1024 - even though the A2410 ships with crystals for 800 X 600 and 1024 X
- : 768. (you reading this Juergen?).
- :
- yes :-)
- Well, I do have to use the default of 1Kx1K because it is the only possibility
- to provide a screen where you can edit all possible resolutions. Well,
- it wasn't ment to use this mode anyway, but I cannot hide it from Intuition.
- So that's why it's there. Please define your own modes first !
- (Maybe I should include a default config file that works
- from 31 to 48 kHz ? eh, would help). .. but this is just a
- get-and-play-around version. Not an official release (better than nothing eh ?)
-
- : > If I try to run the EGS script (+ the 2410 driver) on startup, it will
- : >crash. If I run them after bootup (first the EGS script then the 2410
- : >driver) everything seems to work...other then having to high of res for my
- : >monitor. If I run the older EGS2410prefs program, it shows all of the
- : >modes. I use to be able to go into Workbench/prefs/screenmode and select
- : >2410 800*600*256 there. Now (after runnging the EGS stuff) if I try to run
- : >my WB/prefs/ Screenmode program, it does do _anything_ ....doesn't even
- : >open.
- :
- : What I had to do *carefully, timing is everything* was... (going from memory
- : here (only 75%)) set the Width and Height correctly in A2410Config *before
- : you try and use edit*. I am assuming that you are using version 2 of
- : Juergen's driver.
-
- Ah, yes what to say ! The pre-2 code has _no_ influence on the V2 release,
- that means you can run the A2410Prefs (V1release as often as you like, but
- you will never see any of these modes in R2)
-
- : I believe that it was *not* a good idea to use MUI as a interface for
- : A2410Config (although MUI is a good product). There are many things that can
- : go wrong during the configuration of *any* graphics card on the Amiga System -
- : it is important to minimize the complexity of this operation - MUI is just
- : another thing which could go wrong.
- :
- : IMHO *all* system configuration tools sould run as close to native Amiga OS as
- : posible.
-
- why ? nothing comes close to the design cycle of a MUI application.
- And MUI 3 should make troubles (at least for such a short Config program).
- :
- : Get your system back to basics - *warning* the following procedure *will
- : change* the way your video works, you will need standard Amiga display
- : hardware.
- :
- : delete out env<-archive>:egs/A2410regs.prefs
- : env<-archive>:egs/screenmode.prefs.
- : reboot with EGS support
- : startup A2410Config and change the resolution values for Clock 1 and Clock 2
- : (if necessary) and *save*.
- : reboot again with EGS support... you get the idea.
- :
- :
- : ... regards
- :
-
- --
- --
- juergen schober * maker of the EGS A2410 Driver *
- a-graz, austria
- e-mail: juergen@point.adsp.sub.org - forget it !
- (f9031304@mbox.tu-graz.ac.at)
- point@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at
-
- running WB on EGSA2410 V2 at 1024x860x256 at 70 Hz !
-