[ubuntu-uk] Increasing start up problems since upgrade to 10.04

[Alan Pope]

HI Liam/Bob

On 11 June 2010 13:44, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Bob Giles <thecorfiot at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am running 32bit Lucid on a Lenovo 3000 N200 laptop with 4Gb ram.
>
> If you have a 64-bit chip - which seems /extremely/ likely if the
> machine takes 4GB - then assuming that you actually want to /use/ all
> of your 4 gig, you should be running the 64-bit version. 32-bit PC OSs
> can't access more than about 3¼-3½ gig of RAM; the rest is
> inaccessible because the address space is occupied by the graphics
> card & other devices.
>

Actually you can.

Install linux-generic-image-pae package and you'll get the PAE enabled
kernel which allows 32-bit Ubuntu to see more than 3 and a bit GB of
RAM. Over 4GB indeed.

> All *three*? What 3 are these?

nvidia-glx-173 - Transitional package for nvidia-glx-173
nvidia-glx-180 - Transitional package for nvidia-glx-185
nvidia-glx-96 - Transitional package for nvidia-glx-96
nvidia-glx-185 - Transitional package for nvidia-glx-185

Four even! :D

Cheers,
Al.