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

On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, sindi keesan wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, David Moberg wrote:
>
> > Sheldon Isaac wrote:
> > > Yep, with your kernel that uses the 2.4.31 stuff. But I guess your kernel is
> > > smaller?  than the 2.4.31 one that the DSL developers sort-of don't like
> > > (they went back to 2.4.26 after some objections from users)  because it
> > > doesn't support some older hardware?
> >
> > That would make sense. That would also explain why Sindi experienced
> > problems with a 720K floppy disk.
> I am not sure what that problem was - things got sort of confused, maybe I
> changed fd without unmounting, but I was at one point unable to umount the
> fd or the hd and had to reboot.

I seem to be developing a hardware or possibly a memory problem on this 
computer.  Mount is not working correctly.  Things not in use won't 
umount, some things are listed twice, etc.

My cardreader works with your kernel on my other computer but on this one 
uhci says 'not accepting new address 2' '... new address 3' and usb-uhci 
segfaults, with your kernel and modules.  With my kernel there is 
something about a kernel paging error and virtual address fffffffc - is 
this memory?  The kernel panics and I need to power off.  I will try 
memtest.  Your kernel has built-in scsi, I am using my kernel with 
scsi_mod and sd_mod but I don't even get that far, uhci won't work.
I will try the one-floppy boot USB tomorrow.

A hardware problem is more likely since the board was given to us dead and 
we replaced 6 bulging capacitors.  I am surprised it survived this long.
It plays DVDs okay though Fbdev and vesa act funny with mplayer.

The memory stick worked on this computer earlier today.
e2fsck found no problems despite frequent crashes.

The matroxfb problem is solved.  2.2.16 has a matroxfb, but 2.4.31 has 
several matroxfb modules that install sequentially - the ones ending in .o 
in /matrox.