| From: | Leon Davidoff |
| Date: | 27 Jan 2000 at 19:29:27 |
| Subject: | Re: gfx cards; Problems? (a new manifestation?) |
From: Leon Davidoff <leond@paralynx.com>
Hi Xavier,
On 24-Jan-00, Xavier Messersmith wrote:
XM> From: Xavier Messersmith <xcaliber@xav.to>
XM> On 23-Jan-00, Leon Davidoff wrote:
XM>> On 21-Jan-00, Xavier Messersmith wrote:
XM>>>>> Whenever those appicons update, and you're doing something like a
XM>>>>> menu function, or dragging around a window, IT ALL FREEZES!!!
XM>>
XM>> This may be the problem I'm seeing since installing OS 3.5
XM> Possibly. :-)
XM>> I am setting up the icons to match my likes. For instance I'm positioning my
XM>> hard drive Real Icons on my WorkBench screen. I pick up one of the icons I
XM>> moved earlier and move it over tow pixels. When I drop it the icon
XM>> disappears. The mouse pointer can still be moved.
XM> Curious, I can't test this since I converted all my icons over to the 3.5 icon
XM> format.
How did you do that? Manually?
XM>> As soon as I click the
XM>> mouse on the WorkBench screen it freezes at that position nad the whole
XM>> system stays frozen. I have to reboot (CNTRL-A-A).
XM> Does the system seem to continue everything else though? Disk/network
XM> activity, music?
I have cron running which activates certain scripts which talk at me (reminders) and I seem to remember hearing stuff like that even though the system was 'frozen'.
XM>> It may be tied to the fact that I didn't do a virgin install. I backed up my
XM>> boot partition then installed over top that AmigaDOS 3.1 system. I am still
XM>> using the same Startup-sequence I used to.
XM> I'd do some cleanup with your startups, alot of stuff has changed.
How do I know what stuff can cause problems?
XM> It disappoints me that the OS didn't oughtright tell me about CAPrefs and
XM> Classact being obsolete instead of silently replacing them as I hear they did.
XM> I spent alot of time guessing about that subject.
XM>> Are there any specific 3.1 commands I should watch out for? Is this
XM>> disappearing icons/freezing system a known thing?
XM> I know that theres a bug in the icon.library that freezes the display whenever
XM> certain conditions are met. Why this outright destructiove bug hasn't been
XM> fixed by now is a mystery to me, it hits me on a daily basis (not quite
XM> clockwork though).
What conditions exactly?
XM>> I typed up an on-line report to Amiga Tech Support over a weel ago, on their
XM>> webpage when I registered but I've yet to get a reply.
XM> Same here, I don't think they put to much importance on that form, thinking
XM> they caught everything in betatesting (foolish, I'd like to know how many of
XM> them really gave the OS a work-out...).
I guess it's good to know that I'm not the only one who got no response from them... :-(
Leon
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