On Thursday, 10 February 2005 01:01, Giacomo Mulas wrote: > On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > > I have this board, I'm still working on migrating everything over > > to this system (it's going to be my new primary system on my desk). > > May I ask you, and the list, a question (well, a couple) then: how > much RAM do you have installed? I have 4Gb on it, but I was unable to > use it all, because apparently some addressing space (about 400Mb) is > reserved for the southbridge. I found an option in the bios (the > documentation is terse on it, to say the least) which claims to > "remap" memory to make it all available. I tried enabling that, but > then some drivers do not work well (e.g. nvidia, but I can live with > it) or do not work at all (e.g. sk98lin, and this crashes the > computer). Currently, for the sake of stability, I left remapping > disabled in the bios and everything works like a charm, apart from > the missing 400Mb, but this is not copletely satisfactory. Anybody > else went through this? Suggestions? I have 1GB, and I have all of my RAM available minus the size of the kernel (1023816 kB total reported by /proc/meminfo). I'm using the binary nvidia drivers for x86_64, the sysconnect sk98lin driver for network. I'm actually curious what BIOS option you're talking about, as I don't see anything like what you were describing listed either in the BIOS or in the A8V-E Dexlue motherboard manual. Anyway, 400MB seems like an incredible (and strange) amount of address space to reserve for ISA compatibility--it seems like it must be for something else. -- Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2
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