H.J.Bathoorn wrote:
Ben,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
You may also want to take a look at Fluxbox. It's even lighter then IceWM. I'm using that Window Manager exclusively on a Toshiba Protege with only 64MB of RAM and I've got no complaints at all.
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