Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:13:14 +0200 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pc with 4G memory Message-ID: <gairlk$flu$1@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <137523.41269.qm@web52108.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <137523.41269.qm@web52108.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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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--
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