From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IiUFw-0007uI-F1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:13:40 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l9IC0WDO000962; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:00:32 GMT Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l9IC0VDk000921 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:00:31 GMT Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IiU2z-0002kV-MX for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:00:17 +0000 Received: from i165182.directconnect.no ([82.148.165.182]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:00:17 +0000 Received: from evert by i165182.directconnect.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:00:17 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org From: Evert Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: 965 chipset and 2 DIMM slots will never give 4GB available? Is that correct? Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:54:20 +0200 Organization: POboxes Message-ID: References: <299eu4-vih.ln1@poboxes.info> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: i165182.directconnect.no User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070806 SeaMonkey/1.1.4 In-Reply-To: <299eu4-vih.ln1@poboxes.info> Sender: news Cc: 0@ciao.gmane.org, 0@ciao.gmane.org Cc: 0@ciao.gmane.org, gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org X-Archives-Salt: 8ee6b36d-607d-4837-86c0-7e7b2f930db1 X-Archives-Hash: 04a45803377c3648913fb03274a8eccb Evert wrote: > Hi all! > > I was having some trouble with my AOpen EU965 barebone ( > http://xc.aopen.com.tw/Cube-m-specification%20.aspx?Auno=2209 ) and getting access to the > full 4GB I plugged into it. > > And now their helpdesk is telling me the following: > > 'Based on the specification of the chipset, it can support 8GB when using 4 DIMM slot. Our > MB had 2 slot only, so the max memory is 4GB. But if the main memory is 4GB, OS will > allocate 3~4GB memory address for onboard device. This is why you can only get 3.xGB when > you install 4GB memory. Other 965 chipset with 2 DIMM slot had the same result. The only > way is use a 4 slot MB and add the memory more then 4GB. So that the memory size in OS > will the same as you installed.' I read their text again and noticed: 'OS will allocate 3~4GB memory address for onboard device'. Wouldn't that mean it's simply a (kernel)configuration issue...? Regards, Evert PS. I added gmane.linux.gentoo.amd64 to this thread, in case it is just a config-matter. Here is 'uname -a' of the system: Linux XCcube 2.6.22-gentoo-r8 #1 SMP Thu Sep 27 23:10:28 CEST 2007 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list