Re: RAM puzzle

[Sandi Sufiandi <sandi.sufiandi@gmail.com>]

your kernel use 386, try to use 686 kernel it work on my laptop

On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 12:44 +0200, Ivan Glushkov wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> recently I bought 2 x 1 GB modules 1024MB SO-DIMM OCZ PC400 CL2.5. I 
> plugged them into my Debian Asus M6726NW laptop. I was surprised to see 
> that on /proc/meminfo I have only:
> 
> MemTotal:       906692 kB
> MemFree:        451864 kB
> Buffers:         53072 kB
> Cached:         226724 kB
> SwapCached:          0 kB
> Active:         246092 kB
> Inactive:       170880 kB
> SwapTotal:     1469908 kB
> SwapFree:      1469908 kB
> Dirty:            1040 kB
> Writeback:           0 kB
> AnonPages:      137188 kB
> Mapped:          77524 kB
> Slab:            15988 kB
> SReclaimable:     7672 kB
> SUnreclaim:       8316 kB
> PageTables:       2224 kB
> NFS_Unstable:        0 kB
> Bounce:              0 kB
> CommitLimit:   1923252 kB
> Committed_AS:   442896 kB
> VmallocTotal:   122840 kB
> VmallocUsed:     12568 kB
> VmallocChunk:   109012 kB
> 
> Looking at lshw I have:
> 
> id:	
> memory
> description: 	System Memory
> physical id: 	
> 1b
> slot: 	System board or motherboard
> size: 	2GB
> capacity: 	3GB
> 
> So, what do you think is the problem? Are my new RAM modules 
> malfunctioning, or is that some software problem? In both cases, how 
> lshw sees the right amount of memory, but the kernel does not?!
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 	Ivan
> 
>