Clive Menzies wrote: > > > Michelle Konzack wrote: >> Am 2009-07-21 01:03:08, schrieb James Brown: >> >>> There is 3071MB RAM I can see in my BIOS. >>> >> ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ >> >> IF THE BIOS does only find 3 GByte, then tere is something wrong with >> your Laptop or the BIOS and this has nothing to do with Debian. >> > This is probably irrelevant but it may help someone searching the > archives. I bought a Thinkpad X61 with 4GB a while back. At first it > would'NT recognise more than 3gb on either windows or squeeze. I > checked the BIOS which was registering 4Gb. I had many other things > to do and left it for a while. The windows deficiency must have been > fixed in the Vista (shudder) SP1 update but the Debian shortfall > continued and I've been following this thread. > > I use aptitude and found the following kernel package: > linux-image-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem > > Installed it, rebooted and hey presto,cat /proc/meminfo gives: > > MemTotal: 4074284 kB > > Thanks. You guys are so great. > > Regards > > Clive
Sorry I messed up. It only saw 3Gb before the kernel upgrade My bad
