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. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org