Re: Debian only sees 885.5 MiB memory

On Friday 15 June 2007 16:46, arijit sarkar wrote:
On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 08:02 -0500, Gary Rosenfeldt wrote:
Hello,

I recently installed Debian Etch on my desktop system. My mobo is an
abit nf-7s with nforce2 chipset. I have 1 gig of ram installed but
debian only sees 885.5 MiB of my ram. Fortunately, I'm not
experiencing any stability issues. Anyone know the cause of this
oddity.

Thanks,

Gary

It's obvious, your motherboard has 128mb shared memory. So debian sess
only 885.5 mb.
I also have 1gig RAM and 128 mb as shared graphics memory. My 'system
monitor' shows ~885mb.
check out your BIOS settings. :-)

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Arijit Sarkar
Kolkata, India

That's interesting. I was booted up in Lenny using the 2.6.11 kernel, and
usually see Gkrellm showing 885Mb of my 1Gb RAM. I've since rebooted with the
2.6.17 kernel , and with that kernel, Gkrellm is showing the full 1005Mb of
RAM. The onboard graphics card is a Cyberbladei1 (trident driver).

Quite why booting with the 2.6.11 shows 885Mb, and booting with the 2.6.17
shows 1005Mb is a bit bizarre. Probably some kernel thingy.

Nigel.


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