Hallo Mika
Amilopro V2030, 256 MByte RAM, 1,5 GHz Celeron The video framebuffer eats a minimum of 16 MByte from this RAM, I cannot adjust less in the BIOS. (Choice of 16/32/64 MByte)
1. Sometimes the notebook is very sluggish on the console, it takes several seconds to react. (runlevel 2, no swap space used) I believe the zsh does it with looking for too many aliases)
2. Starting X with init 5 and logging in as user terminates the session immediately and the login screen reappears and the grml browser starts. This has to do with file permissions, I had it on debian sarge too, forgot how to fix it.
3. Changing to console with CTRL-ALT-F# (console number) does not erase the x window, but gives only writes of the whitish parts of the console output in an unreadable way, obviously the pixel lines / columns memory order is not realigned to the display mode.
best regards