Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:44:18AM +0400, James Brown wrote: > Yes, you are right. > The technical support of the Acer corporation have informed me that it > is impossible to get all my memory with Intel 945GM Chipset. > I think they (the Acer company team) are frauds becouse I paid my money > for

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-23 Thread James Brown
Stefan Monnier wrote: >> I don't have time to check your machine's specs, but many chipsets of >> a few years ago only recognized a maximum of 3GB (even though they >> correctly work with 4GB installed). My Thinkpad T60 is among them. >> In this case, there's nothing you can do about it, short of

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-22 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 04:32:12PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Looks like it, indeed: > http://www.ec.kingston.com/ecom/configurator_new/modelsinfo.asp?SysID=33507&mfr=Acer&model=TravelMate+3040+Series+3043%2C+3044&search_type=&root=us&LinkBack=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kingston.com&Sys=33507-Acer-Travel

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-22 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I don't have time to check your machine's specs, but many chipsets of > a few years ago only recognized a maximum of 3GB (even though they > correctly work with 4GB installed). My Thinkpad T60 is among them. > In this case, there's nothing you can do about it, short of getting > another machine.

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-22 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 06:51:22PM +0400, James Brown wrote: > Do you think is it possible to get all 4GB even the BIOS doesn't "see" > all installed memory? > P.S. I have send request to the technical support of the Acer > corporation concirning the matter of my BIOS (becouse I upgraided my > BIOS

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-22 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:23:13PM +0400, James Brown wrote: > ~$ dmesg | grep BIOS > [0.00] BIOS-provided physical RAM map: > [0.00] BIOS-e820: - 0009f800 (usable) > [0.00] BIOS-e820: 0009f800 - 000a (reserved) > [0.00]

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-22 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:30:09PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > 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 recognise more than 3gb on either windows or squeeze. I checked > the BIOS which was r

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-22 Thread James Brown
Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:30:09PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > >> 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 recognise more than 3gb on either windows or squeeze.

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-22 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:23:13PM +0400, James Brown wrote: > ~$ dmesg | grep BIOS > [0.00] BIOS-provided physical RAM map: > [0.00] BIOS-e820: - 0009f800 (usable) That is 653312 bytes = 638 KB > [0.00] BIOS-e820: 0009f800 - 000a

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-22 Thread James Brown
Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:08:58AM +0400, James Brown wrote: > >> I have a laptop Acer TravelMate 3043WTMi under Lenny AMD64 with 4GD RAM. >> But the system "see" only 3GB: >> dmesg |grep Memory >> [0.004000] Memory: 3081184k/3136000k available (2225k kernel code, >

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-21 Thread Vasilios Karaklioumis
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 ha

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-21 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2009-07-21 22:30:09, schrieb Clive Menzies: > 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 recognise more than 3gb on either windows or squeeze. I checked > the BIOS which was registering 4Gb.

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-21 Thread Clive Menzies
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 Lapt

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-21 Thread Clive Menzies
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

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:08:58AM +0400, James Brown wrote: > I have a laptop Acer TravelMate 3043WTMi under Lenny AMD64 with 4GD RAM. > But the system "see" only 3GB: > dmesg |grep Memory > [0.004000] Memory: 3081184k/3136000k available (2225k kernel code, > 54428k reserved, 1080k data, 392k

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-21 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2009-07-21 03:10:14, schrieb James Brown: > What are the kernel boot parameters? mem=4G or if G is not working mem=4096M Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consultant -- Linux-User #28013

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-21 Thread Michelle Konzack
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. Thanks, Greetings and nice D

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-21 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hi James, Am 2009-07-21 00:08:58, schrieb James Brown: > I have a laptop Acer TravelMate 3043WTMi under Lenny AMD64 with 4GD RAM. > But the system "see" only 3GB: > dmesg |grep Memory > [0.004000] Memory: 3081184k/3136000k available (2225k kernel code, > 54428k reserved, 1080k data, 392k init)

