On Wednesday 20 June 2007 16:29, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Am 2007-06-15 17:33:04, schrieb Nigel Henry:
> > That's interesting. I was booted up in Lenny using the 2.6.11 kernel, and
> > usually see Gkrellm showing 885Mb of my 1Gb RAM. I've since rebooted with
> > the 2.6.17 kernel , and with that kernel, Gkrellm is showing the full
> > 1005Mb of RAM. The onboard graphics card is a Cyberbladei1 (trident
> > driver).
> >
> > Quite why booting with the 2.6.11 shows 885Mb, and booting with the
> > 2.6.17 shows 1005Mb is a bit bizarre. Probably some kernel thingy.
>
> Was the 2.6.11 kernel an 386 or 686 one and
> now the 2.6.17 a k7 or something like this?

2.6.11-1-386
2.6.17-2-686
>
> Then it is normal if HIGHMEM4 was not enabled,
> since CPUS's up to 686 have general not more
> then 768 MByte of ram.
>
> Only the newer Mainboards P3 and higher have
> HIGHMEM4 since all manboards support at least
> 2 GByte of memory

Mainboard is on an Aiii-friend machine. Celeron 1.3GHz CPU. Board is able to 
handle 1GB RAM max, and that's what's on it.
System board: CM33-TC Rev. B+
>
> Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
>     Michelle Konzack
>     Systemadministrator
>     Tamay Dogan Network
>     Debian GNU/Linux Consultant

Nigel.


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