[Virtualacorn-list] An Iyonix Replacement?

[David Pitt]

"David J. Ruck" <druck at druck.org.uk> wrote:

> ATimbrell at aol.com wrote:
> > In a message dated 06/10/2008 12:07:21 GMT Daylight Time,
> > druck at druck.org.uk writes:
> > > I am also very intrested in this, having expressly purchased  an
> > > upgrade to VRPC-SA (from SE) on the understanding that a driver for
> > > RISC OS 6 would address these display issues. That was at the South
> > > East  show this time last year, and I have not heard of any progress.
> >  
> > I am a little confused about this one. The RISC OS 6 Video driver (that
> > supports the 8Mb of VRAM under VirtualRPC) was released as part of RISC
> > OS 6.10 - at Wakefield this year. So if you are a current Select
> > Subscriber and have your RISC OS 6.10 CD - then you have the driver
> > built into the RISC OS softload ROM.
> 
> Well I've just installed 6.10 on VRPC-SA, and there is no change in the
> video capabilities.
> 
> How is is supposed to work? There is only VIDC in Configure's monitor
> driver list. I would have expected to see some kind of entry for VRPC, as
> I did on for ViewFinder on my Risc PC.
> 
> > With regard to going higher than 8Mb - then the StrongARM VirtualRPCs
> > can go over this limit (the theoretical limit being around 16Mb) when
> > using the ARM7500 core.
> 
> And I've never got that to work either.

Have you fetched a text editor to this :-
Choices.Default.Boot.PreDesk.8MBBandLimit

It worked here but that was with OS4.39.

-- 
David Pitt