EMU68 RTG Woes.

[Watson]

Hey guys! o/

Finally had the time to setup the RPI CM4, PStorm32Lite, CM4 board and I/O boards I bought but, i'm having an issue with setting up Picasso96 old version from aminet.

I followed these guides:

SD card preparation​

SD card preparation

M68K emulation for AArch64/AArch32

michalsc.github.io

Setting up P96​

Setting up P96

M68K emulation for AArch64/AArch32

michalsc.github.io

The whole process went fine up until this next step;

Quote:
"Now it is the right moment to reboot your machine. So far nothing will change yet, you will just go to the workbench on a regular PAL (or NTSC) screen. Go to your Prefs folder on Workbench partition and open Picasso96Mode. It is rather empty so it has to be populated now. First, create new setting by dragging “New Item” icon to Settings area of the window. Drop it there" Un-Quote.

After rebooting I have a blank screen on the Amiga's RGB, which I don't quite understand becuase Just installing P96 does nothing, right?. You need to create the monitor file, point it to the vc4 file, setup the modes and attach them to the vc4, then finally select one of the modes as the screenmode for the Workbench. Unless you do all those steps, no switch from RGB to HDMI will ever happen.

Note. The screen attached to the HDMI I/O displays the grey emu68 pistorm screen, which is normal at this stage.
Also note. If I uninstall Picasso and reboot the Amiga the Amiga RGB displays the workbench. so i assume this is Picasso related?

This is not rocket science, it's pretty basic stuff, so what the hell is going on here. could it be the Picasso96 version, the emu68-vc4 / videocore files or my monitors, or worst case, one of the boards ? :-/

Any ideas?

 

[Boing-ball]

Okay. Have had this sort of thing happen to me when setting up Mediator RTG cards (Voodoo 3 and Radeon).
It’s one of those things with V2 P96 traits.

When you installed P96, did you re-run setup again then choose “Monitor” then select the corresponding hz frequency your monitor can support?

Also under devs monitors you have the correct .card that’s in libs/picasso96 selected?

For mediator setup and Voodoo or Radeon, you had to for V2 P96 choose the Cybervision 64/3D, let that be installed. Install the RTG card driver into libs/picasso96 then rename the monitors tooltype from cybervision64/3D to the name of the RTG you are actually using.

Another thing to try is after installing Picasso96, don’t reboot but go to devs/monitors double click the new monitor file then open P96mode and try attaching the RTG card then setup your modes, then save and reboot.

 

[Watson]

under devs monitors you have the correct .card that’s in libs/picasso96 selected?

Yes. In the guide they use PicassioIV, so I went with that.

Quoted from the guide.

"It is important to select at least one graphics card to install. If you don’t P96 installer will not create the necessary file in DEVS:Monitors. In my case I have selected PicassoIV, but any card should be just fine."

The setup for EMU68 RTG is a little different from that of a setup on real hardware. And I have not seen a guide for the whole install of Picasso. The guide i mentioned above kind of leaves you hanging.

When you installed P96, did you re-run setup again then choose “Monitor” then select the corresponding hz frequency your monitor can support?

No I did not. 1) becuase that's not part of the guide and 2) after reboot the screen was blank. And booting with no startup sequence gets me to the screen attached below. The only way back is to unistall Picasso in WinUAE.

 

[fitzsteve]

AFAIK you shouldn't need to setup individual modes with Emu68, it's like WinUAE in an much as all the VESA modes should be present as long as you have the monitor and prefs files. It's a while since I setup my PiStorm but I'm pretty sure I didn't need to create any modes.

 

[Watson]

AFAIK you shouldn't need to setup individual modes with Emu68, it's like WinUAE in an much as all the VESA modes should be present as long as you have the monitor and prefs files. It's a while since I setup my PiStorm but I'm pretty sure I didn't need to create any modes.

You've lost me there, Steve. From the guide I mentioned above, after installing Picassio, you need to add the emu68-vc4.card to the LIBS : Picasso96 drawer. Then go to Devs/Monitors and change the icon info board type to Emu68-VC4.

You are welcome to educate me with your method

 

[Boing-ball]

@Watson

try this V2 P96 I use for Mediator setups.

 

[Watson]

Thanks @Boing-ball. I will give it go

 

[Watson]

Update: So, after a few more attempts and still no changes, as a last ditch attempt, I decided to try the "new" videocore.card file rather than the emu68-vc4.card. And just like that, it worked!!!

 

[fitzsteve]

Ah, the process probably changed and the guide wasn't updated. Glad you got it going