Re: Max RAM

adam jvok <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.mandrake.expert
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Jim-
Thanks - between sending the last mail and reading yours, I did use XFdrake
and that did the business just fine.
All is now good on this 6GB machine.
Much appreciated. Cheers.

On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Jim Beard <jdbeard-kTz99GpLsC/[email protected]> wrote:

> On 10/29/2010 08:12 PM, adam jvok wrote:
>
>> Thanks for your reply.
>> I installed kernel-server-latest (which has PAE), rebooted and now:
>>
>> $ cat /proc/meminfo
>> MemTotal:        6224364 kB
>>
>> Which is great, thank you.
>> My only obvious issue is that this kernel has no driver for my nvidia
>> card,
>> so I guess I'll build one...
>>
>
> Try installing the nvidia package using XFdrake.  You will have to have the
> kernel-devel package for the exact kernel, but dkms should build and install
> the drivers needed.
>
> Cheers!
>
> jim b.
>
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