Well actually it has 140 MB of ram and I have a 296 MB swap partition. I haven't tackled compiling a 2.6 kernel yet, the last time I flubbed it up because make config is just plain too overwelming, and when I did it didn't work too well, but eventually I'll prehaps try that again. On Mon, 25 Dec 2006, randy turner wrote: > hi dan, > how much memory does that computer have? > and do you have a swap partision? > also if you are compiling a kernel you might want to turn off the dma. > but i have found that a 2.6 kernel detects memory a lot better. > if you are compiling a kernel tell the kernel to do an extra kallsyms pass > thiswill be under Configure standard kernel features (for small systems in > the 2.6.18.1 kernel > hope this helps some. > randy > > > > > > On Sat, 23 Dec 2006, Dan Murphy wrote: > >> Well the machine is 10 years old, after all, so if that is the case I >> wouldn't be surprised. >> I figured it might be something like that, but I just wanted to make sure I >> hadn't installed anything incorrectly or whatever. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Chuck Hallenbeck" <chuckh at ftml.net> >> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> >> Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 7:36 AM >> Subject: Re: Strange messages >> >> >>> Dan, >>> >>> I was getting errors and messages like that on my old system for some >>> months and was unable to pin them down. I finally gave up and replaced >>> the system with a new one. You are probably having a hardware problem, >>> at least that would be my best guess. I hope you have better luck than I >>> had in resolving it. >>> >>> Chuck >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 02:39:09AM -0500, dan Murphy wrote: >>>> Hello. >>>> I have a question about certain messages I receive from time to >>>> time. Now and then, on any given console I will get a message saying >> "can >>>> not handle kernel paging request." then that dconsole is frozen untill >> I >>>> reboot. If I go to another console and log in as super user to try and >>>> kill the process, that >>>> console also freezes. It's not something that I can reproduce >> regularly. >>>> I am running Slackware 10.2 kernel 2.4.31. It is one of the kernels >> from >>>> the installation CD. >>>> Any thoughts? >>>> Thanks. >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Speakup mailing list >>>> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >>>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >>> >>> -- >>> The Moon is Waxing Crescent (10% of Full) >>> But you can get a few downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Speakup mailing list >>> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
