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Re: Blank laggy screen after splash

Again sorry for that "reply issue". Yea I think the same. I will first of all try to upgrade the memory capacity.
I will also have a look at finnix.

Thanks! ^^
J Arun Mani



-------- Original Message --------
On 2:21AM, Oct 13, 2019, Charles Curley < charlescurley@charlescurley.com> wrote:

Please reply to the list, probably "Reply All". That way the
conversation will benefit others.

On Sat, 12 Oct 2019 15:49:00 +0000
"J.Arun Mani" <J.ArunMani@protonmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for your reply.

> Sorry to have not mentioned the required info. I have AMD Radeon and
> a RAM of 2 GB (yep its an old lappy). I installed this distro two
> months ago. I had previously been using Linux Mint for about two
> years.

Oh. Had I seen the 2 GB, my first advice would have been to double your
memory. I have three laptops, and all have 4 GB or more. I have two VMs
that I use for nothing but browsing one particular site, and they are 3+
GB each.

I still suspect that something else is wrong, e.g. something spawning
that shouldn't be. But adding the memory will help performance long
term, and will probably help catch whatever is going on.

> I was able to drop to a TTY but haven't tried anything spectacular as
> it too was laggy and as it was hard to say when my command is running
> and when there is a prompt waiting for me to type... but let me try
> it again.
>
> So I need to install memtest and run it... okay let me do it..

You should also use it to test new memory.

You may also find it easier to burn a CD with a live CD that has
memtest on it. I recommend finnix because it is command line only,
which, should you ever need to run the live CD Linux, may help avoid
your memory problem.

>
> J Arun Mani

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