(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

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

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.

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

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

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.

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