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#241 Post 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.
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#242 Post 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.

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#243 Post by disciple »

That could be caused by faulty ram.
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#244 Post 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.
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#245 Post 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?
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#246 Post by sotris99 »

is there any suitable openoffice (latest version) for puppy dingo?

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#247 Post 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.
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#248 Post by sotris99 »

can i use this sfs?

kernel-src-2.6.21.7-patched-puppy4.1retro.sfs

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