[Morphix-devel] Photo-IX | Low Memory Prompts

[Brendan M. S. <me...@ba...>]

Hi Fellow Morphers,

Hope everyone is well. I'm starting new job, trying to sell house, being a
parent, trying to fix my laptop [cardctl reset, cardctl eject, cardctl
insert - repeat every 3 mins..)

And I have a cold. Apart from that life is quiet.

Some people other than me are actually using Photo-ix. Which means I now
have to support my distro!

Anyway - to the point. When Morphix/Knoppix/Et_al-ix  boots on a low
memory system, on some systems a warning is displayed regarding low memory
and there is a prompt to make a dos-swap partition. AFAIK these are in the
early part of the boot-up, deep in the Knoppix part.

I not quite sure what runs before linuxrc.
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/morphix/scripts-base/miniroot/linuxrc-scripts/linuxrc?rev=1.23&view=markup

I normally hack linuxrc but it appears the memory check is before then any
ideas where ?

Thanks,
Brendan


---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Re: Photo-IX !
From:    "Benoit Domingue" <bedingue>
Date:    Tue, August 9, 2005 12:58 am
To:      "Brendan M. Sleight" <me.spam>
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Hi Brendan !

Glad to hear from you !

If you point me the way, maybe I can give you a hand with the developement
 needed... I don't know a lot about morphix... but i lean quickly ! :)

If you know where to start looking to disable the 2 popups, i'll dig deep
in  the code and start looking around...

thanks for your help ! :)

Benoit

On 8/8/05, Brendan M. Sleight <me.spam> wrote:
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> Hi Benoit !
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> Sorry for not replying sooner, very busy new job, new family, selling 
house.
>
> On 8/4/05, Benoit Domingue <bed...@gm...> wrote:
> > Hi Brendan !
> >
> > First, I have to tell you : GOOOOOOOD job on photo-ix !!! It does
> EXACTLY
> > what it's supposed to do, it's easy to install, and works like a charm !
> :)
> Thank-you
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> > Now... i have a little question for you !
> > I'll be using it on an old toshiba laptop with 64m of ram, and whenever
> it
> > boots, i get warning messages about having only 54m of ram.
> > I press enter to skip the message, then i get another warning telling
> me
> > i've got no DOS partitions availaible for swapfile.
> > After those 2 messages, photo-ix boots just fine and the slideshow
> begins !
> >
> > My question is : Is there a way to make it boot without those warnings
> ?
> Hmm, - It can not be done quickly. It can be done by doing some
> development work. This is really good feedback, I would like Photo-ix
not to display these prompts.
>
> I will put it on the TO DO, but I am not doing much development work at
the moment. Maybe later this year, one life has settled down a bit
>
> >
> > Thanks a lot a keep up the good job ! :)
> No problem - if you have any photos of Photo-ix running, please email 
them.
>
> Regards,
> Brendan
>
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> > Benoit
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