riddle@mathcs.emory.edu (Larry Riddle) (10/10/90)
I recently purchased a Mobius One Page Display monitor for my SE. The display for the SE includes a built-in accelerator that doubles the Mac's speed. I have been having trouble with VersaTerm when using the accelerator (and possibly other programs, but VersaTerm is the one I am positive has a problem with the accelerator.) I have 4 megs in the SE, am running System 6.0.4 with a 60 meg CMS hard drive partitioned into three partitions using MultiDisk. When running Versaterm I reach a point where if I try to access a menu item, such as when I quit, I get either a message "There is not enough memory to complete that operation" and the program quits, or I get a "application unexpectedly quit" message (under multifinder). If I am running under just the finder, I get a system bomb with ID=15. If I start the program and quit shortly thereafter, everything works normally. I have increased the multifinder memory allocation for VersaTerm from the recommended 369K to 500K. The manual says that 369K should suffice for all Mac's through the MacII with a 19'' color monitor. So, there must be some conflict between the accelerator and VersaTerm? But if I boot the SE from a floppy containing the accelerator and monitor init and run VersaTerm from a floppy, by-passing the system folder on the hard drive, I have absolutely no problems and no crashes. I have turned off all inits using InitCdev except the accelerator and monitor inits and the DeskTop manager, and still get memory crashes running VersaTerm. I put the DeskTop manager on the floppy system - VersaTerm ran fine off the floppy set up. I have tried to test as many init conflicts as I can with no positive results. I have renamed the accelerator init so that it is the first one loaded. Didn't help. I am stuck on what might be causing these memory problems. Does anyone know what might cause these error messages? What is error ID=15? Any suggestions at all? I can turn off the accelerator, of course, but at this point I am extremely curious to understand this problem, and extremely frustrated. Any help would be most appreciated. Thank you. -- Larry Riddle | riddle@mathcs.emory.edu PREFERRED Agnes Scott College | {decvax,gatech}!emory!riddle UUCP Dept of Math | riddle@emory.bitnet NON-DOMAIN BITNET Decatur, GA 30030 | (404) 371-6222 AT&T