Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:22:22 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Paul Wootton <paul@fletchermoorland.co.uk> Subject: Re: real memory falsely reports 8G, BIOS & avail memory reports 1G Message-ID: <201008111822.o7BIMM1R053210@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:32:35 -0000." <4C626E33.6030509@fletchermoorland.co.uk>
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Ref. http://berklix.com/~jhs/hardware/laptops/novatech-8355/ I wrote > > A laptop here emits a puzzlingly dmesg to both 8.1-RC2 & 8.1-RELEASE: > > real memory = 8572108800 (8175 MB) > > avail memory = 1018789888 (971 MB) > > BIOS reckons it has 1G. No panel to unscrew to inspect memory. > > I don't beleive 8G Thanks to off list responses from Julian Elischer & Paul Wootton :-) dmidecode --type memory # /usr/ports/sysutils/dmidecode/ shows this laptop not returning good output, just # dmidecode 2.10 SMBIOS 2.3 present. Wrong DMI structures count: 43 announced, only 23 decoded. Well, laptop does work, X & audio etc :-) Source for me to look at later: vi -c/reasonable /sys/amd64/amd64/machdep.c Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail in plain text, Not HTML, quoted-printable & base 64 dumped with spam. Avoid top posting, It cripples itemised cumulative responses.
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