Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
Dan McGhee wrote:
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
Dan McGhee wrote:
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?
It's not a card. It's an ATI IGP 320/M chipset on my lap top main
board. When I was first using the livecd, I found a warning that I had
exceeded the video RAM--8Mb at 1024x728 at depth 24--the chip is
supposed to support 32 ( I know that's misleading.) Anyway I reduced
the depth to 16 when "startx" The resolution remained the same--1024x728.
This is why I originally thought it was something weird about my
laptop. When I had Mandrake 10.2 installed I had to do some really
creative things to make stuff run right.
If any of this helps, the info about the chip I have says to run ati and
radeon drivers. I tried this with livecd by reconfiguring X, but I
couldn't get the server to start. I wanted to build LFS more than I
wanted to fix X so I used the workaround.
Dan
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