warning RAM

Dennis Veatch dveatch
Mon May 17 11:48:03 PDT 2004


On Monday 02 June 2003 04:34 pm, Vern W Heesch wrote:
> Not sure if this applies to your distro, but in Mandrake there are 2
> different kernals and the enterprise is required for that much ram. Just a
> thought.
>

Not exactly, what you are thinking about is the kernel ability to use 3G or 
more. Which is an option that can be set when compiling the kernel. I have 
successfully used 1G on the standard ML9.1 distro. Mobo depent. You may have 
to append the memory size in grub or lilo.

> > > > >
> > > > > What exactly does the warning look like?
> > > >
> > > > May 14 19:44:19 darkstar kernel: Warning only 896MB will be used
> > > >
> > > > >What kind of videcard do you
> > > >
> > > > Nvidia Ti4200 (128Mb)
> > >
> > > 128MB + 896MB = 1024MB (1GB).  That's your answer right there.  If you
> > > don't like that, then you need to get a new videcard with its own
> > > dedicatred memory.
> >
> > HA! HA! HA!
> >
> > Come on!, This video card doesn't share memory. It uses his own memory.
> >
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