Keyboard entry

#1

Hi folks

i am a new messiah studio workstation user
and one thing is a great bother for me!

all fields where you can type in something with your keyboard, such as names or degrees,
ar disabled. or they seem so.
i can not click in the fields, very annoying!
i searched a lot but i could not find any solution.

ps: this is my first post and excuse my bad engliSCh :wink:

#2

I am a New Work Station user myself and had a problem where I would highlight the text in a field and when I attempted to type something the field would become deselected. I also had trouble selecting the text in a field or an item on a menu. I noticed that the mouse pointer appeared to become very sensitive (jumpy), like it could not maintain focus. I changed the mouse from a USB to a PS2 mouse and it fix everything. Who knows maybe you are having a similiar problem.

Good luck and hope this helps.

#3

Did not solve the problem.
the cursor ā€œjumps outā€ of die fields if i click in. i also cant see any numbers by increasing or decreasing by the arrows beside them. i also reinstalled messiah but it did nothing :frowning:

#4

If the entries in the text input field are invisible, it might be related to your graphics card, messiah is a bit picky about that. Known trouble makers are the ATI cards and the nVidia Geforce 5200. If you can give us your system specs someone can give you further advice.

#5

allright, this is really an ATI problem. if i disable the hw-acceleration it works!
i am using a 9800xt
i tried the omega(4.12) and original(4.12) drivers but the problem did not disappear.

#6

There are some posts here about problems with the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (donā€™t know how much it differs from 9800 XT). The two suggestions I could find were:

  1. Use the Catalyst 4.3 drivers

or

  1. Set the card to force 16 bit z-buffer.

Hope that helps.

#7

Re: Suricate, forcing 16 bit z buffers worked for me. Also, depending on your ethical standards, you can softmod a 9800 series to a FireGl X2.

#8

problem solved, thanks. i am using radlinker to only force 16bit zbuffer on messiah now :slight_smile:

which advantages (or disadvantages) will i get from this?
any link?

#9

The Fire GL series is ATIā€™s workstation line of cards. The problem is that they are the exact same cards as the MUCH cheaper Radeon series. The difference? Price.

http://www.rojakpot.com/default.aspx?location=3&var1=105&var2=0

#10

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