On Sunday, July 1, 2018 at 7:07 PM, James Laferriere wrote:
> Hello All , Found the entry in the .ini file that was causing the
> problem
> ...
>
> SET CPU MODEL=VAXStation
>
> I'll try tomorrow
>
> SET QVSS ENABLE
>
> To see if there is a difference .
There won't be a difference. These are effectively equivalent. Statements.
When asking for help it is most valuable for you to provide the configuration
file which you are using that creates the problem. Merely displaying what the
simulator looks like after the problem has occurred is not sufficient input.
Meanwhile, you can invoke a configuration file from the "sim>" prompt with the
-v switch (sim> do -v config-file.ini) which will display each command as it is
processed and if there are errors the specific command(s) which produced the
errors will be more obvious. If you're using the default configuration file
name (i.e. simulator-name.ini), then you can invoke the simulator with the -V
switch which will display the default file as it is being processed (i.e. vax
-V).
Meanwhile, back to your problem. I installed Slackware 14.2, upgraded
EVERYTHING and installed SDL2 and ultimately got a clean vax simulator build
after upgrading everything again. Once I got a clean build, I was able to:
MicroVAX 3900 simulator V4.0-0 Currentgit commit id: 8c0439fe
sim> set cpu model=vaxstation
QVSS Display Created. Uncaptured Input Mode
sim> set qvss enable
sim> show version
VAXStation 3900 (KA655) simulator V4.0-0 Current
Simulator Framework Capabilities:
64b data
64b addresses
Threaded Ethernet Packet transports:PCAP:TAP:NAT:UDP
Idle/Throttling support is available
Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) support
RAW disk and CD/DVD ROM support
Asynchronous I/O support (Lock free asynchronous event queue)
Asynchronous Clock support
FrontPanel API Version 12
Host Platform:
Compiler: GCC 5.3.0
Simulator Compiled as C arch: x64 (Release Build) on Jul 2
2018 at 03:39:26
Memory Access: Little Endian
Memory Pointer Size: 64 bits
Large File (>2GB) support
SDL Video support: SDL Version 2.0.8
PCRE RegEx (Version 8.39 2016-06-14) support for EXPECT commands
OS clock resolution: 1ms
Time taken by msleep(1): 1ms
OS: Linux slackware-14 4.4.14 #2 SMP Fri Jun 24 13:38:27 CDT
2016 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
git commit id: 8c0439fe
git commit time: 2018-06-24T03:21:22-0700
sim>
The SET CPU MODEL=VAXSTATION command created the video window as expected.
You are not working with the latest simh code. Please pick up the latest code
from the master branch at https://github.com/simh/simh If your problem
persists, please create an issue at https://github.com/simh/simh/issues to
further track this to ground.
FYI, the build on my test slackware environment looks like:
bash-4.3# make vax
lib paths are: /lib64/ /usr/lib64/ /usr/lib64/seamonkey/
include paths are: /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-slackware-linux/5.3.0/include
/usr/local/include /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-slackware-linux/5.3.0/include-fixed
/usr/include
using libm: /usr/lib64/libm.so
using librt: /usr/lib64/librt.so
using libpthread: /usr/lib64/libpthread.so /usr/include/pthread.h
using libpcreposix: /usr/lib64/libpcreposix.so /usr/lib64/libpcre.so
/usr/include/pcreposix.h /usr/include/pcre.h
using semaphore: /usr/include/semaphore.h
using libdl: /usr/lib64/libdl.so /usr/include/dlfcn.h
using libpng: /usr/lib64/libpng.so /usr/include/png.h
using mman: /usr/include/sys/mman.h
using libSDL2: /usr/include/SDL2/SDL.h
using libpcap: /usr/include/pcap.h
*** Info ***
*** Info *** vax Simulator are being built with
*** Info *** minimal libpcap networking support
*** Info ***
*** Info ***
*** Info *** Simulators on your Linux platform can also be built with
*** Info *** extended LAN Ethernet networking support by using VDE
Ethernet.
*** Info ***
*** Info *** To build simulator(s) with extended networking support you
*** Info *** should read 0readme_ethernet.txt and follow the
instructions
*** Info *** regarding the needed libvdeplug components for your Linux
*** Info *** platform
*** Info ***
***
*** vax Simulator being built with:
*** - compiler optimizations and no debugging support. GCC Version:
5.3.0.
*** - dynamic networking support using Linux provided libpcap
components.
*** - Local LAN packet
