Possible to expand user memory?

[BIGtrouble77]

I tried searching for this one as it must have come up in the past, but came up empty handed.

I noticed in the system monitor that my 'user memory' is capped off at 885.4mb. How would I go about increasing that number significantly? I have 2gb of memory in my laptop and would like to have most of that available.

Now I assume a limitation of 885.4mb is set per user so that other users logged in have some memory too, but that scenario will be rare as this is a laptop.

Any ideas?
Thanks,
-BT

[varunus]

A quick and painless fix to your RAM problem:

Just open up synaptic, and install the linux-686 package and all its dependencies. then reboot and choose the 686 version at the GRUB boot prompt.

This will let all of your RAM be used.

There is no such thing as user memory...

[BIGtrouble77]

A quick and painless fix to your RAM problem:

Just open up synaptic, and install the linux-686 package and all its dependencies. then reboot and choose the 686 version at the GRUB boot prompt.

This will let all of your RAM be used.

There is no such thing as user memory...
Is this an updated kernel?

I have an Athlon64 based laptop- is this is an alternate kernel, will it support powernow and 3dnow?

Thanks,
-BT

[dabear]

Hi, please read this thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/announcement.php?f=58) before posting!

[BIGtrouble77]

Hi, please read this thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/announcement.php?f=58) before posting!
crap, maybe one of the mods can move it.

sorry.

Edit: btw, the post above worked perfectly.