Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:30:09PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > >> This is probably irrelevant but it may help someone searching the >> archives. I bought a Thinkpad X61 with 4GB a while back. At first it >> would recognise more than 3gb on either windows or squeeze. I checked >> the BIOS which was registering 4Gb. I had many other things to do and >> left it for a while. The windows deficiency must have been fixed in the >> Vista (shudder) SP1 update but the Debian shortfall continued and I've >> been following this thread. >> >> I use aptitude and found the following kernel package: >> linux-image-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem >> >> Installed it, rebooted and hey presto,cat /proc/meminfo gives: >> >> MemTotal: 4074284 kB >> >> Thanks. You guys are so great. >> > > Well if the BIOS does remap memory above 4GB, then on x86 you do need > a PAE kernel to get the rest of memory, which would be the 686-bigmem > kernel. On x86-64 you always get all the memory in that case. > > I believe vista SP1 did in fact add PAE support, so that would make > sense there too. > >
Do you think is it possible to get all 4GB even the BIOS doesn't "see" all installed memory? P.S. I have send request to the technical support of the Acer corporation concirning the matter of my BIOS (becouse I upgraided my BIOS from the latest version on their site) and waiting their answer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org