On Friday 15 June 2007 18:40, Bonnel Christophe wrote: > I remember an old option in kernel that asked you which size of ram you > think to be used. This option seems to have disappeared now. > > If you want a 2.6.11 kernel, try to compile the kernel and search for > such an option... > > Christophe
It was mainly an observation between the 2 kernels. I don't particularly want to use the 2.6.11, but the 2.6.17 uses udev, and is hit and miss as to the ordering of my 2 devices that use /dev/video. Sometimes the TV card is set as /dev/video0 (which is correct), and the webcam as /dev/video1 (also correct). Othertimes these are inverted. I have no such problems with the 2.6.11 kernel, and as soon as I can find out the correct udev rule to write to correct this problem with the 2.6.17 kernel I will use that kernel. Anyway. That's for another thread. Nigel. <Read the stuff below first, then go to the top> > > Nigel Henry a écrit : > > On Friday 15 June 2007 16:46, arijit sarkar wrote: > >> On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 08:02 -0500, Gary Rosenfeldt wrote: > >>> Hello, > >>> > >>> I recently installed Debian Etch on my desktop system. My mobo is an > >>> abit nf-7s with nforce2 chipset. I have 1 gig of ram installed but > >>> debian only sees 885.5 MiB of my ram. Fortunately, I'm not > >>> experiencing any stability issues. Anyone know the cause of this > >>> oddity. > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> > >>> Gary > >> > >> It's obvious, your motherboard has 128mb shared memory. So debian sess > >> only 885.5 mb. > >> I also have 1gig RAM and 128 mb as shared graphics memory. My 'system > >> monitor' shows ~885mb. > >> check out your BIOS settings. :-) > >> > >> -- > >> Arijit Sarkar > >> Kolkata, India > > > > 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. > > > > Nigel.
