Comment 56 for bug 271070

Add another person affected by this bug. I'm getting the "Aperture beyond 4GB...ignoring" message, as well.

Problem: My primary concern is that I am about to triple my memory from 2GB to 6GB this week...I can't run all my vm's without it. How will this affect me? I don't want to find out afterward. Can someone verify that this bug has a simple fix for those of us "non-geek" types?

My lspci:

00:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller (rev a4)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 ISA Bridge (rev f1)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation CK804 SMBus (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3)
00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCI Bridge (rev f2)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev f3)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev f3)
00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev f3)
00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:08.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc ES1000 (rev 02)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5722 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express

My dmesg log:

[ 0.010000] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
[ 0.010000] console [tty0] enabled
[ 0.010000] Checking aperture...
[ 0.010000] No AGP bridge found
[ 0.010000] Node 0: aperture @ 5fe000000 size 32 MB
[ 0.010000] Aperture beyond 4GB. Ignoring.

System has not yet been plagued with unbootable status, but has erratic behavior since upgrading to 8.10 - processes (Synaptic Package Manager and Firefox, in particular) take longer to refresh and close out.

...don't know if this helps...