[Bug 115391] Re: unable to use 4go of memory on Ubuntu 7.04

2008-08-01 Thread Tim Gardner
Your choices for accessing more then 4GB in Hardy are to install the server flavour (display and wireless should continue to work correctly), or install one of the 64 bit kernels. Remember to install using the meta packages so that you are notified of the next ABI update: sudo apt-get install linu

[Bug 115391] Re: unable to use 4go of memory on Ubuntu 7.04

2008-08-01 Thread kdawgud
I see the same problem on Kubuntu 8.04. I heard read some discussion elsewhere on the internet about being able to resolve this problem by installing the server kernel. However, it was mentioned that this could cause problems with video drives (I haven't tried it myself). In any case, I don't kn

[Bug 115391] Re: unable to use 4go of memory on Ubuntu 7.04

2008-02-08 Thread Eric Work
Replying to myself. Maybe if you gave the package the exact same name you could replace the official kernel package and still use the restricted drivers (if only that one option HIGHMEM_64G was changed). -- unable to use 4go of memory on Ubuntu 7.04 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/115391 You rec

[Bug 115391] Re: unable to use 4go of memory on Ubuntu 7.04

2008-02-08 Thread Eric Work
Denis, Recompiling the kernel isn't too hard it just takes time. I've done it a bunch of times for my MythTV system due to some special patches needed for my video capture card's remote. Although you then also need to compile the needed drivers. The biggest problem I have is that Ubuntu doesn't

Re: [Bug 115391] Re: unable to use 4go of memory on Ubuntu 7.04

2008-02-08 Thread denis
Hello Eric, This is still an open issue on 7.10. Don't know if it will be ever corrected, maybee it's a distrib choice ... Anyway as a workaround we could recompile the kernel with the 64GO option. We have to do it each time there is a kernel update in ubutun, so we should script this. Do you

[Bug 115391] Re: unable to use 4go of memory on Ubuntu 7.04

2008-02-07 Thread Eric Work
How many times does this need to be reported? -- unable to use 4go of memory on Ubuntu 7.04 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/115391 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubunt

[Bug 115391] Re: unable to use 4go of memory on Ubuntu 7.04

2007-05-18 Thread Dennis Francis
Thank you for filing this report. Maybe added to wishlist. ** Changed in: Ubuntu Sourcepackagename: synaptic => None Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Kernel Team Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- unable to use 4go of memory on Ubuntu 7.04 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/115391 You