More memory. No Difference.

[Georgetoon]

My Acer Aspire 9300 laptop came with 1GB of memory.  two banks of 512.  I purchased 4 gigs. 2 banks of 2 gigs each. I just plaugged them in and I see no diffence in KDE 4.5 performance.  The visual effects are still somewaht choppy in some areas.

I went to PCC and checked memory in the hardware section and got a readout of L1 and L2 cache of 16 K and 1024 K.   

Am I looking in the correct area?  How do I find out if the memory is being accounted for correctly by PCLOS?

[menotu]

Could take a look in

KMenu > Documentation > InfoCenter

Edit - how much memory can your machine hold?

[Bald Brick]

If you are running KDE, try KInfoCenter. You'll find it under "Documentation" in the K-menu, or you can start it with "kinfocenter" in a terminal.

[Georgetoon]

If you are running KDE, try KInfoCenter. You'll find it under "Documentation" in the K-menu, or you can start it with "kinfocenter" in a terminal.

Thanks.

It's showing:

Total physical memory of 2.72 GB
Free Physical memory 2.05 GB

[ElCuervo]

Are you using the PAE kernel?

[DeBaas]

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-Go-6100-6150.2345.0.html
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu_list.php
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/low_end_gpus.html

I am afraid your nVidia notebook GPU -- Geforce Go 6100 -- is the culprit.

So no graphical magic in KDE4

[Georgetoon]

I'm not sure which kernel Im using.  and yes, I have the NVidia GeForce Go 6100

[DeBaas]

The NVidia GeForce Go 6100 is a low end energy saver, perfect for internet and wordprocessing but no graphic power.
KDE4 with desktop effects enabled is a graphic monster and need some better graphic specs.

[ElCuervo]

Try uname -r in a terminal:

[alan@dog8it ~]$ uname -r
2.6.33.7-pclos3.a64

If you don't use the PAE kernel, your machine can't access all 4GB of RAM. You may also want to take a look at the manual for your machine and see if it says it's upgradeable to that much RAM, as some older machines are not. I would think that if you can see it in the BIOS, though, you should be able to use it.

[Georgetoon]

The NVidia GeForce Go 6100 is a low end energy saver, perfect for internet and wordprocessing but no graphic power.
KDE4 with desktop effects enabled is a graphic monster and need some better graphic specs.

I get :

2.6.33.7-pclos6.bfs

[ElCuervo]

Try going to Synaptic and update to the latest PAE kernel. You can always revert back to the bfs if you have a problem with no hassle.

[Bald Brick]

The NVidia GeForce Go 6100 is a low end energy saver, perfect for internet and wordprocessing but no graphic power.
KDE4 with desktop effects enabled is a graphic monster and need some better graphic specs.

I get :

2.6.33.7-pclos6.bfs

Try installing the latest pae kernel that Synaptic will let you have. If it gives you trouble, you can easily uninstall it. And it won't overwrite your current kernel.

[ElCuervo]

The NVidia GeForce Go 6100 is a low end energy saver, perfect for internet and wordprocessing but no graphic power.
KDE4 with desktop effects enabled is a graphic monster and need some better graphic specs.

I get :

2.6.33.7-pclos6.bfs

Try installing the latest pae kernel that Synaptic will let you have. If it gives you trouble, you can easily uninstall it. And it won't overwrite your current kernel.

slowpoke...

[Georgetoon]

Since my system is dual bot wiht windows XP, I booted over and checked the RAM there. System reports 2.75 GB. In PCLOS, it's reporting 2.72 B.  So, it appears my system only supports 2 GB. And here I bought 4 gigs thinking it was supported!

If this is the case, should I pull out a memory bank?  Or will keeping both not make a difference?

[Bald Brick]

slowpoke...

I know, I know. You won. (By 19 seconds ...)