Knoppix 3.7 Professional KDE needs more free memory

[Mich]

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

[baldyeti]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

OK 'knoppix desktop=xfce' works I´ve tried it yesterday, I´ll try knoppix 2 and then startx, how do I check how much memory I have in terminal mode?

Thanks.

[Mich]

Finally I downloaded Knoppix 3.6 and works, so thanks you all.