On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Nishith Nand <[email protected]> wrote:
> It shows up correctly in windows vista. > > Could it have anything to do with virtual box? I assigned 1GB RAM for that > and that's about the same as the amount missing. It might, also, just be a > coincidence as I had recently added 2GBs and had not checked before > installing virtualbox. I have uninstalled it as of now and also removed its > kernel modules. > > I will check my BIOS settings for apertures and memory holes. > > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Chris Cheney <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 17:26 +0530, Nishith Nand wrote: >> > 256MB, its a nVidia 8600GT. >> >> If you have 3GB RAM and only a 256MB video card then it should be >> showing more than 1.9GB RAM free. You should probably update your >> motherboard BIOS if you haven't already. If you still have problems with >> it showing only 1.9GB RAM after that you might want to file a kernel bug >> report. >> >> Do you see the full 3GB RAM on any other OS, or have you only tried >> Ubuntu? >> >> Chris >> >> >> -- >> ubuntu-desktop mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop >> > I just enabled "memory hole" in my BIOS and now I can see 2.4GB memory. Here's the new meminfo MemTotal: 2498472 kB MemFree: 1888244 kB Buffers: 56100 kB Cached: 253608 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 352924 kB Inactive: 207284 kB Active(anon): 256764 kB Inactive(anon): 0 kB Active(file): 96160 kB Inactive(file): 207284 kB Unevictable: 48 kB Mlocked: 48 kB HighTotal: 1634056 kB HighFree: 1118252 kB LowTotal: 864416 kB LowFree: 769992 kB SwapTotal: 779144 kB SwapFree: 779144 kB Dirty: 952 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 250552 kB Mapped: 92132 kB Slab: 17792 kB SReclaimable: 10588 kB SUnreclaim: 7204 kB PageTables: 2480 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB WritebackTmp: 0 kB CommitLimit: 2028380 kB Committed_AS: 744304 kB VmallocTotal: 122880 kB VmallocUsed: 53328 kB VmallocChunk: 57844 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 HugePages_Surp: 0 Hugepagesize: 4096 kB DirectMap4k: 32760 kB DirectMap4M: 872448 kB
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