You can determine the compiled settings by inspecting /boot/kconfig26:
CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y
Regards,
Win
]]>When fiddling with cutom kernels make sure you have a working one somewhere so that you can fall back to that one when things don't work.
]]>If you have the kernel source somewhere, then to apply a patch, go into the kernel-2.6.* dir, and do `patch -p1 --dry-run < ../somewhere/patch.diff`. If that went ok without any errors you can repeat that without the "--dry-run" part. For more info see the manpages of diff and patch.
]]>Of course you'll need to compile your own kernel then, as Arch's kernel is the vanilla one.
To see what config Arch uses for it's standard kernel then either look at CVS or do 'zcat /proc/config'.
]]>I will buy more RAM in a month or so I think.. to 1Gb since Maya eates memory like a hungry lion.. 8) But I've read that the kernel has to be compiled with support for bigmem or 4gb.. otherwise there was some limit at just below 900mb.. so my question is.. is the 2.6.9-kernel in arch 0.7 compiled with this support?
....and a suggestion: why not put up a page listing what features the kernel (and such) are compiled with? an arch feature-list... I can't find anything like that except that it's an i686-optimized distro.
Regards,
Taz - just one of those happy arch users