Re: [PLUG] Preliminary report: LinuxMint 14 - 32bit

["Eric at Lucii.org" <eric@lucii.org>]

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Your experience is *exactly* what I would have expected.  I'm only blaming the 64bit aspect because I've run the Maya(sp?), Cinnamon, and KDE interfaces and have the same problem (to varying degrees) with all of them :-(

I'm going to try the BIOS upgrade as KS Bhaskar recommended and see if that helps.

Also considering a new motherboard - if the budget permits :-)

Thanks

On 01/11/2013 11:32 AM, Michael Lazin wrote:
> Hmm, I run the 64 bit LTS version of linux mint on a amd64 X2 with 3 gigs of ram and use it for a media center on my hdtv and the only thing that ever crashes is spotify, and that is because the spotify app is just buggy as hell for linux.  I play hd video all the time on a large display and everything works great.
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> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Eric at Lucii.org <eric@lucii.org <mailto:eric@lucii.org>> wrote:
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> Argggghhhhhh.
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> For several months I have been running LinuxMint 13 (Cinnamon) 64bit on my primary workstation - Athlon 64x2 with 4G RAM.
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> 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. :-(
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> I think that's related to it being 64bit. With 4G RAM it only sees 3G.
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> 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.
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> 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!
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> I'll update this as I investigate in my "spare" time!
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> -- Michael Lazin
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