On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 20:50 +0530, Vivek J. Patankar wrote:
I have a similar problem with my laptop (410MB detected instead of
512MB) and dmesg told me why. I still haven't found a resolution to it
though.
The first obvious thing that springs to mind: RAM being divided between
some for the graphics card and the rest for the system.