TenWheeler: "Stay Close to the Candles... the Stairway Can Be Treacherous"
The Video card install does take quite a few steps that at first make no sense, which is why either one has to find an explicit post on the subject, or get it wrong two or three times, so that after a dozen or more times you can guide someone else through it. That someone, I'm afraid will not be Elbox. I've installed the software on my 2 A4000T's so often It actually makes (a perverse and morbid) sense. I feel for those folks who, like me, first looked at the Elbox instructions and said, "WTF?" THe Ethernet software takes sometime (especially with AmiTCP) to get working, but the spider card is easier. The sound card can be a bit of trouble. Luckily in OS 4.1 for Classics, Hyperion wrote their own drivers, and everything that is SUPPORTED works like a charm; ever wonder why OS 4.1 supports SATA cards and sound cards that Elbox doesn't? THe Hyperion guys first supported as many diverse video cards they could, and then picked out the most generic, inexpensive PCI cards they could. The only issue is that the OS 4.1 only supports DMA on the CSPPC SCSI bus; all other DMA cards need not apply -- these include other SCSI cards, USB cards, and the like. If the hardware supports PIO, then thats how they picked them -- i.e., Deneb has a DMA driver (cool in OS 3.x), but in OS 4.1 it uses a PIO driver.
Elbox has a "beta" pci.library (version 10.0) that is said to help some (poorly chosen) Radeon Cards work in OS 4.1, but I've tried it and it does not help with the spider, SB128, or RTL8039, but it does interfere with the sii3114ide.device from "seeing" attached hard drives.
For ciVic, anything that tries to insert code into the kickstart kernel at boot time will kill OS 4.1; hence the FastATA 4000, Deneb with any ROM code, Buddah IDE card, etc will prevent OS 4.1 from booting. That is why the OS 4.1 hardware compatability list is gospel.
Wow, this went off topic.