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-21 Thread Bjørn Mork
James Brown writes: > There is 3071MB RAM I can see in my BIOS. I must be missing something, but let me ask the stupid question: Why do you think Linux should something else? Bjørn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
tyler writes: > James Brown writes: > >> I have a laptop Acer TravelMate 3043WTMi under Lenny AMD64 with 4GD RAM. >> But the system "see" only 3GB: >> dmesg |grep Memory >> [0.004000] Memory: 3081184k/3136000k available (2225k kernel code, >> 54428k reserved, 1080k data, 392k init) >> $ cat

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-21 Thread josé Santos
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:36:25PM +0100, tyler wrote: > James Brown writes: > > > I have a laptop Acer TravelMate 3043WTMi under Lenny AMD64 with 4GD RAM. > > But the system "see" only 3GB: > > dmesg |grep Memory > > [0.004000] Memory: 3081184k/3136000k available (2225k kernel code, > > 5442

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-21 Thread tyler
James Brown writes: > I have a laptop Acer TravelMate 3043WTMi under Lenny AMD64 with 4GD RAM. > But the system "see" only 3GB: > dmesg |grep Memory > [0.004000] Memory: 3081184k/3136000k available (2225k kernel code, > 54428k reserved, 1080k data, 392k init) > $ cat /proc/meminfo > MemTotal:

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
James Brown writes: > Victor Padro wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 3:08 PM, James Brown wrote: >> >>> I have a laptop Acer TravelMate 3043WTMi under Lenny AMD64 with 4GD RAM. >>> But the system "see" only 3GB: >>> dmesg |grep Memory >>> [0.004000] Memory: 3081184k/3136000k available (222

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I have a laptop Acer TravelMate 3043WTMi under Lenny AMD64 with 4GD RAM. > But the system "see" only 3GB: > dmesg |grep Memory > [0.004000] Memory: 3081184k/3136000k available (2225k kernel code, > 54428k reserved, 1080k data, 392k init) > $ cat /proc/meminfo > MemTotal: 3088108 kB > H

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-20 Thread Bob Proulx
James Brown wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > apt-get install memtest86+ > > It see only 3GB, not 4GB. I looked up the Acer TravelMate 3040 series and supposedly it has two 200-pin sodimm slots. This is an obvious question but are you sure your two slots both have a 2G dimm in them? Is it possibl

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-20 Thread James Brown
Mark Allums wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: >> James Brown wrote: >>> Bob Proulx wrote: Hmm... I recommend installing memtest86+ and then seeing how much memory it detects at boot time. apt-get install memtest86+ This should automatically install a grub boot entry and be

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-20 Thread James Brown
Bob Proulx wrote: > James Brown wrote: > >> Bob Proulx wrote: >> >>> Hmm... I recommend installing memtest86+ and then seeing how much >>> memory it detects at boot time. >>> >>> apt-get install memtest86+ >>> >>> This should automatically install a grub boot entry and be very easy >>> t

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-20 Thread Mark Allums
Bob Proulx wrote: James Brown wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Hmm... I recommend installing memtest86+ and then seeing how much memory it detects at boot time. apt-get install memtest86+ This should automatically install a grub boot entry and be very easy to boot into afterward. I am thinking it

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-20 Thread Philipp Hagemeister
James Brown wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: >> apt-get install memtest86+ > I have installed this packege but I can find neither a man-page of it > nor the help information. There is no manpage for memtest86+'s options because it is not a program running on Linux, but a program running directly on th

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-20 Thread Bob Proulx
James Brown wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Hmm... I recommend installing memtest86+ and then seeing how much > > memory it detects at boot time. > > > > apt-get install memtest86+ > > > > This should automatically install a grub boot entry and be very easy > > to boot into afterward. I am think

