<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:lucida console, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Roberto,</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>I grasp the concept of reserved memory but do not understand what it's used for or what the ramifications are.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Memory reserved from 4g for the driver?</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Hmmm. It looks like that last value at the bottom goes up to 4g. Is this the culprit?</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>I'm not doing anything special with graphics... that I know of.<br></span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Here's what I get from your command.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Regards,</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>George...</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>grep 'BIOS-e820' /var/log/dmesg<br>[
0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable)<br>[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)<br>[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000d2000 - 00000000000d4000 (reserved)<br>[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000dc000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)<br>[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000bfed0000 (usable)<br>[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000bfed0000 - 00000000bfedf000 (ACPI data)<br>[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000bfedf000 - 00000000bff00000 (ACPI NVS)<br>[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000bff00000 - 00000000c0000000 (reserved)<br>[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000f0000000 - 00000000f4000000 (reserved)<br>[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)<br>[
0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fed00000 - 00000000fed00400 (reserved)<br>[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fed14000 - 00000000fed1a000 (reserved)<br>[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fed1c000 - 00000000fed90000 (reserved)<br>[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)<br>[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000ff800000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)<br></span></div><div> </div><div>"It's not what you know that hurts you, It's what you know that ain't so." Wil Rogers... Wil would say, "STIFF THE FED"!!!<br></div><div style="font-family: lucida console, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Roberto Ragusa <mail@robertoragusa.it><br><b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">To:</span></b> George R Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>; Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, November 3, 2011 3:40 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: kernel/system can't see all 4G memory<br></font><br>
On 11/03/2011 08:46 AM, George R Goffe wrote:<br>> Hi,<br>> <br>> My question is, am I missing something here?<br>> <br>> I upgraded my lenovo 60t to 4G memory and don't seem to be able to see all 4G of the upgrade.<br>> <br>> The hardware spec for this machine says it supports 4G memory.<br>> <br>> Any hints/clues/tips would be GREATLY appreciated.<br><br>x86_64, so something is happening at the hardware level (shared VGA?)<br>or BIOS level (wrong config, bugs).<br><br>What do you get with this command?<br><br> grep 'BIOS-e820' /var/log/dmesg<br><br>it will show how the memory areas have been described by the BIOS.<br><br><br>-- <br> Roberto Ragusa mail at <a target="_blank" href="http://robertoragusa.it">robertoragusa.it</a><br><br><br></div></div></div></body></html>