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- From: d3daniel@dtek.chalmers.se (Daniel Hansson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Picasso and graphic garbage
- Date: 27 Feb 1996 14:37:36 GMT
- Organization: Chalmers univ. of Technology
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- Jonas Ekstr|m (d1joe@dtek.chalmers.se) wrote:
-
- : When I start a program sometimes parts of the active display, usually
- : the Workbench, is destroyed by random colors. This garbage always
- : appear in horizontal bands and can be removed with a redraw of the
- : destroyed area.
-
- : The garbage starts to appear when a program loads (allocates and writes
- : to memory?) and I can watch more and more of the screen getting
- : destroyed by randomly colored pixels.
-
- : Beside the Picasso my Amiga has a GVP Combo, that's a 030 with SCSI
- : and 5 MB of "extended" (GVP-term) 32bit memory.
-
- I've heard there are problems with the GVP cards + Picasso. The DMA
- transfer from GVP SCSI boards simply won't cooperate with the Picasso
- card. So the solutions would be to either get a new accelerator or
- graphics card.
-
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