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[randy turner]

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:

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> Ok, let me attempt to correct some misinformation here.
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> 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
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