Re: AMD64-generic doesn't see all 4GB RAM?
On 11/08/06 12:02:36AM +0100, Daniel Tryba wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 05:38:50PM -0500, Jim Crilly wrote:
> > I've been using the pre-built kernels since I got this AMD64 box without
> > any hardware detection issues. If your soundcard disappears every couple of
> > reboots I would be more suspicious of the hardware than the kernel.
>
> This is contradicted by the custom kernels not having this problem.
>
True, so if you're using the same version of the kernel there's either a
patch upstream fixing something that's not in the Debian kernel or it could
be an odd timing issue if you're compiling the sound driver in statically
but that seems unlikely.
> > As for VMWare, the Ubuntu wiki listed the prereqs that I needed and after
> > they're installed you can install VMWare just like normal.
> >
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VMware_Guide%3a_Installing_VMware_Server_on_Ubuntu_6%2e06_LTS_amd64
>
> Thanks for the link, but:
> -the machine having problems is not running a 64bit kernel
> -I already installed kernel headers and tried pointing the vmware-config
> to many places without success.
>
> Again these troubles aren't present when running custom kernels. 2 out of
> the 3 machines I'm tried to run deb. kernels on failed. The third on is
> running just fine.
>
Well I don't know what to say about that, I've installed VMWare on numerous
machines with custom and Debian kernels and the only time I've run into
problems with the VMWare kernel modules was with custom kernels mostly
because of some 3rd party patches.
Jim.
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