8.4 and PAE addressing

[Jonas Norlander]

On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Tony Sivori <TonySivori at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 04 Apr 2009 22:44:17 +0200, Jonas Norlander wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 9:06 PM, Tony Sivori <TonySivori at yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>> On Sat, 04 Apr 2009 19:27:16 +0200, Jonas Norlander wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Tony Sivori wrote:
>>>>> I've done a substantial amount of Googling, and it appears that PAE
>>>>> addressing is not enabled in the Kubuntu kernel.
>>>>
>>>> I have kubuntu 8.10 on a amd quad core 9600 with 4 GB of ram and all
>>>> can be used. Dont know how it is in 8.04.
>>>
>>> Are you using 64 bit or 32 bit?
>>>
>>>
>> I run 64bit
>
> That's why you see all your ram. I'm on 32 bit with no Physical Address
> Extension.
>

You are so right I didn't think on that.

But what preventing you from installing 64-bit Kubuntu? The only thing
that I have had some trouble with is java and flash but thats much
better now then one year ago.

/ Jonas