hi Greg, i might have misunderstood some things, i am still learning like everybody else in here i am not saying that i am correct on all of my advice i will admit to not knowing everything when it comes to getting some of these older computers to work we can only tell others what has worked for us. have a good day randy On Mon, 25 Dec 2006, Gregory Nowak wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ok, let me attempt to correct some misinformation here. > > Turning off DMA is a bad idea, since it can really slow the system > down. Also, I don't see how disabling DMA would solve the issues Dan > has described. As far as I know, whether DMA is disabled or not, has > nothing to do with how the kernel detects memory, that information is > provided by the BIOS, and has nothing to do with DMA. > > You do not, I repeat, do not, want to enable extra kallsyms pass when > configuring the kernel. If you would have bothered to read the help > for it, you'd see the following: > > "If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with > inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and > turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build. > Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be > reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while > you wait for kallsyms to be fixed." > > I'm running linux on 4 machines here, with extra kallsyms disabled on > all of them, and am having no issues. If you actually enabled extra > kallsyms, and found that it solved whatever problems you were having, > you really haven't solved anything, and your hardware problem will > bite you in some other way sooner or later. > > If you're going to give advise, I'd suggest you read up on the subject > matter before advising on it. > > Greg > > > On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 07:49:23AM -0600, 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 > > > > - -- > web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org > gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFFkBpz7s9z/XlyUyARAljlAKDHguFi+Ee9d71SD/de92gc73sMkgCgwsaM > 7D079aUgrH0dbZddFCuN3lo= > =v4P0 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
