On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 12:20 +0100, Dennis van der Burg wrote: > Hello, > > A few days ago I tried out the latest MiNT/XaAES snapshot 1.16.3a with > TeraDesk3.70 on my TT030 with 4MB ST-RAM, and I was able to boot just > fine, leaving about 1.5MB memory free. > > This made me try FreeMiNT1.16.x/XaAES on a MegaST4 (before, I gave up > trying because I thought 4MB RAM was not enough). Wouldn't it be great > to see the speed improvements of kernel-module-XaAES on a machine that > most needs it ;) I did use the mint000.prg/xaaes000.km, had no other > programs in the auto-folder besides mint, no ACC's and no XFS/XDD > loaded. I had put Debug/trace level to 3. > Below my experiences. > > (a) 1.16.3a snapshot from 31-12-2005 (http://xaaes.atariforge.net) > > The startup of FreeMiNT appears to be OK, but as soon as the part > 'Reading mint.cnf ... done' should have come up, the system freezes > with 11 bombs. Needless to say, that also stopped me from testing the > accompanying XaAES. > > (b) 1.16.1 official (11 oct 2004) > > The startup of FreeMiNT goes OK, after which XaAES is started (with > xaeloader.prg from within the mint.cnf), which seems to go OK initally, > but then I end up with a blank screen saying 'press any key to continue > ...'. Doing that gives me a blinking cursor in the left upper screen, > after which the system reboots. > I have included a piece from the xaaes.log below. > > ---- snip ---- > Screenmode is: 1 > Physical work station opened: 1 > v_exit_cur ok! > v_opnvwk failed (0)! > k_init failed! > press any key to continue ... > Cleaning up ready to exit ... > > ---- snip ---- > > If I start NVDI4 before MiNT, XaAES (AESSYS) gives a bus-error just > after "Screenmode is: 1", and the text "pid0 (): assert > (`curproc->stack_magic == STACVK_MAGIC') failed at line 505 of > ../sig_mach.c." appears. > > best regards, > Dennis Hrmm.. Excellent excuse to power on my Mega STe :-P Mark
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