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Title: Occasional lockups with MagicMenu
Post by: AmigaMance on October 10, 2007, 03:40:09 PM

Hi.
 I'm experiencing some, rare i must admit, system lockups while i switch screens. (Possible conflict between MM and MCP's ScreenMenu??)
 I'm not sure if i should attribute this to MagicMenu but it's the only thing i installed lately. Rest of the system remains as it was.
 Does anyone observe the same problem?

Title: Re: Occasional lockups with MagicMenu
Post by: benJamin on October 10, 2007, 03:45:15 PM

Does it still occur when you hold Ctrl before pressing the menu button?


jaminJay
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Title: Re: Occasional lockups with MagicMenu
Post by: kas1e on October 10, 2007, 03:55:00 PM

AmigaMance, maybe you use FreeWheel or somethink ? If yes, i have done a little replace for screen switching. And, it works with magic menu with not lockups

Title: Re: Occasional lockups with MagicMenu
Post by: AmigaMance on October 10, 2007, 04:14:42 PM

@ benJamin

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Does it still occur when you hold Ctrl before pressing the menu button?

 I have never tried that. I see that this combo disables MM functions. I will try it and see, but as i said, it's something that happens rarely.


@ kas1e

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AmigaMance, maybe you use FreeWheel or something ?

 No, i don't use it.

Title: Re: Occasional lockups with MagicMenu
Post by: kas1e on October 10, 2007, 04:34:28 PM

then dunno. for me loockups while i swith screen was only if i use freewheel and magic menu at the same time. Never used mcp, so can't help about it

Title: Re: Occasional lockups with MagicMenu
Post by: golem on October 10, 2007, 04:52:02 PM

I sometimes get lockups with MagicMenu on the below system.
Pretty rare but its a total system freeze. Pointer doesn't move. Screen switching doesn't work. I attributed it to an older version of Phase5 SCSI device in combination with MagicMenu as I would wait for the drive to spin up out of sleep and then click the menu and then it would hang.
I don't work directly on my SCSI disk anymore and since then I have no hangs...touch wood. But I also upgraded 1230scsi.device to latest version.

Title: Re: Occasional lockups with MagicMenu
Post by: AmigaMance on October 10, 2007, 05:25:47 PM

@golem
 Ok, but that's not the case here since i only use IDE HDs.

Title: Re: Occasional lockups with MagicMenu
Post by: benJamin on October 10, 2007, 10:20:52 PM

Well, now you need to uncover some repeatable test cases.  Once you can deliberately cause the hang, you can experiment with combinations of active software to isolate the culprit(s).


jaminJay
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Title: Re: Occasional lockups with MagicMenu
Post by: Merc on October 10, 2007, 11:04:54 PM

I used to get this occasionally, most often in PersonalPaint as I recall.  There's an option in the MagicMenu preferences, called non-blocking I think, that fixed the problem when I switched it on.

HTH!