From fnaumann@mail.cs.uni-magdeburg.de Thu Sep 2 10:59:06 2004 Message-ID: <4136DED9.2060704@atari-source.com> Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 04:50:33 -0400 From: Mark Duckworth User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040803) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mint@fishpool.com Subject: Re: [MiNT] FreeMiNT 1.16 - have you all switched yet? References: <1094110987.1833.7.camel@joy.sophics> <20040902081229.GA7341@hysteria.sk> In-Reply-To: <20040902081229.GA7341@hysteria.sk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: milter-regex 1.5jel X-Milter: ClamAV 0.70/0.70kjel X-Milter: milter-regex 1.5jel mikro wrote: >>how many of you haven't switched to 1.16 yet? Can Frank declare the 1.16 >>as mainline now and 1.15.12 as old and unsupported? I have installed it >>on several ARAnyMs and also on my AfterBurner040 and it seems to work >>OK. There are of course known bugs so it might be better to release >>1.16.x that would fix the known bugs and then ask again if somebody >>haven't switched yet and why.. >> >> >> >i've had a some problems that are fixed now, but there are two things that >doesn't make my life easier: >1. cd rom support. extendos .xfs doesn't work under 1.16.x and i'm not sure >about spin, i think there were some problems, too. what do you use? > > > Spin works great for me - with all the normal CT60 caveats. >2. keyboard handling. i remember draco did some changes and since that i'm >not able to get correct working keys like control (try aniplayer + >control+arrow - it does nothing) or alt (try devpac alt+a for example), caps lock >does always "click" even when i disable "clicking" of the keys (in clocky:) >This happens on 1.16.1 kernels. and on 1.16.0 there's that thing with >"disabled" keyboard during the boot. > > > This is interesting. Haven't noticed any of these symptoms yet, but I haven't done anything that would cause them to appear. >except this, i haven't any reason to stay on 1.15.12, i even stopped to use >n_aes ;) > > > Indeed, I need to check out the latest version of Xaaes.km. I think I saw that ozk fixed that root window overdrawing the menu bug. That was the last thing that really ticked me off ;-) Now we just need non-proportional fonts as system font and I'll be quite pleased ;-) Mark