10.4 choking

[Ronald B Cadby]

I seem to be having the choking problem with 10.4, i.e. graying  and 
frozen screen(s).  This isn't the first occurrence. I had the same 
FireFox gray-outs others have mentioned here on prior installs.

After three 10.4 installs (won't bore you with those details) the last 
one was done with a 'use whole disk' install from a live ISO CD.

Most went well until I installed Wine and NoteTabPro opening a very 
large file to edit. NTP always did this effortlessly on previous ubuntu 
versions.

The NTP program display in the status bar that it had opened the fill in 
memory. I'm guessing, but this looks like Lucid is not handling 
resources properly.

Also, a boot problem showed up at the same time, i.e. it hangs at the 
splash screen wait period. I'm again guessing that something is taking 
too long to process triggering this fault. Even after removing the 
"silent splash" option it still hangs up. If I close the laptop lid and 
reopen it it somehow 'wakes up' the frozen process and finally finishes 
the boot. Go figure.

My question is, should I and how can I 'adjust' the Lucid install re 
memory or swap space or whatever might fix this problem?

I'll try not to use NTP until I get this solved.

FYI: I'm using a Dell laptop Vostro 1000 and, as I said, all has gone 
well with ubuntu until now.

TIA.......Ron

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