From: hedrick@dumas.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) Subject: Re: Linux-0.95 Date: 10 Mar 1992 10:05:20 GMT
Linus asked me to try the prebuilt image rather than one built with
gcc 1.4. I've been using it, and it may make some difference. I
haven't seen the free_page_tables called with wrong alightment crash,
which I was getting pretty often with my kernel. However I am still
seeing wierdness in the display and/or keyboard code. The display
glitches in a variety of ways, including a group of lines repeated,
wierd characters appearing in random colors, and the screen
redisplaying every time I hit a screen. Usually refreshing the screen
with ^L or whatever the program wants fixes things. I suspect the
scrolling code used when a scroll region is in effect, though there
could be multiple problems.
I haven't been doing any disk I/O tonight -- just reading and
processing news over a telnet connect in KA9Q, so I don't know whether
the HD problem is fixed.
At the moment I think I recommend using either the prebuilt image
or compiling with gcc 2.0.