Hi. I am also getting this error in ubuntu 8.10 amd64
It is a fresh install , I have just upgraded the ram to 4GB and added a SATA DVD RW drive I don't think i saw the msgs before athlon X2 4600 motherboard : gigabyte GA-M55S-S3 2 X 2GB ram nvidia 8500 PCI-E dmesg | grep -i e820 [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000cfff0000 (usable) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000cfff0000 - 00000000cfff3000 (ACPI NVS) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000cfff3000 - 00000000d0000000 (ACPI data) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000d0000000 - 00000000e0000000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000f0000000 - 00000000f8000000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 0000000130000000 (usable) [ 0.004000] Aperture pointing to e820 RAM. Ignoring. [ 0.432375] PCI: MCFG area at f0000000 reserved in E820 dmesg | grep -i mmu -2 [ 0.004000] Aperture pointing to e820 RAM. Ignoring. [ 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 [ 0.004000] Mapping aperture over 65536 KB of RAM @ 20000000 -- [ 0.544121] PCI-DMA: Disabling AGP. [ 0.544208] PCI-DMA: aperture base @ 20000000 size 65536 KB [ 0.544208] PCI-DMA: using GART IOMMU. [ 0.544208] PCI-DMA: Reserving 64MB of IOMMU area in the AGP aperture [ 0.546751] tracer: 1286 pages allocated for 65536 entries of 80 bytes [ 0.546754] actual entries 65586 -- "Aperture pointing to e820 RAM. Ignoring." https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/309928 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
