J. Roeleveld writes:
> > > Probably your graphicscard uses the rest of the memory.
> >
> > Oh, thanks! Did not think about this. It's an ATI Radeon HD4300
> > onboard card, so I guess this must be the cause. Seems like I will
> > have to do the migration to 64bit then.
> Wonko,
>
> If your graphics card uses up the rest of the memory, moving up to
> 64bit won't help either.
Shouldn't I have 4GB minus the amount of graphics memory then, instead of
3G minus that?
But I plan to add more memory anyway. With at least 6GB, and better 8GB,
the graphics memory will not matter that much then. But I have to go to a
64bit system for this.
> Check in your BIOS to see if you can reduce the amount your graphics
> card uses. For 'normal' desktop use, around 64MB should be more then
> sufficient and if you have 4GB physically in your system you should
> then see more memory appear.
Good idea! Thanks, I will have a look there.
BTW, this is part of my lshw output:
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Radeon HD 3200 Graphics
vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
physical id: 5
bus info: p...@0000:01:05.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=fglrx_pci latency=0
resources: irq:18 memory:d0000000-dfffffff(prefetchable)
ioport:ee00(size=256) memory:fdfe0000-fdfeffff memory:fde00000-fdefffff
d0000000-dfffffff is 255M, fde00000-fdefffff is 1M. So I lose 1/4 G for
graphics memory.
Wonko
