On Dec 17, 11:32am, J M Oldak wrote:
> Subject: Re: Starting BSD in 32k colours, and memory trouble
>
> Hmmm - on the same subject, is it possible to use 32K colours in X and
> still be able to <Alt><FKey> on to another console? It only seems happy to
> do this if X is in 256 colours...

Not at the moment...

> Also, I've been having problems with RiscBSD falling over a lot with "Page
> Translation Faults" and such like when I'm doing lots of memory intensive
> stuff. I've tried umpteen different SIMM combinations (and swapping them
> for some that I know are OK), and tried different proccessors (SA, Arm700
> and Arm600), but still no joy.
>
> Oddly, I compiled my own kernel the other day to take out a load of the
> unused device drivers, and now my computer seems to be able to take more
> stick before falling over. (this could of course be coincidence).
>
> Any ideas wht could be causing this?

Bugs :-/ I suspect that newer kernels have a lot of bug fixes.

Cheers

Rob