Re: [MiNT] Daily freemint kernel builds

[Lars Schmidbauer <latzmaster@gmx.de>]

Hi,

>> -The "infinite key-repeat" bug (Eiffel) is still there, sometimes the
>>  keyboard simply stops working (no key is accepted).

> Can you describe this further? Is there a key-repeat, wrong characters or
> no key at all?

Most times the last pressed key is repeated; it occures for sure if a key
is hold for 3 or 4 seconds. It's very rare that no key is accepted, perhaps
then a keycode is repeated which is not used by Atari?

> Alan isolated the problem in the eiffel for sure...

@Alan: Did you??

> I'm sure this is an Eiffel bug. What version of Eiffel software do you
> use ?

I use Eiffel 1.10i software with PIC16F876, 4 MHz. But i tested an unreleased
pre-alpha of Eiffel 2.0 with PIC18F242 and 4MHz oscillator some time ago:
The key repeat bug occured with MagiC and TOS with that version, too (didn't
use MinT that time). This PIC multiplies osc-freq by 4 = 16 MHz...can the
bug be caused by a timing problem??

>> -Bash: When i open a shell in toswin2, a line
>>  "id: cannot find name for group ID 121" (various IDs) is displayed
>> before
>>  "user@host:/..." appears. In taskmanager i saw that this group id is
>> from BUBBLEGEM.

> In the toswin-window? If yes, I'm sure this not XaAES-related - id is a
> separate program.

Yes, but this never happened with MinT 1.16.3.

>> An open fileselector blocks my internet-radio stream (FalcAmp). Is this
>> a problem with MinT (XaAES) or FalcAmp?

> Does it block something else, so it can be reproduced on aranym for
> example?

Hmm, ftp-download (toswin2/bash) works fine with open fileselector (opened
with qed). HighWire stops loading a large website until i press 'Cancel' in
fileselector (again opened from qed). What else can i test?

>> Taskbar:
> If you have any other program with cascading popups, please try one and
> see if you can reproduce this problem.

Sorry, but i can't remember any software with cascading popups...any ideas?

Lars