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Mich
10-24-2004, 04:26 PM
Every time I boot Knoppix it says that I have not enough memory to run kde and starts on another desktop, I have 512 DDR400, I think its enough, what's happening?
The memtest is OK and it happens both in kernel 2.4 and 2.6.
Anyone know how to fix it??

The computer is an athlon 2600+, asus a7v600, fx5200, 512mb ddr400... and no HD at the moment, maybe this is the problem???

Thanks in advance and sorry if my english is so bad :oops:
baldyeti
10-24-2004, 07:00 PM
No need to apologise; not all of us have been raised in English ;-)

Your problem sounds strange; 512 Mb is definitely more than enough memory. Try perhaps the "noswap" cheatcode, that's all I can think of...
firebyrd10
10-24-2004, 07:04 PM
No need to apologise; not all of us have been raised in English ;-)

Your problem sounds strange; 512 Mb is definitely more than enough memory. Try perhaps the "noswap" cheatcode, that's all I can think of...

Then again knoppix could be detecting the amount wrong.
Try mem=512M
Mich
10-24-2004, 08:11 PM
The memory amount is recognized ok 512MB, but it creates a ramdisk of about 412000K, I'll try "no swap" now, if it works or not we'll know in a few minutes.

Thanks a lot.
Mich
10-25-2004, 11:50 AM
No noswap didn't work, mem=512M neither, and both didn't work also, the ramdisk is about 402532K, and I passed again the memtest, memory is ok.

Anyone knows what happens?
CrashedAgain
10-25-2004, 02:47 PM
It just might be a problem other than low memory; the window manager startup script is /etc/X11/Xsession.d/45Xsession & it seems to use the 'low memory' message as a default message if it is unable to start kde.
Try 'knoppix desktop=xfce' to see if xfce will start. Try also booting 'knoppix 2' (terminal mode) then manually start kde with 'startx'. You can check how much memory you are showing from terminal mode.
Mich
10-25-2004, 09:19 PM
OK 'knoppix desktop=xfce' works IŽve tried it yesterday, IŽll try knoppix 2 and then startx, how do I check how much memory I have in terminal mode?

Thanks.
Mich
10-26-2004, 08:07 PM
Finally I downloaded Knoppix 3.6 and works, so thanks you all.