RE: X Windows Performance with DOC 2000

David Cooper
2002-06-17T22:22:02Z

No good.

I tried turning the swap partition off and also using an external IDE drive
for the swap partition.

In both cases I get the same result as before, X is launched but when the
screen goes blank it never recovers or gives me any graphics output.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks,

David Cooper

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org
[mailto:linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org]On Behalf Of Charles Manning
Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2002 6:32 PM
To: David Cooper; Linux MTD
Subject: Re: X Windows Performance with DOC 2000

On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 15:09, David Cooper wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am using a 2.4.2 Kernel re-compiled with the MTD subsystem on a 144 MB
> DiskOnChip.
>
> I can boot from the DOC and do most things except X refuses to run. When
I
> run X from the DOC it switches to a blank screen and just sits there. The
> only way to recover is to perform a hard reset or cycle the power.
>
> Running X from an IDE hard disk using the same platform does not seem to
be
> a problem.
>
> Has anyone else encountered this problem? Any suggestions as to what I
> could try?
>

Hunch: Because X is big-n-fat, maybe it needs swap space. Doing swap onto a
DOC would, I hunch, suck fiercely (if it can be done at all). Maybe try
mounting DOC for the filesystem and keep an IDE for swap. Maybe look at
/proc/swaps on the two boots and see if they tell you anything.

-- Charles

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