#44 Serial buggy on Linux
I have tested extensively BasiliskII and BasiliskII-
JIT, both under Windows and Linux (see at the end the
configuration used for testing). I find this emulator
really amazing all in all.
Anyway, it looks the windows version is much better: I
did not have a single crash or hang using Windows 2000
as host system for BasiliskII, and the serial port
works great (alongside with ethernet, CDs etc.).
On the other hand, the Linux version looks having some
problems. I have installed the Mandrake RPMs, because
if I compile it from source, the compilation would be
successful but it would not even start (segfault).
Anyway, when running it under Linux is much slower
than the Windows counterpart (even with 586
optimizations and JIT !), and it happened to me often
that it either hanged or crashed. Moreover under Linux
the serial port control looks broken - using the same
Mac HD on the same machine, under Windows FREEMIDI
would correctly recognize the serial ports as Standard
ports, while using Linux as host system and doing the
same thing (FREEMIDI serial ports scan) will just
freeze the system.
These problems happen on Linux with both II and II-JIT.
Anybody has ideas / hints for a better Linux port ?!??
Daniele
Configuration used for testing:
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- Pentium III 700 MHz with 256 Mb
- Mandrake 8.2 / Windows 2000
- Basilisk 9.3 / JIT 1.0
- MAC OS 8.1, PERFORMA 630 (64 Mb assigned)
- Freemidi 1.35
- Fullscreen (DGA with no fb for Linux)
Results:
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Linux Windows
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Speed average fast !!
serials recognized, but work great
broken
CD works works great
net works (slow) works
issues random crash none
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