Picasso II and P96 questions

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Got my Picasso II today, W00t.
 
Snipped off the resistor as described here:
 
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=51133
 
Configured my 16-bit memory to only 6MB, stuck a little heatsink on the main chip, booted up, card passed all the initial checks. Hooked up a second monitor (I'll mess around with the pass-through later) and installed Picasso96 2.1c from here:
 
http://lilliput.amiga-projects.net/Picasso96.htm
 
Chose all default configuration options for my setup, rebooted... and Guru as soon as Workbench started to appear. This is without having made any configuration changes at all, just installing the software. :pissed:
 
After some tinkering I found if I remove "PicassoII" from Devs:Monitors I'm able to boot normally. Then if I double-click on the PicassoII monitor driver I'm able to load it and select various screenmodes. It seems like only modes around 75Hz modes work on my particular monitor, anything much lower doesn't display. No big deal, I wouldn't want to use anything lower anyway.
 
Workbench is quite snappy on this new card even though my Rebel palette that looked great in 16 colors is all jacked up in 256 or 64K. One more thing to figure out.
 
Currently beating my head up against the wall with these "Picasso96Mode", "PicassoModeTNG", and "PVS" programs, however. How the bloody )%$#$% is anyone supposed to understand this mess?  All I want to do is create a couple basic screenmodes that I can select from: things like 800x600, 1024x768, and 1280x1024, with the right refresh rates for my monitor, and delete the other junk.
 
Also, any idea offhand why I'd get a guru with "PicassoII" installed in Devs:Monitors when Workbench is loading (it crashes just as WB starts to display), but it works fine if I load it later? Ugh, this is way more difficult than it needs to be, LOL. :cry:

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

After process-of-elimination, it appears that FBlit (version 3.79, if anyone cares) being run in S-S is what is causing my instant-guru when Workbench started to display. Disabled that and system boots normally. Seem to have a lot more stability issues than I thought at first, though. Random guru's, lockups, etc. Gotta try to sort it all out. This is probably a dumb question, but would CyberGraphX be more stable than P96?

[Gulliver]

Hi, congratulations for your Picasso II card!

Fblit is known to cause problems under RTG. There are many system hacks which will probably fail in an RTG enviroment such as yours, so I recommend you take a look at what patches you are using.

BTW, there is a simple guide for creating P96 screenmodes which is both simple and good:
http://www.amigakit.co.uk/support/picasso96mode.php

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Thanks! Will definitely check that out. Am pleased to report that all it took was working on the thing till 4am, lots of cursing, and probably damaging one of my dozen-or-so spare junk monitors, and I now have a pretty good working Picasso II system with P96. Of course a bunch of my hacks and patches needed to be reconfigured, but in the end I even got to play around with a few treats like transparent Magic Menus. W00t.