Mail Archives: opendos/1997/05/30/08:35:06
On Tue, 13 May 1997, Joseph Morris wrote:
> >>>Look, instead of arguing about this, let's try and do something
> >>> constructive.
> >>What??? Arguing??? You've read the thread TOTALLY wrong! I was
>
> Evidently I have, and I offer my apologies.
Ok, no problem. Sorry for the long delay in replying. My inbox
is really saturated but slowly coming back to normal.
> >>> If Gene is listening, perhaps he could tell us what the newui
> >>> does that might be unstable, so we could try some experiments
> >>> to isolate the problem.
>
> >Probably the video mode. Looks like it uses a funny scanline
> >mode or something.
> >
> >It is simple to disable the UI for now.
> >>> Mine is a 5436 PCI, that other fellow's was a 5440.
> (not a 5446 as I said earlier.)
My friends 5446 2meg works fine with newUI. He has an AMD
DX4-100 with nothing special. It was a cheap $55 card. Works
good though.
> >>> Both these apparently fail.
> >
> >Well, I've got a friend with a 5436 that it works on.
>
> ??? How can this be?
Beats me, because I've now seen both a 5436 and a 5446 that work
with NewUI and also I've seen the same models fail on other
machines. Keep in mind it wasn't the same card in a different
machine, but rather a different card in a different machine.
Very strange indeed. Different steppings? Different video bios?
Beats me!!! Very very strange. Then again, I've seen 2 Trident
8900 cards function differently before too. Must be some faulty
cards out there I guess and some non-faulty ones.
> Of two machines, OpenDOS crashed on one of them with a PCI CL5436.
> These machines were about as different as they could be.
> When the graphics cards were swapped, the other machine, now
> containing
> the 5436 crashed in the same way, each time NewUI programs run.
Hmmm...
> The specs of the two machines were:
>
> 150Mhz Intel Pentium
> Ancient Triton VX motherboard
> 32Mb RAM
> PCI CL5436 video card with 1MB of RAM
> Soundblaster AWE32
> 3.5 gig Maxtor EIDE disk and 1.6 gig Maxtor EIDE disk
> 28.8 Modem
> SCSI ZIP drive
> Win95
I don't have the full specs of the machines that I've seen UI
working on, but I doubt that it would make a difference, I think
that some of the chips are flawed.
> The other (now containing the 5436. On hand for experiments.):
>
> AMD K75
> Triton Spider motherboard
> 16MB RAM
> PCI ET6000 with 2.5 MB RAM
> Win95-slaying dual soundcard configuration:
> Jazz-16 soundcard for SB services and OPL3
> Wave Excel soundcard for MPU401 and WSS services.
> Two Seagate Disks, 540Mb each.
> Parallel ZIP drive
> OpenDOS (from DRDOS 6.01)
>
> Now, I doubt it is the ZIP drive because it would be dormant until
> the drivers are run, which won't happen on the OpenDOS setup disk.
> The Parallel ZIP disk will have even less presence, and the problem
> travelled _with_ the CL5436 anyway.
Yeah, again, I think it is that some of the cards out there are
faulty. Perhaps even a different stepping of the chips or
something.
Probably not hard to code around though.
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