El 23/09/13 18:35, Cristian Rodríguez escribió:

El 23/09/13 18:13, C escribió:

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This is odd. I'm not sure how to diagnose it.

I've got an Acer Iconia W700 laptop/tablet. http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/model-datasheet/NT.L0QAA.005

I just installed oS 13.1 on it and noticed the memory wasn't reported correctly... I was seeing 1.8GB instead of the 4GB it actually has.

So... as part of my testing before asking on the ML, I installed oS 12.3. It's also showing only 1.8GB.

Anyone have any tips on what might be the issue here?

Did you installed a 32 bit version ? why ?

Also the specs says : "Graphics Memory Accessibility Shared" how much memory are you sharing with the graphics ? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

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On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:38 PM, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:

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El 23/09/13 18:35, Cristian Rodríguez escribió:

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El 23/09/13 18:13, C escribió:

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This is odd. I'm not sure how to diagnose it.

I've got an Acer Iconia W700 laptop/tablet. http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/model-datasheet/NT.L0QAA.005

I just installed oS 13.1 on it and noticed the memory wasn't reported correctly... I was seeing 1.8GB instead of the 4GB it actually has.

So... as part of my testing before asking on the ML, I installed oS 12.3. It's also showing only 1.8GB.

Anyone have any tips on what might be the issue here?

Did you installed a 32 bit version ? why ?

Yes I installed the 32 bit version. With a system with 4GB of RAM, does it really make a difference? Why shouldn't it be OK to run it on a 32 bit install?

I haven't booted a 64 bit ISO yet... I don't have one right now, I'm on a slow internet connection, so getting another ISO will take a while.

What I have tried is openSUSE 12.3 32 bit and 13.1 Beta 1 32 bit. Both report 1.8GB of system RAM.

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Also the specs says : "Graphics Memory Accessibility Shared" how much memory are you sharing with the graphics ?

According to the EFI/BIOS it states 4096MB total RAM, 128 MB Video memory. There is no way that I can see to change it (increase or decrease) so what it is, is all that it is. The system was originally running Windows 8 (wiped it to install openSUSE) and it reported 4GB.

A 32-bit OS cannot access more than approximately 3GB memory without some funky workarounds. This is true in both Windows and Linux. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_GB_barrier HTH, Jeffrey -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 6:06 AM, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:

В Tue, 24 Sep 2013 00:14:37 +0200 C пишет:

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Yes I installed the 32 bit version. With a system with 4GB of RAM, does it really make a difference?

Part of address space below 4G is reserved by BIOS to access peripheral devices. How much - depends on manufacturer. The only way to use memory that overlaps this range is to remap it above 4G.

Yes I'm aware of that. What tripped me up is that I was under the impression that PAE was enabled on all openSUSE kernels, so it shouldn't be a problem anyway. I've installed 32 bit openSUSE on various systems with anywhere between 1GB and 32 GB, and I've always been able to see all of the available RAM. I've never had to explicitly select the PAE kernel for things to work. What I did notice is that when I'm installing this time, I get kernel-default. If I switch that over to kernel-pae, or kernel-desktop, I see all of the RAM. So... apparently PAE is not enabled on all openSUSE kernels like I thought... kernel-default does not have PAE enabled, kernel-desktop and kernel-pae do have it enabled. For whatever reason, instead of getting the usual (for me) kernel-dektop on install, I got kernel-default. Switching over to kernel-desktop "solved" the problem. C. -- openSUSE 12.3 i686 KDE 4.11 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org