On Wednesday 22 January 2003 21:05, Marc wrote: >snip< > When it locks up I am unable to use the mouse and there is no > hard drive activity and as of yet I have founnd no keyboard > commands that work. The display stays frozen.and I am unable to do > anything but a hard shutdown but then that goes back to the > subject of the SysReq key. > > Marc
Have you tried different windowmanagers? I've had laptops with lower specs running 9.0 (well it wasn't fast!) just NOT using KDE or Gnome. Give Icewm a try or windowmaker to see if that gives any relief --it should. Aside from that: turn off as many services at boot time as you can. daemons like crond an atd use up quite a bit of memory when they're at work. And there's more, a lot more depending what use you want to put the laptop to=:o) Also: boot into text first (init 3) and later into X with the command startx. That way you'll have the opportunity to finetune your system without it locking on you. With a P133 it's not going to be a mean and lean machine but with 80M it should be useable. Hang in there we'll get you going:o) Good Luck, HarM
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