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-20 Thread Victor Padro
> There is 3071MB RAM I can see in my BIOS. my guess is again that video is eating all that Gigabyte. > But I have Windows XP pre-installed on my laptop too with some acer > laptop special utilities. And such utility "see" all my 4GB under > Windows XP (the Windows XP "see" only 3GB too, but it i

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-20 Thread James Brown
Andrés Reyes Douglas wrote: > > hi, > my Lenny 'uname -ra' is: > > Linux m0702deeareyesd 2.6.26-1-amd64 #1 SMP Fri Mar 13 17:46:45 UTC > 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > [0.004000] Memory: 3913828k/4849664k available (2226k kernel code, > 137744k reserved, 1082k data, 392k init) > > I've 4Gb without

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-20 Thread James Brown
Bob Proulx wrote: > James Brown wrote: > >> I have a laptop Acer TravelMate 3043WTMi under Lenny AMD64 with 4GD RAM. >> But the system "see" only 3GB: >> dmesg |grep Memory >> [0.004000] Memory: 3081184k/3136000k available (2225k kernel code, >> 54428k reserved, 1080k data, 392k init) >>

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-20 Thread Victor Padro
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Victor Padro wrote: > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 3:41 PM, James Brown wrote: >> Victor Padro wrote: >>> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 3:08 PM, James Brown wrote: >>> I have a laptop Acer TravelMate 3043WTMi under Lenny AMD64 with 4GD RAM. But the system "see" only

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-20 Thread James Brown
Victor Padro wrote: > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Victor Padro wrote: > >> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 3:41 PM, James Brown wrote: >> >>> Victor Padro wrote: >>> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 3:08 PM, James Brown wrote: > I have a laptop Acer TravelMate 3043WTM

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-20 Thread Victor Padro
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 3:41 PM, James Brown wrote: > Victor Padro wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 3:08 PM, James Brown wrote: >> >>> I have a laptop Acer TravelMate 3043WTMi under Lenny AMD64 with 4GD RAM. >>> But the system "see" only 3GB: >>> dmesg |grep Memory >>> [    0.004000] Memory: 30811

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-20 Thread Bob Proulx
James Brown wrote: > I have a laptop Acer TravelMate 3043WTMi under Lenny AMD64 with 4GD RAM. > But the system "see" only 3GB: > dmesg |grep Memory > [0.004000] Memory: 3081184k/3136000k available (2225k kernel code, 54428k > reserved, 1080k data, 392k init) Hmm... I recommend installing mem

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-20 Thread James Brown
Victor Padro wrote: > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 3:08 PM, James Brown wrote: > >> I have a laptop Acer TravelMate 3043WTMi under Lenny AMD64 with 4GD RAM. >> But the system "see" only 3GB: >> dmesg |grep Memory >> [0.004000] Memory: 3081184k/3136000k available (2225k kernel code, >> 54428k rese

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-20 Thread Victor Padro
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 3:08 PM, James Brown wrote: > I have a laptop Acer TravelMate 3043WTMi under Lenny AMD64 with 4GD RAM. > But the system "see" only 3GB: > dmesg |grep Memory > [    0.004000] Memory: 3081184k/3136000k available (2225k kernel code, > 54428k reserved, 1080k data, 392k init) > $

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-20 Thread James Brown
Andrés Reyes Douglas wrote: > > Please send your: > > uname -ra > > Quoting James Brown : > > > I have a laptop Acer TravelMate 3043WTMi under Lenny AMD64 with 4GD RAM. > > But the system "see" only 3GB: > > dmesg |grep Memory > > [0.004000] Memory: 3081184k/3136000k available (2225k kernel cod

I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-20 Thread James Brown
I have a laptop Acer TravelMate 3043WTMi under Lenny AMD64 with 4GD RAM. But the system "see" only 3GB: dmesg |grep Memory [0.004000] Memory: 3081184k/3136000k available (2225k kernel code, 54428k reserved, 1080k data, 392k init) $ cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 3088108 kB How can I get all