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Thanks for your reply, Jens!
Trying to proactively get this thing started or at least see if there was a real demand for such an implementation, do you have an idea on how much money would it be needed?
Knowing that then some crowdfunding attempt through a platform like gofundme.com could possibly be made.
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Hello Jens!
Since I'm currently running a Radeon gfx card in my Mediator and with current P96/Elbox driver my Amiga is already able to display the same screen on 2 monitors together (one through DVI and the other through VGA), I was wondering: would it be possible to implement some kind of real dual monitor support in P96, with different screens depending on the gfx card output, or would it be too tricky?
Thank you!
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This file is not included in our archive. You should get it from the author of the Voodoo drivers.
Jens, if you look just 2 lines below, you'll see that the file was actually found and loaded from another position:
- 99 ramlib Load LIBS:picasso96/3dfxVoodoo.chip OK
And not sure why you're saying I should get the driver elsewhere, when 3dfxVoodoo.chip file is indeed in the Picasso96.lha archive (please see line #50 below):
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So, better never than late, I finally made the test, and unfortunately here's the message that pops up when I double click on the monitor icon:
Nothing fancy in the tooltype configuration, I made it only point to the Mediator.card found in the P96 archive with following line:
BOARDTYPE=Mediator
From SnoopDos output, it seems to me that the Voodoo is correctly detected, but for some unknown reason P96 fails to properly start its driver:
- Count Process Name Action Target Name Options Res.
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- 26 [12] DO_LAUNCHER Load VoodooP96 OK
- 27 VoodooP96 Open CON:0/0/640/120/Picasso96/AUTO/CLOSE/WAIT Write OK
- 28 CON FindSem NSDPatch (8.3.2002) OK
- 29 CON FindSem NSDPatch (8.3.2002) OK
- 30 CON FindSem NSDPatch (8.3.2002) OK
- 31 CON FindSem NSDPatch (8.3.2002) OK
- 32 CON FindSem NSDPatch (8.3.2002) OK
- 33 CON FindSem NSDPatch (8.3.2002) OK
- 34 VoodooP96 OpenRes draco.resource Fail
- 35 VoodooP96 OpenLib icon.library Ver 37 OK
- 36 VoodooP96 OpenLib cybergraphics.library Ver 41 Fail
- 37 [12] DO_LAUNCHER ChangeDir WorkBench:DEVS
- 38 [12] DO_LAUNCHER ChangeDir WorkBench:
- 39 ramlib Load LIBS:cybergraphics.library Fail
- 40 ramlib Open LIBS:cybergraphics.library Read Fail
- 41 VoodooP96 FindPort Directory Opus OK
- 42 VoodooP96 OpenLib picasso96/rtg.library Ver 40 OK
- 43 ramlib Load LIBS:picasso96/rtg.library OK
- 44 ramlib OpenLib graphics.library Ver 39 OK
- 45 ramlib OpenLib intuition.library Ver 39 OK
- 46 ramlib OpenLib iffparse.library Ver 37 OK
- 47 ramlib OpenLib utility.library Ver 39 OK
- 48 ramlib OpenLib icon.library Ver 39 OK
- 49 ramlib OpenLib cybergraphics.library Ver 41 Fail
- 50 ramlib Load LIBS:cybergraphics.library Fail
- 51 ramlib Open LIBS:cybergraphics.library Read Fail
- 52 ramlib Load cybergraphics.library Fail
- 53 ramlib Open cybergraphics.library Read Fail
- 54 ramlib FindPort Directory Opus OK
- 55 ramlib OpenLib layers.library Ver 39 OK
- 56 ramlib OpenRes dracomouse.resource Fail
- 57 Picasso96 Lock ENV:Picasso96/AmigaVideo Read OK
- 58 Picasso96 Open ENV:Picasso96/AmigaVideo Read OK
- 59 Picasso96 Lock ENV:Picasso96/Debug Read OK
- 60 Picasso96 Open ENV:Picasso96/Debug Read OK
- 61 Picasso96 Lock ENV:Picasso96/BlackSwitching Read OK
- 62 Picasso96 Open ENV:Picasso96/BlackSwitching Read OK
- 63 Picasso96 Lock ENV:Picasso96/DirectColorMask Read OK
- 64 Picasso96 Open ENV:Picasso96/DirectColorMask Read OK
- 65 Picasso96 Lock ENV:Picasso96/DoNotSetMMU Read OK
- 66 Picasso96 Open ENV:Picasso96/DoNotSetMMU Read OK
- 67 Picasso96 OpenLib mmu.library Ver 0 OK
- 68 Picasso96 Lock ENV:Picasso96/ShowModes Read OK
- 69 Picasso96 Open ENV:Picasso96/ShowModes Read OK
- 70 Picasso96 Lock ENV:Picasso96/PlanarOnlyDIPFDBUF Read OK
- 71 VoodooP96 ChangeDir WorkBench:DEVS
