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- From: tomk@fc.hp.com (Tom Kennedy)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: CV64 24bit Static
- Date: 24 Feb 1996 06:08:08 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Site
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- I (tomk@fc.hp.com) wrote:
- : I'd assume the static is caused by bandwidth limitations of the card
- : (display-refresh DMA has trouble keeping up). Most graphics cards
- : that use VRAM do the display-refresh DMA through the serial access
- : port of the VRAM. (VRAM is DRAM plus SAM.) That SAM (serial access
- : memory) is basically a copy of one row of the main DRAM inside the
- : VRAM. But, you can't do the DRAM to SAM copy when doing normal memory
- : access to the DRAM. I think that's the problem -- when the cv64 is
- : running a high bandwidth screen, occasionally the DRAM to SAM copy
- : doesn't happen in time to keep up with the screen refresh.
-
- : Anyway, it's just a guess :) But it does fit the observed behavior...
-
- And a wrong one :(
-
- I just checked the databooks, and the CV uses DRAMs... Oh well.
-
- : But lowering the pixel clock should improve things.
-
- The pixel clocks I use for 24 bit modes are: 52 MHz (920x720 @ 60 Hz)
- 41 MHz (800x600 @ 66 Hz)
-
- The 52 Mhz modes has some static still, but the 800x600 is clean.
-
- : Tom Kennedy
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- Tom Kennedy
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