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Picasso II and a 256 colour WorkBench

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From: Michael Mommertz
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 20:55
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I've been to my Amiga-Dealer and I now have a different Picasso II card
in my Amiga 2000 but the problems remain :(

The Icons got their colours back cause of 'PatchWBPens' :)
I've found this before I read your reply.
But I'm gonna try MagicColors sometime :)

>: Also If I use the menus there is some graphic garbage were the
>: menu used to be displayed.
>: If I drag icons I get the same garbage.
>Yeah, this problem was discussed to a certain degree on the mailing list.
>I _think_ it has something to do with the memory on the card... I had the
>same problems, but they kind of disappeard when I switched to the latest
>driver version (2.56, I think. Available for FTP on, let me see,
>ftp.phone.net, if I'm not mistaken)...

If you are refering to the village.library in SYS:Expansion,
I have version 2.58 and it's not doing ok.
I have set my WorkBench to 128 Colours now and all works fine.
I guess I can live with a 128 Colour WorkBench but still 256 would
be nicer :)

>: AmIRC however gives me every line of text twice and sometimes I
>: get only the top half of a line so it becomes totally unreadable.
>: I recently read a little about that this could be a DMA problem.
>: Somebody said to switch it off. How is it done ?
>Might have been refereing to original Video DMA. If so, if try to boot so
>that the screen remains black (remove/redirect all output in
>startup-sequence, don't load a boot pic etc.), and video DMA shouldn't be
>on... I never had this kind of problem, though...

This is really annoying :(
AmIRC runs on a 256 colour screen.
If I only have one window open all is ok.
But as soon as I open a new window (#channel) the inactive window gets
this weird character trashing (2 lines of the same text or only half
parts of letters :(
This also occurs when I get an incoming private message and a new window
opens for the messages.


>: If anybody has any idea or suggestion It would be greatly appreciated :)
>Hope this helps...

>Regards, Hans-Joerg.


>--
>Hans-Joerg Frieden   Schloss-Strasse 176   54293 Trier   Germany
>Private Mail to hfrieden@fix.uni-trier.de
>HiWi at University of Trier, Germany
>Any Opinion expressed is completely my own, not those of my employers.

Well, Next Week I'll be getting CyberGraphX. Maybe that will help.

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Michael Mommertz             Heerlen, The Netherlands
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From: michaelm@cuci.nl (Michael Mommertz)
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Subject: Picasso II and a 256 colour WorkBench
Date: 23 Mar 1996 20:55:08 GMT
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