Re: high memory

["Leo Gürtler" <leo dot c dot g at web dot de>]

Flavio Stanchina wrote:

Hi Flavio,

I read it there:

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problems_with_fglrx

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     Troubles with large RAM

Version 8.14.13 (and probably earlier versions) of the driver does not
seem to be able to cope with large amounts of RAM: with 512 MB it works,
with 1.5 GB it crashes the machine as soon as X is started. The problem
is present only if the fglrx kernel module is loaded, but independently
of whether (CONFIG_HIGHMEM) is enabled.

Version 8.16.20 seems to fix the problem.

A workaround is to limit RAM by adding the |mem=864m| kernel parameter.

/---end quote---

As stated above, 8.16.20 "seems" to fix the problem, but I wanted to be
sure before spending money on 1GB.

thanks,

leo

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