[ltp] Re: Thinkpad T43 1875-M1U 2GB of Ram only 1.8GB detected.

[Evgeni Golov]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:01:40 -0500 Lee Mathers wrote:

> My system only detects 1.8GB of ram using any 2.6.x or 2.4.x series 
> kernel.  memtest86 gives similar results although I can force the issue 
> and quickly crash the machine by having  memtest86 probe the ram.  
> Similar results if I pass a mem= parameter to the kernel on boot.  
> WindowsXP SP2 detects all 2GB of ram?  I am also a bit unsure what this 
> refers to "[   90.986612] agpgart: Detected 7932K stolen memory"  
> however it does seem to be unrelated as everything works as expected 
> including Compriz...

Your TP uses 256MB of RAM for the Intel graphics chip, as this has no
own memory. You could reduce this in the bios, but not to zero.

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