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Bug#544698: linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64: agp does not work on nforce3 250gb. amd64_agp and agpgart not found.



On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 14:52 +0200, Daniel Rodríguez wrote:
> El mar, 06-10-2009 a las 13:02 +0100, Ben Hutchings escribió:
> > On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 11:49 +0200, Daniel Rodríguez wrote:
> > > [    0.004000] AGP bridge at 00:00:00
> > > [    0.004000] Aperture from AGP @ f0000000 size 4096 MB (APSIZE 0)
> > > [    0.004000] Aperture too small (0 MB)
> > > [    0.004000] Your BIOS doesn't leave a aperture memory hole
> > > [    0.004000] Please enable the IOMMU option in the BIOS setup
> > > [    0.004000] This costs you 64 MB of RAM
> > 
> > Try following this instruction...
> > 
> > Ben.
> > 
> 
> Thanks, it's solved now.
> 
> I couldn't adjust the aperture memory hole because my motherboard's bios
> didn't had the option.  But i have found that pressing ctrl+F1 enables
> advanced options in the bios setup allowing me to change it.
> 
> I thought that was a bug because i didn't had this problem with 64bit
> Ubuntu 9.04.
> 
> Again, thank you very much.

Ubuntu 9.04 has Linux 2.6.28 which includes a workaround for this
misfeature of the BIOS.  This might be something we can apply to Debian
5.0 in a stable update.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
To err is human; to really foul things up requires a computer.

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