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Re: [MiNT] FreeMiNT1.16.x/XaAES on 68000-machine



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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