- 72 VoodooP96 Open VoodooP96 .info Read OK
- 73 Picasso96 Open ENV:Picasso96/PlanarOnlyDIPFDBUF Read OK
- 74 Picasso96 Lock ENV:Picasso96/DisableAmigaBlitter Read OK
- 75 VoodooP96 ToolType QUIET Fail
- 76 VoodooP96 OpenLib mmu.library Ver 0 OK
- 77 VoodooP96 ToolType BOARDTYPE OK
- 78 VoodooP96 ToolType SETTINGSFILE OK
- 79 VoodooP96 ToolType MEMORYCLOCK Fail
- 80 VoodooP96 ToolType SOFTSPRITE Fail
- 81 VoodooP96 ToolType BIGSPRITE Fail
- 82 VoodooP96 ToolType BORDERBLANK Fail
- 83 VoodooP96 ToolType DISPLAYCHAIN Fail
- 84 VoodooP96 ToolType IGNOREMASK OK
- 85 VoodooP96 ToolType NOPLANAR2CHUNKYBLITS Fail
- 86 VoodooP96 ToolType NOBLITTER Fail
- 87 VoodooP96 ToolType SYSTEM2SCREENBLITS Fail
- 88 VoodooP96 ToolType QUIET Fail
- 89 VoodooP96 ToolType OVERCLOCK Fail
- 90 VoodooP96 ToolType GRANTDIRECTACCESS Fail
- 91 VoodooP96 ToolType FAKENATIVEMODES Fail
- 92 VoodooP96 Load LIBS:picasso96/Mediator.card OK
- 93 Picasso96 Open ENV:Picasso96/DisableAmigaBlitter Read OK
- 94 Picasso96 Lock ENV:Picasso96/PlanesToFast Read OK
- 95 VoodooP96 OpenLib Mediator.card Ver 0 OK
- 96 VoodooP96 OpenLib pci.library Ver 1 OK
- 97 VoodooP96 OpenLib picasso96/3dfxVoodoo.chip Ver 8 Fail
- 98 Picasso96 Open ENV:Picasso96/PlanesToFast Read OK
- 99 ramlib Load LIBS:picasso96/3dfxVoodoo.chip OK
- 100 Picasso96 Lock ENV:Picasso96/Experimental Read OK
- 101 Picasso96 Open ENV:Picasso96/Experimental Read OK
- 102 Picasso96 Lock ENV:Picasso96/EnableBootVGA Read OK
- 103 CON OpenFont XEN.font Size 11 OK
- 104 CON FindSem NSDPatch (8.3.2002) OK
- 105 Picasso96 Open ENV:Picasso96/EnableBootVGA Read OK
- 106 Picasso96 Lock ENV:Picasso96/AlertSupport Read Fail
- 107 Picasso96 Lock ENV:Picasso96/AreaEndSupport Read Fail
- 108 Picasso96 Lock ENV:Picasso96/PreferFriends Read Fail
- 109 dopus_lister Lock DH0:DEVS/ Read OK
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Like I wrote, I don't have a Mediator, and I really don't want one. Since I have only seen a Mediator in the flesh "fully installed" at meetings, I don't have any experience in setting them up either. This is really the wrong place to discuss Mediator things, I'm afraid.
Hello Jens,
I think you misunderstood me: I wasn't asking about specific Mediator things, but rather about two Picasso96 drivers found in the latest released Picasso96 archive which seem to be specific to the Mediator and the pci gfx cards you put in there, so some actual documentation on how to use them would have been nice.
I still haven't found the time, but as soon as I have some spare time I'll try to do some tests myself and see if I can make my Amiga use them instead of the Elbox Voodoo.card it's seemingly currently still using.
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Hey Jens,
and thanks a lot for your reply!
I could clearly do some trial and error to figure out how these new drivers work, but if you could give me some hints on how to configure the Mediator.card to work together with the 3dfxVoodoo.chip I'd really appreciate them.
AFAIR making the Elbox driver work with the official Picasso96 installation was a bit of a hack, in that you had to install another gfx card and then rename files, maybe I should try copying their same approach...
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Thanks for your reply, Jens!
It's fair and logic that you don't support drivers written by Elbox, what I was asking is what are those files in Picasso96 archive supposed to do, especially the one named Mediator.card?
Neither the installer nor the wiki here: http://wiki.icomp.de/wiki/Picasso mention them...
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I've recently updated my Picasso96 to the latest v2.4.3, and noticed that in the Libs/Picasso96 directory, two brand new 3dfxVoodoo.chip and Mediator.card files have appeared. Well, maybe they're not really brand new and I've never noticed them before, but since the installer didn't show me Voodoo as gfx card option during the installation process, being the owner of a Mediator+Voodoo combo I was wondering if they're intended to eventually replace the Voodoo.card I once downloaded from Elbox?
Thank you!