Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 18:53:10 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > >> Camaleón wrote: >> > > >>> Have you considered the computer may lack for system resources (such as >>> RAM or CPU)? Todays DE (GNOME and KDE) are memory hungry, so couldn't >>> be that your machine is very busy? :-? >>> >>> - What are your PII specs (RAM and CPU)? >>> >>> >> 896 for RAM. For CPU, this is 350 Mhz, but it can do it! >> > > Are you sure? >:-) > > RAM is okay but CPU is a bit slow, bus limited, non-multithread, single > core... > But it did it some months ago with the same Debian, but with an older kernel! How could it be unable to do it now? >>> - Try to start the system without X (just console) and check how it >>> behaves >>> >>> >> It does nothing. Exactly the same. >> > > The same cannot be :-) > > Without X you cannot reach the desktop, you should be at console and see > nothing more than a black screen and a "login:_" prompt. > Without X, I cannot reach the desktop, sure, but, anyway, I can't reach the desktop. What I wanted to say that it is the same without desktop is that, as, when the login prompt ends after having typed my credentials, the only background which appears on my screen do not react to my calls for having a console (i.e. Ctrl - Alt - Fx). But if you have another way to launch without X, especially directly into console, please tell me. I'll try it and test its effect. >>> - Run "top" to watch for high processes consumption of RAM and CPU >>> >>> >> I can't! I don't have any access to a suitable console! >> > > Then you are still with X loaded. Try to boot in "init 1" (single user > mode). I used to boot at "init 3" in openSUSE to get no X environment but > dunno how can this be done in Debian :-? > I tried in single user mode. Then, I can use a console. In this console, everything works, but this is still console. I then tried `startx' and I encountered exactly the same problem: background with nothing more (but I did not receive the splash login screen). >>> If non-GUI environment runs just fine and you still need a DE, think >>> about switching into a lightweight GUI desktop. >>> >>> >> It worked previously with another Debian Lenny, coupled with an older >> kernel. No reason for it not to work anymore with a more recent one! >> > > Ok, ok, calm down :-) > A problem of Internet messaging is that, sometimes, messages are totally misinterpreted. Here, I was not angry at all (actually, I'm not often angry). -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me.
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