Dan McGhee wrote:
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
Dan McGhee wrote:
This is the other problem that I have with livecd. I must use twm
if I don't want to be able to take a nap each time I refocus the
xfce terminal after I've worked in Firefox. Sometimes it's so bad
that the screen won't respond to CTRL-ALT-Backspace and I have to
use the power button.
1) How much memory do you have? XFCE and Mozilla require at least 256
MB of RAM+swap. If you have less RAM, make a swap partition (e.g.
/dev/sda2), then mkswap /dev/sda2 ; swapon /dev/sda2. See if this helps.
Ooops. I didn't realize until just last night, after I had finished
by build that I had forgotten to turn on swap using the livecd. More
red face. BTW I have 750M of RAM.
No need to make a red face here. The LiveCD is supposed to work fine
without swap with 512 MB of RAM, unless you do a cross-lfs build (in
this case, cross-gcc compilation eats 950M). Just a thing to add to the
TODO list: document this in the README file (but nobody reads READMEs)
and maybe even add a bootscript that shows a red warning if you really
need to add swap.
However, I was able to work around the situation by 'startx -- -depth
16' There was no loss of speed then. I'll bet the swap situation
would work.
What's the video card model? Display resolution?
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