A2000 plus Picasso = failure

[pondosinatra]

Ok, I've spent days (weeks?) on this and am about ready to toss it all in the garbage...

No matter what I can do I can't get it so that my Picasso card will 'keep' the resolution settings after a reboot or cold start.

I've tried two different A2000 (both rev 6.2), three different cards (Pic II, Pic II+, Pic IV), and two different accelerators (TekMagic 060, Phase 5 060).

The only clue I have is that when booting up, before WB loads, a message flashes saying something like 'could not create graphics board context'.

And this ONLY happens when I'm running an 060 accelerator. Stock A2000 is fine. 040 Accelerator is fine. :madashell:

[freqmax]

Write protection? Too little RAM?

[Darrin]

Did the 68060 board come with an install disk?  You may need to replace some libraries...

[zipper]

As it's working with 040 you probably have used the option "attach settings to board x"; this error pops up when the settings have not been attached to the board in use.

[pondosinatra]

As it's working with 040 you probably have used the option "attach settings to board x"; this error pops up when the settings have not been attached to the board in use.

I do that when I go into P96mode and test and save the resolution I want...

[pondosinatra]

Apparently I'm the only person on the planet having this issue...

[alexh]

Picasso96: Could not create graphics board context for '', please check your Picasso96 installation!

Usually means that autoconfig has not allocated your gfx card's RAM space correctly.

What else do you have installed which sits in the Zorro II address space?

Use the command line program "showconfig DEBUG" to dump out your memory allocation and show us a screenshot.

Is it worth trying the Picasso in segmented mode (via a jumper) just to see if that works?

What does it say if you hold down both mouse buttons on boot and click on show-boards (or whatever it is)?

[zipper]

(re: segmented mode) Don't know what happens - P96 doesn't support it. But CGX3 is freely available (for instance http://phase5.a1k.org/files/cgxv3.lha or Aminet), the hardware could be tested using it. I have used both and the difference wasn't too notable for me.

[pondosinatra]

Usually means that autoconfig has not allocated your gfx card's RAM space correctly.

What else do you have installed which sits in the Zorro II address space?

Use the command line program "showconfig DEBUG" to dump out your memory allocation and show us a screenshot.

Is it worth trying the Picasso in segmented mode (via a jumper) just to see if that works?

What does it say if you hold down both mouse buttons on boot and click on show-boards (or whatever it is)?

I've attached some screenshots. Besides the Picasso card, I also have an Ariadne network card in a Zorro slot.

I tried installing Cybergraphx v3 and I get the same thing. I can go into Screenmode and pick the CGX modes and it switches to them. But on a reboot or cold boot it doesn't 'keep'. Also, I told it to use one of the CGX splash screens and when it's booting it shows it on the LCD monitor (hi-res) but when WB loads it clicks off and I just get the lo-res screen on the Amiga monitor. If I try going into the Cybergraphx config tool it gives me a 'unable to open stlayout.library v22' error.

[pondosinatra]

(re: segmented mode) Don't know what happens - P96 doesn't support it. But CGX3 is freely available (for instance http://phase5.a1k.org/files/cgxv3.lha or Aminet), the hardware could be tested using it. I have used both and the difference wasn't too notable for me.

The only card that has a jumper for Segmented mode is the PII+. I've tried all three options (2MB, 1MB, Segmented) with no success.

[Damion]

I tried installing Cybergraphx v3 and I get the same thing. I can go into Screenmode and pick the CGX modes and it switches to them. But on a reboot or cold boot it doesn't 'keep'.

Have you tried force deleting the screenmode.prefs file, then saving the screenmode? How about SnoopDOS? Sounds like a software problem to me (2 motherboards, 4 accelerators, 8 gfx cards, etc..)

[pondosinatra]

Anyone on here actually have an A2000 with an 060 and a working Picasso? :huh:

[mechy]

this is probabaly no help,but a friend of mine used to run a picasso IV in his A2000 with a DKB wildfire without any trouble. Not sure but maybe then 2 small bridge chips need updating? might check the revisions and also the flash revision?

Mike

Anyone on here actually have an A2000 with an 060 and a working Picasso? :huh:

[Damion]

Anyone on here actually have an A2000 with an 060 and a working Picasso?

Practically the same setup here (6.2 mobo, TekMagic) and my PIV works fine, so did my old CV3D and Spectrum.

What processor libraries are you running with the TekMagic?

[LoadWB]

Anyone on here actually have an A2000 with an 060 and a working Picasso? :huh:

I had my PIV and Blizzard 060 cohabiting my 2000 for a short time, about a week or so.  Moved the PIV to my 4000D and put a Spectrum 28/24 (not a bad card, actually) in the 2000.

In addition to the PIV, I had an X-Surf then an Ariadne II.  Never ran into a problem.  Now, I cannot recall what version of P96 I was running at the time.