Thanks Ray! I just solved the problem. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Might this be a memory (or swap partition) problem? What does "free" report > about memory and swap usage just before you try to start Gnome or KDE? Are > you able to use swap successfully in other ways?
The bloke in the computer shop had the System Share Memory Size in the BIOS set to 8. When I now reset it to the original 32 everything is working again fine. I saw him fumbling around the BIOS, however he was so fast that I could not follow. I got the idea after your hint above when I noticed that the swap memory was not really used after having opened in twm via xterm applications like abiword, gnumeric, konqueror, gkrellm simultaneously, then trying to open other applications I would get segmentation fault. After closing abiword, gnumeric, etc they could not be reopened, segmentation fault. Even rebooting would not completely finish and end with segmentation fault. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Have I correctly identified your mobo as the following? > http://www.baber.com/baber/411/ecs_p6stmt.htm yes [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > what do you mean by "I bought an USB adopter"? That should naturally read adapter. It plugs on one end into the USB socket of the mobo and has 2 sockets on the other end, one for kb and one for mouse. Regards - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
