Re: [MiNT] FreeMiNT 1.15.1

[joska@nuts.edu (Jo Even Skarstein)]

On Thu, 13 May 1999 17:15:04 +0300 (EEST), Martin-Eric Racine wrote:

> >from you does in fact work fine with my TT.  Like several other TT
> >users though, I can't use the latest kernels... it crashes at boot up, 
> >right before the login prompt, with a "pid xnumber page memory violation"
> >that (this is funny) continues to count UP!  and fill the screen...
> 
> I've seen that happen before, on some previous 1.15.1 betas.

It's happened on my Afterburner as well, and it looks like init tries to exec
a program that's killed because of memory violations. When this program is
killed, control is returned back to init (correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not
too familiar with the login-process), which tries to exec the same program
again. And again...

> It seems that most of the bugs don't appear on machines with their 
> own VDI imbeded into the graphic card drivers, in general.  Recent
> fixes involve bypassing TOS routines completely, which explain it.

There was a fix recently re. the kernel-stack and NVDI5. I don't know anything
about it, but could this possibly have affected previous NVDI-versions? I know
Martin-Eric is using NVDI 4.11 or 4.12.


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