[nzlug] Acer + Ubuntu: second look

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, April 2, 2008 9:47 pm, Robin Sheat wrote:

> 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)

free is the easiest command to see what ram is seen by linux.



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Nick Rout