Problems handling 1 GB RAM

2005-11-04 Thread Mohammad Halawah
Hi, Just to complete the story, I have made some changes in my machine and don't know which solved the problem. I have run several times memtest86+ Switched the ram used slot. Upgraded from testing to unstable selected (in kcontrol) to use GTK fonts instead of using system fonts (the reason wh

Re: Problems handling 1 GB RAM

2005-10-31 Thread Rogério Brito
On 10/31/05 09:26, Mohammad Halawah wrote: I have run the memtest86 by installing the Debian package apt-get install memtest86+ Unfortunately, it seems that memtest86+ isn't that good. I was in a similar situation some weeks ago and I sent a message to the Linux Kernel mailing list. One post

Re: Problems handling 1 GB RAM

2005-10-31 Thread Mohammad Halawah
Hello , I have run the memtest86 by installing the Debian package apt-get install memtest86+ and rebooting to the tester yesterdays night for 11:45 hours. No errors were reported but my Mozilla and Gkrellm keeps crashing frequently. If there is any test or driver or patch that I must install,

Re: Problems handling 1 GB RAM

2005-10-29 Thread Bruno Buys
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Bruno Buys wrote: Muhammed Halawah wrote: Hello debianists, I am facing a problem after installing 1GB RAM on my laptop. the symptoms are:- 1-clear instability with firefox (1.0.6-5) while browsing.I have tried the stable version (1.0.4-1) of it but that did not ma

Re: Problems handling 1 GB RAM

2005-10-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Bruno Buys wrote: Muhammed Halawah wrote: Hello debianists, I am facing a problem after installing 1GB RAM on my laptop. the symptoms are:- 1-clear instability with firefox (1.0.6-5) while browsing.I have tried the stable version (1.0.4-1) of it but that did not make difference. 2-gkrellm c

Re: Problems handling 1 GB RAM

2005-10-28 Thread Bruno Buys
Muhammed Halawah wrote: Hello debianists, I am facing a problem after installing 1GB RAM on my laptop. the symptoms are:- 1-clear instability with firefox (1.0.6-5) while browsing.I have tried the stable version (1.0.4-1) of it but that did not make difference. 2-gkrellm crashes when switching

Re: Problems handling 1 GB RAM

2005-10-28 Thread m
The first thing to do is to test the new memory very thoroughly. The first ram test tool I found on the net is at: http://www.memtest86.com/ It's GPL'ed - and comes as an iso so you can burn it (from another computer), boot from it and if it's anything like the one I use it'll run for abou

Problems handling 1 GB RAM

2005-10-28 Thread Muhammed Halawah
Hello debianists, I am facing a problem after installing 1GB RAM on my laptop. the symptoms are:- 1-clear instability with firefox (1.0.6-5) while browsing.I have tried the stable version (1.0.4-1) of it but that did not make difference. 2-gkrellm crashes when switching from one disktop to anothe