RAM shows less

[Jatin K]

On Wednesday 12 May 2010 04:41 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Jatin K wrote:
>    
>> 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/
>>
>>      
> The log seems to be missing all of the memory stuff at the beginning, lines with
> terms like 820e and MTRR in them.

ok,

can you have a look at attached file ??? is it ok ... does it says 
something usable ???

>   But I'm buying that it's possible to be
> related to the built in graphics. Does the BIOS give you a way to disable that?
>    
No, there are no any option to set the memory Enable/Disable for the 
graphics .


> Having run on 16MB system with early Linux versions, I have to say it's only a
> few hundred MB, but... it is.
>
>    


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