On 11 March 2014 21:11, Trent W. Buck <trentbuck@gmail.com> wrote:
PS: the setup docs mention mem=1536m to get it to boot, presumably because the kernel isn't properly detecting the memory available to it.
When I tried mem=2g, it dumped core. When I tried mem=1920m (2G - 128M) it worked fine.
I *think* this matters, because "free -m" reports more memory that way.
Oh. Hmm. I've just been using pretty much the defaults that Kubuntu 14.04 has and it's been fine. I didn't need to put the mem= line to boot it up, and it's been reporting around 1875M of memory? It did boot up *faster* once I added some recommended bit about i915 modesetting. I do note that something added "add_efi_memmap" to the boot parameters though.
OTOH, I've noticed a weird artefact where sometimes -- especially just after booting? -- the screen's blank areas aren't cleared properly. e.g. doing dmesg then ^L in xterm, the dmesg output is still there except at the very top and bottom. Or unmapping the xterm, and the xterm is still there until I make ratpoison popup a dialog in the corner.
Hmm, nope, never seen that on mine. Toby