On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 2:22 AM, George OLson
Ok, I think I solved the RAM problem, but I have another problem now. I found some old DDR2 memory (what I took out of my other desktop) and put them in the 256mb slots, and I think it has 2gb of memory now. On the command line I typed free -m -t, and it indicated around 2000 or so. I was unsure if this newer memory would be compatible, but the system seems to read it. If there is another command I can type to figure out if there is a problem with the memory, then please let me know.
If you type: cat /proc/meminfo if will display the total amount of RAM installed as well as several other stats like free, cached and more. It's a lot. If you see a large amount as cached and such, then that's fine because you have plenty of RAM and the system will reduce the cache sizes as it needs more RAM.
At first when I booted it up with this, the LXDE screen was black and there was no mouse pointer. I figured out where the mouse was by maneuvering it down and to the left, so that when it was on the kicker, it highlighted it. I used this to log out and try logging back into KDE. When I did that, my mouse and keyboard totally locked up and I had to hit the reset button. When it rebooted, I booted it into failsafe, and it ran KDE just fine. Then I rebooted into regular KDE, and so far it seems to be running just fine.
If you have a CD or DVD of the install, boot it and select MEMTEST which is an option. This is a special boot program that will test the memory and give you stats about the type and speed. If you have any bad RAM, memtest will find it.
What is the difference between a failsafe boot and a regular boot?
failsafe turns off all performance options like DMA, etc. It's used for troubleshooting. If the system works fine now, I would just run memtest and verfiy the RAM is good. Otherwise, you are probably good to go. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org