Hello again,

in some other forums I found this:

"> iommu problem? Try it with mem=3G.

YES! :-) How did you know?

Even mem=4G did the trick."

Problem: even with "mem=4GB" option, the kernel only sees 3GB of useable
RAM. IOMMU seens to cause problems.

dmesg W/O mem= option:
[17180642.907074] Checking aperture...
[17180642.907074] Node 0: aperture @ 4000000 size 32 MB
[17180642.907074] Aperture pointing to e820 RAM. Ignoring.
[17180642.907074] No AGP bridge found
[17180642.907074] Your BIOS doesn't leave a aperture memory hole
[17180642.907074] Please enable the IOMMU option in the BIOS setup
[17180642.907074] This costs you 64 MB of RAM
[17180642.907074] Mapping aperture over 65536 KB of RAM @ 4000000
[17180642.907074] PM: Registered nosave memory: 0000000004000000 - 
0000000008000000
[17180642.907074] Memory: 3760952k/4980736k available (2489k kernel code, 
169668k reserved, 1371k data, 344k init)
.....
[17180643.205903] PCI-DMA: Disabling AGP.
[17180643.205903] PCI-DMA: aperture base @ 4000000 size 65536 KB
[17180643.205903] PCI-DMA: using GART IOMMU.
[17180643.205903] PCI-DMA: Reserving 64MB of IOMMU area in the AGP aperture


dmesg WITH mem=4GB option:

[17180642.907074] Checking aperture...
[17180642.907074] Node 0: aperture @ 4000000 size 32 MB
[17180642.907074] Aperture pointing to e820 RAM. Ignoring.
[17180642.907074] No AGP bridge found
[17180642.907074] Memory: 3052376k/3144576k available (2489k kernel code, 
91812k reserved, 1371k data, 344k init)
*** and thats all regarding MMU and AGP ***

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