Re: Do these boot messages mean anything?

[alan <alan clueserver org>]

On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Lonni J Friedman wrote:

> It usually means that the BIOS is doing something bad (a BIOS bug).
> If you're not hitting any problems, then don't worry about it.
>
> On 8/17/06, Tom Horsley <tomhorsley adelphia net> wrote:
> > After switching motherboards (Asus A8N-E -> Biostar TForce4U) I'm seeing
> > these errors at boot time:
> >
> > PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 2 of device 0000:05:00.0
> > PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 0000:05:00.1
> >
> > According to lspci that 05:00 device is my PCIE Radeon X700,
> > which appears to be displaying video just fine :-).
> >
> > This is on Fedora Core 5 x86_64 (but FC6 and FC5 i386 also
> > say the same thing I think).

I see similar messages on my HP zv5000z. (AMD64 3700+ laptop.)  I need to 
track down what on the pci bus it is having problems with.

Do an /sbin/lspci and find out what is on bus id "05:00".

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