Yesterday, I posted this thread, and got a reply, telling me to install 64-bit Ubuntu. I thought I already had a 64-bit copy, so I went to my system Details, and found that I did, indeed have an x64 copy of Ubuntu GNOME. Then, I found that it said it had only 2.9GiB of memory, which was strange, since I have a full 6GB of RAM installed. Thinking my RAM Cards (2x 2GB and 2x 1GB) simply weren't snapped in to the motherboard all the way, I turned off the machine, unplugged it, grabbed my antistatic wristband and removed and reinstalled all the cards. I plugged it pack in, powered it back on, and it still thought it had 2.9GiB. What shoud I do?
P.S. uname -a returns:
Linux [computer name censored for privacy] 4.2.0-35-generic #40-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 15 22:15:45 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
EDIT:
free
returns:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3023024 2330472 692552 31564 65644 1066920
-/+ buffers/cache: 1197908 1825116
Swap: 3086332 30740 3055592
Here's everything with e820 in it from ~/var/log/syslog.txt:
e820: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Apr 8 22:27:50 [Computer Name removed for Privacy] kernel: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000000009e7ff] usable
Apr 8 22:27:50 [Computer Name removed for Privacy] kernel: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000009e800-0x000000000009ffff] reserved
Apr 8 22:27:50 [Computer Name removed for Privacy] kernel: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000000e0000-0x00000000000fffff] reserved
Apr 8 22:27:50 [Computer Name removed for Privacy] kernel: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000100000-0x00000000bc04efff] usable
Apr 8 22:27:50 [Computer Name removed for Privacy] kernel: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000bc04f000-0x00000000bc07efff] reserved
Apr 8 22:27:50 [Computer Name removed for Privacy] kernel: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000bc07f000-0x00000000bc344fff] usable
Apr 8 22:27:50 [Computer Name removed for Privacy] kernel: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000bc345000-0x00000000bc410fff] ACPI NVS
Apr 8 22:27:50 [Computer Name removed for Privacy] kernel: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000bc411000-0x00000000bd1d3fff] reserved
Apr 8 22:27:50 [Computer Name removed for Privacy] kernel: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000bd1d4000-0x00000000bd1d4fff] usable
Apr 8 22:27:50 [Computer Name removed for Privacy] kernel: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000bd1d5000-0x00000000bd3dafff] ACPI NVS
Apr 8 22:27:50 [Computer Name removed for Privacy] kernel: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000bd3db000-0x00000000bd850fff] usable
Apr 8 22:27:50 [Computer Name removed for Privacy] kernel: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000bd851000-0x00000000bdfe1fff] reserved
Apr 8 22:27:50 [Computer Name removed for Privacy] kernel: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000bdfe2000-0x00000000bdffffff] usable
Apr 8 22:27:50 [Computer Name removed for Privacy] kernel: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000e0000000-0x00000000efffffff] reserved
Apr 8 22:27:50 [Computer Name removed for Privacy] kernel: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000feb80000-0x00000000fec01fff] reserved
Apr 8 22:27:50 [Computer Name removed for Privacy] kernel: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fec10000-0x00000000fec10fff] reserved
Apr 8 22:27:50 [Computer Name removed for Privacy] kernel: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fed00000-0x00000000fed00fff] reserved
Apr 8 22:27:50 [Computer Name removed for Privacy] kernel: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fed40000-0x00000000fed44fff] reserved
Apr 8 22:27:50 [Computer Name removed for Privacy] kernel: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fed80000-0x00000000fed8ffff] reserved
Apr 8 22:27:50 [Computer Name removed for Privacy] kernel: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000ff000000-0x00000000ffffffff] reserved