On 07/09/2013 11:40 PM, Greg Madden wrote:
Now I am really confused. I have two systems; one with an Intel P4, 3GHz, multi-thread and one with an Intel i5-750. Both are running Wheezy with a KDE desktop. The i5-750 system recognizes the 4GB of memory but the P4 system does not. They are both running "pae" kernels.On Tuesday 09 July 2013 13:46:05 you wrote:I just upgraded my old Intel P4 system with a 3Ghz multithread (2 processors?) processor and 4 GB ram. I am running Debian Wheezy with a KDE desktop. My present kernel is Linux-3.8-1=686-pae. From reading, I think I need to change the kernel to the bigmem version but all of the packages shown are for much older versions (or they seem to be). If I install the linux-image-686-bigmem dummy package will it automatically pick the latest kernel version or not? If not what do I do? Note: Reason for doing this; cheap used parts that turn a bucket of bolts into a reasonably useful system. Gary R.old naming=bigmem, new naming=pae, both the same.
The Kinfocenter shows that the P4 system is running a Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae kernel and the Aptitude listing agrees. The i5-750 system Kinfocenter shows a Linux 3.8-1-686-pae kernel but the Aptitude listing shows a Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae kernel installed. Further, in the the layout of the firmware-linux package in Aptitude, the P4 system list it in kernel / main and the i5-750 system list it in kernel / non-free.
What is going on here? Gary R.