wizard@sosaria.UUCP (Chris Brand) (09/27/89)
I have awful trouble with something: A normal session on my Amiga looks like this: Workbench open, hires interlace overscan, JRComm, the same, Sculpt Animate 4D, unfortunately NOT hires interlace overscan. Now, when I shuffle the screens either with left Amiga-M resp. N or using the screen gadgets, it happens quite often that suddenly one of the interlace screens is suddenly non-interlace in resolution or even less (yes, then about 180 instead of 256 lines visible). After this happens, I can try whatever I want, the machine hangs. Nothing works. I use MachII V2.4, but had the same problems (and more) when I was using QMouse1.6. This really teases me, since I have to reboot the Amiga very often, and of course always when I've been downloading 299 of 300K. I've already tried to switch the Workbench back to no overscan, but it didn't help. Any ideas? -- ---------------------------------------- Chris Brand - wizard@sosaria.ccs.imp.com "Justice is the possession and doing of what one is entitled to" - Platon ----------------------------------------
jac@muslix.llnl.gov (James Crotinger) (09/29/89)
In article <0264.AA0264@sosaria> wizard@sosaria.ccs.imp.com writes: >Now, when I shuffle the screens either with left Amiga-M resp. N or using >the screen gadgets, it happens quite often that suddenly one of the >interlace screens is suddenly non-interlace in resolution or even less >(yes, then about 180 instead of 256 lines visible). After this happens, I >can try whatever I want, the machine hangs. Nothing works. > This is a well known bug in the Amiga OS (in Intuition, I think). Having more than one interlace screen open at the same time as one or more non-interlaced screens is inviting disaster. That this was not fixed in 1.3 is somewhat amazing. But there is a patch available called FixIntuition. You run it in your startup-sequence and it patches Intuition. I'm using it, but I haven't actually checked to see if it fixes the problem since I rarely open multiple interlace screens. I downloaded the patch from BIX, but it is probably available via FTP from somewhere. >Chris Brand - wizard@sosaria.ccs.imp.com Jim