8 MB RAM still enough?

[Sven . Hartrumpf]

I try to install Debian 2.2r2 on a SPARC 1+ with 8 MB RAM.
I use the rescue, root, and drivers disks from kernel 2.2.18pre21-sun4cdm_3.

Boot fails during reading the root.bin disk.
The following messages might be relevant:
...
Memory 5788k available
...
16 RAM disks of 4096k size (I also tried 'linux ramdisk_size=5120')
...
WARNING disk change called early
...(root.bin disk inserted)
VFS root filesystem mounted (ext2)
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for init

The machine keeps on printing the last line, sometimes with 'kswapd' instead
of 'init'.

What can I change to avoid this lack of memory problem?
(The installation manual claims that 5 MB RAM are sufficient ...)

Ciao
Sven

Re: mouse/keyboard configuration for XFree 4?

[Jim Crumley]

Thanks.  As it turned out I did have xbase-clients 4.0.1 installed.
My problem was I had the XkbRules option wrong - I had left it as
xfree86, when its supposed to be sun for sparc hardware. Oops.
So for anyone else with similar problems the correct keyboard info was:

Section InputDevice
Identifier  Keyboard0
Driver  keyboard
Option  CoreKeyboard
Option  XkbRules  sun
Option  XkbModel  type4
Option  XkbLayout us
EndSection

Thanks,
Jim

On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 04:11:58PM -0200, Leonardo Rochael Almeida wrote:
 
 check that you have xbase-clients installed. I had a keyboard problem when
 upgrading from 3.3.6 to 4.0 on an Intel. backspace sudenly stoped working.
 Well, actually it worked as Del, which is anoying. When I went to check
 the error messages it complained about not being able to load XKB map same
 as you, but in a line before that it complained about not finding xkbcomp,
 which, I later found out, comes with xbase-clients, so you might want
 to check that.
 
 On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Jim Crumley wrote:
 
 
  I've been having problems with keymaps under XFree 4.0.1 as well.
  I've got an IPX with a type 4 keyboard and dual heads -
  a cgsix and  a cgthree running the stock Debian 2.2.17 kernel.
  My mouse works fine using device /dev/sunmouse and protocol
  busmouse with gpm turned off (it doesn't work using /dev/gpmdata, with
  gpm installed).  I haven't been able to find a keymap that works -
  I've tried sun4, type4, sun5, type5, and type5_unix.
  All of them are coming back with  the message: Couldn't load XKB keymap,
  falling back to pre-XKB keymap. Is there any easy way to get a list
  of what keymaps are available?
 
  Other than the keymaps, XFree 4.0.1 seems to be working well -
  dual heads are quite fun, even on an ancient box.
 
 
 
 
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Where can I get egcs64 for sparc64 Linux ?

[Eiji Ota]

Hi guys,

Could you tell me where I can get egcs64 for sparc64 Linux ?
According to the documentation, it's needed to compile sparc64 linux
source files, but I can't find it so far.

Thank you in advance.

Eiji