P96 + Voodoo + Grex Problem

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    Hello


    I'm banging my head against the wall with my Amiga 1200 and wondering if someone who has a similar setup may be able to offer some advice.


    I have an Amiga 1200 with:

    • KS 3.2.2 ROMS Running AmigasOS 3.2.2.1
    • Blizzard 603 060/PPC board
    • Voodoo 3 3000 PCI card Grex PCI board
    • The CyberPCI library 2.2 from the grex.amigaworld.de flashed to my PPC board.
    • I have tried both the 68040/60.library files from the 3.2 install and from grex.amigaworld.de
    • The latest P96 provided by Jens installed with the Voodoo chosen.
    • I have not got Blitzkick or BPPCFix installed right now (I need to read up about them to understand them better)
    • I can see the PCI board in the early PPC menu.
    • I can see the Voodoo 3 listed in the Show Config tool in Workbench and it shows the $80000000
    • The Amiga is presently plugged into an external scan doubler so I can see the standard output on a modern screen
    • I have an older LCD screen connected up with VGA cable to the Voodoo.
    • Randomly I see the standard Amiga output appear on the screen connected to the Voodoo occasionally

    I cannot seem to get P96 to detect the Voodoo. In the preferences it says the board is not detected.


    If I manually run the monitor file I get: '96: Could not create graphics board context for “Voodoo”, please check your 96 installation.'


    Could anyone offer me some advice please?


    Thanks

    No idea about GRex, but the 68040/060 libraries are newer on Aminet. I fear that this won't chenge the situation, though, as it very much sounds like a contact problem or a defective GRex board. Does a different PCI card work in a PCI slot?


    Jens

    BPPCFix is a tool to "power off" powerpc library from Phase 5 so you can use WarpOS one.

    There is also a BPPCFix040 tool which "power off" also 040/060 libraries installed in the flash of the BlizzardPPC.


    I don't own a G-Rex card, I have my PowerTower with BlizzardPPC/060 and BVision cards.

    I use Blizkick to map a 3.9 Kickrom file which I also patched with BPPCFix so I can use my standard OS3.9 with WarpOS and CyberGraphX drivers.


    Blizkick is a tool to map kickfiles with eventually patches using the maprom function of Blizzard cards, but it's no more updated from years...


    I know that G-Rex cards may have problems with BlizzardPPC cards Rev.0.

    They work better with BlizzrdPPC cards from DCE (Rev. 2)


    Anyway you have to use at least BPPCFix in your Startup-Sequence to "poweroff" ppc library from Phase5/DCE installed in the flashrom card.

    Then you can use WarpOS.


    Install Picasso96 2.1 from ElBox site which has a Voodoo driver, then you can make updates and verify if all works.

    Jens, I've not tried another PCI card yet, was focused on the Voodoo, but I've got an Ethernet card to try, thanks.


    DanyPPC, Thanks for the summary on BPPCFix and Blizkick. I shall be sure to add BPPCFix if I get past the Voodoo issue.


    You're right about the Rev0 issues. I've read that the high the PPC speed the more likely this is the case. I have seen all this working previously many years ago. Half my problem is remembering how and with which software.


    My A1200 has been recently recapped but I might recap my Grex also.


    Thanks for the Elbox website tip, I shall give that a try next!