Well, I am confused now.
Intending to investigate the effect of limiting memory to 3GB I made a new standard 32-bit SD card image, booted my new 2GB Pi4 (bought specifically to debug this reported issue) and followed the instructions here in the LinuxCNC docs:
linuxcnc.org/docs/2.8/html/getting-start...lling_on_raspbian_10
Contrary to the reports in this and other threads, it all "just worked".
I moved the SD card to my Pi400, and that worked, and then to my old 4GB Pi4, and that worked.
Is there _actually_ a problem?
And can we move all further discussion to this thread?
forum.linuxcnc.org/9-installing-linuxcnc...-work?start=0#194602