[ale] Semi random lock ups

[Jeff Hubbs]

Then fvwm2 is probably what I should do next.  I was hoping that KDE would have
been a big improvement over Gnome/Enlightenment, and it was somewhat of an
improvement, but what disturbs me is that X crashes me out or the machine locks
up.  Slow I can take.  Flaky I can't.

I should also point out that this machine's previous owner waxed at least one
monitor on this computer trying to play a DOS game that obviously tried to
overclock it.  I've gotten some info to the effect that this could have damaged the
video hardware and that that may be behind my X crashes and machine lockups.  I'm
open-minded about that but I remain a bit skeptical.

- Jeff

hirsch at mathcs.emory.edu wrote:

> > Remember, where linux runs outstanding on a 486, Xfree is a resource hog...
> > If I were you I would try running xfree witha little "less" desktop than
> >kde/gnome.  Maybe I cant even remember the default manage xfree comes with
> >it's been so long ago.... But I do remember having x running on a 4/66 without
> >locking up.  It was very slow...but it worked...
>
> Slow?  Only to start up.  My father still runs X on his 486-50 and it works
> pretty well.  You do need at least 8 Meg, preferably 16.  I ran it on a 486-33
> laptop with 16 Meg of RAM for several years.
>
> I agree that you want to use something like fvwm (version 1) and not
> CDE/KDE/GNOME.
>
> --Michael