ram question

[Roy Nickelson]

hi,
it looks like everyone is forgetting one thing.  What kind of video card do
you have. If your motherr board has onboard video the vidio ram is shared
with system ram.  so in this example if you have 512 mb of ram and a onboard
video card with 128 mb of ram this would leave the 384 mb.
Roy

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From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 3:54 PM
Subject: ram question


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Hi all.

I just installed a 256M ram chip in my server. This gives me 256M of
ram in bank1, 128M in bank2, and 128M ram in bank 3, which should
compute to a total of 512M of ram.

However, in my dmesg output, I get:

383MB LOWMEM available.

The board can support a total of 768M of ram, so the system should be
seeing the full 512M of ram, but it doesn't look like this is the
case. This is a 100MHz FSB board. The chips are all sdram, and are
pc133, pc100, and pc100 respectively.

Does anybody see what I'm missing? Should I maybe enable the high
memory option in the kernel? The kernel is 2.4.25. Please let me know
if I should provide more info. Thanks in advance as always.

Greg


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