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Graham Power
Joined: 21 Jan 2008 Posts: 2
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Posted: Mon 21 Jan 2008, 08:28 Post subject:
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Ok to start off like too thank all people involved with puppy
My problem is after about 5mins of no human input my screen freezes and no hd activity. I manually shut down the laptop. Then on restart puppy tries to reboot but only gets to network device then stops with a # mark to the left . ( then i do a reinstall )
things that i have tried
Gone to bios turn off all power/battery saving timers
Only install my network module (pcmcia D-link air plus)
Laptop is a IBM 390E with 64M ram and 300Mhz cpu
When going it goes fairly well
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davec51
Joined: 13 Apr 2006 Posts: 522 Location: Virginia
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Posted: Mon 21 Jan 2008, 10:32 Post subject:
Try VESA |
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This is a bit of a long shot, but I have had trouble with Xorg on my old 400mhz machine. Try switching to VESA and see if that helps.
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MU

Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 13648 Location: Karlsruhe, Germany
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Posted: Mon 21 Jan 2008, 10:34 Post subject:
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Create a swap-partition.
Boot from CD, then run gparted from the menu.
It allows to resize an existing partition.
Decrease one by 200 to 500 MB.
Then create a new one, and use "Linux-Swap" as filesystem.
Then reboot.
Mark
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muggins
Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6747 Location: hobart
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Posted: Mon 21 Jan 2008, 19:07 Post subject:
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And, reboot with puppy pfix=ram, because otherwise your cdrom will grab any pup_save file on your hard disk.
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8-bit

Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3425 Location: Oregon
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Posted: Mon 21 Jan 2008, 19:51 Post subject:
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After a manual shutdown on your computer, you should not have to reinstall puppy when you see the # prompt!
The next time you have to do a manual shutdown and see that prompt, just type "xwin" at it. If the first time you type it, you get a message in red text telling you the computer was not properly shut down, just type "xwin" again. It should take you to the desktop with your settings secure.
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Graham Power
Joined: 21 Jan 2008 Posts: 2
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Posted: Wed 23 Jan 2008, 01:05 Post subject:
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Thanks for all the suggestions I found that it was the screensaver was freezing the screen turned it off and all good so far
I will not call this a fix but a workaround . Or I do not have enough ram to run a screen saver.
Thanks 8-bit for that info it will save me alot of time
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