Hi! I bought a laptop Fujitsu Amilo A7645, with a AMD Turion64 CPU) and installed Debian AMD64 on it. It is running the kernel 2.6.12.2, which I took directly from kernel.org. Looking at the output of dmesg I have the following message, which is totally obscure to me: Checking aperture... CPU 0: aperture @ e0000000 size 32 MB Aperture from northbridge cpu 0 too small (32 MB) AGP bridge at 00:00:00 Aperture from AGP @ e0000000 size 32 MB (APSIZE f38) Aperture from AGP bridge too small (32 MB) Your BIOS doesn't leave a aperture memory hole Please enable the IOMMU option in the BIOS setup This costs you 64 MB of RAM Obviously, in my BIOS there is nothing like "IOMMU"! The most similar entry is "Shared Memory" which allows me to select between 3 values: 32Mb, 64Mb and 128Mb. The message above appears even if I select 64Mb. May this be related with the fact that I cannot use DRI with Xorg? (The laptop has a SiS graphic card---see the output of lspci below) There is another problem: the PCMCIA does not work. There is no reaction if I insert a card into it (it works under Windows on the same computer with the same card). I found the following in /var/log/syslog: Jul 21 14:53:57 localhost cardmgr[6504]: watching 2 sockets Jul 21 14:53:57 localhost cardmgr[6504]: could not adjust resource: IO ports 0x100-0x4ff: Device or resource busy Jul 21 14:53:57 localhost cardmgr[6504]: could not adjust resource: IO ports 0x800-0x8ff: Device or resource busy Jul 21 14:53:57 localhost cardmgr[6504]: could not adjust resource: IO ports 0xc00-0xcff: Device or resource busy Jul 21 14:53:57 localhost cardmgr[6504]: could not adjust resource: memory 0xc0000-0xfffff: Input/output error Jul 21 14:53:57 localhost cardmgr[6504]: could not adjust resource: memory 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: Input/output error Jul 21 14:53:57 localhost cardmgr[6504]: could not adjust resource: memory 0x60000000-0x60ffffff: Input/output error Jul 21 14:53:57 localhost cardmgr[6504]: could not adjust resource: IO ports 0xa00-0xaff: Device or resource busy Jul 21 14:53:57 localhost cardmgr[6505]: starting, version is 3.2.5 Can anyone explain me what the problem is? Thanks a lot! Halva ---- lspci -v ---- 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 760/M760 Host (rev 03) Subsystem: Unknown device 1734:106c Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32 Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M] Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 3.0 Capabilities: [d0] #08 [0120] Capabilities: [f0] #08 [8000] 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SG86C202 (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64 I/O behind bridge: 0000c000-0000cfff Memory behind bridge: dfe00000-dfefffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: cfd00000-dfcfffff Secondary status: SERR 0000:00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS963 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 25) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 0000:00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0016 Flags: medium devsel I/O ports at 0c00 [size=32] 0000:00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (prog-if 80 [Master]) Subsystem: Unknown device 1734:106c Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 128 I/O ports at ffa0 [size=16] 0000:00:02.6 Modem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Modem Controller (rev a0) (prog-if 00 [Generic]) Subsystem: Unknown device 1734:106c Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18 I/O ports at e400 [size=256] I/O ports at e000 [size=128] Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2 0000:00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Sound Controller (rev a0) Subsystem: Unknown device 1734:106c Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18 I/O ports at e800 [size=256] I/O ports at ec00 [size=128] Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2 0000:00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f) (prog-if 10 [OHCI]) Subsystem: Unknown device 1734:106c Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 20 Memory at dfffd000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] 0000:00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f) (prog-if 10 [OHCI]) Subsystem: Unknown device 1734:106c Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 21 Memory at dfffe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] 0000:00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller (prog-if 20 [EHCI]) Subsystem: Unknown device 1734:106c Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 23 Memory at dffff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 0000:00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 91) Subsystem: Unknown device 1734:106c Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19 I/O ports at d800 [size=256] Memory at dfffc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Expansion ROM at dffc0000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2 0000:00:06.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) (prog-if 10 [OHCI]) Subsystem: Unknown device 1734:106c Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19 Memory at dfffb800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K] Memory at dfff4000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 0000:00:09.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711M1 SmartCardBus MultiMediaBay Controller (rev 20) Subsystem: Unknown device 1734:106c Flags: bus master, stepping, slow devsel, latency 168, IRQ 17 Memory at 1c000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=05, sec-latency=176 Memory window 0: 1c400000-1c7ff000 (prefetchable) Memory window 1: 1c800000-1cbff000 I/O window 0: 00004000-000040ff I/O window 1: 00004400-000044ff 16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001 0000:00:09.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711M1 SmartCardBus MultiMediaBay Controller (rev 20) Subsystem: Unknown device 1734:106c Flags: bus master, stepping, slow devsel, latency 168, IRQ 17 Memory at 1c001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Bus: primary=00, secondary=06, subordinate=09, sec-latency=176 Memory window 0: 1cc00000-1cfff000 (prefetchable) Memory window 1: 1d000000-1d3ff000 I/O window 0: 00004800-000048ff I/O window 1: 00004c00-00004cff 16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001 0000:00:09.2 System peripheral: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711Mx MultiMediaBay Accelerator Subsystem: Unknown device 1734:106c Flags: slow devsel, IRQ 5 Memory at dfffa000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2 0000:00:0b.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation: Unknown device 4318 (rev 02) Subsystem: Unknown device 17f9:0006 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 168, IRQ 19 Memory at dfff8000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] 0000:00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge Flags: fast devsel Capabilities: [80] #08 [2101] 0000:00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge Flags: fast devsel 0000:00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge Flags: fast devsel 0000:00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge Flags: fast devsel 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661FX/M661FX/M661MX/741/M741/760/M760 PCI/AGP (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Unknown device 1734:106c Flags: 66MHz, medium devsel BIST result: 00 Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] Memory at dfee0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K] I/O ports at cc00 [size=128] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [50] AGP version 3.0
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