The machine in question is made by Cleo (a Taiwanese ODM - at least mine is), and there is supposedly a BIOS upgrade that fixes the memory problem. But I haven't picked up the courage to install try it because it requires a non-Linux OS to install it, and one would have to do some experimentation to see how to update it with Linux.
I am not sure a kernel patch would work, because the BIOS has to turn on the memory to make it read-writable (or so I understand). -- Bhaskar On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 5:45 AM, BongoMan <pas...@bongosoft.de> wrote: > Hi, > > it's a pity, I had to ask a second time to get an answer from samsung, > and that is what they said: > > Von unserer Seite aus werden nur 32-Bit Betriebssysteme ausgeliefert und nur > Treiber für 32-Bit Versionen > angeboten. Daher werden auch nur diese unterstützt. Uns ist kein Fehler in der > Speicheradressierung der > E152-Serie bekannt, weshalb auch nicht davon auszugehen ist, dass ein Bios > Update für dieses erscheinen > wird. > > for those who don't understand german, they say they're only supporting > 32 bit systems and that they don't believe that there is a bug in memory > management for the E152 series. I don't believe that, because I read at > some other place that even Vista 64-bit doesn't want to install on this > laptop. I liked samsung before, but that will be the last samsung thing > I bought.... > > If samsung doesn't want to correct the bug, is there maybe a possibility > for a kernel-patch as a sort of workaround? > > -- > 64-bit Intrepid automatic permanent reboot loop related to having exactly 4GB > of memory > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/272530 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- 64-bit Intrepid automatic permanent reboot loop related to having exactly 4GB of memory https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/272530 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
