On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 20:23 -0700, Kam Leo wrote:
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Linuxguy123
<linuxguy123(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> My laptop has 4GB of RAM. It is currently using only 3 GB of RAM. I
> want to upgrade to 8 GB of RAM.
>
> I am currently using a 32 bit non PAE kernel. How do I change to using
> a PAE kernel ?
yum install kernel-PAE
Note: There may be additional packages which need to be installed,
e.g. kernel-PAE-devel, kmod-nvidia-PAE, etc.
For the record, I did:
yum install kernel-PAE
yum install kernel-PAE-devel
I already had akmod-nvidia installed. (Which rocks, btw.)
I knew that akmod-nvidia needed a -devel package because I used to
manually build my nvidia drivers. But I didn't realize that the PAE
kernels had their own -devel, but then I should have because its an
option in the kernel setup if you build your own kernel. DUH !
I'm surprised that Anaconda did not detect that your processor
was an
i686 and automatically install the PAE kernel.
I've been running this installation since Fedora 8 and I think there was
a time period when the PAE kernels were not available. And everything
since then has been an upgrade/update, so Anaconda probably isn't
getting to look at what kernel I might need.
> What difference in speed will I notice in doing this ?
Everything seems faster, but I also changed kernels and there was a yum
update to KDE at the same time, so I can't tell how much is from the new
kernel version, the new kde updates and from PAE. In any event, I am a
happy camper.
Thanks for the replies.