by pepedog » Tue Oct 18, 2011 10:34 am
OK, a first real post on raspberrypi.
I have rebuilt kernel many, many times, and tried patching later kernels.
Result is just 2.6.35.7 is ok, this was to fix a problem where large downloads froze the whole system. I did manage to fix one problem, because there is no nvmem in lan device, no mac address, this cause a random mac address and consequently never the same ip address. The fix I found not only gave it a mac address, but the device name was usb0 and now is eth0.
Anyway, I though does debian also suffer from this (with and without my kernel)? It appeared not to. alarm was so bad that even install of packages or updates was hit and miss.
Then I discovered in the debian logs it does suffer from the same problem. When you download a large file you can see the speed take a hit. The only difference the most obvious, debian appeared not to have the problem (on the console screen), alarm does. I messed with syslog-ng.conf and restarted it, compared inittab and securetty, they not stopping logging to console. However changing boot param to console=/dev/null does, and the freeze problem goes away. Only one bad side effect, when booting a tux logo appears, then no message until login prompt.
So how else can I stop messages going to console?
More news. lxde working fine, now can try other things I got (temporarily) over this problem.