[Virtualacorn-list] An Iyonix Replacement?

[David J. Ruck]

On 16 Oct 2008 ATimbrell at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 16/10/2008 16:32:59 GMT Daylight Time,  druck at druck.org.uk
>>Well  I've just installed 6.10 on VRPC-SA, and there is no change in the
>>video  capabilities.

> There won't be. RISC OS 6.10 (Select) supports the same VRAM
> amount  (8Mb) as the versions of RISC OS supplied with VirtualRPC.
> So try selecting 1600 x 1200 at 24bit. This will use 7.5Mb of screen
> memory.

There is only a 2MB fixed DA for VIDC VRAM, and it is impossible to 
select any mode which uses more than this.

>>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.

> It's automtatic.

What diagnostic commands are there that reveal its capabilities?

>>> 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.

> It works fine here (and for lots of other users). Unfortuanately  saying
> "I've never got that to work" doesn't really help me with attempting  to
> diagnose the problem :-(

I'll get back to you on that one.

Cheers
---Dave

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