From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 14 11:14:07 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EE89106564A for ; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 11:14:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06A6D8FC16 for ; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 11:14:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KepYK-0003Rd-Bk for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 11:14:04 +0000 Received: from 89-172-50-143.adsl.net.t-com.hr ([89.172.50.143]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 11:14:04 +0000 Received: from ivoras by 89-172-50-143.adsl.net.t-com.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 11:14:04 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:13:14 +0200 Lines: 49 Message-ID: References: <137523.41269.qm@web52108.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig050F64B8B11A4E1B6F71DDEF" X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 89-172-50-143.adsl.net.t-com.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) In-Reply-To: <137523.41269.qm@web52108.mail.re2.yahoo.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Sender: news Subject: Re: pc with 4G memory X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 11:14:07 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig050F64B8B11A4E1B6F71DDEF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable gahn wrote: > hello: >=20 > the machine i am using for freebsd has 4G memory. should i add follow l= ines in my customized kernel file?: >=20 > # Compile acpi in statically since the module isn't built properly. Mo= st > # machines which support large amounts of memory require acpi. > device acpi You didn't say anything relevant to your case: which version of FreeBSD are you using?, which architecture? ACPI is pre-loaded as a kernel module in all recent versions of FreeBSD and adding it directly in the kernel wouldn't accomplish anything. I assume you're using i386 (e.g. the 32-bit variant of FreeBSD). In this case you have only two options if you want to use 4 GB or more memory: * Use a PAE kernel, which works fairly well, but doesn't support kernel modules (if you are not familiar with kernel modules then you probably don't need them so ignore this). There's a pre-packaged kernel configuration named "PAE" for this. * Switch to a 64-bit version (usually, this means you have to reinstall the system using the 64-bit install CD). The 64-bit version is called "AMD64" and it also runs on Intel CPUs. --------------enig050F64B8B11A4E1B6F71DDEF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkjM8coACgkQldnAQVacBcj/rwCgwrfkI2PjTnmBEEVVP4t4Xw3k dokAoPc138D5bqTrhY7Y8QL0+hxrEcIL =qKha -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig050F64B8B11A4E1B6F71DDEF--