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Posted: Sun 09 Nov 2008, 16:15
by Béèm
Colonel Panic wrote:I dson't know whether this is a bug, but I'm getting lockups when I've got about 155 MB of RAM in use and two or three apps running (such as SeaMonkey and Osmo). Nothing will move, not even the mouse, and the caps key won't work. The only cure is to turn the computer off and start again.
There's a lot to like about Dingo though, the applications at last have a consistent look due to the GTK2 toolkit and it's possible to use the latest versions of apps such as Firefox 3.0.4.
Do you use a swap file or swap partition?
If not create one.
Posted: Sun 09 Nov 2008, 19:55
by Colonel Panic
Thanks, I will though I'm a bit surprised that I should need one when according to Conky I've still got 100MB of free RAM on my machine.
Posted: Sun 09 Nov 2008, 22:24
by disciple
That could be caused by faulty ram.
Posted: Sun 09 Nov 2008, 23:31
by Béèm
Colonel Panic wrote:Thanks, I will though I'm a bit surprised that I should need one when according to Conky I've still got 100MB of free RAM on my machine.
Now if you have 1GB of ram you don't need one, but as you didn't tell the most logical advice is to create a swap, as you specified the the PC did come virtually at a stop, which is a symptom when real ram is almost all used.
But you're free to do what you want.
Maybe look also at th tip of possible faulty ram.
Posted: Mon 10 Nov 2008, 12:42
by Colonel Panic
Beem and disciple, thanks for the replies.
I have only 256 MB of RAM, my computer's a Compaq Pentium III Coppermine with 20GB of hard drive space. In short, it's getting on a bit now.
I've tried using memtest but I can't decipher the output. Are there any other utilities which would enable me to examine the condition of my ramsticks?
Posted: Wed 14 Oct 2009, 07:22
by sotris99
is there any suitable openoffice (latest version) for puppy dingo?
Posted: Fri 16 Oct 2009, 14:28
by Colonel Panic
sotris99 wrote:is there any suitable openoffice (latest version) for puppy dingo?
I don't know for sure (I don't use Open Office in Puppy) but John Biles has managed to make it work in TeenPup, which is based on the 2 series, so it should be possible.
Posted: Tue 03 Nov 2009, 12:53
by sotris99
can i use this sfs?
kernel-src-2.6.21.7-patched-puppy4.1retro.sfs