Re: [MiNT] MiNT and CTPCI/Radeon 9250

["Jo Even Skarstein" <joska@online.no>]

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From: "Lars Schmidbauer" <latzmaster@gmx.de>
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 5:59 PM
To: <mint@fishpool.com>
Subject: Re: [MiNT] MiNT and CTPCI/Radeon 9250

> fvdi is started from mint.cnf, like described on 
> atariforge.org/ctpci/wiki.

Ok, so only fVDI, no NVDI, right? This won't work with the Eclipse, but 
don't pay too much attention to that. It could be worth a try. Also, try 
starting fVDI before MiNT.

> I must say that i don't like this very much, it's a bit confusing: 
> NVDI+fvdi... what is set
> in which sys-file (assign.sys, fvdi.sys) then?

As Johan said, with NVDI started after fVDI, NVDI will use fVDI as some sort 
of graphics card driver. I have not been able to get XaAES to work with fVDI 
alone with the Rage-driver (with the Eclipse), it needs NVDI. However, I 
think that must be due to the Rage-driver, as XaAES work just fine with fVDI 
alone on Aranym.

Also, N.AES works perfectly fine with just fVDI on the Eclipse, it's 
probably XaAES that use some NVDI-feature that doesn't work properly with 
fVDI+Rage.

> One more: While booting MiNT, i get a warning now "Warning: PMMU already 
> in use!"
> What's this?

Just a guess, but perhaps the Radeon-driver use the MMU to remap the video 
RAM. The Eclipse/Rage-driver does this as well, which probably is why 
Eclipse + memory protection isn't such a good combination.

Jo Even