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Topic: Toshiba Satellite Pro 420CDT, 0.8.1 Installation

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james
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Posted: April 22 2005,05:49

I'm getting similar errors trying to run dsl on Toshiba 300 CDS with 16 mb ram.

segmentation fault
<1>Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0e297df4
with dsl 2

Segmentation fault
Unable to handel kernel paging request at virtual address f0698db4
Enter runlevel: "2 (me)"
INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel
...with fb800x600 failsafe

It's also indicated it found 13,330 kb of memory.
I wondering if it simply doesn't have enough memory.

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Posted: April 22 2005,14:12

Use Tomsrtbt to make a swap partition of at least 64mb.

Then, you should be able to work. Slowly.

-J.P.

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grg
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Posted: April 23 2005,18:17

Hi everyone!

I have Toshiba 300CDS too and I've just managed to run dsl-0.7.2 on it just from cdrom without any swap

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james: type dsl 2 mem=16M vga=788 and it should work for you if you have version 0.7.2. It also indicates for me that I have about 13000kb ram but I think it's normal (when I boot with mem=13M it finds about 10000kb so it's not all used ram).

I've even managed to run x on my laptop (boot: dsl mem=16M vga=788) and it ran not too slow so I could do "something" like play xTris :;):

(but if I open too many things it exits and I for example couldn't open Xmms).

Unfortunately I can't run dsl-1.0.1 on it - when I boot with dsl 2 mem=16M vga=788 or expert 2 mem=16M vga=788 it hangs after printing: Processor 0 is Pentium MMX 166MHz (probably on PCMCIA detection) and when I boot with failsafe 2 mem=16M vga=788 it runs but it doesn't switch to runlevel 2 (stays in runlevel 5) and opens x, which is extreeeeemly slow in version 1.0.1 on my laptop.

I haven't tried other dsl versions and I guess I'll stay with 0.7.2

cbagger01

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Posted: April 23 2005,18:53

Try slimming down your X-Windows resources.

failsafe 2 mem=16M vga=788 base noicons norestore

and see if performance improves.

You may be able to use XMMS if you create a swapfile or swap partition on your hard drive.

Or if you get more RAM, of course.