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- From: kfogel@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Karl Fogel)
- Subject: Problems when I tried to add RAM for X... help?
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 00:44:51 GMT
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- Once before I tried to go from 4 megs of RAM to 8 (to speed up
- X under Linux, and to speed up compilations...). After I did this
- (added 4 more 1 meg SIMMS), X would hang and every sync dumped a core
- in the /dev directory. Otherwise everything else worked. So I took out
- the four new SIMMS, and X was still broken! In the end I had to
- completely wipe Linux from my hard drive and start from scratch. I
- stayed with 4 megs until I had everything working again. Now X works
- again, as does sync, but I am leery of adding another 4 megs of RAM to
- go to 8, although I now have the money to try again.
- Does anyone know of a problem that might show up if I add some
- more RAM, or was this whole thing very likely a fluke? If you have
- successfully added RAM without affecting Linux adversely, I would love
- to hear from you! I will probably give it a shot, even though I risk
- losing my X again, but would love to have some feedback before I do.
- Do I need to change anything in /dev when I add RAM, or recompile the
- kernel, or something?
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- Thanks,
-
- -karl
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