VA2000 Support Thread

[klx300r]

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[matt3k]

Originally Posted by xterc

Is there someone with one of these cards that can comment on performance, stability and support? I'm debating on purchasing a ZZ9000 and would like to understand the product before taking the plunge.

Has anyone recorded footage on the card on the latest firmware etc.?

The VA2000 is a very stable and nice card with the passthrough and HDMI. The author is great to work with and has been updating the firmware.

Performance is a relative thing, and the VA2000 is average for performance. Cards like the CV64 are faster than the VA2000. To my eye it is around Picasso II speeds.

[Mark sealey]

Aww its shame these are not available anymore ?

[daxb]

You can buy the new card at the moment.

[Mark sealey]

Originally Posted by daxb

You can buy the new card at the moment.

Ive seen that one....VA9000 ?

Dont think ir will work with a A500+ with zorro adapter(z-500).....? due to the Address space ?

I have a Retina v1.1 card that obly uses 256k of zorro II address space but that card does not have p96 support.

[Irl]

Just wanted to mention this..

I was fighting with the VA2000CX tool to get rid of flickering and decided to see what would happen with '512' as a value and it worked perfectly. I know the instructions say a number between -256 and 256, so I would assume this just wraps the variable over and would end up '0'. Oddly, zero does not work for me and nothing I have tried in the specified range seems to help, either. Only issue I have is that the tool takes about 45 seconds to complete the command, but it was also taking nearly this long with 256 as a value.

[klx300r]

Originally Posted by Irl

Just wanted to mention this..

I was fighting with the VA2000CX tool to get rid of flickering and decided to see what would happen with '512' as a value and it worked perfectly. I know the instructions say a number between -256 and 256, so I would assume this just wraps the variable over and would end up '0'. Oddly, zero does not work for me and nothing I have tried in the specified range seems to help, either. Only issue I have is that the tool takes about 45 seconds to complete the command, but it was also taking nearly this long with 256 as a value.

can you please tell us which lines go where to get rid of the flickering? My A4000 is currently in pieces but would like to add this to get rid of the flickering artifacts once (& hopefully if) my A4000 MB etc survived a PSU issue

[klx300r]

Originally Posted by klx300r

can you please tell us which lines go where to get rid of the flickering? My A4000 is currently in pieces but would like to add this to get rid of the flickering artifacts once (& hopefully if) my A4000 MB etc survived a PSU issue

a little bump after thank goodness my A4000 is alive & kicking again with original PSU


so again a very simple step by step please ...which lines go where to get rid of the flickering issue with the VA2000CX tool

[SimonV]

Anyone has a settingsfile for 16:10 monitors ? I am trying to do one ( 1440*900 ) in Picasso96mode but that doesn't work out for me.

[klx300r]

Originally Posted by klx300r

a little bump after thank goodness my A4000 is alive & kicking again with original PSU!

so again a very simple step by step please ...which lines go where to get rid of the flickering issue with the VA2000CX tool

lol a long bump ALSO what is every ones experience with the4 onboard microSD card slot??? Is it still in 'experimental' stage?

[klx300r]

anyone know how to get a hold of Lucas nowadays as he doesn't seem to check in here that often anymore and not responding to emails from his web page?

[Jope]

IRC, Twitter seems to work.

Edit: I just asked on IRC and mntmn prefers IRC these days. If the question is quick and easy, Twitter also works.

The channel is #mnt-amiga on the Freenode network.

[klx300r]

@ Jope


thanks

[klx300r]

Originally Posted by Irl

Just wanted to mention this..

I was fighting with the VA2000CX tool to get rid of flickering and decided to see what would happen with '512' as a value and it worked perfectly. I know the instructions say a number between -256 and 256, so I would assume this just wraps the variable over and would end up '0'. Oddly, zero does not work for me and nothing I have tried in the specified range seems to help, either. Only issue I have is that the tool takes about 45 seconds to complete the command, but it was also taking nearly this long with 256 as a value.

ah ok so finally figured this out and yes it did help my flickering too


so to anyone else like me who is wondering how to activate the 'VA2000CX tool' just update top the latest firwmware on the MNT site then go to Shell and type 'va2000cx 512' and hit enter


after some seconds it will activae (once cursor shows back up in shell) then you can try scree(s) that were flickering to see if it help...if not then simply change the 512 number to any number between -255 to 255 and repeat above


once you find a value that works best you can put the command in your startup-sequence and voila all good

[Irl]

Originally Posted by klx300r

ah ok so finally figured this out and yes it did help my flickering too


so to anyone else like me who is wondering how to activate the 'VA2000CX tool' just update top the latest firwmware on the MNT site then go to Shell and type 'va2000cx 512' and hit enter


after some seconds it will activae (once cursor shows back up in shell) then you can try scree(s) that were flickering to see if it help...if not then simply change the 512 number to any number between -255 to 255 and repeat above


once you find a value that works best you can put the command in your startup-sequence and voila all good

Hey, I was away for a while. I am glad you got it working, sorry I didn't get you the other info you needed.