[ltp] R52 memory upgrade semi-detected...

Richard Neill linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 07 Jun 2006 05:54:25 +0100


m h wrote:
> I bought a gig of pc2-4200 ram for my R52 to upgrade from 512Meg to
> 1.5G.  It appears that the BIOS detects the memory and reports 1.5G.
> 
> But linux (gentoo) does not.  "top" only shows 904724k memory as does
> /proc/meminfo....
> 
> Does anyone have any hints as to what to do?
> 
> It's Centon memory (compatible with ddr2-533 and ddr2-400).....
> 

Quick quess: have you compiled your kernel with support for high-memory?

Richard