[uae] Re: Pointer trails

  • From: Montag <montag@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: uae@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 09:39:47 +0500

On 03/09/2004, Keith wrote:

> I've spent the last couple of days in testing, and here's my
> conclusions:
> 
> First a description of the problem, of which there are three related
> symptoms:
> 
> 1) ... The pointer paints a permanent trail on the screen.
> 
> 2) ... The Workbench backdrop is occasionally not drawn on startup, but
> is subsequently "revealed" as objects are moved over it, rubbing through
> to the image underneath.
> 
> 3) ... Windows and Icons are permanently "painted" onto the desktop.

Ok, I never had problem 2 and 3, but problem 1 shows always up.
 
> These problems are intermittent both between sessions and during
> sessions, and can typically be temporarily "fixed" by opening and
> closing a few application windows (client-side). This temporary fix
> prevents further "sticky" objects occurring (for a brief period - then
> the problem returns), but the screen does not automatically refresh and
> remove existing corruption. Manually moving objects over the corrupt
> areas "erases" them. Enforcer reveals nothing unexpected on client-side
> operation.

Same behaviour here.
 
> At the exact point where the problem occurs, the following output
> appears in the uae console:
> 
> "NATMEM: Failure to find mapping at <hex number>"
> 
> Repeated several times.

Are you sure? I have the NATMEM failures, but they seem unrelated to the
trail problem...
In fact I'm having my sticky trail right now and in the console there are no
errors reported.
 
Ciao

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