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J. Roeleveld writes: |
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> > > Probably your graphicscard uses the rest of the memory. |
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> > Oh, thanks! Did not think about this. It's an ATI Radeon HD4300 |
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> > onboard card, so I guess this must be the cause. Seems like I will |
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> > have to do the migration to 64bit then. |
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> Wonko, |
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> If your graphics card uses up the rest of the memory, moving up to |
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> 64bit won't help either. |
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Shouldn't I have 4GB minus the amount of graphics memory then, instead of |
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3G minus that? |
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But I plan to add more memory anyway. With at least 6GB, and better 8GB, |
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the graphics memory will not matter that much then. But I have to go to a |
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64bit system for this. |
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> Check in your BIOS to see if you can reduce the amount your graphics |
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> card uses. For 'normal' desktop use, around 64MB should be more then |
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> sufficient and if you have 4GB physically in your system you should |
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> then see more memory appear. |
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Good idea! Thanks, I will have a look there. |
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BTW, this is part of my lshw output: |
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*-display |
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description: VGA compatible controller |
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product: Radeon HD 3200 Graphics |
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vendor: ATI Technologies Inc |
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physical id: 5 |
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bus info: pci@0000:01:05.0 |
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version: 00 |
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width: 32 bits |
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clock: 33MHz |
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capabilities: pm msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom |
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configuration: driver=fglrx_pci latency=0 |
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resources: irq:18 memory:d0000000-dfffffff(prefetchable) |
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ioport:ee00(size=256) memory:fdfe0000-fdfeffff memory:fde00000-fdefffff |
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d0000000-dfffffff is 255M, fde00000-fdefffff is 1M. So I lose 1/4 G for |
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graphics memory. |
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Wonko |
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