AmigaOS3.5 (31/967)

From:Robert Bondy
Date:1 May 2000 at 22:46:13
Subject:Re: not recalling screen prefs

Hi Steve

On 28-Apr-00, you wrote:

>> Hi,
>> Here's a strange one:
>> On startup of my 4000 AGA with OS3.5 the screen will come
>> up in 4 color, NTSC mode regardless of my actual saved
>> preferences which is 64 color, multiscan productivity.
>>
>> I enter Prefs and select the mode I want - and hit "save"
>> - the screen mode changes for the session but will revert
>> to 4 colour on next startup.
>
> Either :
>
> IPrefs is not running (check it exists in
> S:StartUp-Sequence) or it is executing before the system
> mounts it's monitors (look for Devs:Monitors stuff in
> S:Startup-Sequence)

IPrefs is in the Startup-sequence as per installation near
the end of the script, exists in the C dir, and is called after Devs:Monitors is done...

> or ENVARC:Sys/ is missing somehow

Envarc:sys/ is present and

> or the file in question ENVARC:Sys/screenmode.prefs is
> write protected

file is present and has rw-d flags set.

Thanks anyway...
Rob Bondy

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