Getting Voodoo 3000 working on Mediator 1200SX

[MarkAshley]

I've just got my replacement accelerator and Voodoo card, and all appears to be working ok. I can now boot with 68040.library present and pciinfo now reveals that I have a voodoo card installed.

I have installed all of the software from the Mediator CD, and also the updates which I received from Elbox, but I am unable to select any Voodoo screenmodes. The installer didn't appear to install anything in DEVS:Monitors, or a P96 prefs programme, just libraries for the Voodoo, P96 and Warp3D.

Anyone know how I go about selecting a Voodoo screenmode?

Thanks
Mark

[MarkAshley]

Ok I think I worked it out, I have to install P96 myself from the OS3.9 disc...

[MarkAshley]

Ok, I have done what it said in the instructions:

1. Installed Picasso96, using Cybervision64/3D driver
2. Renamed the monitor to Voodoo
3. Changed the tooltype to BOARDTYTPE=voodoo
4. Double clicked the monitor

When I go in to Picasso96Mode, the "attach setting to" menu just shows "No board". If I open a shell, go to Devs:monitors and type Voodoo, I get an error "Picasso96: Could not create graphics board contect for 'voodoo', please check your Picasso96 installation!"

I don't know what to do now

[MarkAshley]

Well, I'm not sure what I did but it appears to be working now. I uninstalled and reinstalled P96 and I am now able to test P96 screenmodes and they appear on my VGA screen!!!

The only problem is that they appear to be double height, it the width is 100% of the width of the screen but the height is twice as big as the screen, so I can only see the top 50% of the screen. I hope that made sense How can I change this?

[MarkAshley]

Yes I ran the setup again and selected 31khz for my monitor. But the display is still stretched off the screen

Edit: I've just noticed the following in ScreenMode:

Visible Size  1024x768
Minimum Size 640x200
Maximum Size 1024x2048

Could that max size be why it's stretched?

[MarkAshley]

Ok, it's all working now I think the problem was that Interlaced mode was turned on, which meant that the scan rate was doubled. But if I turned off Interlace then my monitor would refuse to display the screenmode. So I noted the scan rate with Interlace turned on, then turned interlace mode off, and changed the scan rate to the one I noted, and it now displays perfectly!  :-D

[MarkAshley]

Next challenge: PCI ethernet card :-)  As soon as I get it working, I'm backing up - don't want to have to go through this again!!! Still, it's a good feeling when it all starts working  :-D