Re: [ES40-developers] New Threading stuff

[Fausto S. <fa...@un...>]

Hello all,

with the latest CVS, the win32 gui doesn't work for me... the emulator  
crashes before to display the graphic window.
With SDL I have same problem you got.

regards,
fausto

Quoting "Hittner, David T." <dav...@ng...>:

> Well, at least there is a workaround - use the win32 gui instead of the
> SDL gui.
>
> Using the win32 gui *does* work - it's just that the win32 gui seems to
> have even more problems
> with failure to erase scrolled characters than the SDL gui does, and
> seems to "lock up"
> more frequently as well.  :-(
>
> Thanks!
> Dave
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Camiel Vanderhoeven [mailto:iam...@gm...]
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 2:01 PM
>> To: Hittner, David T.
>> Cc: ES40 Developer Discussions
>> Subject: Re: New Threading stuff
>>
>> This is very strange...
>>
>> The call to SDL_SetVideoMode() in
>> bx_sdl_gui_c::dimension_update() never returns, which means
>> that the Cirrus' thread blocks the GUI lock. This lock in
>> turn blocks the CPU thread once it starts initializing the
>> graphics controller...
>>
>> This does not happen when using the win32 gui, only with SDL,
>> which explains why I haven't caught it (although - of course
>> - I really should have).
>>
>> I have no idea at this point what could cause this.
>>
>>  Camiel.
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Camiel Vanderhoeven
>> <iam...@gm...> wrote:
>> > Hi David,
>> >
>> >
>> >  On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 6:32 PM, Hittner, David T.
>> <dav...@ng...> wrote:
>> >  > I downloaded the new threaded CVS, downloaded POCO, and
>> built it  >
>> > (Release-Shared).
>> >  >  I did not delete any rom files or change my ES40.cfg file.
>> >  >  I then copied PocoFoundation.dll to my ES40 bin
>> directory, where
>> > SDL.dll  >  is.
>> >  >
>> >  >  When I run ES40, this is what I see in the console, and it just
>> > hangs  >  there;  >  the SDL console never initializes.  What am I
>> > doing wrong?
>> >
>> >  I don't think you're doing anything wrong, I just tried
>> it, and it
>> > gets into a kind of deadlock on the VGA initialization. CPU
>> usage of
>> > the emulator drops to zero... I need to look into this.
>> >
>> >  Camiel.
>> >
>>
>
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