Re: [MiNT] FreeMiNT 1.15.1

[joska@nuts.edu (Jo Even Skarstein)]

On 18 May 99 15:19:34 +0000, Jo Even Skarstein wrote:

> With only mintnt.prg in the autofolder, no active accessories, no mint.cnf
> and no XDDs or XFS' it crash with a bus-error just as it's supposed to
> start the AES.
>
> With a very minimal mint.cnf (only one line, 'GEM=c:\n_aes\n_aes030.sys')
> I get a very strange error: Just when it's loading/parsing mint.cnf it enters
> a endless loop and outputs a lot of gurba. It looks something like this:

The burba is now gone (!), now it behaves the same with or without mint.cnf
present. Here's the output as it appears with the precompiled kernel:

(Greeting)

ST-ESCC extension detected
Memory protection disabled
Initializing core memory
3782774 bytes of ST RAM, 33186688 bytes of Fast RAM found


This system features XHDI level 1.30

FAT/VFAT/FAT32 filesystem version 1.13
½ May 7 1999 by Frank Naumann

Reading '\multitos\mint.cnf' ... 2652 bytes done

pid 1 (GEM): BUS ERROR: User PC=0, Address: 102BAB6 (basepage=10839C0, text=1)
exit code: 2560
leaving MiNT

Unless I press down the CONTROL-key my TT will now crash, but this is "normal"
when using HD-Driver 7.12 (2.06 and 3.06 crash when it tries to load newdesk.inf).

I wonder why MiNT detects an ESCC in my TT? Could this be (a part of) the problem?

With SOCKDEV.XDD installed I get the following messages in addition to the above:

MiNT-Net 1.0 PL 1, beta
(w) 1993-96, Kay Roemer

Loading interfaces:
pid   2 (sld): BUS ERROR: User PC=0, Address: 11A82AA (basepage=52940, text=122)
SLIP v0.5, 4 channels
PPP  v0.5, 4 channels
PLIP v0.7, one channel

MiNT will now simply halt after displaying the "Reading mint.cnf..."-message, I get
no error-messages, exit code or anything. I can't reset the TT, not even the reset-
button works (I get a black screen with sync-problems) and I have to switch it off
and on.
 
> My TT has the following configuration:
> 
> TOS 3.06

Forgot to mention that this is the swedish version.

> 4Mb ST-RAM, 32Mb TT-RAM (aixTT with one 32Mb SIMM).
> HD-Driver 7.12
> 
> (I don't think these matters)
> NVDI 4.12r??
> N.AES 1.1.7
  ^^^^^^^^^^^
It *could* be that MiNT crash when it tries to launch this, but since I have the
exact same problems without mint.cnf as well I really don't think so. Perhaps
there is a problem when it tries to start *any* AES? 

I will continue to test this version on my TT and post my results here, hopefully
somebody will be able to figure out what's wrong.


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