I checked that in video card documentation.... Diamond Stealth III S-540 uses only its
onboard 16megs of memory. Anyway, Linux accepts the 192 megs when I log in at lilo
with
"linux mem =192M" Plus, the lilo.conf file has the append mem=192M all to no
avail.
Thanks for the suggestion though. It is funny that Mandrake doesn't identify the
memory
but Redhat 6.2 does, while Mandrake recognizes the video card and Redhat doesn't.
Once I
get this settled I will try to figure out a problem with the CD RW and the ZIP drive
(it
detects the CD RW drive but won't read a disk in it, The ZIP is on Paralllel Port II
which
it doesn't seem to detect. Strange.)
I KNOW that someday soon Linux will do everything it is supposed to, but right now it
is
frustrating me like a pc hasn't since the mid 70s.........
Charles Wackerman
Jaguar wrote:
> Have you taken into account if a video card is using some of the system RAM??
> ie: 192 RAM - 4 MB video = 188RAM
> Just a thought...:)
> Jaguar
>
> Charles Wackerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > David:
> >
> > I also tried the append="mem=192M" in lilo.conf and then lilo at the
> prompt,
> > didn't work. I also tried lilo -v (which was reported to work) but no such
> > luck.
> >
> > On the other hand Mandrake 7.0 recognizes a video card that Windows 98
> > refuses to recognize so I guess the extra line at log in is worth it.
> >
> > Charles Wackerman
> >
> > David Herman wrote:
> >
> > > Fernando García Arranz wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I've got a problem with the memory of my PC in Linux. I've got 128 Mb
> > > > but Linux just recognize 64Mb. What can I do ? I've tried to insert the
> > > > line "append=128M " into the lilo.conf file , but it doesn't work.
> Could
> > > > you give an answer, please.
> > >
> > > I was having the same problem my solution was to edit lilo.conf
> > > so that the appropriate line reads:
> > >
> > > append="mem=128M"
> > > note where the quotation marks are.
> > >
> > > Then in a terminal I entered "lilo" at the prompt.
> > > (no quotes around the word lilo)
> > >
> > > It seems that this is needs to be done for the update to take effect.
> > >
> > > hope this helps
>
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