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From: jac@muslix.llnl.gov (James Crotinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: What the hell is this?
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Date: 29 Sep 89 16:28:26 GMT
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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