I want to add, that I have 1 GB of RAM. My CPU is a 1.8GHz Pentium M. My computer is an IBM Thinkpad T42. Other info: lspci: ~ $ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 03) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 81) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 01) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 01) 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01) 00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10] 02:00.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4520 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01) 02:00.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4520 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01) 02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EP Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Mobile) (rev 03) 02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection (rev 05) ---- ~ $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 13 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.80GHz stepping : 6 cpu MHz : 600.000 cache size : 2048 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe up est tm2 bogomips : 1200.12 ------- dmesg is attached as a file. ------- (tdn@bart) (07-05-02 16:52) (P:0 L:1) [0] [ 16:52:05 up 19 days, 16:03, 2 users, load average: 0.21, 0.30, 0.58] ~ $ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 1035092 943248 91844 0 14976 238816 -/+ buffers/cache: 689456 345636 Swap: 2344568 1698592 645976 (tdn@bart) (07-05-02 16:52) (P:0 L:1) [0] [ 16:52:15 up 19 days, 16:03, 2 users, load average: 0.18, 0.29, 0.57] ~ $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/root 38G 31G 7.2G 81% / varrun 506M 236K 506M 1% /var/run varlock 506M 0 506M 0% /var/lock procbususb 10M 128K 9.9M 2% /proc/bus/usb udev 10M 128K 9.9M 2% /dev devshm 506M 0 506M 0% /dev/shm lrm 506M 18M 489M 4% /lib/modules/2.6.17-11-generic/volatile /dev/hda2 93M 71M 23M 76% /boot /dev/disk/by-uuid/6AAC73BCAC7380FD 30G 22G 8.7G 72% /media/hda1 /dev/hda4 4.5G 4.0G 477M 90% /media/hda4 tmpfs 506M 33M 473M 7% /lib/modules/2.6.20-15-generic/volatile (tdn@bart) (07-05-02 16:52) (P:0 L:1) [0] [ 16:52:20 up 19 days, 16:03, 2 users, load average: 0.16, 0.28, 0.57] ~ $ ---------------