Geoff Reidy wrote:
Douglas Tutty wrote:
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 10:42:45AM +0000, andy wrote:
Andrei & Andrew
Thanks for the suggestion(s). I am presuming that there is a Debian-way
of compiling one's own kernel with the configs and bigmem image. Can
someone point me in the direction of some decent (easy-to-follow for we
kernel-rolling-impaired folk) documentation. The main Debian site docs
(e.g. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-kernel.en.html )
are still referring to the 2.4 kernel except at the end (7.4) where the
docs state that udev is a dynamic replacement for /dev/ which, to be
honest, doesn't make a whole bunch of sense to me.
TIA
I use the stock amd64 Etch kernel with my 1 GB ram stick and it all
shows up with no tweaking at all.
Doug.
Andy, if you have a P4 then install linux-image-2.6.18-3-686 and you'll
get access to your 1 GB memory.
Geoff
Thanks Geoff. I had also read that during the course of my earlier
research on this issue. But ...
:~$ uname -r
2.6.18-3-686
Viola! 686 and still no 1GB mem recognised, only 3/4s (776400KB) of it,
as seen below:
:~$ free
total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 776400 732580 43820 0 36980
317528
-/+ buffers/cache: 378072 398328
Swap: 2931852 92 2931760
It would appear that I'm looking at either just accepting this fact or
will have to recompile my kernel, which I am a tad phobic about to be
frank.
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