Installing Severn on a Sony 505VE laptop - broken?

[Alan Cox]

> On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 14:45, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > > It then worked just fine..
> > > 
> > > That did the trick.  I had tried everything except the "pci=off".  It is
> > > installing now.  (Fairly slowly, but installing.  I need a new
> > > laptop...)
> > 
> > The pci=off will slow the install a lot but is neccessary right now.
> 
> Any ideas as to why (other than it not working otherwise)?  Before
> Redhat 9 it "just worked".

Its to do with whether we probe for cardbus. The bios seems to set up the
cardbus IDE controller magically as it were onboard. When we touch the 
pci socket code we reconfigure the cardbus, but don't discover the cardbus
controller for some reason.

Alan