HI Liam/Bob On 11 June 2010 13:44, Liam Proven <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Bob Giles <[email protected]> wrote: >> I am running 32bit Lucid on a Lenovo 3000 N200 laptop with 4Gb ram. > > If you have a 64-bit chip - which seems /extremely/ likely if the > machine takes 4GB - then assuming that you actually want to /use/ all > of your 4 gig, you should be running the 64-bit version. 32-bit PC OSs > can't access more than about 3¼-3½ gig of RAM; the rest is > inaccessible because the address space is occupied by the graphics > card & other devices. >
Actually you can. Install linux-generic-image-pae package and you'll get the PAE enabled kernel which allows 32-bit Ubuntu to see more than 3 and a bit GB of RAM. Over 4GB indeed. > All *three*? What 3 are these? nvidia-glx-173 - Transitional package for nvidia-glx-173 nvidia-glx-180 - Transitional package for nvidia-glx-185 nvidia-glx-96 - Transitional package for nvidia-glx-96 nvidia-glx-185 - Transitional package for nvidia-glx-185 Four even! :D Cheers, Al. -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
