Strange messages

[dan Murphy]

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
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> 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.
>>>>
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