Re: [MiNT] FreeMiNT 1.15.1

[Odd Skancke <oskancke@online.no>]

 Hi, all

On 13 May 1999, Ronald J. Hall wrote:

> On Thu, 13 May 1999 17:15:04 +0300 (EEST), Martin-Eric Racine wrote:
> 
> ->On 13 May 1999, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> ->
> ->[nothing, since it was a part of the header...  well, here it was]
> 
>   Well, I was afraid of that, and I apologise. aMail retrieved it while
>   I was online, and it was blank here too...I thought I put that extra
>   line in it, as we previously discussed but perhaps I didn't. (I worked
>   12 hours last night-need sleep-good excuse?) ;-)
> 
> ->I've seen that happen before, on some previous 1.15.1 betas.
> ->
> ->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.
> ->
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> 
>   Hmm...I guess this makes sense though, in a way. Doesn't Frank do
>   his coding on a Milan? (which would have a graphics board instead
>   of TOS routines?)
>   

 Correct me if I'm wrong, but to effectively use the Milan, one uses the
TOS's drivers for the S3 card, and only use NVDI "ontop" of those? I.e.,
you disable NVDI's own VDI drivers, the nvdidrv*.sys files in the gemsys
folder. Right?




 Odd Skancke - ozk@atari.org