[ltp] Memory management

chris christensen linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Sun, 11 Mar 2001 11:17:59 -0600


I also installed the new BIOS which was supposed to fix it, to no avail.

BTW  Jens, how is 8.0 working for you? Is your mwave working okay under the
new kernel?

ChrisChristensen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jens Kirch" <jens.kirch@gmx.net>
To: <linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 10:09 AM
Subject: Re: [ltp] Memory management


> Hi,
>
> I have installed the new bios which has a fix for memory detection on my
> 600E.
> I tried it with the mandrake install cds (7.1, 7.2, 8.0 beta) but they
> still detect just 64 MB.
> I have 192MB in my machine.
> It was weird though: 7.1 and 7.2 display the memory in kB while 8.0
> displays MB on startup.
> I haven't tried to install, because i'm waiting for a new hard drive.
>
> Jens
>
> Scott Cytacki wrote:
>
> > Check out http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/tp600lnx.htm
> > Look under the Memory section.  To summarize: you have to tell linux how
> > much mem you have.
> > But check out the link for the details.
> >
> > Also of interest: the latest bios for the 600x claims to fix this
> > problem.
> > I haven't tried it yet.
> >
> > Scott
>
>
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