Questions

[Barry Brimer]

On Sun, 27 Jan 2008, Nathan Robertson wrote:

> Hello--
>
> I am evaluating Red Hat Enterprise Linux on an HP Proliant ML115 machine and
> I'm having some issues getting it set up properly.
>
> First, the system doesn't recognize all of my installed memory.  I am
> running 64 bit version of Red Hat 5.  I have 8GBs of memory and the system
> (using free) states that I only have 3GBs available.  How do I get Red Hat
> to recognize all of my system memory?

I believe you need the PAE kernel .. assuming your system does PAE.  Try 
installing it with "yum install kernel-PAE" .. the PAE might be in lower 
case .. not sure if it matters.

> Second, I can't get Red Hat to display correctly on my Dell monitor.  If I
> set the display resolution for 1024x768 then the bottom 10th of the screen
> becomes pixelated and unusable.  Also 1024x768 is the highest resolution the
> system will let me use.  The built in graphics card is a Matrox Millennium
> which Red Hat detects as a G200.  It has run at 1024x768 in other operating
> systems.

If you are unable to find the setting you would like with the detected 
hardware, you can use the generic settings in system-config-display.

Barry