Install of RH 7.3 on "older" laptop

[L. Adrian Griffis]

On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Chris Hoelscher wrote:
> Hi.  Having some fun.  I have an old Compaq LTE 5300 laptop laying around, and thought I'd try 
loading Red Had 7.3.  All goes 
> well (albeit a very "light" install on the 1.3 gig disk), and at the end of the install, I 
configure X for 800x600 with 16bit 
> color.  The test works o.k., so I think I'm in...
> 
> After I reboot, however, when I try to 'startx', it crashes.  The error log indicates not enough 
memory for any of the configured 
> modes.  The thing has 32 Meg of ram, and a 1 meg video card, what more could it want? ;)  
> 
> Am I just out of luck getting X up on a P-133 with 32 Meg ram?  Or is there some secret that can 
be shared?

How much swap did you configure?

Adrian