Re: Thinkpad 600 memory woes

Riley Williams (rhw@MemAlpha.CX)
Sat, 17 Jul 1999 17:11:48 +0100 (GMT)


Hi Peter.

>> If I try to force the memory size with mem=128M

> Try mem=127M. I forget what the issue was, but this worked for
> me. (Actually I used mem=95M with 96M of installed DRAM.) I
> think this was mentioned on one of the Thinkpad 600 pages linked
> from the main linux-laptop page.

> ALSA has a sound driver that works.

This could be related to one of my systems - the BIOS grabs the top 4k
of RAM for its own use, so the actual limit is 4k less than the amount
of RAM installed - in my case, 131068k of a 128M machine.

Whilst your 127M also works, it leaves 1020k of unused RAM in the
process...

Best wishes from Riley.

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