Re: Nova problems

From: Jo Even Skarstein <joska_at_nuts.edu>
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 19:50:46 +0200

On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Magnus Kollberg wrote:

> > it might be time to get a new monitor. But I'm still having the same
> > difficulty with the AB-drivers. It's not as I thought a problem with ST
> > RAM, but with Fast RAM, although it does only manifest itself when there's
> > 4Mb RAM. Confused? I am. With 4Mb ST RAM and TT RAM ignored, the Falcon
> > boots up fine with Nova (of course, then I only have about 1.5Mb of free
> > memory which is no good to anyone!!!). With TT RAM installed (2 x 16Mb),
> > the drivers crash (2 bombs) although it still gets to the desktop, where
> > the Nova works fine (until you load a program, but that's because of the
> > 040 driver). With 14Mb ST RAM installed, no Nova, and 32Mb TT RAM used, all
> > is fine... Very strange. I've e-mailed Doug (thanks for passing his address
> > onto me) to see what he thinks.

1. What TK-version do you use?
2. TK-settings?
3. What's in the autofolder, and in what order?

I don't have any experience with TK4, but TK5 work perfectly for me
with the following setup:

[o] Allocate FastRAM
[o] Enable second bank
[ ] Perform RAM-check
[o] Enable <D> cache
[o] Enable <I> cache
[ ] Pexec lock cache
TOS Superstack: Writethrough mode, ST-RAM
Display: Serialized, 4Mb
[o] Nova interface mode
[ ] Nova VIDEL blanker
[ ] Emulate GEMRAM
[ ] Nemesis 40MHz
[ ] Replace bootlogo
[ ] Writeprotect ROM

This works perfectly with 4Mb ST-RAM, 16, 32 or 48Mb FastRAM, with or
without Nova enabled and under TOS or MiNT.

The running-order in c:/auto is also important, mine looks like this:

C:\AUTO\

XBOOT.PRG
TKROMDRV.PRG
EMULATOR.PRG
MENU.PRG
STA_VDI.PRG
NVDI_TGL.PRG
NVDI.PRG
FFSEL.PRG
CLOCKY.PRG
METAXBS.PRG
JPEGD.PRG
TOGGLE_B.PRG
DRVIN.PRG
SCC.PRG
MINT1154.PRG
68882.PRG

The most important here is the order of the TK-driver, Nova-drivers
and NVDI.


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