RAM shows less

[Jatin K]

On Tuesday 11 May 2010 05:27 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
> Jatin K wrote:
>    
>> Dear All
>>
>> I've a new Dell Inspiton 1564 laptop with 1GB graphics card and 4GB DDR3
>> RAM, FC 12 64bit installed on it , but in system information tab it
>> shows 3.7GB usable RAM. My Question is "what about the remaining RAM ??"
>> is it shared with graphics card ? then what is the meaning of dedicated
>> RAM of my graphics card ( if graphics card shares my installed ram module )
>>
>> any idea ??
>>      
> Maybe the integrated graphics card is still stealing some RAM (256MiB?)
> even if you don't use it.
> A quick Google search of your "1564" appears to confirm that the
> integrated graphics card is not useable.

integrated graphics card is not usable ??? means ?????
can understand what you wanna say

>   We can not be sure that
> the BIOS is well written, though.
>
> /var/log/dmesg may contain hints.
>
>    
please have a look at the output[1] on "cat /var/log/dmesg"

[1] http://cl1p.net/jk/

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