On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 07:44:40PM +0200, Damien GUIHAL wrote: > I've installed both lastest 2-2-19 and 2-4-8 kernels from testing and I have > some problems using both of them : > > while precedent release of 2-2-19 kernel worked really fine for me, lastest > doesn't seem to care about my keymaps. I event tried to manually use loadkeys > to load my keymap and other keymaps, which as no effect, the problem happen > in console and with X. Meanwhile I have a strange bug wich give me some > errors if I want to log into the console, and telnet is not accessible > (allowing connections but leaving before asking a login).
install the latest console-data.
> here is the message log.
>
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:4b (hdb), sector 1067704
> hdb: timeout waiting for DMA
> hdb: irq timeout: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdb: irq timeout: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=7220218,
> sector=106770
>
> hdb is my linux hdd while hda is my macos hdd
ewwww either your using BootX on a newworld or your hardware is going bad.
> Meanwhile with the 2-4-8 kernel, I have no keymap problems but I experienced
> some system freeze while accessing some files. I experienced the same problem
> for 2-2-19 kernel as for console login, excepted that it's not an error
> message I have but a system freeze. moreover when the kernel starts it
> produce a 4 strange lines filled with color rectangles including a circle,
> I'm pretty sure that it's not a kernel hacker's joke (but why not :-) ), and
> get an error message with the rtc module :
>
> rtc: I/O port 112 is not free.
you configured it wrong. you must have CONFIG_RTC=n and CONFIG_PPC_RTC=y
> I must add that I use a mixed testing/unstable system without any broken
> dependencies, on a black&white 400MHz G4. I want to mention either that I
> have no problem to log with kdm (except the fact that with the 2-2-19 kernel,
> as the keymap is completely false, it's not easy to type a correct password
> :-( )
install the newwest console-data. it will install the correct keymap
for linux keycodes.
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Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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