Re: [MiNT] Memory protection on Afterburners

[Rodolphe Pineau <pineau@intalio.com>]

On Fri, 17 Aug 2001 13:25:15 +0200
Jo-Even.Skarstein@Vital.no wrote:


Hi all, I laso have an AB040 and I have the exact same problem with MP.



> I used to enable memory protection on my AB back when I was running
> 1.15.5
> and 1.15.6. With 1.15.10 and 1.15.12 this doesn't work anymore. This is
> what
> happens:
> 
> If I run a shell-script from mint.cnf (I set up MiNT-net, unpacks an
> archive
> and set some symlinks here) it will crash due to a memory violation. The
> boot-process continue though.
> 
> It's when it comes to load the desktop the real problem shows up. First
> the
> desktop (Thing 1.29b) crash, then N.Dialog and finally COPS. At this
> point
> everything halts. Each application crash due to a memory violation, PC
> is
> identical in each case. This also happens if I don't run anything from
> mint.cnf.
> 
> I've tried with various cache-modes (including all caches disabled),
> this
> doesn't make a difference. Disabling COPS and ST-Guide (the only accs
> I'm
> using) doesn't help either. I'm only loading the desktop and N.Dialog
> from
> n_aes.cnf. I haven't tried disabling these yet.
> 
> I used to think that there was a conflict with Johan Klockars modified
> AB-driver (modified to support PCIBIOS) and/or fVDI, but yesterday I
> reverted to a setup I know for sure used to work (original TKROMDRV and
> NVDI/Videl). This didn't make a difference.
> 
> Frank, I know that you have an Afterburner (or atleast used to have
> one),
> have you tested MP on this recently? If it works, what's the trick?
> 
> Jo Even Skarstein
> 
> 
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