Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Graham Power · Joined: 21 Jan 2008 Posts: 2

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

davec51 · Joined: 13 Apr 2006 Posts: 522 Location: Virginia

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.

MU · Posted: Mon 21 Jan 2008, 10:34 Post subject:

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

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6748 Location: hobart

And, reboot with puppy pfix=ram, because otherwise your cdrom will grab any pup_save file on your hard disk.

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3425 Location: Oregon

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.

Graham Power · Joined: 21 Jan 2008 Posts: 2

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