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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: BuzzBrain on May 02, 2006, 12:57:11 PM

Title: Two GFX sytem in a A4000?
Post by: BuzzBrain on May 02, 2006, 12:57:11 PM

Hi all :)



Can you have two GFX card in a A4000/OS 3.9 ?

Voodoo 5500 with Picasso96 and Cybervision PPC with CyberGraphX V4 ??

I want to run PPC demos. And some are using CGX other use P96.

Current setup:

A4000
rom 3.1
Phase 5 PPC 060/50 - 604 200
128MB ram
IBM SCSI 34GB 10 000rpm
Elbox mediator PCI bus
Voodoo 5500
SB128
100mb network card
CV3D scandoubler
use os 3.9BB2

And will add PPC cybervision i have.

Thanx for all help! :)

BuzzBrain

 

Title: Re: Two GFX sytem in a A4000?
Post by: Thomas on May 02, 2006, 01:08:10 PM

You cannot mix CGX and P96. You can have two or more gfx cards using CGX and you can have two or more gfx cards using P96, but you cannot have one gfx card using CGX and another one using P96.

However, if you are careful, you can install both P96 and CGX and to switch from CGX to P96 or vice versa, move the used monitor driver to devs/dosdrivers and the unused to storage/monitors, then reboot. You might also need to rename some libraries.

But IMHO you don't need both. CGX programs should run fine on P96 (P96 emulates CGX), so you only need to install P96.

Bye,
Thomas

Title: Re: Two GFX sytem in a A4000?
Post by: zipper on May 02, 2006, 01:21:39 PM

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However, if you are careful, you can install both P96 and CGX and to switch from CGX to P96 or vice versa, move the used monitor driver to devs/dosdrivers and the unused to storage/monitors, then reboot. You might also need to rename some libraries.

I have this kind of setup, but I prefer to use another boot partition, that has a clean install to test purposes. So, main boot P96, alternate CGX4 (for iFusion for example...)