Re: [Hampshire] Ergo Microlite xl 1.4Ghz

Hi

Ubuntu 8.10 does work on machines with 256MB of memory. The problem seems
that the OS is accesing a bit of hardware which then misbehaves. I have seen
this type of thing before.

Try DSL and see what happens. Try Knoppix in safe mode. Then try Ubuntu
again with the appropriate system tweaks.

John Eayrs


On Monday 08 June 2009 22:43:58 Paul Stimpson wrote:
> Hi Philip,
>
> Did you mean 7.10 (Gutsy) or 8.10 (Intrepid)? Things have moved on a long
> way since Gutsy and Intrepid wasn't one of Ubuntu's high points IMHO.
>
> I would download 9.04 (Jaunty) which IMO is a lot better than 8.10 before
> writing off the hardware as non-friendly. If you don't have any joy I would
> try adding one of more of "noapic", "nolapic" and "noacpi" to the boot
> options and see if those help.
>
> Has the machine got the latest BIOS?
>
> Cheers,
> Paul.
>
>
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