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Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 06:20:36
From: "Joseph Morris" <b52g AT usa DOT net>
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: EDIT (and something bad.. but what?)
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>>>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.

>providing stats of who I know that HAS a CL card so that we could
>measure the extent of incompatibility.  I *WAS NOT* saying that
>ALL Cirrus boards work.  Please get it straight - there is no
>argument here.  To solve whatever problem it is, you need
>feedback, both from people who have something working, AND those
>that don't.  In this case, I'm providing the feedback of what IS
>working.

>Works on: 5430, 5434, 5426, 5436 (peoples cards that I've seen it
>working on.  Mine is a 5430.
              
>>> 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.)

>>> Both these apparently fail.
>
>Well, I've got a friend with a 5436 that it works on.

??? How can this be?

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. 

I must admit I have not tried OD on the other machine since the 5436
was removed.

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

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.