Subject: Re: Problems with a Pismo
From: Gavin Hemphill (hemphill@drea.dnd.ca)
Date: Wed Jan 09 2002 - 12:08:51 MST
Well my Pismo (same specs as yours) has 192meg in it running YDL 2.1
(and a whole variety of kernels have been used over the last two months,
from the original 2.4.10-12a through a custom 2.4.12 devel kernel I've
been using to port to another board). I've never seen the problems you
describe. The only things I can think of is to question if you were
using a static strap when you had your machine open to swap memory
around, or whether or no you moved the HD in the process and made the
connection flaky.
G++
Ferwerda Darren (app3dxf) wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been pulling my hair out with my Pismo. To give some
> history. This machine was picked up specifically to be a Linux box. It
> started out as LinuxPPC, but since someone at my local lug (NYLUG) let me
> install YDL 2.0, I was HOOKED. I have had problems with the ram on the
> machine since the beginning. To explain. When I have more than 128 megs of
> ram in the machine, E comes to a grinding halt. I mean when you left click
> on the desktop and bring up the menu, as you are moving down the entries in
> the menu, the box cursor that usually follows the arrow trails behind really
> far. This seemed odd, but I brought it back down to 128 megs, and it was
> fine. This happened in both LinuxPPC and YDL. I tried updating the OF to
> 4.1.8, but to no avail. The Tech Notes state that the machine can handle up
> to a Gig of ram, but, I have not had good results with over 128. I
> originally picked up 1 256M module with the hope of getting half a Gig of
> ram on the machine, but after returning the ram to crucial a couple of
> times, I went back to 128. That is problem A. Let's move on to problem B.
> I was using the machine about a week ago, after I had gotten
> everything installed from source that I needed, (isn't this how it always
> goes) when the power cut out on me. I figured that the worst thing I would
> have to deal with was a fsck, and go on with life. When it came back up, it
> said that the disk was too messed up to check, so it dropped me into system
> maintenance mode. Ok, I ran fsck manually, and it said it fixed a whole
> bunch of problems. Fine. Gnome panel would not load. I figured the binary
> was corrupted, so I reinstalled 2.1. I wiped the partition, and recreated
> it (actually, it was installed with 4 partitions, bootstrap, swap, / ,
> /home. I wiped them all). Now, the same problem is happening, panel is not
> loading up, and on vt1 I get a weird message about a Gnome error. I booted
> onto the install disc, and it dropped me into rescue mode. As I said
> before, I wiped the partitions, and since, have run fsck.ext2 -vc and just
> about everything else on the drive that I could think of. I figured it was
> a head crash, and that something would show up in fsck.ext2 -c. I am in a
> quandary about both problems. I have plowed through both the LinuxPPC and
> YDL lists. I have not found anything like this. If I have missed something
> in the lists, please let me know with a link, so I can go read up. If you
> need more information, here it is. I did run the Apple diagnostic cd that
> came with the PowerBook, and it recognized everything, and said everything
> was working properly. The diagnostic cd does nothing about the HDD though.
>
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