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From: Peter <heisspf@skyinet.net>
To: Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com>
Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Gnome, KDE won't Open
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 10:50:24 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040814025024.B354E3ECF0@heisspf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 13 Aug 2004 10:07:05 MST." <5.1.0.14.1.20040813093835.01fe0dc0@celine>

Thanks Ray! I just solved the problem.

ray@comarre.com 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.

ray@comarre.com said:
> Have I correctly identified your mobo as the following?
>          http://www.baber.com/baber/411/ecs_p6stmt.htm 
yes

ray@comarre.com 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


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-08-14  2:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-13  9:21 Gnome, KDE won't Open Peter
2004-08-13 17:07 ` Ray Olszewski
2004-08-13 19:46   ` Displaying 'ping' data with 'tcpdump' ? chuck gelm
2004-08-13 20:15     ` Ray Olszewski
2004-08-14  0:40       ` chuck gelm
2004-08-14  2:50   ` Peter [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-12  6:05 Gnome, KDE won't Open Peter
2004-08-12  6:23 ` pa3gcu

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