Do you have separate video memory or does it come out of the main
memory?
If the latter, then you ned to subtract your video memory; 88M would be
safer than 96M.
Ken Thompson wrote:
>
> I changed hard drives and installed LM 7.1b3 and found that it had only
> recognized 64Mb of memory.
> No problem, just add append "mem=96M" to lilo.conf, I thought to myself, HA...
> I ran lilo and re-booted and the system locked at "bigmem" with a line
> something like 0k available in all categories shown.
> This seems kinda strange as this machine was running LM 7.1b3 perfectly until
> I changed HDD's. The only difference in the installations is the X-server
> version, the old HDD had XF-3.3.6 and the new one had XF-4.0
>
> The system is:
> Celeron 433 (66Mhz clock speed)
> Abit mainboard
> Fujitsu 10.0Gb HDD
> 3 - 32Mb PC-100 SDRAM modules
> Soundblaster AWE32
> RIVA tnt 128 video
> Realtek 8129 NIC
> Zoltrix 33.6 hardware internal modem
>
> The old HDD was a Western Digital 36400 6.4Gb
>
> Nothing has been changed on the system except the hard drive..
> Is there a glitch connected to XF4.0 that trashes the mem append in lilo?
> Any sugestions to fix this problem, or any work arounds?
>
> Another thing, hardware configuration seems to always set the NIC to
> I/O 220 with IRQ 5 - - - that's standard soundcard settings, hmmmmm!
> I tried to change it and am only offered "-1" in either field.
> Ran linuxconf and set the NIC to ne2k-pci (where I've always had it working
> before), closed, applied changes, rebooted - can't start eth0.
> I looked in conf.modules and removed all reference to the earlier listings,
> still no go. Removed card from system, booted and removed everything from
> linuxconf and conf.modules related to eth0 and ne2k-pci.
> Shut down and re-inserted the card and booted the machine.
> Kudzu found the card and I let it configure it and finished the startup.
> Still can't start eth0. Screwed around with it until early morning and gave up.
> Any ideas? Could this also be something with XFree 4.0?
> I had no trouble setting up memory or NIC when using XFree 3.3.6.
> I may have to go back to 3.3.6 and see if I still have the trouble.
> Sorry for the long post but this is very strange and has me baffled.
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