On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 11:11:03PM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote: > I used the 3.0.22 boot-floppies images from the archive, and installed > over the network. The standard kernel crashed fairly frequently during > the install; I replaced it with one built from 2.2.20-rmk3 sources and > didn't have any further trouble on that score. I'm not sure yet what > was going on there.
Correction - *pre-*2.2.20-rmk3. It's not a released stable kernel _yet_, and you've found out why. > Strace doesn't appear to behave properly. It just displays the first > "execve" line, and then nothing further (though the inferior runs to > completion as normal). An identical strace binary seems to work OK on > one of my other machines, so perhaps this is a kernel problem of some > kind. Something got forgotten in the 2.2.20 update. This is why it's important to have people testing the stuff and feeding back. > As an aside, selecting 16bpp at the text console with "fbset -bpp 16" > seemed to be fine apart from the cursor, which disappeared at first and > then changed to purple. Selecting 24bpp in this way gave the same error > as I was getting with X. I think that's probably a bug in the generic fbcon layer, but shrug. 24bpp is not supported by the VIDC20. 32bpp is. See VIDC20 data 4.1.26 Control Register (conreg): Address EH Only 1bpp, 2bpp, 4bpp, 8bpp, 16bpp and 32bpp depths are supported. > Fourthly, once I managed to get the server started, the keyboard was all > screwed up. This is presumably an effect of the infamous > Archimedes-style scancodes that the kernel uses here. Using "-kb" is a > partial workaround, but something better is clearly required. I filed > #141392. "Something better" is the input layer that's coming along nicely in 2.4 / 2.5, which gives a sane view of all input devices, including keyboards, mice, etc. _______________________________________________ http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/armlinux/mailinglists.php Please visit the above addresses for information on this list.
