VanLUG Email Archive
Ya`akov N Miles (ynmiles@ibm.net)
Tue, 11 May 1999 08:07:26 -0700
jerome schatten wrote:
>
> On my good old dx66 with 16mb of ram and a 3gig h.d., 3.4 ran merrily
> along. I was interested in trying 3.6 as it came with netscape
> communicator, and I wanted to see if communicator ran any better under
> linux than on an old 486dx33 under windows 95 (actually usable).
>
> The problem(s) are this: Although the install went ok, I get a register
> dump and error message about half the time I try and do ANYTHING. For
> example: doing 'vi fstab' ends up (around half the time) producing a
> register dump and an error message that says: "unable to handle kernal
> NULL dereference at virtual address blah, blah". As well at the bottom
> of the dump it sometimes spews a "segment fault" error message.
><snip>
Dumb question: Did you tell "make config" that you were using a 486 box?
Under Slackware 3.6 it defaults to making code for 586 (ie Pentium)
<snip>
> The final indignity comes when installing the mouse stuff 'gpm' with
> 3.6.
>
> I'm running a microsoft bus mouse on dx66 machine with inport card. 3.4,
> no problem. The process installs the device /dev/mouse and links to
> 'inportbm', and everything works. Going through the idential dialogue
> on 3.6, produces no 'mouse' in the /dev directory and no link and an
> error message at boot up 'gpm /dev/mouse no such device'.
<snip>
I used to have a bus mouse and forget what the name of the physical /dev
file is. Sounds like you manually have to link it with
"ln -s /dev/whatever /dev/mouse"
<snip>
> Suggestions?
<snip>
Send E-mail to person@cdrom.com and explain your difficulties with Slack 3.6
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