Re: [MiNT] MiNT and CTPCI/Radeon 9250

[Lars Schmidbauer <latzmaster@gmx.de>]

Hi,

>>> There's a line of 4 flashing white pixels, 3.5 cm from top, horizontal
>>> distance between them ~9 cm.
>>> Sometimes all 4 are flashing at the same time, sometimes it's two by two
>>> or one by three.

>>> If i set 1280*1024*16@60 instead of 1280*1024*32@60, only two flashing pixels appear,
>>> They are bigger, but flashing the same way.
 
> Could this perhaps be a text cursor that, for whatever reason, is
> displayed (badly) even though the screen is supposed to be used by the
> AES?

> If you run NVDI on top of fVDI, the latter will be used as a kind of
> graphics driver. That is, NVDI will be in charge of all drawing,
> passing on primitives to fVDI. This means that any font setup done in
> fvdi.sys will be pointless, but anything to do with screen and fVDI
> configuration is still valid.

I tested some different setups now:

1. fvdi started from mint.cnf, no NVDI -> flashing cursor (pixels), display of ttf fonts wrong
2. fvdi in C:/auto before mint.prg, no NVDI -> same as 1.
3. fvdi before NVDI in C:/auto -> screen out of range (wrong res.)
   Perhaps a wrong entry in assign.sys, what must be set there?
4. NVDI before fvdi -> Display of boot-messages stops at "press q to skip fvdi", but boot-process
                       goes on, XaAES starts: NO flashing cursor! But display of ttf fonts is
                       still wrong with all apps i tested (only first word of a line is displayed,
                       TeraDesks fontselector don't show font-previews).

In all (working) cases, XaAES window context-menu hangs the system (need to reboot).
I don't know where these flashing cursors are coming from.
I hope that someone can fix this!

Lars