WSOD

Peter Abplanalp pta-openmoko at psaconsultants.com
Fri Dec 19 01:38:31 CET 2008


On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Andy Green <andy at openmoko.com> wrote:
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> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> | On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Andy Green <andy at openmoko.com> wrote:
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> |> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
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> |> | kernel -
> 2.6.24+r10.1+gitrf5b973489beb1a1239dfad53e3ad6e36ff7ee958-r10.1
> |> |
> |> | /proc/version is:
> |> |
> |> | Linux version 2.6.24 (slug at builder) (gcc version 4.1.2) #1 PREEMPT Fri
> |> | Oct 17 17:20:36 UTC 2008
> |>
> |> Yow it's from Oct 17... it has Harald's patches but not Nicolas'
> |> fixes... ancient kernel alert.  Kernel from that vintage is expected to
> |> WSOD all over the place.
> |
> | can i change one of the opkg conf files to get a newer kernel to test
> with?
> |
> | after more testing i found that i can only get the wsod to clear up if
> | i bring the unit back from blanking quickly on the second blank.  if i
> | wait longer than a couple minutes or so, i get the wsod again.  is any
> | of this information useful or should i try everything again with a
> | newer kernel?
>
> I think it's just suffering for you at this point.
>
> I updated the http://people.openmoko.org/andy with current
> andy-tracking, you can give that a try.

should i just flash the andy-tracking kernel and try it with my
existing fso rootfs and see what happens?  i'm not sure how to "try
andy-tracking".

thanks,

-peter




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