From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 24 9:42:15 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5FA537B401 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 09:42:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from apollo.laserfence.net (apollo.laserfence.net [196.44.69.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7144043F75 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 09:42:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from will@unfoldings.net) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by apollo.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18xVxX-0002OD-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 19:42:07 +0200 Received: from prometheus-p0.datel.laserfence.net ([192.168.255.1] helo=prometheus.home.laserfence.net) by apollo.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18xVxJ-0002Nz-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 19:41:55 +0200 Received: from phoenix.home.laserfence.net ([192.168.0.2]) by prometheus.home.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18xVxF-0006GQ-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 19:41:49 +0200 Received: from will by phoenix.home.laserfence.net with local (Exim 4.10) id 18xVxE-0000VZ-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 19:41:48 +0200 From: Willie Viljoen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Forcing memory detection with MAXMEM? Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 19:41:48 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200303241941.48858.will@unfoldings.net> X-Spam-Score: (/) X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *18xVxJ-0002Nz-00*YVALR1p1.5c* X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020422 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-15.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,SIGNATURE_LONG_SPARSE,USER_AGENT autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hey, After much struggle with the Asus P3V133 running an Intel processor with weird multiplier lock (mentioned on -hardware a few weeks back), I've fitted a second hand Abit BE6 I managed to pick up cheap... This thing has an ugly intel BX chipset which only recognizes half of my RAM (two 256MB modules read as 128MB each). This is a known issue with the BX. If I set MAXMEM in my kernel configuration to force FreeBSD to detect 512MB, would it work, despite the BX being crap? Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) will@unfoldings.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message