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Title: Missing screenmodes in workbench?
Post by: runequester on June 11, 2010, 04:05:41 PM

Installed workbench 3.1 on my A1200 but I only seem to have the basic OCS screenmodes available for reason. What are some things to check for that might cause this?

Title: Re: Missing screenmodes in workbench?
Post by: Matt_H on June 11, 2010, 04:39:45 PM

Make sure SetPatch is running, and make sure Devs:Monitors is populated.

I think there was a similar issue that came up a number of months ago, turned out to be hardware related. Hopefully this isn't another case...

Title: Re: Missing screenmodes in workbench?
Post by: runequester on June 11, 2010, 04:41:05 PM

I'll check into that.

Everything else seems to work fine so Im hoping its not a hardware issue :(

EDIT: Well, huh. devs/monitors says it "cannot be opened"

Title: Re: Missing screenmodes in workbench?
Post by: Matt_H on June 11, 2010, 05:07:39 PM

There's your problem (probably). That's the error you get if there's a drawer icon but no actual drawer. Something's wrong with your installation - better run it again.

Title: Re: Missing screenmodes in workbench?
Post by: runequester on June 11, 2010, 05:16:46 PM

Yikes, alright. I'll give it another whirl

Title: Re: Missing screenmodes in workbench?
Post by: runequester on June 18, 2010, 05:50:24 AM

as an aside, how do I verify if setpatch is working?

For that matter, what does setpatch actually do ?

Title: Re: Missing screenmodes in workbench?
Post by: Thomas on June 18, 2010, 07:01:01 AM

Open a shell window and enter setpatch. It will tell you whether it is already active and what it did.

Title: Re: Missing screenmodes in workbench?
Post by: runequester on June 18, 2010, 07:52:45 AM

Quote from: Thomas;565317

Open a shell window and enter setpatch. It will tell you whether it is already active and what it did.

alright so, setpatch is active and has done a pile of stuff. So I guess that part is okay

by the by... what files SHOULD I find in the devs/monitors drawer ? I've tried copying the ones from storage/monitors but other than modes for specific monitors, I dont seem to have much luck from that.

Am I missing something, or is my workbench disks wonky ?

Title: Re: Missing screenmodes in workbench?
Post by: Karlos on June 18, 2010, 10:29:26 AM

Quote from: runequester;564117

Yikes, alright. I'll give it another whirl

If you got that message from workbench when double-clicking the drawer icon, it could be that the directory itself has been deleted but the .info file for it remains.