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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

I made a swap file for this computer to test whether more RAM helps.

dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfilename bs=1024 count=8192
mkswap swapfilename 8192
sync

I modified the above to make not 8MB but 160MB since I have 80MB RAM in 
this computer (the only one that let me mix 2 32MB DIMMs and 2 8MB SIMMs).
I multiplied by 20 to get 163840.
I substituted the name 'swapfile' for swapfilename.

Realplay still starts to load then segmentation fault.
My last experiment would be to physically put the drive from this computer 
into the faster computer to prove it is a hardware problem, at which point 
I cannot fix this problem anyway.  I will concentrate on the Helixplayer 
instead, which also plays OGG files and probably a few other things.

At one point when I was exiting ratpoison Xvesa in BL2 with this swap file 
I got a crash (had to power off) with info on the screen about Unable to 
handle kernel NULL pinter dereference at virtual address 00000100.....
Process swapper..... (lots of numbers).  Aiee, killing interrupt handler.
Kernel panic:  Attempted to kill the idle task!
In swapper task - not syncing.

I powered off and on and tried this again, both ratpoison and icewm, and 
Ctrl-Alt-Del worked okay both times.

I am using mdacon to switch between TTL and VGA screens.

The first time I started Xvesa from a TTL console, the second two times I 
first went to the VGA console.  I will try to start from VGA in future or 
delete the swap file to avoid such problems.
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Totally off this subject, but my partner just succeeded in getting TWO 
Epson Stylus 800 color printers (DOS and linux compatible) to work which 
originally had completely clogged black printer nozzles, which are not 
part of the cartridges.  This makes for cheap cartridges.  The friend who 
donated one of these to us said $2/color cartridge online.  The trick is 
to use a syringe and force ink through the nozzles.  When most of the 
nozzles were working (as shown by a Windows nozzle printer test that did 
not come with Win98 but did come with the much larger downloaded driver 
from Epson for Win9x; we did not find a DOS driver to download) he then 
squirted through some 70% isopropyl rubbing alcohol, several times. 
Eventually all nozzles started to work.

Ghostscript has the driver for this printer (I hope - it has epsonc for 
color epson anyway).  In DOS it is an LQ2550 at 360 dpi, but in Windows 
with the newer driver it also does 720 and 1440 dots per inch and the 
photos it puts out even at 360 dpi look much better than the ones from HP 
500 and 600 series, which look stripey.  They all look fine doing plain 
text (not graphics-mode text).  Still not useful for printing tiny print 
scanned at 200x200 dpi (which would need 600x600 dpi printing) - or is 
there some way to get a 1:1 inkdot:screenpixel?



On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, sindi keesan wrote:

> I cannot install RP8 for linux on any of our computers except the AMD-K6 
> 475MHz.  Ron says his 400MHz also works.  My 300MHz AMD-K6 does not.
> Segmentation fault while trying to install.
>
> So I plugged in our 25' crossover cable and copied the files between 
> computers (and rooms) and confirmed with du that all subdirectories were 
> there.  11MB of files including Help.  I go to the RealPlayer8 directory and 
> type realplay (from X).  On the faster computer it puts the player onscreen 
> in the upper left, with a black rectangle in the middle which then fills with 
> the logo. On the slower computer I see the black rectangle briefly and then 
> 'segmentation fault'.  I tried 233MHZ PI and PII.
>
> The faster computer has 192MB RAM, the others 64MB.  At a yard sale Saturday 
> I picked up two 100MHz 64MB SIMMS for $1 each.  (She was asking $10 each but 
> nobody else had even looked at them.  $40 for a working 5 year old pentium 
> laptop Digital.  University town.)
>
> Is more RAM likely to make a difference here?  Or a swap file?  (Yes I should 
> be scolded for not having one, but I used the swap partition for BL3 and will 
> have to look up how to make a swap file within BL2.)
>
> These computers work fine for Win98 RP8, as does a 133MHz computer.
>
> I then signed up for the Helixcommunity forums and wrote asking if Realplayer 
> 10, based on opensource Helix player, which also plays OGG files, has 
> hardware requirements, and why I can't use RP8 on my hardware.
>
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