Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Yogich <yogich@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 16 November 2005 22:54, Tasana Computers wrote:
> This is referring to SUSE 10.0. In KDE I can't run lots of programs,
> Some games will not load, no CD burning apps will burn or even load.I
> can't find the CD-RW drive. and it crashes all the time. I have no idea
> what the problem is, and I have no idea what to tel you to help dx the
> problem. I know from running XP and working on peoples systems it is
> usually the end user, but in this case all I have been doing is clicking
> the app to open.
> So far in GNOME, evolution crashed once. I have yet to try the apps that
> were giving me problems. One thing I think may be the problem, someone
> mentioned that KDE is a memory hog. I have 512MB RAM but I gave min 64
> to video, in XP I gave it 128MB and I have 3D acc turned on.I have the
> color set to 32 which takes lots of VM so I don't know how much of about
> 384MB of RAM the KDE is using and how much the apps need to run, one app
> in question is Freeciv, and all the CD burners. If anymore info is
> needed please ask.
> P.S. I did not hijack a thread to write this I made a new one from
> scratch.
> P.S.S. SUSE was not in my dictionary, WOW
> --
> Poneyboy
> Gregory D. Watts
> 931-498-4341\Cell 931-260-0414
> http://www.tasana.biz

How much swap you set aside?  Just a guess, but sometimes too little swap has 
caused me problems in past.
-- 
	...Yogich