16MB ram, noswap and enlightment3D... :)
No, it's not a "low on resources" problem.

I'm not used to framebuffer, I'll read a doc about it.
And another LiveCD distribution could be helpfull to make a quick test.

FYI, the travelmate comes with 512MB ram, I created a 800MB+ swap (on) and I even managed to kill the winmanager.