Network/Video conflicts

[J-Golden]

SO!  I'm plugging away at getting my Setup in prime condition and have hit a wall.  Here are the symptoms...

If I have my Video Card enabled (Mediator) and try to access the innerwebz (network card also Mediator), the whole system locks up in 1-2 minutes.

I'm using Genesis for stack and that seems to be fine.  It is only when I actually get onto the internet that the system locks up.  Acts the same no matter what browser I use.

If I switch over to my Indivision output, I can surf!  But if I try to got to the website that hosts the latest config tool for the Indivision, my screen flips out and the system locks up!  Again, it does the same thing with any browser.

I'm running a relatively clean install up to 3.9-BB2 on my A4000T.  I have the Mediator with *Radeon*, Spyder 2, and NIC on it with the Indivision on the main board.

I know the internet worked before and the only thing I can think of that I changed was the use of the video card memory as "fast" RAM.  I say "fast" because, well, it ain't all that fast.

Unfortunately I started working on this so long ago that I can't remember HOW to disable it...  Yes, I am very embarrassed...  :anger:
 

 PS- The Spyder isn't recognized if I start up in native.  Is that even normal?

[wawrzon]

you have nvidia video card working in your mediator? wow!

so you can browse with indivision, while you cant with the rtg. the rtg card in this case your nvidia provides buffer memory for pci dma, on which the network card usually relies. you should make sure this shared memory is at least 1 mb i guess. the settings for that as well as fast ram might be tooltypes in your monitor file. i dont remember and im away from my amiga to check.

ah and changing endiannes of display may (but not must) lead to a crashes since the dma buffer gets corrupted/overwritten. you may try to use the oposit endian mode, the tooltype to enable more mdes is something like showmode=essential>all. ah, perhaps these are not tooltypes but env varibles.

[J-Golden]

Ug, yes I feel even more stupid now since I apparently can't tell between an Nvidia and a radeon... :huh:

I have the same thoughts but I can't find where to limit how much of the video card's memory is used for fastmem.  I thought I found it under env-arc but that file either crashes my system (removed) or changes nothing (edit the number variable).

If you know where the documentation can be found for this specific thing I think it would have the answers I'm looking for.

Thanks!

[wawrzon]

within mmupdate archive on elbox site i guess.
http://www.elbox.com/download/MM_CD_UP2.1.lha
you have to set the number within the env variable file to amount of the memory that you want to dedicate to grapics. for instance you have
16mb rtg card
you want
15 mb of it to be used for graphics and
1 mb to be used for dma buffer
then you set the variable to 15.

if you have some fast ram variable that over imposes the amount of vram dedicated to particular usage this may lead to problems i imagine. i would disable the fast ram feature for the rime being. this ram gets almost never any use from my experience.