Re: Debian only sees 885.5 MiB memory
On Friday 15 June 2007 18:40, Bonnel Christophe wrote:
> I remember an old option in kernel that asked you which size of ram you
> think to be used. This option seems to have disappeared now.
>
> If you want a 2.6.11 kernel, try to compile the kernel and search for
> such an option...
>
> Christophe
It was mainly an observation between the 2 kernels. I don't particularly want
to use the 2.6.11, but the 2.6.17 uses udev, and is hit and miss as to the
ordering of my 2 devices that use /dev/video. Sometimes the TV card is set
as /dev/video0 (which is correct), and the webcam as /dev/video1 (also
correct). Othertimes these are inverted. I have no such problems with the
2.6.11 kernel, and as soon as I can find out the correct udev rule to write
to correct this problem with the 2.6.17 kernel I will use that kernel.
Anyway. That's for another thread.
Nigel.
<Read the stuff below first, then go to the top>
>
> Nigel Henry a écrit :
> > On Friday 15 June 2007 16:46, arijit sarkar wrote:
> >> On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 08:02 -0500, Gary Rosenfeldt wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> I recently installed Debian Etch on my desktop system. My mobo is an
> >>> abit nf-7s with nforce2 chipset. I have 1 gig of ram installed but
> >>> debian only sees 885.5 MiB of my ram. Fortunately, I'm not
> >>> experiencing any stability issues. Anyone know the cause of this
> >>> oddity.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>
> >>> Gary
> >>
> >> It's obvious, your motherboard has 128mb shared memory. So debian sess
> >> only 885.5 mb.
> >> I also have 1gig RAM and 128 mb as shared graphics memory. My 'system
> >> monitor' shows ~885mb.
> >> check out your BIOS settings. :-)
> >>
> >> --
> >> Arijit Sarkar
> >> Kolkata, India
> >
> > That's interesting. I was booted up in Lenny using the 2.6.11 kernel, and
> > usually see Gkrellm showing 885Mb of my 1Gb RAM. I've since rebooted with
> > the 2.6.17 kernel , and with that kernel, Gkrellm is showing the full
> > 1005Mb of RAM. The onboard graphics card is a Cyberbladei1 (trident
> > driver).
> >
> > Quite why booting with the 2.6.11 shows 885Mb, and booting with the
> > 2.6.17 shows 1005Mb is a bit bizarre. Probably some kernel thingy.
> >
> > Nigel.
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