On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Eben King wrote:
> 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:
> >
> > > 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.
For anybody else who might do this: be sure you compile the modules too.
You get odd crashes if you don't. There's probably nothing special about
sound and video, outside of "they're kernel modules".
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