[Gllug] find how much RAM is available.

[Martin N Stevens]

On 9/28/05, Pooly <pooly7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a bit confused, I've unscrew my laptop to check if I can add some
> RAM, and on the one I have, it's written, 256Mo,DDR,333,CL2.5. But
> dmesg gives me :
> Memory: 186036k/195520k available (1632k kernel code, 8856k reserved, 696k data,
>  180k init, 0k highmem)
> So, 256 gainst 196Mo... Which one should I believe ?
> Should I go in the bios, tweaking it ? or add a param to Grub when I boot ?
> Last, where is the best place to buy RAM in London ?
> thank you,

Thats sound like the thieving bios is stealing ram for you graphics card.

Regards

Budgester
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