On Monday 17 September 2001 11:00 pm, you wrote: > I can't help you here specifically, but *make sure* you've disabled all > unnecessary serial and parallel ports (and other useless motherboard > peripherals) in the BIOS setup. My feeling is removing the two serial > ports alone and resetting the ECSD data should solve the problem. > > Check the kernel log by the program dmesg; it's possible to use the kernel > module the video card needs an IRQ.... > This is definately the case, as after disabling irq for vga in the bios, /proc/pci reported the same graphices device, but this time without an IRQ. Sad;y its gonna be about a week before i can test any of this as my friend has gone to switzerland, and i dont have root access to his machine. -- Tom "Tomahawk" Badran Department of Computing, Imperial College
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