Eric at Lucii.org on 11 Jan 2013 09:13:09 -0800 |
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Re: [PLUG] Preliminary report: LinuxMint 14 - 32bit |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 That's an excellent idea! I'll look into it. Thanks. On 01/11/2013 11:35 AM, K.S. Bhaskar wrote: > A common reason for both the 10.04 seeing only 3G of RAM, and the Mint crashes could be a buggy BIOS. You might check whether there is an available BIOS upgrade. > > -- Bhaskar > > On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Eric at Lucii.org <eric@lucii.org <mailto:eric@lucii.org>> wrote: > > Argggghhhhhh. > > For several months I have been running LinuxMint 13 (Cinnamon) 64bit on my primary workstation - Athlon 64x2 with 4G RAM. > > X crashes at least once a day - presumably runs out of memory. If I'm doing a lot (or running Flash in a browser more than twice or more than 5 minutes) that can jump up to 2 or 3 times a day. :-( > > I think that's related to it being 64bit. With 4G RAM it only sees 3G. > > I put in a new hard drive and did an install of LinuxMint 14 (Cinnamon) 32bit. I did that in part because the previous OS, Ubuntu 10.04 (which was stable like bedrock) was also 32bit. > > Well, for the most part it works well. This is the "rest of the part": When I tell the system to either logout or restart there seems to be a better than 50% chance that it will just leave me hanging on the screen with no keyboard or mouse input. I'm unable to even switch to a vc and perform an orderly shutdown. I have not used the reset button on my computer more than once in the last 4 years. Today, 4 times! > > I'll update this as I investigate in my "spare" time! > > Eric ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > -- Windows does to computers what smoking does to humans > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > - -- # Eric Lucas # # "Oh, I have slipped the surly bond of earth # And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings... # -- John Gillespie Magee Jr -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlDwSAAACgkQ2sGpvXQrZ/7rtQCgoYC/qWVTuMfM7LeI/vHD7v3r CJcAoL4moB0gzVzR6Ed8ipAtLA6wO1ly =3tCA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug