[newbie] Memory wierdness in X? (Was: Increasing swap partition size in 10.0)

2005-01-20 Thread J. David Boyd
So, last night, after putting in my new memory (thanks all, for the responses. Alleviated my worries about swap space size), I reboot my machine. Front screen and CMOS report ~768M of memory. LILO starts up, I choose Linux, everything looks great. I press ESC to see the verbose startup report

Re: [newbie] Memory wierdness in X? (Was: Increasing swap partition size in 10.0)

2005-01-20 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
J. David Boyd wrote: So, last night, after putting in my new memory (thanks all, for the responses. Alleviated my worries about swap space size), I reboot my machine. Front screen and CMOS report ~768M of memory. LILO starts up, I choose Linux, everything looks great. I press ESC to see the

Re: [newbie] Memory wierdness in X? (Was: Increasing swap partition size in 10.0)

2005-01-20 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 20 January 2005 13:15, J. David Boyd wrote: So, last night, after putting in my new memory (thanks all, for the responses. Alleviated my worries about swap space size), I reboot my machine. Front screen and CMOS report ~768M of memory. LILO starts up, I choose Linux, everything

Re: [newbie] Memory wierdness in X? (Was: Increasing swap partition size in 10.0)

2005-01-20 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Derek Jennings wrote: No you do not need to change any settings for 768M. If you had 1 M of memory you would need to use a different kernel to address the high memory, but you could still use the standard kernel. It would simply not see the high memory. silly mode on 1 M of memory? I don't