[nzlug] Acer + Ubuntu: second look

[Greg Fawcett]

Sytem/Administration/System Monitor will show you installed memory - and
processor(s), kernel version, and tons of other stuff.

On 02/04/2008, Robin Sheat <robin at kallisti.net.nz> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 02 April 2008 21:52:52 Simon Bridge wrote:
> > Something to add to the list.
>
> OK, although it's standard to all Ubuntu installs I've seen recently.
>
>
> > Assuming the installer knew this was available - grub happens before the
> > OEM configuration.
> > Perhaps it is prudent to fully boot Windows when installing memory?
>
> My guess it's their standard (albeit very unreliable, esp if the new chip
> appears at the top of RAM) test of it working: go in to windows and see if
> it
> sees the new RAM. Perhaps they were trying to do something similar. TBH, I
> have no idea how you'd do that through the GUI in Ubuntu. 8.04 doesn't
> seem
> to have a hardware listing app installed by default (of course, I'd use
> 'top'
> or similar if I wanted to do that)
>
>
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