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PostPosted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 10:53 pm    Post subject: RAM problem Reply with quote

I just added 1 gig of ram to my system putting it at a total of 2 gigs but gentoo only sees 1 gig. Does anyone know what I need to do to allow gentoo to see the 2 gigs. My bios does recognize 2 gigs

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 12:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Where do you see that Gentoo only sees 1 Gig? :)
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 3:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Build yourself a kernel with highmem support.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 3:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Code:
Mem:    906136k total,   887044k used,    19092k free,    23820k buffers


High mem support says 4 gig and 64 gig should it be built in for 2gig... from what ive read the kernel (2.6.17) supports 2 gig
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 4:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Do it anyway.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 10:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

barnthouse wrote:
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Code:
Mem:    906136k total,   887044k used,    19092k free,    23820k buffers


High mem support says 4 gig and 64 gig should it be built in for 2gig... from what ive read the kernel (2.6.17) supports 2 gig

Nope you've clearly not built in highmem support. 896MB is lowmem on i386 arch.
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 4:09 pm    Post subject: [Solved] Reply with quote

Built in high mem support and worked perfect

Code:
Mem:   2075640k total,   290420k used,  1785220k free,     7864k buffers



Thanks for the help


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PostPosted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 5:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cool :) Don't forget to add [Solved] to your subject :)
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 8:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

... had the same problem, high memory support worked.
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