On Tue, 4 May 1999, Matthew Thyer wrote:
> My usermode ppp works fine normally as I can quite happily download
> 4 things at once without a single silo overflow (as I did last night)
> even when there is lots of disk activity or X11 activity.
>
> Note this problem is unrelated to newbus as it occurs both before and
> after those commits.
Doesn't X turn off interrupts? A lot? ESPECIALLY in things like the DGA
code (which you're probably using with xmame, aren't you?)? Hope I'm thinking
on the right track... ;)
>
> Matthew Thyer wrote:
> >
> > This problem is easily reproducible.
> >
> > However to do so, you need a ROM image for an arcade game that the
> > Multi Arcade Machine Emulator emulates as it wont do it without any
> > roms in the directory "/usr/local/lib/mame/roms".
> >
> > I am using xmame installed from the ports collection
> > (/usr/ports/emulators/xmame) on a very recent -CURRENT machine.
> >
> > If I run xmame *before* I get online with user mode ppp (or while
> > I am on the net), the serial ports get hosed and I have to reboot
> > or I continually get silo overflows.
> >
> > This is not right as it happens AFTER I exit xmame !!!
> >
> > Please can someone else reproduce this problem as I'd hate to think
> > its only on the systems I have owned (Pentium 166 and Celeron 300).
> >
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