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- From: kgroombr@hereford.ampr.org (Kenton Groombridge)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm,comp.sys.amiga.networking,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: HTML viewer problems with 16 colour screens.
- Date: Sun, 31 Mar 96 17:58:30
- Organization: Psycho-Soft Technologies
- Message-ID: <19960331.12E0B58.1028A@hereford.ampr.org>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: slip4.cec.army.mil
-
- After using AWeb for a few days now, I discovered something wierd with my
- system. I found that when using AWeb on it's own 16 colour screen, it
- would hang, TCP/IP would stop working (I couldn't ping anybody including
- myself), and the modem would drop the connection. At first I thought
- this was a problem with AWeb, but when I ran AMosaic on my Workbench
- screen with 16 colours, it did exactly the same thing. I would have
- checked this with IBrowse, but since it crashed so often, I deleted it.
-
- I spent all day trying different things to determine what was causing
- this problem. This is what I found out. All screen that were used
- were PAL hires laced screens.
-
- When running AWeb on it's own screen with 16 colours, it would hang all
- the time. When I opened AWeb on the Workbench screen with 8 colours,
- it ran great. I used it more than an hour like this without a problem.
- I tried to run it on it's own screen with 8 colours and although it
- didn't hang as often as it did with a 16 colour screen, it still hung
- occasionally.
-
- I tried running it on the Workbench screen with 16 colours. It hung. It
- only ran without a problem on the Workbench screen with 8 or less colours.
-
- It seems to be something with my system. I would like to know if anybody
- else is having these problems. The only thing I can determine is that
- using 16 colours on my A2000 along with the Multiface III board at 115200
- bps, my 28.8Kbps modem talking to another modem at the same rate is taking
- it's toll on my hardware.
-
- I wouldn't think this would cause a problem because I do have a GVP RC030
- accelerator running at 40MHz, 8MB 32 bit RAM, 2MB 16 bit RAM, and 2MB
- Chip RAM. I have the CPU set for FASTROM, and my VBR is loaded into Fast
- memory.
-
- Just as another experiment, I had 8 FTP sessions downloading, 2 FTP
- sessions uploading, a Telnet window open, and IRC running all at once
- without any type of lockup. They all ran a little slow, but it
- functioned perfectly.
-
- My system is an A2000/Workbench 3.1/AmiTCP 4.2 registered/PPP 1.45
- registered/Multiface III/US Robotics 28.8 Modem connected to another
- US Robotics 28.8 modem.
-
- If there is other information that I should have included, please let me
- know. I want to figure out what is causing this problem.
-
- Kenton Groombridge
- kgroombr@hereford.ampr.org
-