Re: Managing to get the 4 RAM GiB recognized easily

2012-08-21 Thread Gaël DONVAL
Le mardi 21 août 2012 à 11:36 +1200, Chris Bannister a écrit : On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 04:42:28PM +0200, Gaël DONVAL wrote: be ironed out but as far as I am concerned, skype works very well with all the dependencies under my debian 32/64bits hybrid. All you need to do is adding

Re: Managing to get the 4 RAM GiB recognized easily

2012-08-21 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 15. August 2012 schrieb Gary Dale: On 15/08/12 02:13 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 15 aug 12, 05:12:46, Gary Dale wrote: If your computer has a 64bit CPU, you could also install the 64bit version of Debian over the existing. Just don't format your /home. Another option

Re: Managing to get the 4 RAM GiB recognized easily

2012-08-21 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 16. August 2012 schrieb Chris Bannister: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 02:50:37PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: It works, but why not just upgrade to full 64 bit if you can? It's not a lot more work unless you've installed a lot of extra packages. Not sure if things are better now, but

Re: Managing to get the 4 RAM GiB recognized easily

2012-08-21 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 20. August 2012 schrieb Gaël DONVAL: Le jeudi 16 août 2012 à 09:29 +0300, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : On Mi, 15 aug 12, 14:50:37, Gary Dale wrote: On 15/08/12 02:13 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Another option not mentioned yet is to install the -amd64 kernel (assuming the CPU

Re: Managing to get the 4 RAM GiB recognized easily

2012-08-20 Thread Pertti Kosunen
On 19.8.2012 20:48, Merciadri Luca wrote: Thanks for your answers. As I'm using an Asus P5K/EPU with quad-core stuff, 64 bits is not supported. AFAIK every Quad supports EM64T. http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/Intel-EM64T-Technology-Explained/262 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Managing to get the 4 RAM GiB recognized easily

2012-08-20 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 19:48:42 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Thanks for your answers. As I'm using an Asus P5K/EPU with quad-core stuff, 64 bits is not supported. I sincerely doubt it. Anyway, the motherboard won't tell about the micro capabilities, you better run cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -i

Re: Managing to get the 4 RAM GiB recognized easily

2012-08-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 13:57 +, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 19:48:42 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Thanks for your answers. As I'm using an Asus P5K/EPU with quad-core stuff, 64 bits is not supported. I sincerely doubt it. There is no 32bit quad-core cpu! Sorry, I couldn't

Re: Managing to get the 4 RAM GiB recognized easily

2012-08-20 Thread Gaël DONVAL
Le jeudi 16 août 2012 à 09:29 +0300, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : On Mi, 15 aug 12, 14:50:37, Gary Dale wrote: On 15/08/12 02:13 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Another option not mentioned yet is to install the -amd64 kernel (assuming the CPU supports it). Works just fine for me. It works, but

Re: Managing to get the 4 RAM GiB recognized easily

2012-08-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 04:42:28PM +0200, Gaël DONVAL wrote: be ironed out but as far as I am concerned, skype works very well with all the dependencies under my debian 32/64bits hybrid. All you need to do is adding [arch=amd64,i386] between deb and your mirror URL in /etc/apt/source.list Is

Re: Managing to get the 4 RAM GiB recognized easily

2012-08-19 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for your answers. As I'm using an Asus P5K/EPU with quad-core stuff, 64 bits is not supported. I will install a bigmem kernel. Thanks. - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ - -- If all else fails, try

Re: Managing to get the 4 RAM GiB recognized easily

2012-08-16 Thread Jacek Politowski
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 09:13:30PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 15 aug 12, 05:12:46, Gary Dale wrote: If your computer has a 64bit CPU, you could also install the 64bit version of Debian over the existing. Just don't format your /home. Another option not mentioned yet is to install the

Re: Managing to get the 4 RAM GiB recognized easily

2012-08-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 15 aug 12, 14:50:37, Gary Dale wrote: On 15/08/12 02:13 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Another option not mentioned yet is to install the -amd64 kernel (assuming the CPU supports it). Works just fine for me. It works, but why not just upgrade to full 64 bit if you can? It's not a lot more

Managing to get the 4 RAM GiB recognized easily

2012-08-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, As stated in the title, I've got 4 GiB of RAM on this computer. The problem is that I'm using kernel 2.6.32-5-686 which does not support 4 GiB of RAM. Precedently, I had used a bigmem kernel. Here, I simply want to get my 4 GiB of RAM fully

Re: Managing to get the 4 RAM GiB recognized easily

2012-08-15 Thread Gary Dale
On 15/08/12 04:08 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, As stated in the title, I've got 4 GiB of RAM on this computer. The problem is that I'm using kernel 2.6.32-5-686 which does not support 4 GiB of RAM. Precedently, I had used a bigmem kernel. Here, I

Re: Managing to get the 4 RAM GiB recognized easily

2012-08-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gary Dale garyd...@rogers.com writes: On 15/08/12 04:08 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, As stated in the title, I've got 4 GiB of RAM on this computer. The problem is that I'm using kernel

Re: Managing to get the 4 RAM GiB recognized easily

2012-08-15 Thread Gary Dale
On 15/08/12 09:14 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gary Dalegaryd...@rogers.com writes: On 15/08/12 04:08 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, As stated in the title, I've got 4 GiB of RAM on this computer. The

Re: Managing to get the 4 RAM GiB recognized easily

2012-08-15 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:14:25 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Gary Dale garyd...@rogers.com writes: On 15/08/12 04:08 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: As stated in the title, I've got 4 GiB of RAM on this computer. The problem is that I'm using kernel 2.6.32-5-686 which does not support 4 GiB of

Re: Managing to get the 4 RAM GiB recognized easily

2012-08-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 15 aug 12, 05:12:46, Gary Dale wrote: If your computer has a 64bit CPU, you could also install the 64bit version of Debian over the existing. Just don't format your /home. Another option not mentioned yet is to install the -amd64 kernel (assuming the CPU supports it). Works just fine

Re: Managing to get the 4 RAM GiB recognized easily

2012-08-15 Thread Gary Dale
On 15/08/12 02:13 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 15 aug 12, 05:12:46, Gary Dale wrote: If your computer has a 64bit CPU, you could also install the 64bit version of Debian over the existing. Just don't format your /home. Another option not mentioned yet is to install the -amd64 kernel

Re: Managing to get the 4 RAM GiB recognized easily

2012-08-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 02:50:37PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: It works, but why not just upgrade to full 64 bit if you can? It's not a lot more work unless you've installed a lot of extra packages. Not sure if things are better now, but there was a time when some packages were only available in

Re: Managing to get the 4 RAM GiB recognized easily

2012-08-15 Thread Gary Dale
On 15/08/12 08:08 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 02:50:37PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: It works, but why not just upgrade to full 64 bit if you can? It's not a lot more work unless you've installed a lot of extra packages. Not sure if things are better now, but there was a