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Conway S. Smith wrote: |
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> Marcel Treis wrote: |
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> >Gavin Seddon wrote: |
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> >>Hi, |
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> >>I have decided to put 2 * 1Gig cards in my box. Will Gentoo accept this |
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> >>immediately? |
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> >>Gavin |
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> >You probably need to recompile your Kernel with support for more than 1 |
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> >Gig Ram: |
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> >"Processor type and features" > "High Memory Support (4GB)" |
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> That's only necessary for 32-bit kernels. If your Processor family is |
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> set to AMD-Opteron/Athlon64 (CONFIG_MK8), which I think is a fairly safe |
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> assumption on this list, then you automatically get support for well |
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> over 4GiB of memory (I can't remember exactly how much is supported, but |
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> it's much, much more than 4GiB), and without the performance tradeoff of |
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> the 32-bit HIGHMEM support. |
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> I've got 2 * 1GiB sticks in my box right now. Works wonderfully. |
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> Good luck, |
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> Conway S. Smith |
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That's the drawback on being amd64-fan, but still i386-user. *g* |
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