On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 17:45:40 +0000 andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 16:18:27 +0000 > > andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>>> Although the man page will identify as a bug that the info in > >>>> dmidecode can be completely wrong (!), this does show that I have > >>>> 1024MB of RAM - i.e. 1GB. So, somewhere betwixt BIOS and fired up > >>>> Etch I have lost recognition for 250MB-odd of memory. > >>>> > > > > > >> Thanks for your thoughts. On a note that might be related, I have > >> just watched an *.avi video from the hard-drive using Totem and was > >> drawing 100% CPU, with 42% of memory in cache. Perhaps this is > >> normal ? > >> > >> My only strange experiences with Etch thus far are: > >> * not having the full 1 GB stick recognised, > >> * the heavy use of CPU, > >> * the overflow into swap, and > >> * the occasional hard freeze when burning DVDs after converting > >> them from non-DVD formats > >> > >> > >> Perhaps these issues are related? Could I have a bad stick of RAM? > >> Is it software? Will the Knoppix and memtest86 CDs you mention > >> help sort out which is which? > >> > >> Thanks for your thoughts. > >> > >> A > >> > > > > You still didn't answer any questions about the video card. Maybe > > you have an on-board chipset with shared mem? > > > > Regards, > > Andrei > > > Sorry Andrei, that e-mail must have slipped past my radar. The > graphics card is 128MB ATI Radeon X200 Express Graphics built-in. I > think that it is a 32-bit and that memory is prefetchable > [size=256MB]. If this means that it shares memory from the RAM chip, > then yes, this would account for the missing RAM. > > A
AFAIK prefetchable means something else, but if the chip is built-in it might use shared memory. Just look through the bios settings, the amount of shared memory is usually configurable. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
