From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Thu Jan 21 02:28:18 2010 Message-ID: <3D7B65704F274C9784A7AE5B71FACCD9@mercatus.local> From: "Jo Even Skarstein" To: "mint_list" References: In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [MiNT] Off topic nonsense Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:25:36 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8089.726 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8089.726 X-EsetScannerBuild: 6435 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: joska@online.no Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: -------------------------------------------------- From: "Jim DeClercq" Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 1:09 AM To: "mint_list" Subject: [MiNT] Off topic nonsense > Porthos is a sometimes handy converter of PDF into either a Calamus page > format, or TIFF. Repeatable bus errors with MiNT As others has pointed out, Porthos is not a particulary clean program. If you google a bit you will find lots of references to problems when running under MiNT. > 1.15.12, n_aes, NVDI 5.03 and either WDIALOG or N_DLG054. It may Running wdialog together with N.AES is a sure way to provoce bus-errors. > Can run plain tos to run Porthos, and reboot into MiNT to use it, but > there must be a better way. Do you have a debug-version of MiNT and XaAES available? Then you could post the error messages you get when it crash. Also, enabling memory protection (if you've not done it already) could catch many errors before they turn into a bus-error. Jo Even __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4791 (20100120) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com