tyler <tyler.sm...@mail.mcgill.ca> writes: > James Brown <jbrownfi...@gmail.com> writes: > >> I have a laptop Acer TravelMate 3043WTMi under Lenny AMD64 with 4GD RAM. >> But the system "see" only 3GB: >> dmesg |grep Memory >> [ 0.004000] Memory: 3081184k/3136000k available (2225k kernel code, >> 54428k reserved, 1080k data, 392k init) >> $ cat /proc/meminfo >> MemTotal: 3088108 kB >> >> >> How can I get all my 4GB memory? > > I'm not sure how this works with AMD64, but with 32 bit systems the > default kernel has a maximum amount of RAM it can recognize and use. > When I increased the RAM on my thinkpad to 3GB, I had to switch to the > 686 kernel to get it all recognized. I'm not sure how to investigate, > but perhaps you need a different kernel or a kernel module? Just > guessing. > > Tyler
On amd64 the limit is some million trillion billion gazillion bytes. That isn't the problem. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org