Boot problem

**ckamin** · 06-01-2006, 05:55 AM

rolfhub:

Good for you. I have had systems run KDE miserably on 196Meg with 4 or 8 Meg Video Ram. I have NOT encountered a system that did not run KDE acceptably with 256Meg or more. Hence the statement I made. It's a subjective observation and there could always be the exception. It's also personal opinion as what "Run Well" would mean. A system with only 128 Meg SHARING memory with a GPU, might NOT run well. I have seen many people try to boot Knoppix with KDE on a system that would be borderline with a desktop like iceWM. They can get it to run, but it is SLOW and not running acceptably. It could also cause an unusually long boot time.

**rolfhub** · 06-02-2006, 10:59 PM

Originally Posted by ckamin

rolfhub:
Good for you. I have had systems run KDE miserably on 196Meg with 4 or 8 Meg Video Ram. I have NOT encountered a system that did not run KDE acceptably with 256Meg or more. Hence the statement I made. It's a subjective observation and there could always be the exception. It's also personal opinion as what "Run Well" would mean. A system with only 128 Meg SHARING memory with a GPU, might NOT run well. I have seen many people try to boot Knoppix with KDE on a system that would be borderline with a desktop like iceWM. They can get it to run, but it is SLOW and not running acceptably. It could also cause an unusually long boot time.

Well, I can guarantee for nothing, it did work for me, but of course, it was quite slow (but still usable). I don't know what it would be like booting the mentioned system with the newest version of Knoppix/Kanotix/etc. (I tried it about 1,5 years ago). I think it also depends much on the northbride and southbridge (how well they are supported), not only on the processor and RAM.

Also shared RAM is always MUCH slower than separate RAM (I wouldn't recommend to anyone to buy a system with shared RAM (which is quite common with notebooks).

**ckamin** · 06-03-2006, 01:31 AM

rolfhub:

I have one OLD Pentium2 400 with 128Meg of ram and a 16 meg Video adaptor. It runs KDE BETTER than icewm or even FluxBox in some distros. Knoppix 4.0.2 is great on it. I have another one with an 8Meg Graphics card and it runs so slow, it makes Windows look good! I just like to have as much horsepower as I can muster in a machine and then give it a shot. It's dependant on other things besides RAM. Laptops are rather troublesome as well. More display issues than it's worth sometimes. I have a few notebooks that work just fine with Knoppix and a couple that are problematic. Can't wait to try out 5.0.1. Downloaded both the DVD and the CD. Let's hope for the best!

**rolfhub** · 06-07-2006, 08:54 AM

Originally Posted by ckamin

rolfhub:
I have one OLD Pentium2 400 with 128Meg of ram and a 16 meg Video adaptor. It runs KDE BETTER than icewm or even FluxBox in some distros. Knoppix 4.0.2 is great on it. I have another one with an 8Meg Graphics card and it runs so slow, it makes Windows look good! I just like to have as much horsepower as I can muster in a machine and then give it a shot.

Well, much horsepower is always a good thing

Originally Posted by ckamin

It's dependant on other things besides RAM. Laptops are rather troublesome as well. More display issues than it's worth sometimes. I have a few notebooks that work just fine with Knoppix and a couple that are problematic. Can't wait to try out 5.0.1. Downloaded both the DVD and the CD. Let's hope for the best!

Yes, notebooks seem to be a bit harder to get running smoothly than "normal" desktop hardware, but most of the time, the problems are not too severe, so one can work with them. I wish you the best of luck