[linrad] Re: Linrad-02.05

[w3sz <comcast.net; w3sz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Leif,

THis is just some 'user feedback' from 1.37 and 2.05 ;)

Windows:
Linrad-02.05 is working fine so far.  I haven't made it fail under windows.

Linux:
LInrad 01.37 seems to work fine here at home. I haven't put it thru its  
paces at Hilltop yet.
LInrad-02.05 works fine under svgalib.  I haven't identified any problems  
yet.

----------------below is all Linux with Xwindows version of Linrad using  
Delta44 as input----------------
Linrad-02.05 is still flaky under Xwindows.  I tried it with mlock all on  
and mlockall off and it was flaky with both.
With mlockall off it can take 5 tries of ./xlinrad to get it started.

With mlockall in either setting, it has crashed when:

The mouse is moved across the screen [no click necessary]

A parameter window was changed in size by pulling it with the mouse.

A parameter [e.g. number of averages in waterfall, waterfall baseliine,  
waterfall gain, high resolution waterfall number of averages, etc] is  
changed.

The size of the whole linrad window is changed by pulling it with a mouse.

Also, it sometimes crashes after a time few seconds to 2.5 minutes with no  
mouse use, but sometimes has run more than 10 minutes with no problem

I can't pull the S meter away from the bottom left corner
---------------------------------thats all I found so far.  I compiled  
with my users_hwaredriver.c file, which could make a difference I guess.

I listed below some of the error messages I got when Linrad 02.05 running  
as xLinrad crashed:

debian:/home/linrad/linrad-new/linrad-02-X11.05# ./xlinrad
X Error of failed request:  BadRequest (invalid request code or no such
operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  171 ()
  Minor opcode of failed request:  0
  Serial number of failed request:  829
  Current serial number in output stream:  832

debian:/home/linrad/linrad-new/linrad-02-X11.05# ./xlinrad
X Error of failed request:  BadRequest (invalid request code or no such
operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  0 ()
  Serial number of failed request:  43
  Current serial number in output stream:  63

debian:/home/linrad/linrad-new/linrad-02-X11.05# ./xlinrad
X Error of failed request:  BadLength (poly request too large or internal
Xlib length error)
  Major opcode of failed request:  72 (X_PutImage)
  Serial number of failed request:  43
  Current serial number in output stream:  63

debian:/home/linrad/linrad-new/linrad-02-X11.05# ./xlinrad
X Error of failed request:  BadLength (poly request too large or internal
Xlib length error)
  Major opcode of failed request:  87 (X_AllocColorPlanes)
  Serial number of failed request:  590
  Current serial number in output stream:  608

debian:/home/linrad/linrad-new/linrad-02-X11.05# ./xlinrad
X Error of failed request:  BadLength (poly request too large or internal
Xlib length error)
  Major opcode of failed request:  107 (X_SetScreenSaver)
  Serial number of failed request:  2743
  Current serial number in output stream:  2748

debian:/home/linrad/linrad-new/linrad-02-X11.05# ./xlinrad
X Error of failed request:  BadLength (poly request too large or internal
Xlib length error)
  Major opcode of failed request:  72 (X_PutImage)
  Serial number of failed request:  33
  Current serial number in output stream:  50

debian:/home/linrad/linrad-new/linrad-02-X11.05# ./xlinrad
debian:/home/linrad/linrad-new/linrad-02-X11.05# ./xlinrad
debian:/home/linrad/linrad-new/linrad-02-X11.05# ./xlinrad
X Error of failed request:  BadLength (poly request too large or internal
Xlib length error)
  Major opcode of failed request:  98 (X_QueryExtension)
  Serial number of failed request:  85
  Current serial number in output stream:  100

debian:/home/linrad/linrad-new/linrad-02-X11.05# ./xlinrad
X Error of failed request:  BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window  
parameter)
  Major opcode of failed request:  67 (X_PolyRectangle)
  Resource id in failed request:  0xff000063
  Serial number of failed request:  13809
  Current serial number in output stream:  13817

I hope the above is of some help ;)

Thanks for everything, and

73,

Roger
W3SZ

On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 19:57:44 -0400, Leif Asbrink <leif@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> There have been many reports on problems during setup.
> Some of them are probably due to insufficient ram memory
> (Too large storage times selected.)
>
> Under svgalib the user has the option to select whether
> mlockall should be used to detect swapping to disk. This
> works fine on older computer where it is really important.
> I assume older computers are run with older Linux
> distributions;-)
>
> Modern distributions do not always behave well. Fedora
> crashes completely. The call to mlockall never returns
> so there is no error code to act upon....
>
> I had intended to never use mlockall under X11 since
> the graphical interface is not very useful on small
> computers anyway. Unfortunately I made it the other way
> around so the memory locking was always enabled.
>
> In 02-05 the user has a choice - and some other parameters
> are also set (mouse and screen) so there is a good chance
> that the parameters set under X11 will be ok for svgalib.
>
> 73
>
>
> Leif  /  SM5BSZ
>
>
>
>
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