hgschmie@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Henning Schmiedehausen) (06/19/91)
Hi, everyone! Most important first: I use an A3000 with Kick 37.175, WB 37.48 I want my system to boot up with an standard NTSC Hires Interlace Display, but even if I set this with the prefs/Screenmode and the prefs/Overscan program, the machine boots up with an 640x256 PAL display, and only after starting the iprefs program, the machine switches to the wanted resolution (AFTER closing the CLI, of course). So my question is: How can I tell my Amy to boot with NTSC 640x400 resolution? I do not need WB very often, and it's annoying to close all CLI windows, wait for resolution change and the opening my CLIs again whenever I boot up. I've seen the same versions of software on an A2000 with GVP 3001 board, and these versions (Kick @ $200000 ) boot up with an NTSC screen. But I've set up my system exactly like my friends' and it won't work with me. I have scanned the kickstart-file for filenames and I stumbled over a 'devs:system-configuration'. But none of the prefs programs change the ( old Wb 1.3 ??? ) devs:system-configuration file. So, what magic must I do to my Amy to do the trick? Ciao Henning --- ONLY /// Real: Henning Schmiedehausen | Logik? Logik und Berechen- __ /// INT: hgschmie@immd4.uni-erlangen.de | barkeit? Was ist das? \\\/// UUCP: henning@castle.erh.sub.org | Kann man das essen? \XX/ AMIGA 3000 / 1510 -- UUCP 1.12D | Welcome to A3000. Welcome to machine.
darrell@comspec.uucp (Darrell Grainger) (06/22/91)
In article <1991Jun19.132820.19300@informatik.uni-erlangen.de> hgschmie@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Henning Schmiedehausen) writes: >Hi, everyone! > >Most important first: I use an A3000 with Kick 37.175, WB 37.48 > >I want my system to boot up with an standard NTSC Hires Interlace >Display, but even if I set this with the prefs/Screenmode and the ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >prefs/Overscan program, the machine boots up with an 640x256 PAL ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Just packed our demo 3000 for sale (getting an A3000UX-D!) so I cannot test this to be sure but... there is a program prefs/Workbenchscreen (or something like that). Try setting your screen resolution in there. >display, and only after starting the iprefs program, the machine >switches to the wanted resolution (AFTER closing the CLI, of >course). So my question is: How can I tell my Amy to boot with >NTSC 640x400 resolution? > Ciao > Henning -- Darrell Grainger % Comspec Communications Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada darrell@comspec % Disclaimer: All opinions expressed are my own. (416) 617-1475 % (416) 633-5605 (416)785-3553
drtiller@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Donald Richard Tillery Jr) (06/25/91)
2.0 doesn't open up the actual screen during boot-up until it absolutely has to. If you have commands in your startup-sequence that must (or could potentially) send output to the CLI, it is opened at that time. If this is before the iprefs command, you get the stock size (640x200|256|400|512) until iprefs is run. Then the CLI is opened so iprefs must wait for it to close to change the screen (why I don't know, CLIs and Shells can be sized and have the text autoroute, I don't know why they couldn't do that same thing after the screen was re-sized). Just make sure that any command you have in your startup-sequence that could send output to the CLI before the iprefs call is re-directed to NIL: (i.e. cpu >nil: nofastrom burst cache) and the CLI won't be opened until the screen size is what you desire. Rick Tillery (drtiller@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu)