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

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

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. > > > > Ano

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 [arch=

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

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. > > > >

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 c

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 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 debian-user

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 th

Re: Managing to get the 4 RAM GiB recognized easily

2012-08-15 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

Re: Managing to get the 4 RAM GiB recognized easily

2012-08-15 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

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 time

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 3

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 (assumi

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 fin

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 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 RAM. P

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 Dale 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

Re: Managing to get the 4 RAM GiB recognized easily

2012-08-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gary Dale 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 2.6.32-5-686 w

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

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 recog