Puppy Linux randomly freezes
Posted: Sun 01 Jan 2012, 10:05
My Lighthouse Puppy Linux 5.0.3 Mariner(kernel 2.6.33) frugal installed in my WinXP notebook just hangs randomly even when not doing anything,eg no browser opened or programs running or when left idle for some time. My Acer notebk specs: cpu P4 1.6Ghz, 512MB RAM, NVidia Geforec2go onboard graphics shared memory 16MB, ALI chipset motherboard, 80GB harddisk, wireless pcmcia adapter DLink DWL-G630, and WinXP OS multi-booted with several Puppy Linux distros after first installing Windows Installer for Quickset Wary 511 and then manually adding in other distros.
Btw,the touchpad tapping didn't work so I used a USB wired mouse and running xvesa as xorg failed no matter what I chose even though the onboard nv graphics,Geforce2go, is listed as one of the supported NVidia cards. I don't suspect hardware memory (did memtest with no error) or overheating problems as the system runs well under Wary511(except that the old Seamonkey ver 2.0.1 would sometimes close off itself, I guess I need to update to a newer ver). Also I understand Lighthouse Puppy without KDE(I used JWM or LXDE) runs best with 512MB RAM (256 MB is stated as the minimum but problematic), I intend to add a 512MB swapfile using swapfilemanager.pet. Meanwhile, I am frustrated by the random freezing problem. Any advice or help greatly appreciated.
Btw,the touchpad tapping didn't work so I used a USB wired mouse and running xvesa as xorg failed no matter what I chose even though the onboard nv graphics,Geforce2go, is listed as one of the supported NVidia cards. I don't suspect hardware memory (did memtest with no error) or overheating problems as the system runs well under Wary511(except that the old Seamonkey ver 2.0.1 would sometimes close off itself, I guess I need to update to a newer ver). Also I understand Lighthouse Puppy without KDE(I used JWM or LXDE) runs best with 512MB RAM (256 MB is stated as the minimum but problematic), I intend to add a 512MB swapfile using swapfilemanager.pet. Meanwhile, I am frustrated by the random freezing problem. Any advice or help greatly appreciated.