AROS ABIv0 20190416 Development

[deadwood]

Freetype library needs quite a lot of stack for some fonts. I fixed some of those problems some time ago, not sure if this is already in your branch.

Yes, your fix is already included. What is happening looks like a memory override somewhere. I'm worries that some public structure might have changed size for example between two freetype versions and now memory gets overwritten.

Well the good/bad news is that cleanly built AROSPDF for x86_64 also crashes on these pdf files. So the source of the problem seems not to be breaking of compatibility by freetype, but some sort of other bug.

What do you mean by "lots" of stack? I gave AROSPDF 50MB stack and it still crashed. What sizes of stack were needed in your case to overcome the crash (prior to your fix)?

[deadwood]

@All

This ISO should contain freetype2.library that no longer crashes on certain PDFs.

https://build.axrt.org/download/builds/AROS-ABIv0/pc-i386-20220904-142632.tar.gz

[AMIGASYSTEM]

deadwood, sorry if I always ask the same question, in this ISO are there any other updates or should I just pick up the "freetype2.library " ?

[AMIGASYSTEM]

I encountered another bug on AROSPDF, not sure if it always depends on the "freetype2.library"

Basically if you try to enlarge the PDF document window, the file title, either "disappears", or shows strange fonts (corrupted text), see attached video.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I9akxv0689ng3TPXZY72OoiSXvN21JEP/view?usp=sharing

If the file names are short, the file title "Disappears", while if they are long, the strange fonts almost always show up.

This bug also occurs with the other libraries "freetype2.library"

[deadwood]

deadwood, sorry if I always ask the same question, in this ISO are there any other updates or should I just pick up the "freetype2.library " ?

Hi,

There are no other updates in this ISO.

[AMIGASYSTEM]

deadwood I encountered a regression with your Updated Drivers with the NVIDEA GeeForce Go 6600 Video Card.

On my old "AROS One v1.1" the game "Steelstorm" works fine with the GeeForce Go 6600 Video Card, with your updated Drivers I get a black screen.

Again with my old "AROS One v1.1" the game "Steelstorm" appenta run on ACER Aspire One ZG5 (INTEL 945 VGA Video Card) instead of rebooting the computer (as it does with your updated drivers), it exits the game back to Wanderer

[deadwood]

What I noticed is that game will crash if network is not working/not connected. Can you make sure network is up on your computers?

[AMIGASYSTEM]

On the PC I tested (CDC Point) the network does not work, so the network is not active !

With "Steelstorm", if you play with a single user you don't need the network, the game also works locally !

The Laptop PC that used for the test has "2 Internal Video Cards" both supported by AROS, one NVIDEA GeeForce Go 660, and the second GMA_LVDS.

As mentioned with the new Drivers with the "GeeForce Go 660" the game does not work, with the GMA_LVDS instead the game starts but in Black and White

[Amiwell]

amigasystem you can use a build that works in everything for everything, It does not change anything you only have the full compatibility of the software also with regard to the future

[AMIGASYSTEM]

I didn't quite understand what you wrote, can you write it in Italian too ?

Anyway, the old Builds are a thing of the past, the deadwood updates have made AROS more stable and performant, also the compatibility has increased, many tested PCs are now supported, while with the old Buildson many, AROS would not boot.

Running "Steelstorm" on updated AROS requires only a fix to the NVIDEA GeeForce Driver


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Non ho capito bene quello che hai scritto, puoi scriverlo anche in italiano ?

Comunque, le vecchie Build appartengono al passato, gli aggiornamenti di deadwood hanno reso AROS più stabile e performante, inoltre è aumentata la compatibilità, molti PC testati ora sono supportati, mentre con le vecchie Build, molti PC su AROS non si avviavano.

Per far girare "Steelstorm" su AROS aggiornato occorre  solo un fix al Driver NVIDEA GeeForce

[Amiwell]

I didn't quite understand what you wrote, can you write it in Italian too ?

Anyway, the old Builds are a thing of the past, the deadwood updates have made AROS more stable and performant, also the compatibility has increased, many tested PCs are now supported, while with the old Buildson many, AROS would not boot.

Running "Steelstorm" on updated AROS requires only a fix to the NVIDEA GeeForce Driver

Fix are minimal it's you who are making a lot of noise

[AMIGASYSTEM]

There are not a few fixes, see ASL.library, Req.library which are very important, then there are many fixes made by deadwood, some of them reported by me that made AROS more stable and functional.

[deadwood]

@deadwood
Is there any way on Wandere to hide the Phantom Icons?

Basically when you mount an MS-DOS Floppy image with MountDiskImage, in addition to PC0, the same floppy is also mounted as DF0, this also happens on OS3.x

I don't know if there is such a way.

[Amiwell]

i know the new fix but my sistem is also stable and compatible with all software

[AMIGASYSTEM]

Even if you don't see "are many" changes in the latest deadwood ISOs, if you try to replace the Libraries or system files in the new ISOs, with the old Biuilds, AROS will no longer boot.

The further you go with the updates, the old Builds will be unserviceable, which happens with all OSs.

I hope deadwood will confirm what I write !