Re: Debian only sees 885.5 MiB memory
On Wednesday 20 June 2007 16:29, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Am 2007-06-15 17:33:04, schrieb Nigel Henry:
> > 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.
>
> The NEW Kernel is switching the Graphiccard in a Modus
> where it only consumes 8 MByte instead of 128 MByte?
According to the sales info when I bought the machine in 2003, the
Cyberbladei1 card uses 8MB of shared memory.
>
> Do you use Frame-Bufer?
Sorry. Not sure on that. Where (showing my ignorance) would I check that out?
>
> Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
> Michelle Konzack
> Systemadministrator
> Tamay Dogan Network
> Debian GNU/Linux Consultant
Nigel.
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