I am experiencing some very odd bugs with QNX6, I have re-installed
numerous times already, and if I have to do it again I’m going to lose
my mind, but so be it.
For some reason I can’t seem to see anything in Voyager or the Help
program, I am assuming it’s one problem as they both seem to use the
same library/dll/whatever to show webpages or help files.
Essentially both or them just aren’t drawing to the area of the screen
that is showing the document. If I drag something over that area then
remove it the window retains what was there. The same sort of thing that
happens in any windowing OS when the processor or vga card is overloaded
and hasn’t had the time to redraw. Can anyone explain why this is?
Chris Nasr
cnasr[at]mechtronix[dot]ca
Mechtronix Systems Inc.
Ok, purely by luck I figured out what is happening, but I can’t fathom
why it’s happening. I have setup Photon with two video cards (two ATI
Rage 98 PCI cards) running the same driver, with the same settings, but
for some reason the library or whatever that draws the document only
works in one of them, and not even the main window, but only in the
second window. I realise that QNX doesn’t officially support having to
video cards in Photon, but does anyone have any idea why this might be
happening?
Chris Nasr
cnasr[at]mechtronix[dot]ca
Mechtronix Systems Inc.
Chris Nasr wrote:
I am experiencing some very odd bugs with QNX6, I have re-installed
numerous times already, and if I have to do it again I’m going to lose
my mind, but so be it.
For some reason I can’t seem to see anything in Voyager or the Help
program, I am assuming it’s one problem as they both seem to use the
same library/dll/whatever to show webpages or help files.
Essentially both or them just aren’t drawing to the area of the screen
that is showing the document. If I drag something over that area then
remove it the window retains what was there. The same sort of thing that
happens in any windowing OS when the processor or vga card is overloaded
and hasn’t had the time to redraw. Can anyone explain why this is?
Chris Nasr
cnasr[at]mechtronix[dot]ca
Mechtronix Systems Inc.
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Ok, purely by luck I figured out what is happening, but I can’t fathom
why it’s happening. I have setup Photon with two video cards (two ATI
Rage 98 PCI cards) running the same driver, with the same settings, but
for some reason the library or whatever that draws the document only
works in one of them, and not even the main window, but only in the
second window. I realise that QNX doesn’t officially support having to
video cards in Photon, but does anyone have any idea why this might be
happening?
Some Photon apps are directly writing in video memory
(PtOSContainer widget for example). The library isn’t smart
enough to deal with more then one video card, any application
drawing on the second video card will have their PtOSContainer
type of object display in the video ram of the first card.
There is a work around; start two independant photon sessions.
However I don’t know how you can have the mouse/keyboard
assign to both photon sessions, I don’t think you can. You
can still have the second monitor display info or play video 
Chris Nasr
cnasr[at]mechtronix[dot]ca
Mechtronix Systems Inc.
Chris Nasr wrote:
I am experiencing some very odd bugs with QNX6, I have re-installed
numerous times already, and if I have to do it again I’m going to lose
my mind, but so be it.
For some reason I can’t seem to see anything in Voyager or the Help
program, I am assuming it’s one problem as they both seem to use the
same library/dll/whatever to show webpages or help files.
Essentially both or them just aren’t drawing to the area of the screen
that is showing the document. If I drag something over that area then
remove it the window retains what was there. The same sort of thing that
happens in any windowing OS when the processor or vga card is overloaded
and hasn’t had the time to redraw. Can anyone explain why this is?
Chris Nasr
cnasr[at]mechtronix[dot]ca
Mechtronix Systems Inc.