Dotan Cohen put forth on 4/6/2010 5:58 AM:
>> Since the CPU is a SoC, I wouldn't be surprised if there were no DIMM slot.
>>
>
> Thanks, I did not read the whole thread and missed that part.
IIRC the OP never posted the board model. I ferreted it out with a little
Googling based on the /proc/cpu
> Since the CPU is a SoC, I wouldn't be surprised if there were no DIMM slot.
>
Thanks, I did not read the whole thread and missed that part.
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Ron Johnson put forth on 4/5/2010 8:55 PM:
> On 2010-04-05 17:40, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>> Unfortunately there is no option to upgrade the memory on the system.
>>
>> If the problem is acquisition of the memory, then let me know exactly
>> what you need and I will try to snail-mail it to you. My univ
Tech Geek put forth on 4/5/2010 11:36 AM:
> Hi,
>
> So I did get a chance to add swap to my system and guess what it made a
> significant difference. I had two instances of iceweasel, one instance of
> gedit, 3 gnome-terminal window open and the system is still running pretty
> decently. I know th
On 2010-04-05 17:40, Dotan Cohen wrote:
Unfortunately there is no option to upgrade the memory on the system.
If the problem is acquisition of the memory, then let me know exactly
what you need and I will try to snail-mail it to you. My university
has a computer-recycling corner and I can dig t
> Unfortunately there is no option to upgrade the memory on the system.
If the problem is acquisition of the memory, then let me know exactly
what you need and I will try to snail-mail it to you. My university
has a computer-recycling corner and I can dig through there a bit.
Memory shouldn't cost
On 4/4/2010 10:33 PM, Tech Geek wrote:
So I have a very low end system which has 128 MB of RAM and a 486 based
x86 processor. After installing GNOME on Lenny, as soon as I launch
firefox, opera or any other relatively intensive application the system
comes to a crawl and becomes slow and sluggish
On 2010-04-05 11:36, Tech Geek wrote:
Hi,
So I did get a chance to add swap to my system and guess what it made a
significant difference. I had two instances of iceweasel, one instance of
gedit, 3 gnome-terminal window open and the system is still running pretty
You'd save a good amount of RAM
Hi,
So I did get a chance to add swap to my system and guess what it made a
significant difference. I had two instances of iceweasel, one instance of
gedit, 3 gnome-terminal window open and the system is still running pretty
decently. I know there is always the debate between how much Swap is
suff
>
> On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 08:33:05PM -0700, Tech Geek wrote:
> > Anybody's input who has expereince running GNOME on a low end system like
> > this would be helpful.
>
FWIW, here are my experiences running Lenny w/Gnome on a few old machines
(all using IDE hdd that are really old):
Machine #1:A
On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 08:33:05PM -0700, Tech Geek wrote:
> Anybody's input who has expereince running GNOME on a low end system like
> this would be helpful.
Whilst not an direct answer to your question, try xfce. It's meant to be
lightweight and, on my EEE it works great. You can install gnome
On 2010-04-04 23:28, Tech Geek wrote:
[snip]
Based on my specs (800 MHz CPU and 128 MB RAM) and [1], I still should be
able to operate GNOME and some of the apps. However even opening gedit
brings the system to crawl which is so surprising. I will add some swap and
see if that makes a
On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 08:33:05PM -0700, Tech Geek wrote:
> So I have a very low end system which has 128 MB of RAM and a 486 based x86
> processor. After installing GNOME on Lenny, as soon as I launch firefox,
> opera or any other relatively intensive application the system comes to a
> crawl and
On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 08:33:05PM -0700, Tech Geek wrote:
> So I have a very low end system which has 128 MB of RAM and a 486 based x86
> processor. After installing GNOME on Lenny, as soon as I launch firefox,
> opera or any other relatively intensive application the system comes to a
> crawl and
On 4/4/2010 11:17 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
You can try adding swap but I doubt it will help much as the disk is so old
and slow. Adding another 128MB or 256MB of memory would probably help the
most with that system, but given that it has a sub 200MHz 486 class
processor, you really need a more m
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 01:00:01 -0500 francis southern
shared this with us all:
>You could also try Tiny Core Linux. http://www.tinycorelinux.com/
>I haven't used it much myself, but I've heard it described as "the
>next Damn Small Linux".
