[Novalug] T61 laptop

David Raleigh Arnold dra at openguitar.com
Tue Nov 13 14:13:07 EST 2007


On Tuesday 13 November 2007 11:12:30 Joel Fouse wrote:
> No, you're not wrong.  I have a dell d820 w/ 4Gb, I'm running Gentoo
> amd64, and I only see just over 3.  There's a bios patch out I haven't
> applied yet to bump it up to something like 3.2 or so (don't recall).
> Point is, you need both an OS that can use it /and/ a bios that will let
> you see it all.

Whoa!  Even I know that linux doesn't always use the bios.  Just because the 
bios can't see it, does that necessarily mean that the kernel can't see it, 
and use it?  daveA


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