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- From: hendis@aix1.danadata.dk (Henrik Dissing)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: GVP 3001 & Picasso
- Date: 28 Mar 96 18:00:57 +0100
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- On 27-Mar-96 19:13:10, Tony DeMeo wrote:
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- > I need HELP!!! I've got an Amy 2000 with a GVP 3001 accelerator (030)
- > with 8 mb of ram. I just bought a Picasso video board. In the manual it
- > says that I can have more than 8 mb of 32 bit ram but no more than 6 mb
- > of 16 bit ram to run the Picaso correctly unless I use the Segmentation
- > mode on the Picasso. When I boot with it unsegmented the computer will
- > not recognize the Picassoscreen modes. With it segmented all works fine
- > but it's extremely slow. I also have no 16 bit ram. Does anyone know of a
- > way to get this to work or a way to remap the 32 bit GVP memory? Thanx
- > in advance!!!!
-
- I don't know any details about the GVP 3001, but I can tell you that the 6
- MB limit is not related to 16 vs. 32 bit RAM. Therefore, my guess is that
- your GVP places it's 8 MB in the so-called 24BitDMA range, which is the
- 8 MB address space that the A2000 can access without an accellerator
- card. I would also imagine that it is possible, probably with some
- jumpers, to tell the GVP to place (some of) it's RAM above this range,
- and then you would not need to run the Picasso in segmentation mode.
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