On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Austin Theen wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 14:48 -0500, Eben King wrote:
> > On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Eben King wrote:
>
> [...snip...]
>
> > Memory: 904484k/917504k available (1108k kernel code, 12632k reserved, 406k
> > data, 96k init, 0k highmem)
> >
> > 904580 KB =~ 883 MB. What happened to the other 140-and-change MB? Is it
> > possible for a DIMM to be bad in such a way that it operates fine, but with
> > a lower capacity?
>
> Make sure your kernel is compiled with CONFIG_HIGHMEM=Y for support of
> memory above ~960mb.
Yep, that was it:
Memory: 1032904k/1048560k available (1266k kernel code, 15268k reserved,
430k data, 96k init, 131056k highmem)
ALSA and the Nvidia binary-only driver don't work (at least those two, there
may be others), so I have some work to do.
> There is also a kernel option to support more than 4G of memory
> CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G...
No worries, this motherboard only supports 3 GB RAM. :-)
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