Re: beta report on 2.0.pre31

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 14 Aug 1997 09:50:26 +0100 (BST)


> 1. detecting only 64 MB of memory
> -was already detecting 128 MB in 2.0.31-2 (DaveM). Search for:
> +! Modifications to detect > 64M RAM by Larry M. Augustin lma@varesearch.com
> 4/16/97. Patch will follow.

This was intentionally dropped - it breaks older boot loaders

> ping -f localhost -s 2000
> 4298 packets transmitted, 21 packets received, 99% packet loss
> Is it a feature? Numbers of received packets are always the same.

Its a bug in the ping code.

> pressing CapsLock during some moderate load (best was xsnow -snowflakes
> 700 or moving the PS/2 mouse in Xserver). Was it that CapsLock bug
> Alan was referring to? I had this problem even in 2.1.36/37

it was.

Alan