On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 22:13 -0600, josephus wrote: > Mark Duckworth wrote: > > 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 > > > I have a working mega4 with Rainbow Tos. I am currently running 1.15, > at least that is what mintvers returns. My mega4 is and has been running > all this time. I use it as a clock. > > I have trouble with the tools. I have never successfully established > minix fs. I had a megafile60. the tool ran, but when I looked at it the > original files were still there for TOS. I could not find anything with ls. > > ls works strangely on my system. I have 1.16 but it is still on the PC > in archive form. If someone wants me to test 68000 1.16 I can. > > josephus > > Did you install easymint or is this a KGMD conversion? Thanks, Mark
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