On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Dale Dellutri <daledellutri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Lorenzo Villani <lorenzo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> I recently bought a Dell XPS 13 and noticed that the amount of memory >> visible to the system is lower than I expected. This machine ships with >> a 4Gb module even though the system "sees" only 3,2Gb. > > I assume that the BIOS will tell you how much is taken by the Intel HD 3000, > not just how much total memory. > > Another possibility: > $ lspci -vv > should also tell you how much the VGA controller is using. As far as I understand it, the graphic chip "steals" around 260Mb of RAM. I think I'll try booting Windows just to see if it changes things. All Linux distributions I tried consistently report the same amount of total system memory. 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Dell Device 052e Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 48 Region 0: Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M] Region 2: Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Region 4: I/O ports at 2000 [size=64] Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit- Address: fee0300c Data: 4199 Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Capabilities: [a4] PCI Advanced Features AFCap: TP+ FLR+ AFCtrl: FLR- AFStatus: TP- Kernel driver in use: i915 Kernel modules: i915 -- L. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
