Re: Problem with the serial port in Fedora Core 6 -xen kernel

On Saturday 11 November 2006 23:07, Craig White wrote:
On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 22:52 -0500, Jim Cornette wrote:
I guess I am glad that the non-xen kernel gives you what you wanted
after all (the serial port interfaces for your X11). I just assumed

that

you chose the xen kernel with the intent to run xen virtualization,

but

I am guessing that your motherboard doesn't support xen which is
probably the cause of the problem in the first place.

Isn't XEN restrained to a file, has no hardware unless setup to use
real
hardware? I am not sure about xen and machine capability but I know
that
my laptop with sufficient memory would stay railed at full speed and
would not last very long with this condition. Also, on other
computers
the system memory is so low that xen would not work properly.
It sounds like the problem that happened to Gene and others is even
thinking that the xen version of the kernel would interfere with the
operation of their computer. The thought of users was probably that
they
would try out virtualization at a later date. No user would suspect
problems until they tried to setup virtualization,

----
I would agree with this assessment.
----

When one installs virtualization, the kernel for xen should not be
the
default kernel. A normal kernel should also be installed and set to
default.

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I would agree with this assessment too.

Assume that users don't understand all of the ramifications of the
choices they make at installation time. Gene is after all, a long time
RHL/FC user and probably representative of a typical user that checked
the box...thinking that he had heard of Xen somewhere and it may be
something worthwhile to check out.

As you know, short term memory is the 2nd thing to go, but I honestly
don't recall choosing it. I did a text install and basicly just chose
everything because I had a feeling x was going to be fubar, and it is, I
cannot use the same 1600x1200 screen I use in FC2 because its wrapped on
all 4 sides, so I have to revert to the next lower resolution but thats
somehow overridden for a narrower aspect ratio. Pictures are distorted
when displayed by being just obviously a bit too narrow for their height.
I'll compare mode lines and make it work eventually, but thats not at the
top of my list ATM.

Craig

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Cheers, Gene

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