Hi, On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 01:51:48AM +0100, Joost Kooij wrote: > > > resumes from the break, the kernel detects the keyboard. Could this be a > > submodel problem or a particular hardware problem? (I did once replace a > > dead buffer ic on the SLC's mainboard to get the keyboard working at all.) > > My prom version is reported a 1.4 on the prom banner. > > Not sure, I'll have to check into that one. On all previous boot images I tried (which all used the framebuffer console) the kernel would crash with "Watchdog reset. Window underrun" at the same point where it now hangs (loops?) > > The console is somewhat broken. I cannot start dselect, for example, it > > dies with "Error opening terminal: linux". > > Hmm, maybe ncurses is missing some things :/ Observe this: # echo $TERM linux # clear 'linux': I can't handle hardcopy terminals # > Yeah, most than likely these should be changed to "potato" URI's. > > > Apt-get works. But dpkg sometimes fails, I suspect this is related to > > out-of-memory situations. When I run dpkg with a -D22 option, it works > > flawlessly, perhaps because the console output makes it go so slow. > > There is a lowmem option to dpkg, you can add dpkg options to > /etc/apt/apt.conf (man apt.conf). Oh, I didn't realize that. I just found out that -D22 doesn't work all the time either, nor does sync'ing often. But --smallmem seems to indeed work reliably. Thanks for the hint. Cheers, Joost
