| From: | Nuno Berneaud |
| Date: | 21 May 2001 at 21:46:33 |
| Subject: | Re: Urgent PPC help needed |
Hello Oliver
On 21-May-01, you wrote:
>OR Hi Nuno,
>OR
>OR On 21-May-01 19:57:27 BST, Nuno Berneaud wrote:
>OR
>OR> I'm getting this PPC exception error when using IBrowse. Every time I try
>OR> to search Yahoo, for example, IB freezes and this message appears:
>OR>
>OR> *PowerPC Data access exception (store operation)*
>OR> *Page fault - Access to 00200000*
>OR> *The excepting instruction is located at 784A7E58*
>OR> *Task name: 'IBrowse_PPC4' Task address: 78518F48 Task ID: 109*
>OR [...]
>OR> This started happening yesterday, until then everything was ok. It's
>OR> happening everytime I try to use IBrowse. I don't recall installing
>OR> anything, apart from updating PFS3 and gtlayout.library, in the last
>OR> couple of days. YAM runs fine, by the way. Is this a hardware problem? I
>OR> have a Blizzard 030/PPC with BVision and SCSI,66Mb RAM,OS3.9 and a cable
>OR> modem via Ethernet card. Anyone can help me?
>OR
>OR Well, the crash is either coming from picture.datatype itself, and/or some
>OR PPC image datatypes... Have you set any of the image decoders in IBrowse
>OR to external? If so, which? The crash could be due to any PPC JPEG, PNG or
>OR GIF datatypes that you have installed.
>OR
>OR Alternatively, if you have a PPC ILBM datatype installed, then that could
>OR be it. Or it could just be that the crash is coming directly from
>OR picture.datatype itself (which will use the PPC for dithering, by default),
>OR which is known to have problems in some cases.
>OR
>OR So, the question is have you messed with the image decoder settings lately
>OR in IBrowse, or messed with datatype settings, or installed any new
>OR datatypes?
Yes, that was it. I just deleted the new ilbm.datatype and replaced it with the
old one, and all is fine again. I had forgot I had been installing this new "improved"
PPC datatype...
Thanks, Oliver!
Bye,
Nuno
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