-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 michael norman wrote: > On Monday 04 June 2007 11:05, G T Smith wrote: >> Frank Fiene wrote: >>> On Montag, 4. Juni 2007, Jonathan Ervine wrote: >>>> On Monday 04 June 2007 09:09:20 Frank Fiene wrote: >>>>> I've installed additional 2GB of RAM into my Thinkpad Z61p. My >>>>> kernel (latest SUSE-10.2-64bit) sees only 3GB of 4GB! >>>>> >>>>> Do i have to setup anything to see the whole memory? >>>> I've seen this reported elsewhere (on a ThinkPad T60) and it was >>>> basically a restriction in the BIOS that prevented the OS from seeing >>>> all 4GB of RAM. You might want to look for a BIOS upgrade, or setting >>>> - but I'd be prepared to be disappointed if I were you. >>> A colleague of mine is running the same machine with Vista (32bit!!) and >>> everything is fine! :-( >>> >>> Also 32bit Linux kernel should be fine with PAE, not? >>> >>> I'll have a look at the BIOS. >> I have been trying to track the article down, but I came across >> something recently that suggested that because some video cards mapped >> memory somewhere in the 3Gb region, the effective memory became about >> 3Gb on these systems. This is apparently a problem both for linux and >> windows OS machines. >> >> The thrust of the article was that there was not a lot of point buying >> more than 2Gb on a desktop/laptop PC. (Which may have something to do >> with why I cannot find it any more...) >> >> I came across the link below which outlines the issue to some extent.. >> >>> http://www.interact-sw.co.uk/iangblog/2005/08/05/is3gbenough >> but this is not the original article :-( > > This was in last week's Guardian > > http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,2091227,00.html
Thanks Michael (and Craig)... Must have seen in it on the hard copy. (I forget I occasionally read useful things on paper :-) ). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGZS6qasN0sSnLmgIRAskCAJ9zhNhxUb/PHzo5/6MzzKcn1zAFHACg4SAH iECS8bntgEhMR2HzWjtE8Wc= =Lmmi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