I use lenny with fluxbox on a Toshiba 32MB RAM 10 GB hard dr
coma_bug : no
>> fpu : yes
>> fpu_exception : yes
>> cpuid level : 1
>> wp : yes
>> flags : fpu tsc cx8
>> bogomips : 1600.08
>> clflush size : 32
>> cache_alignment : 32
>> address sizes
u : yes
> fpu_exception : yes
> cpuid level : 1
> wp : yes
> flags : fpu tsc cx8
> bogomips: 1600.08
> clflush size: 32
> cache_alignment : 32
> address sizes : 32 bits physical, 32 bits virtual
> power management:
&
32
address sizes : 32 bits physical, 32 bits virtual
power management:
Based on my specs (800 MHz CPU and 128 MB RAM) and [1], I still should be
able to operate GNOME and some of the apps. However even opening gedit
brings the system to crawl which is so surprising. I will add some swap and
see if t
Tech Geek put forth on 4/4/2010 10:33 PM:
> So I have a very low end system which has 128 MB of RAM and a 486 based x86
> processor. After installing GNOME on Lenny, as soon as I launch firefox,
> opera or any other relatively intensive application the system comes to a
> crawl and becomes slow and
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 04:33, Tech Geek wrote:
> Is there some kind of min. system requirements for running GNOME? Are there
> any tricks to make the system more responsive? Would adding swap help? Right
> now my system does not have any swap partition.
There usually are minimum system requireme
So I have a very low end system which has 128 MB of RAM and a 486 based x86
processor. After installing GNOME on Lenny, as soon as I launch firefox,
opera or any other relatively intensive application the system comes to a
crawl and becomes slow and sluggish. The system load increase up tp 5, the
C
> You really need to tell us a little more about your system, I assume you have
> a SIS chipset and what to know if you can switch graphics cards to get a
> higher resolution.
>
> A lot of that depends on the monitor, lcd, or display you are using. Some
> displays cannot support that resolution. S
>Rishi
> But I'm unable to play mpeg videos in 1280x1027 resolution.
>So therefore I wanted to know if I buy this video card: Pine, 128 MB
>NVIDIA AGP Card, FX model, that it would work on my Debian Sarge
>system - meaning get high resolution and play mpeg videos?
You really need to tell us a li
Hi
I have a VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
86C326 5598/6326 (rev 0b) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
But I'm unable to play mpeg videos in 1280x1027 resolution.
I need to change to 1024x768 resolution and then I am able to play videos
I posted a message on the SiS forum here to
On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 04:47:14PM -0600, Dana G Haugli wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have 128 MB of RAM on my computer, but Linux only recognizes up to 64 MB.
> I have tried adding "mem=128M" to my lilo config file as recommended in the
> HARDWARE HOWTO, but that doesn't seem to work. Any suggestions?
>
Yep, it's resolved. I put the line
append="mem=128M"
at the beginning of lilo.conf and then ran lilo. After that, lilo
recognized all the memory.
Thanks for all the help!
Dana
IIRC you have to type the full line 'append "mem=128M"' including the
'append' part.
HTH, G.S.
-
---"Michael B. Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 07:48:15AM +0100, Daniel Elenius wrote:
> > Dana G Haugli writes:
> > >Hi!
> > >
> > >I have 128 MB of RAM on my comput
On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 07:48:15AM +0100, Daniel Elenius wrote:
> Dana G Haugli writes:
> >Hi!
> >
> >I have 128 MB of RAM on my computer, but Linux only recognizes up to 64 MB.
> >I have tried adding "mem=128M" to my lilo config file as recommended in the
> >HARDWARE HOWTO, but that doesn't seem
Dana G Haugli writes:
>Hi!
>
>I have 128 MB of RAM on my computer, but Linux only recognizes up to 64 MB.
>I have tried adding "mem=128M" to my lilo config file as recommended in the
>HARDWARE HOWTO, but that doesn't seem to work. Any suggestions?
There's a patch that fixes that. You can find it
On 30-Nov-98 Dana G Haugli wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have 128 MB of RAM on my computer, but Linux only recognizes up to 64 MB.
> I have tried adding "mem=128M" to my lilo config file as recommended in the
> HARDWARE HOWTO, but that doesn't seem to work. Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks
>
> Dana Haugli
>
On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Dana G Haugli wrote:
> I have 128 MB of RAM on my computer, but Linux only recognizes up to 64 MB.
> I have tried adding "mem=128M" to my lilo config file as recommended in the
> HARDWARE HOWTO, but that doesn't seem to work. Any suggestions?
Try:
append="mem=128M"
Dana G Haugli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| I have 128 MB of RAM on my computer, but Linux only recognizes up to 64 MB.
| I have tried adding "mem=128M" to my lilo config file as recommended in the
| HARDWARE HOWTO, but that doesn't seem to work. Any suggestions?
You added a line like:
append="
Hi!
I have 128 MB of RAM on my computer, but Linux only recognizes up to 64 MB.
I have tried adding "mem=128M" to my lilo config file as recommended in the
HARDWARE HOWTO, but that doesn't seem to work. Any suggestions?
Thanks
Dana Haugli
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