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Re: Problems with detecting 4GB RAM



Ok,.. I've changed some options in the Memory Hole Menu,... (activated IOMMU or something like that,.. an changed something from disabled to software)

Now Linux seems to correctly identify my memory:
(dmesg)
Linux version 2.6.13.2 (root@fermat) (gcc version 4.0.2 (Debian 4.0.2-1)) #1 SMP Sun Oct 2 19:26:28 CEST 2005
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 0000000000097400 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000097400 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000c2000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000007ff20000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000007ff20000 - 000000007ff2d000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000007ff2d000 - 000000007ff80000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000007ff80000 - 0000000080000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec00400 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 0000000180000000 (usable)
Warning only 4GB will be used.
Use a PAE enabled kernel.
3200MB HIGHMEM available.
896MB LOWMEM available.
found SMP MP-table at 000f78e0
On node 0 totalpages: 1048576
 DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
 Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:31
 HighMem zone: 819200 pages, LIFO batch:31
DMI present.

But tools like top(1) gnome-system-monitor(1) still show not the correct value... Before that change they showed somethink lik 2,8 GB now they show only 2 GB ???

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