| From: | Leon Davidoff |
| Date: | 27 Jan 2000 at 06:05:22 |
| Subject: | Re: Deficons44 and chip mem |
From: Leon Davidoff <leond@paralynx.com>
Hi Marion,
On 24-Jan-00, Marion E. Wyatt wrote:
MW> From: "Marion E. Wyatt" <amiscorp@earthlink.net>
MW> On 24-Jan-00 at 00:57:10, Leon Davidoff wrote these words of wisdom:
MW>> On 22-Jan-00, J & J Wasilewski wrote:
MW>>>> From: "Gary Beeton" <gbeeton@home.com>
MW>>>> On 21-Jan-00 22:25:03, Michael M. Rye wrote:
MW>>>>
MW>>>>> Then, change the "LoadWB" line of your startup-sequence to
MW>>>>> "LoadWB SIMPLEGELS"
MW>>>>
MW>>>> What exactly does that do? I can't find any reference to that
MW>>>> parameter in the OS3.5 documentation. And I can't see any obvious
MW>>>> difference that it makes to my system.
MW>>
MW>>> Do what Michael advises, Gary. There are dozens of us out here who
MW>>> struggled for days (weeks?) to make WbCtrl 3.51a work on an FBlit-ted
MW>>> AGA system without dumping/leaking good memory. People were all going
MW>>> back to FBlit2.63a (much-bugged compared with 3.51a). One or two
MW>>> people seem to know what SIMPLEGELS is. Most of us don't have a clue.
MW>>> But the result is an AGA system that never runs out of ChipMem /AND/
MW>>> runs a deal quicker on formerly ChipMemBound tasks.
MW>>
MW>>> Do it m8.
MW>>
MW>>> Don't ask why.
MW>> Sounds like good advice for AGA users. What about us folks who run
MW>> CGX/Cybervision64D and don't use WbCtrl/FBlit?
MW>>
MW>> Another question. As far as I know FBlit is only for systems that don't
MW>> have graphics cards. Does WbCtrl do anything to help out graphics card
MW>> users?
MW> Yes. WbCtrl, as well as WB2Fast, WBC, and TweakWB all help. Wb will use Fast
MW> mem instead of Chip mem for icons, etc. I usually have 2mb of chip left at
MW> most time now and I use WbCtrl. I have a CGX3/CyberVision64-3D setup. And I
MW> use DefIcons44.
Thanks. I'll have to check out those utilities you've listed. I am running WbCtrl right now.
I started playing with icons again today and even with WbCtrl in place my system froze a number of times. Each time I was trying to move more than one icon from a window by dropping them on a directory's icon. I would group select, drop them, the mouse image would change to the busy pointer, then the system would freeze. Ten minutes later there would be no change so I would do a CNTRL-A-A.
I haven't seen the symptom I'd seen before where an icon would disappear while I was making a fine adjustment on it's position, followed by the system freezing when I clicked once anywhere on the WorkBench. Maybe this thing was fixed by running WbCtrl.
Leon
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