From fnaumann@mail.cs.uni-magdeburg.de Thu Jul 22 16:52:00 2004 Subject: [MiNT] Beta Kernel Report From: Mark Duckworth To: Mint List Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Atari-source.com Message-Id: <1090506782.15471.6.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 10:33:02 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p7 (Debian) at fishpool.fi Delivered-To: mint@fishpool.com Delivered-To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: mduckworth@atari-source.com Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-ID: X-List-ID: X-Milter: ClamAV 0.70/0.70kjel X-Milter: ClamAV 0.70/0.70kjel Hello guys, I plan to enter relevant things into the bug tracker, but I have a couple things to report about 1.16b. Firstly, this kernel and the most recent that I tested from CVS (probably mid June sometime) has been far less stable than prior 1.16b releases that could run for weeks. I'll have to compile an older kernel to make these tests but.... I have a falc with ct60 @ 92.5MHz and 25MHz bus. I run 640x480x256cols. Writing to a scsi disk I get bio_writeout: RWABS fail very often (usually when attempting to do anything else), but I realize this is most likely a problem with the scsi bus more than mint. I have the keyboard issue on bootup. No way to work with fsck. That's not good. When I say that the recent kernels are far less stable, here is some examples. I could say web browse, use irc, play mp3s and compile freemint all at the same time without a problem. Now I had only bash loaded (INIT=u:/bin/bash), and cp -a * (from some disk) to /another disk caused a memory violation 3 times. I know you asked Mikro to downclock is falcon but understand I *know* my falcon is stable. I will reduce the clock for your reassurance but I think it's likely something's not quite right. Also, Xaaes bombs out after changing the rez. I can't get anything remotely recent running. I tried video=27 and no video line in the conf. It says illegal instruction I think. Lastly, you can't have progress without introducing bugs. Thanks guys for your work. Thanks, Mark