From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Thu Dec 31 05:26:23 2009 From: "Mark Nias" To: Subject: Re: [MiNT] Problem with xaaes/nvdi+video card Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:18:33 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 X-Cloudmark-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=1ggfb5FlKZQUfF3vzm9UBYZ2uTfLsbs/8dSljwg5+mE= c=1 sm=0 a=Pza_QlQKdSEA:10 a=6lC1jRQ_rbClYD4z_D8A:9 a=AdZQp9JfZgeQRCIZF-8A:7 a=ktP1_NL6PcmhLv8ZddjkiuYXICQA:4 a=HpAAvcLHHh0Zw7uRqdWCyQ==:117 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: mintlist@mr2.net Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: just wanted to post back my findings on this, it's all a little complicated due to so many things being involved! I have made a little progress and also i think i'm working out how this stuff is working together. (all assuming a working mint/xaaes system) Senario 1: CrazyDots 2 card using original CD2 drivers Auto app CD2_MANA.PRG redirects initial boot display to CD2 card and allows selection of CD2 video mode. Video drivers listed as CDDRVXXX.SYS in ASSIGN.SYS Results: Working in TOS and MINT Problems: no NVDI acceleration so is slow, especially in 256 colours, only works in 640x480 under MINT. It will boot into higher resolutions but has garbled display. I can see the desktop/mouse working underneath a 'skewed' display... like when you display an image at the wrong resolution so suspect this is just a resolution selection problem. Senario 2: CrazyDots 2 card running NVDI 4.11 ET-4000 Auto app REDIRECT.PRG redirects initial boot display to CD2 card, SLCT_DEV.PRG allows selection of CD2 video mode. Video drivers listed as XVGAXXX.SYS in ASSIGN.SYS Results: Working in TOS, broken in MINT Problems: XAAES fails when opening physical workstation. Senario 3: CrazyDots 2 card running a blend of NVDI 4.11 ET-4000 and original drivers Using CD2_MANA.PRG to redirect initial display and video mode selection, but edited ASSIGN.SYS file to use the NVDI drivers rarther than the original ones. NVDI.PRG enabled with REDIRECT.PRG and SLCT_DEV.PRG disabled. CD2_MANA.PRG runs first then NVDI.PRG. Results: Working in TOS, broken in MINT Problems: NVDI will only run display in the last mode selected by SLCT_DEV.PRG regardless of what was set with CD2_MANA.PRG. But the resolution must match. Seems to work ok in TOS, but when i try it in Mint i get a frozen garbage display and my monitor complaining about signal being out of range. So in effect, no real progress, personally i'd like to see NVDI ET4000 working with XAAES properly as it's by far the best way to run a CD2 card. I'm sure there's no issue with NVDI itself as it works fine under mint in many other senarios. I think it's some problem with NVDIs resolution selection app SLCT_DEV.PRG Would there be any scope in someone debugging XAAES and SLCT_DEV.PRG together? mark