>
>
> > > > Machine has 32 meg RAM but poor Linux for some reason
> > > > thinks that there is only 16 MB.
> > >
> > > There is two short-term solutions :
> > > * add a line in your /etc/lilo.conf, that states :
> > > append="mem=32M"
> > > * or, get ftp://studio.via.ecp.fr/pub/linux-16M-problem.patch
>
>
> Well , I tried that patch but it did not help, Linux still
> sees on only 16 MB.
>
> But I wonder what is the difference so that windows 95 can
> find all memery without problems.
>
Well I expect this is because they (Win95's developers) asked compaq how
to ask for the real ammount of memory avalable.
> And this laptop is completely new model from compaq (120 Pentium)
> so it probably does not have very old bios.
>
It's by design, not a bug. Compaq desided that there were too many
problems with >16Mb for everyone who can ask the bios (ie dos), and that
future OS's that can work fine should ask in annother way (compaq are
alone in this I think).
You should be able to make the bios report the correct value with an
option in the bios setup. If you can't find one call compaq, and tell
them about it, they should be able to send you a utility to make it report
the correct value (or tell you exactly which option to change ;).
> Jari
>
Bryn
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