> OK, now I'm clueless why this happens. I didn't see in your verbose > dmesg at all any obvious PCI busses or devices. Yet the normal dmesg > lists your PCI devices. I could be reading the devices wrong, but I > read in your verbose dmesg that it found: > 1: Audio > 2: Realtek Ethernet (probably a PCI device??) > 3: isa0 bus > 4: Keyboard/mouse ports (which I really think they are attached on the > ISA bus, internally on the motherboard) > 5: speaker (again, same as #4, on the ISA bus in the motherboard) > 6: parallel (ditto) > 7: npx0 (I think this is your coprocessor, and I don't know what bus it > is on) > 8: COM/Serial ports (ditto as #4) > 9: Floppy drive (I would think this is on the ISA bus, but I am not > sure) > > Aside from #2, the realtek ethernet, I am not seeing any signs of PCI > detection. But how can it boot off the drive, which is on pciide0 > (from original, normal dmesg in digest #783). That device sure looks > like it's on the PCI bus. I'm lost on this one, I totally expected to > see anything, SOMETHING about the pci bus (wouldn't it be pci0?).
I have no idea why that is happening. Strange. > John did state he has another version, and if *THIS* thing fails > horribly bad on trying to get more information, I would try the other > version. ... > > John, please try 4.0 and then doing a source upgrade to 4.1, if this > verbose dmesg doesn't help anybody. Sorry for bringing it up :( This is the 4.0 release. I usually run a release behind. And, I have not ordered a 4.1 yet. I will in the next week or two. I do have v3.9 and earlier releases available. JohnM -- john mendenhall [EMAIL PROTECTED] surf utopia internet services
