Indivision ECS with widescreen LCD

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Of course it works.  Or are you asking specifically "does it have any wide screen display modes"?  It supports any standard monitor driver, I've got the "HD720" drivers installed (1280x720), but haven't tried them yet.  Pretty sure HD720 only supports 4 colors, so it'd be of limited use.  But the 800x600x16 color mode looks great on my 37" screen at home, fills it completely.

Other modes will have black bars on the left & right sides unless I stretch them (using the built-in functions on the TV).  All of this is exactly as it should be.  

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Mine complains that the resolution recommended is 1900x1200 or something similar and doesnt display.  I get a brief "Indivision ECS" screen and then the monitor switches.

Probably 1920x1200.  WUXGA.  That's not the Indivision giving you that message, that's your monitor.  Maybe it can't sync to the video output of the Indi, but that would have to be a rare monitor, indeed.  I've hooked up to dozens of different monitors, TV's, and projectors, and never had an issue.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Both of my widescreens do that.   But my standard form factor LCD doesnt.   There isnt anything special that I do, correct?  Just plug it in.  No keyboard shortcuts to access some features pre-boot?

Nope, just plug it in.  Probably should update it to 1.10 firmware, but that doesn't affect the initial display (that's just to use 800x600 mode).  If you put the Indi config tools on your system it gives you the option to switch between 60Hz and 75Hz output, if I remember the numbers off-hand.  Maybe your monitor needs the higher?

I can check on mine to confirm those numbers a bit later.

What is the brand & model # of your monitor?

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

For reference, here's a screenshot of the Indi ECS tools.  They're a lot less complex than I hear the Indi AGA config tools are.    I've also attached the readme as a .zip.  Hope this helps!

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

It's hooked directly to the monitor, correct? No adapters or anything in the way? Can you try with a different cable? I just briefly checked the specs on that monitor, see it has both HDMI and a VGA input. Can you try manually selecting VGA or forcing VGA?

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

I've never seen a monitor it wouldn't work with "out of the box", but do you have the tools downloaded?  Try this:

In the Config tool, press the Mode button to toggle to 1.25, save settings, and then try to connect.  "Mode 1.00" = 50Hz in PAL and 60Hz in NTSC.  "Mode 1.25" = 62.5Hz in PAL, and 75Hz in NTSC.

I'm just guessing, but it's possible yours might be configured to "Mode 1.00" and this might be just a hair too low for your monitor to display.  I've always run mine in 1.25 and haven't had any problems.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Hummm, yes, Workbench might help.  

On your monitor that does work, what firmware version does it say is loaded when you power the system on?

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

1.01

Lame!  You'd think after all this time they'd start putting them out with 1.10 already, which you need to run 800x600 mode.

I used Mfilos's guide back when I upgraded mine, but it looks like Epsilon has a guide, as well.  Read these three pages (or at least the first two):

http://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2012-02-00009-EN.html

http://www.mfilos.com/2012/01/a600-trying-800x600-resolution-setting.html

http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2014/06/amiga-600-cf-amigaos-setup-part-2.html

Not something you need to do right away, but it will add features to your Indi once you get it on there.  

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

You can download all the cores from mfilos's site:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/939939/IndivisionECS_Cores.lha

Latest is 1.10 (not 1.01), you'll need that for HighGFX, HD720, and SuperPlus.  Try LHA'ing or ZIP'ing just the one you need, if you don't have any other way of transferring large files to your Amiga.

You can download the flash/config tools from Jen's website, here: http://wiki.icomp.de/w/images/3/39/Indivision_ECS_V101.lha

Looks like his site was down earlier, but should be working now.  

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Well, finally got back to this.  I downloaded the 1.10 firmware and flashed the Indivision ECS.  Hooked up my widescreen, no workie.   My non-widescreen LCD works though.

I've heard of a few monitors that don't work, but never seen one (fail to work) in person. To hazard a guess I'd say Indi ECS works with >90% of all monitors/TV's/projectors which accept VGA-style input. But I'm just pulling that number out of my a**, lol.