Re: loss of cursor/strange icon colours

In article <6ru5d4F3ct50U1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
David Holden <SpamBin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 29-Dec-2008, Steven J Green <stevegreen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In addition, in ROS 4.39, although CDROMFS loads as normal, as soon as
I access the CD icon I get an error message "...no stack for trap
handler..." which I've seen before but only when !Fresco decdes to
crash.

Why do you need CDROMFS? Most of the functionality is included in RO 4.39
(eg. show CD filenames in proper case, read DVDs, stc.)

In addition to that, the screen configuration is lost every time the
RPC is reset.

This sounds like something in !Boot is crashing. Try removing all the old
stuff (I'm sure you've got lots of it - everyone has) and see if it works
then. If it does you can put back the necessary stuff one item at a time.


I'm making progress...sort of...

The good news is that reflashing the VF card seems to have cured the funny
icon colour problem.

The bad news is that I still have the strage cursor shape problem. The
hourglass module I'm using is v4.07 - thanks Brian. The screen size is
reset on each reboot.

I've tried David's suggestion of stripping !Boot back to basics - even
putting in clean copies of Choices and Resources straight off the CD and
hard re-setting the RPC, but to no effect. At one point I did get the
pointer back, but it was accompanied by a sort of 'shadow' which I guess
was residual 'interference' from the source of the problem. As soon as I
re-installed the VF card the problem came back and I haven't been able to
get rid of it since. I used not to have this problem on this RPC with the
same VF card before the attempt to upgrade to RISC OS 6.xx, and I don't
have the problem on my other RPC which also has a VF card and the only
difference is the v4.39 being in ROM rather than softload.

I'm now running out of ideas.... please keep them coming!

David, the reason I was still using CDROMFS is pure ignorance on my part -
I had not realised that CDFS had been that improved by v4.39. I've removed
it from the Boot sequence now - thanks for that tip!

regards

Steve

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