mjwalfredo
May 30th, 2009, 02:51 AM
I bought some more ram for my workstation to bring the total to 6GB up from 2GB recently and was sad to see that only 3.2GB was usable. Well, I just used apt-get to install the source for my current kernel and then used make oldconfig + enable PAE (64GB) to compile the kernel so it would be able to take advantage of the new memory.
It seems to have worked pefectly, I installed the packages and rebooted. I now have 6GB of usable memory and my NVIDIA card seems to be working correctly with restricted drivers. I am just a little confused because the guide I was using, here (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Kernel/Compile), made it sound like I would need to rebuild the linux restricted modules package since I use restricted modules... Is this not the case?
It seems to have worked pefectly, I installed the packages and rebooted. I now have 6GB of usable memory and my NVIDIA card seems to be working correctly with restricted drivers. I am just a little confused because the guide I was using, here (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Kernel/Compile), made it sound like I would need to rebuild the linux restricted modules package since I use restricted modules... Is this not the case?