Dan, When I had those messages on my old machine, it had 1280 MB of ram and a 1 GB swap partition, and was running kernel 2.6.18. Chuck On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 08:01:30PM -0500, dan Murphy wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- The Moon is Waxing Crescent (32% of Full) But you can get a few downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh
