Re: 8G RAM on 32 bits

[Pau]

:)

Thanks for the help... I installed it and the 8G RAM are there (see
head of dmesg ahead).

I have another question... I have this big monitor (30!) and I would
like to use the displayport but X does not seem to understand it,
because when I use the displayport cable the monitor is black. With
VGA I get it to work but at a much smaller resolution.

The monitor has also HDMI (although the laptop does not). Would the
quality any better if I used an adapter to plug a HDMI cable to the
VGA port of the laptop?

In any case, thanks!

$ dmesg | head
OpenBSD 5.2 (RAMDISK_CD) #118: Mon Jul 30 16:31:14 MDT 2012
dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/RAMDISK_CD
real mem = 8466853888 (8074MB)
avail mem = 8221462528 (7840MB)
mainbus0 at root
bios0 at mainbus0: SMBIOS rev. 2.6 @ 0xdae9c000 (68 entries)
bios0: vendor LENOVO version 8DET56WW (1.26 ) date 12/01/2011
bios0: LENOVO 42914BG
acpi0 at bios0: rev 2
acpi0: sleep states S0 S3 S4 S5


On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Pau vim.u...@googlemail.com wrote:
 Thanks...

 I am downloading a recent snapshot and will try to do a clean install
 with the amd64.

 I will keep you posted.

 Cheers,

 Pau

 On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Peter Hessler phess...@theapt.org wrote:
 All i7's are 64bit compatible.

 If you can try a new kernel (bsd.rd should be enough), then you can try
 it out and see if it boots.
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Re: 8G RAM on 32 bits

[Pau]

Thanks...

I am downloading a recent snapshot and will try to do a clean install
with the amd64.

I will keep you posted.

Cheers,

Pau

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Peter Hessler phess...@theapt.org wrote:
 All i7's are 64bit compatible.

 If you can try a new kernel (bsd.rd should be enough), then you can try
 it out and see if it boots.

 If it does boot, it is highly recommended to do a clean install.  While
 it is possible to upgrade from i386 to amd64 this is not recommended as
 it is easy to miss some bits and add some problems to your system.


 On 2012 Jul 31 (Tue) at 12:04:26 +0200 (+0200), Pau wrote:
 :Hi,
 :
 :thanks for the answer.
 :
 :This is a Sandybridge Mobile Intel® Core™ i7-2640M CPU @ 2.80GHz × 4 
 :
 :How can I find out whether this is 64 bit-capable?
 :
 :I have googled but not very successfully... I am afraid I am also
 :newbie in the tech jargon...
 :
 :Pau
 :
 :On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:09 PM, Mike Erdely m...@erdelynet.com wrote:
 : On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Pau vim.u...@googlemail.com wrote:
 : I thought the same and downloaded the amd64 CD and tried to install it
 : but it would not boot. In my ignorance I supposed that it would be
 : impossible for a 32 bits CPU to do that, so I threw away the CD.
 :
 : More than likely, that means your CPU is 32-bit.  But, you could post
 : a dmesg(8) if you didn't think you could figure that out and someone
 : else could tell you if you have a 64-bit capable CPU.
 :
 : -ME
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