[Coco] nitros 3.2.6 windint+vdg problem?

[Willard Goosey]

>Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:15:43 -0400
>From: Robert Gault <robert.gault at worldnet.att.net>

>You haven't said what you are attempting. Do you want to boot with both cowin 
>and covdg into a vdg /term? 

That's the idea, but when it didn't work I tried other things.

>Do you want to boot into an 80 column /term but have access to vdg
>screens? 

I can't get that to work at all...

I spent about three hours last night fighting this.  Either my GIME's
failing or there's a bug in NitrOS.  

First, I always built boot disks from scratch, by editing standard.bl
and running the mb script.

So, I started with the bootlist of my regular windint boot, which
still has about 20K free in the system map.  vtio, cowin, w-w15, etc.
I edit the bootlist, add covdg.  The resulting bootdisk says
"Kern...[...] i2xo"  Then it crashes.  Sometimes it simply hangs,
sometimes I get sparklies, and once in while even a "boot failed"
message.

The lack of "i2xoC" means that Sysgo isn't running.  OK, sometimes
NitrOS is touchy about the Glenside IDE drivers.  So I built a new
boot disk, identical except that sysgo was added to the OS9Boot file.
Same responce: "i2xo" <crash!!!!>

Starting from the other direction, I can take the bootlist of my pure
vdg boot (vtio, covdg, term_vdg, v1-v7...) and add cowin and w-w7, and
it boots fine.  

Using this, I was able to check out your xmode thing
and yes, that does work.  Cool.

But, if I try to use one of the /wX windows as a windint window in any
way, by iniz-ing it or writing to it or running a shell on it, NitrOS
crashes.  It either hangs or clicks the cassette relay and goes to
sparklies.

As far as I can tell, covdg will not tolerate the use of cowin windows
in any way.

Does this work for anybody else?  Is my hardware flaking out?

Willard
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