At 09:35 AM 5/7/02, you wrote:
>I have installed Redhat 7.2 on an old Compaq Prosignia 500 server with a
>P150 processor and 128MB RAM, and ( since the onboard CL5420 chipset was not
>supported in Xfree 4.1.0) I am usuing a S3 card with 1MB RAM.  When
>installing Redhat I was getting an error saying I didn't have enough RAM
>when I actually had 128MB.  I ended up using the command "Linux mem=128M
>text" and then the install went fine.  Now when I try to start X using KDE
>it loads very very slow and then when finally up it is so slow it is
>unusable..I'm talking several minutes to navigate each menu.  The whole time
>it is thrashing the hard disk non stop...is X having trouble seeing my RAM
>just like the Redhat installer did and then writting everything to swap?
>How can I force it to see my RAM?  BTW I am using a swap file that is 256MB.
>Thanks for any help you can offer.

When you setup lilo or grub did you set mem=128M? If the problem is the 
same you were having when installing this should fix the problem.
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