############################################################ # Document: armedslack-current/ARMedslack_KNOWN_FAULTS # Purpose : List and describe the known faults in ARMedslack # Author..: Stuart Winter # Date....: 19-Jun-2004 ############################################################ 1.0 Kernel issues ------------- 1.0.1 Rebooting does not release the podules/expansion cards ------------------------------------------------------ When rebooting the machine in order to return to RISC OS you will notice that some (if not all) of your expansion cards are missing (use *Podules to list them). When you wish to return to RISC OS from Linux, do # shutdown -h now Wait for the system to shut down (and give you a stack dump ;-) ) Power cycle the machine (giving a few seconds before restoring the power). I do not believe that anybody is looking at this particular issue, so if anybody knows how to fix this then please let me know. In older Kernels there is a comment about this and that it was fixed, but this was *years ago* and it has become broken once more. * Note: I think this is no longer an issue with Linux 2.4.26 * 1.0.2 PowerTec SCSI cards do not work or exhibit strange behaviour ------------------------------------------------------------ I have compiled the Powertec driver out of the kernel - it doesn't work: it causes a Kernel panic. 1.0.3 Backplane Network cards cause the system to hang ------------------------------------------------ Some (if not all) backplane network cards cause the Kernel to spit out the message "Unrecognised interrupt from backplane" I think that this issue is being worked on slowly but the only way to fix this is to get a NIC slot network card. Obviously, if anybody can patch this and make them work then that's great - send me the patch and I'll build the next Kernel with it! :-) 2.0 ARMedslack specific issues -------------------------- 2.0.1 The Kernel ---------- Please see the above section for Kernel issues. 2.0.2 Missing packages ---------------- ARMedslack has all of the packages that exist in Slackware unless they either aren't appropriate (x86 only) or there is no source code. 2.0.3 There is no colour in pkgtools, dialog and mc ---------------------------------------------- You get this when you login remotely. You can either fix this by # export TERM=xterm-color Or (the preferred method) # upgradepkg --reinstall /path/to/packages/a/pkgtools-*.tgz There are conflicting files in the ncurses package but I'm not sure which those files are yet. I'll work it out eventually but if you know which they are then please let me know! 2.0.4 Slackware pkgtool config scripts have x86 stuff in them ------------------------------------------------------- Do they? :-) If you spot anything that's x86 specific then please let me know. I haven't gone through any of them yet because I'm just concentrating on getting the packages built first. 2.0.5 X11 (X windowing system) ------------------------ 2.0.5.1 Cursor keys are not functioning. -------------------------------- If you use xev to monitor X events, you can see that the keys do produce scan codes -- only they're not mapped to anything. I don't know whether this can be resolved in /etc/X11/xorg.conf or whether it's a compile time fix.