What happened?! I don't Know! But Thank You!!! Woo-Hoo!

[Georgetoon]

Well, for a long time now, Google Earth wld just not work on my Lenovo notebook with the Intel Core i3 processor. I leaned to do without.

Anyhow, I was checking the repository for updates and decided to see if the gogle Earth not needing graphics drivers was available once again.  
No luck.

Okay, I thought, I'l just continue to do without Google Earth.

I launced it just to see it stal out and not run....

But wait!   What's this???  It's RUNNING!!!  Google Earth is RUNNING!

THANK YOU Tex, Neal, and the entire PCLinuxOS crew!:)  

Woo-Hoo!

[Georgetoon]

DOUBLE Thank you!!!  I now have 3D desktop!  OMIGOSH!  It's fantastic! 

I don't know how I missed the discussion on this (if there was a discussion), but my sincere thanks to all the PCLinuxOS team!  Cube desktop, wobbly windows, cover switch...it's all here!

Woo-Hoo!

[T6]

what kernel are you using?

can you open konsole and write uname -r and post results?

[Georgetoon]

what kernel are you using?

can you open konsole and write uname -r and post results?

No problem.  Here ya go:


localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.38.8-pclos1.bfs

[T6]

recently on another post, a user had improvements by using 2.6.38.8-pclos3 on a i5 with a intel hd3000

you also could use a pae or pae.bfs kernel if you have more than 3 gbs of ram

[Georgetoon]

recently on another post, a user had improvements by using 2.6.38.8-pclos3 on a i5 with a intel hd3000

you also could use a pae or pae.bfs kernel if you have more than 3 gbs of ram

I do believe I have 4 gigs of RAM. I'll double check.

I think I'l give 2.6.38.8-pclos3 a try first.

[Georgetoon]

I just upgradd to 2.6.38.8-pclos3.bfs and it apears to be running a bit smoother.

I checked my hardware in PCC.  Under memory, it's reporting L1 32, L2 2546, and L3 3072.  so, if I miss my guess, I've got 4 gigs of RAM.   Or am I wrong? Where do I  find the info if not there?

[exploder]

If you have 4 GB of RAM you will need the pae kernel to have all of it recognized. You can check in the BIOS if you are not sure how much RAM you have and System Monitor will tell you how much the operating system sees.

[Georgetoon]

If you have 4 GB of RAM you will need the pae kernel to have all of it recognized. You can check in the BIOS if you are not sure how much RAM you have and System Monitor will tell you how much the operating system sees.

Okay, F2 to get into the bios?

[horusfalcon]

It's easier that that:

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[horus@localhost ~]$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       2047696    1876260     171436          0      53308    1241064
-/+ buffers/cache:     581888    1465808
Swap:      4088504          0    4088504
The shell command free will get you what you need without mucking around in the BIOS.

[exploder]

But will the command work if the OS is not seeing all of memory that is installed?

[menotu]

But will the command work if the OS is not seeing all of memory that is installed?

As you mentioned it will see the whole 4GB if the .pae kernel is being used (of course the 64bit version of PCLinuxOS sees all the memory without the need of the .pae kernel)

[Georgetoon]

Well, here's the report frpom the free cpmand (thank you!).

localhost ~]$ free
                   total       used       free            shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       3037772    1144464    1893308          0        48812     558640
-/+ buffers/cache:     537012    2500760
Swap:      4843560          0    4843560

[exploder]

I would try the pae kernel but keep your current kernel until you see that everything works. Look at System Monitor and see how much memory it shows after you boot up with the pae kernel.

[T6]

no, bios has no relation with this

the idea is to install 2.6.38.8-pclos3.pae.bfs and the system will have acces to all 4 gbs of ram instead of only 3.2

since you have a i3 and using the gpu on the cpu, you are using ram for the video card so you won't have all 4 gbs of ram, you will have around 3.9 gbs or less

the pcc numbers you showed seems to be the cache memory on your cpu, L1, L2 and L3 levels of cache, since you have a multiple core cpu this is normal values, i for example have a L1 with 128 kbs and a L2 with 128 kbs more, as you see, different worlds, really old, limited and slow hardware against a really nice new generation of cpu

sometimes pcc is wrong, mine reports that i have 8704 mbs of ram...  i have 1280 only

the channels in my sustem are calle A0 and A1, one with 8192 and the other with 512, none of these values are right, one has 1024 and the other 256mbs

the command free in console is alot more precise

as said before, keep 2 or 3 kernels, boot with the new pae.bfs to see how it works, remember that each new kernel you install has to check hardware and add modules and this can take a couple of minutes, please be patient

after that, try again the free command